AI: Where will you use it?

I toured around the Magic School site (and got a 14 day free trial of their plus option) and found that the program would be useful in accomplishing administrative tasks that can take away from the important work teachers should be able to spend more time on. It looks like Magic School can draft emails, rubrics, multiple choice questions, permission forms, lesson plans, IEPs, and many other types of documents. 

When teachers are working with multilingual and newcomer families, it is often the responsibility of the family to translate information from the school. Magic School has a few tools that can translate emails and other text into multiple languages which can aid both the teacher and families in daily classroom correspondence. 

However, a tool on Magic School that I am sceptical of using is the report card comment generator. I personally feel that comments on reports should be generated naturally by the teacher. In using some of the other tools in Magic School that can lighten the administrative load, the teacher will be able to spend more time engaging with students and generating genuine reports based on those interactions. 

There are some clerical tasks that I feel can be delegated and satisfactorily completed by AI. These tasks are more general and less personal, but when I am a teacher I will be manually completing the tasks that require tailored responses. Report cards, some lessons, and some IEP sections should be done by humans, but some tasks are able to be completed from AI. 

Regardless of where you stand, AI is here and can support so many tasks. It is up to you and your level of comfort with AI that will determine how much or little of it you use and what kind of tasks you delegate to AI.