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Laila Werther, a student journalist at Etowah High School in Woodstock, Georgia, interviews two teachers, Brittany Chandler and Lee Coker, about their thoughts on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI).

Transcript:

Lee Coker: I use AI to generate all of the work that my students produce so that I can get a sense of what products may be coming my way and also to know if a student is having a problem with generating ideas, what that output would be from AI. For students using AI, I think it's a good way to fill in the gap, whether that's I don't want to work in a group, so I'm going to have this conversation with AI instead. I think it's good for students if they can't brainstorm an idea or they just don't get figurative language that they can go to something like AI and get an output from it that is pretty close to what they could ask the teacher. So this is a good thing to be using if they're at home or if they want to go beyond their understanding of a text.

Brittany Chandler: AI Is definitely making my job easier because I use it for all sorts of things. I use it for writing test questions. I use it to write writing prompts. I use it to just sort of give me ideas. There's teacher apps that use AI to create worksheets, to create PowerPoints. It is really exploding for teachers in particular, I feel like there is an AI app for us for everything, which is great. For my students, I think that they will learn how to use it, but they are kind of abusing it and that they will go to ChatGPT first before trying to learn things on their own. They do need to be able to write a paragraph on their own without ChatGPT, but I also think the future of writing is that AI is going to kind of take over technical writing of all sorts textbook writing, informational writing, narrative writing, essay, poetry and novels and all of that stuff will go more in a artistic route and people will do that sort of as an art rather than a trade.