• Assigned blog post: Choose an AI tool and try it out. Reflect on how it could be used in the classroom by the teacher or the students. In your post, consider some of the following: 

• • How could this tool be used to enhance teaching? Could it aid in personalized learning, automate administrative tasks, or provide new ways of engaging students?
  • How might this tool support different learning styles, assess student understanding, or encourage critical thinking and creativity?
  • What are some of the ethical or practical challenges of using this tool?
• You should also share your personal perspective on integrating AI in education and speculate on its future role in the classroom.

The AI tool I will be using to talk about this blog is Chatgpt. This is a tool which is extremely famous and it has caused much controversy. Nevertheless, I can see the need to integrate this tool in the classrooms. The biggest reason is due to the fact that AI is the future as mentioned in this resource. The resource mentions how AI is making huge progress in business automation, manufacturing, innovation, research, among others. The advances of this tool and mass adoption is essential to accept.

As a teacher, if I know the world is going into a certain direction, and I fail to prepare my students into that direction, then what kind of teacher would I be? This is a question that I must ask myself and recognize in order to be genuine. Hence, I believe that it should be added into the classroom.

The video above speaks about how one teacher is revolutionizing the classroom. The teacher is using AI as a tool for not only himself as a teacher but also for students. For students, AI would be used as a personal assistant where it would give instant feedback on writing errors and suggestions for students to reflect upon. For the teacher, It would help with processing time in marking and grading assessments. In this scenario, this teacher found a way to make it productive for both students and teacher.

However, I think it is important to know one drawback from using Chatgpt. Students can potentially abuse the resource and fail to come up with genuine assignments.

Another interesting drawback from the use of AI in the classroom is in the following video:

Here, the video provides an example of AI taking over the teaching profession. As a pre-service teacher entering the industry, this video is concerning to say the least. Of course, I never thought of this to be a possibility however with remote courses already so widespread, it is not so far fetched. Nevertheless, I have to accept that there are drawbacks from the use of AI in the classroom but it is the new reality.