HUNTSVILLE, Ala (WHNT) — Our world is constantly evolving, and lately, a lot of that evolution has been in the form of artificial intelligence.
“This is the future,” Kala Grice-Dobbins said. “It’s not going away, and we want our teachers to be informed, but also our students to be informed.”
Grice-Dobbins is a cybersecurity teacher with the Madison County School System.
Thursday, more than 150 teachers from across North Alabama gathered to talk about AI and the use of it in the classroom.
“It’s clearly a novel technology– new for kids, new for teachers, and they’re trying to figure out how to use it,” Randy Sparkman said. “So we’re just trying to bring resources and bring these, Madison County districts, particularly, together to talk about strategies for using AI in the new school year.”
Sparkman is a part of Mayor Tommy Battle’s AI task force. They put on the AI in education event.
Grace-Dobbins said she uses AI for help with things like lesson plans and recommendation letters.
“All of us use templates every day,” she said. “Why can’t it be our template to start with, and then we edit it because nothing’s perfect when it comes out.”
She said it’s easier than you think to spot students plagiarizing by using the tool.
“It’s not going to be your top of the line type paper,” she said. “It’s not going to be written in their kind of language. It’s not going to have their kind of thoughts involved, and so the more you know your students, you’re going to know this is not you.”
Angela Evans is also a teacher. She said she’s already been using AI in her classroom for years.
She has a message for those who may be skeptical. What she’d tell people.
“Don’t be scared because change is nature,” she said. “We are going to progress our humanity. Our intelligence is going to continue to progress.
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