SAN ANTONIO — A new wave of teaching is taking over the classroom.
Through the 17 sessions making up Northside ISD's AI Summit on Thursday. teachers were encouraged to take risks when incorporating AI in classroom instruction. Topics included "Improving AI prompts to get relevant results" and "How to embrace the balanced use of AI."
Dr. Fred Martin, a UTSA professor who appeared at the summit as a panelist, said he feels artificial intelligence should be embraced.
“Things like generating ideas, checking ideas, giving feedback, being coached—those are all appropriate uses of AI.”
At the same time, panelists acknowledged the challenges that AI introduces or exacerbates in the classroom. Namely, that it makes cheating easier.
“You can give a prompt to AI and it can generate an essay, and that’s a problem," Martin said. "I think the hardest part is, because it’s so easy for AI to do it for us, to learn how we can use Ai in a way that accelerates our learning and creativity rather than getting in the way of it.”
With technology evolving every day, Martin feels it’s easy to assume AI can prevent students’ learning rather than supporting it. He feels it is a societal challenge.
“The official policies of education are always lagging what happens in the classroom. So I think teachers feel supported experimenting and learning what works for them and their students.”
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