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Teaching with AI means teaching against it too

Cautious Posted by Gregory Halverson Reading time ~ 2 min

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I teach senior English at a public high school. I am not one of the teachers who has banned AI in my classroom, and I am not one of the ones who has embraced it uncritically. I have landed somewhere in between and it is exhausting. My students use these tools whether I permit it or not, so I have tried to build assignments around the assumption that drafting help is available to everyone. The part that worries me is not cheating. It is that I can see, in real time, some of my students losing the ability to sit with a difficult paragraph until it cracks open. Writing is thinking, and if you outsource the first draft you outsource the first round of thinking. I have started doing more in-class writing by hand, not as punishment, but as practice for the muscle. What I want from policymakers is not a ban. I want proper guidance, paid time for teachers to rework curricula, and real consultation with us before districts sign contracts with AI vendors that promise personalized learning at scale. We have seen that movie before with ed tech and the outcomes were not what was promised. Go slowly. Invest in teachers. Listen to what we are seeing in the room. And please stop treating a class of thirty teenagers as a product-market-fit experiment.
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