How the Use of AI Impacts Our Education
Updated: Nov 4, 2024
As AI becomes more and more popular, its usage in schools has grown exponentially. Though it may not be known for excellent writing, the longer it’s been around, and the more its edited, the more human-like it becomes. At the time, AI was a recent addition to the internet the use of it wasn’t easily recognized by teachers, prompting it to become very popular among students.
“Around one in five high school aged teens who’ve heard about ChatGPT say they have already used the tools on classwork.”
Popular Science
Not only has the usage of platforms like ChatGPT affected lower stake assignments such as high school essays or even just short three sentence responses, but also college assignments. An article from Popular Science says,“More than a third of US college students (37%) surveyed by the online education magazine Intelligent.com say they’ve used ChatGPT either to generate ideas, write papers, or both”.
Even though some of the assignments submitted using AI are written fully by a bot, it’s also very common for students to only use a section from it and compose the rest themselves. PopSci also says that “Out of 200 million papers submitted in 2023, Turnitin claims 11% had more than 20% of its content allegedly composed using AI-generated material. And even though generative AI usage generally has cooled off among the general public, students aren’t showing signs of letting up.”
Considering how common it is among students, educators everywhere from middle school to college have become experts at identifying ChatGPT writing. And it’s surprisingly not uncommon for teachers to mistake work written by human beings for work written by a bot. This typically results in a failing grade for the student who put the hard work in themself.
Overall, while AI might not be a positive resource in schools, the impact that it has had on our education is large, and will most likely not go away anytime soon.
Citation - Article
DeGeurin, Mack. “Ready or Not, AI Is in Our Schools.” Popular Science, 11 Apr.
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