A Look at AI What teachers are experiencing with

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A Look at AI What teachers are experiencing with online learning What’s the problem …It seems like a normal thing to turn to some search engine and ask the question being posed and submit THAT answer as your own. I ask Google (for example) things all the time. However, the difficulty comes with what we do with the answers. If I am cooking and ask for what is a viable substitute for baking powder, and use that answer in my baking–that’s an entirely viable use. To submit that answer with no changes or thinking on my part to my cooking class’ assignment (on common kitchen ingredient substitutes) is not … The point of homework is to assess whether a student has mastered the material or developed the competencies of the course. If I am taking a cooking class, where one of the competencies is to KNOW (that is, to be able to work in a kitchen and not have to stop and look up the answer) common substitutes, a rote copy and paste will not enable me to KNOW the answers. And, I have no idea whether Google (in this case) knows the right answer. At the very least, I need to verify the answer against at least one other source. So, when you copy and paste an answer from a search engine or an artificial intelligence application (e.g., Chat-GPT), you do not develop the skills or competencies nor do you actually KNOW the right answers. Moreover, the answers generated by Chat-GPT vary from quite good to mind-bogglingly wrong. They are vague, generic, and lack engaged critical thinking and writing. When I have multiple students use these apps to respond to the same question, I get extremely similar responses. That is, I can easily tell that they’ve all used the same application because of the repeated errors in content, similarities in format, and overly verbose and generic language. So, do not use these applications. You may also feel that your writing needs help. I can understand that feeling, particularly if your teachers downgrade your work when it contains errors. However, I do not take off points for writing–it is my expectation that you will acquire these skills while writing for my course and more specifically in English classes (English 1A and 4 or 7). Therefore, please do not use Grammarly or other such applications. Please do use the basic tools