ChatGPT isn’t just for cheating. Teachers are using AI to save time.

Everyone in education, from K-12 teachers to university presidents, is aware that AI is changing the classroom. This presents all the challenges that you have probably already heard of: Use students Chatgpt to cheat, get papers and tasks without getting out. But there is also the sub -reported development – teacher use the technology In order to write teaching plans, create tests and optimize administrative tasks in order to save them for hours.

In the best scenario, the AI ​​promises to do teachers better in their work. And ultimately, when AI becomes the transformative force, the optimists hope that the student hopes this will help the students become smarter, become tireless teaching aid and to provide 24-hour tutoring. Of course that is a big if.

At least the time -saving element for teachers is real and it is a big deal. A current survey by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation showed this 6 out of 10 teachers used AI for their work in the school year 2023-2024. Those who used Ai Weekly – about a third of the teachers surveyed – estimated that they saved them about 6 hours a week, which could mean that this was 6 hours more time with the students.

“This does not put the students in front of computers and is involved with a chat bot.” Chris AgnewDirector of the generative AI in Education Hub in Stanford, said. “This is the support of the teachers and enables this trained, experienced adult who lies in front of children.”

Of course, the teachers stay back some time that is cheating on AI. The most sampling educators have clear guidelines if AI can be used and when this is not or a good system to discuss the developing role of technology at school. Finally, This is hardly the first time A new technology has thrown itself into schools and old ways – the educators made themselves around the calculators in the classroom.

This is also not the first time that a new technology has opened up a large business for technology companies to achieve young, demanding heads and earn a lot of money. For example, Google offers its work area for education with Gemini integrated for Up to 66 US dollars per teacher and month. In a school district with 500 teachers, this could easily lead to an additional 400,000 US dollars a year. For school areas that use a learning management system such as canvas by instruction or a AI-powered tutor such as Khanmigo from the Khan Academy, the costs for technological education could continue to grow.

“We are from the phase of” Ban Ai, it is a fraud instrument “Up until now, the majority of the market is really:” How do we use these tools in a really productive way? “,” Said, ” Ryan LufkinVice President of Global Academic Strategy at Instructure, whose canvas software is used by half of the North American college students and over a third of K-12 students.

How the classroom experience will look in a decade, much further in the AI ​​revolution, is everyone's assumption. In corporate America, companies pour billions from dollars into AI and hope for transformative profits. So far it is not going great.

If you are a parent, you may feel a bit powerless in this situation. Tech companies and school districts make decisions that affect their child, the chatt is already using or not to do their homework. But because we are in the early days of this technology, it is now time to find out how it works and what your school district does with it.

Beat the fraudulent problem

If you leave the idea aside that large language models could reinvent the American education system – which is not great according to global standards – you may be curious about the problem with chatt fraud, especially if you are a parent.

It is difficult to say how many students cheat on robots. A PEW survey among teenagers showed that 26 percent of the middle and upper level students I used Chatgpt – both for shameful and less shameful purposes – in 2024, a percentage that had doubled since 2023. Another study of 2024, in which the students of the students before and after the publication of Chatgpt did not experience any signs that they had “changed the prevalence of fraud dramatically”. Regardless of this, a New York magazine explained that at the beginning of this year.Chatgpt has dissolved the entire academic project. “”

Proposed solutions to the fraudulent problem, however serious it is, are somehow funny. With the use of chatt, for example, the College Campus has increased, including the sale of blue books. According to the Wall Street Journal. The students cannot use AI if they are finally locked up in a room with just one pencil and paper. Then there is a call to bring oral exams back, including suggestions for using video conference software Hundreds of them perform at the same time. Researchers of the Georgia Institute of Technology even invented a platform for oral exams that ironic, Use AI to evaluate the students. There are also other creative problems, for example that the students have to show their work by pursuing changes in Google Docs or asking them to generate Chatgpt attachments and then criticize them.

The ban on AI is becoming increasingly unpopular. New York City Public School, the country's largest school district, forbidden chatt Not long after its publication in 2022 and then a few months later this prohibition lifted. “The fear and risk of knee jerk overlook the potential of the generative AI, students and teachers, as well as the reality in which our students will participate in a world and work in a world in which understanding the generative AI is crucial” wrote in an op-ED. “While the first caution was justified, it has now developed to explore and carefully examine the power and risks of this new technology.”

This exploration period does not seem to be complete for many K-12 schools. By the end of last year, the city's compatroller, Brad Lander, asked the city's Ministry of Education To draw almost 2 million US dollars of funds For AI software because she had not examined the effectiveness of the AI ​​in the classroom.

The next Edtech Goldrausch

The schools still spend money on AI tools, regardless of whether they are for teachers or for students. This is only the latest area of ​​investments in education technology or Edtech. In the past four decades, the introduction of computers in classrooms and screens in front of the students promised to change learning. And for 40 years, It has not fulfilled this promise. The performance of the students has remained flat while spent on Edtech and teachers, how to use them, grew.

It is unclear whether AI can change this trend. As soon as you look over to prevent the students from using Chatgpt to cheat, you can get pretty creative how AI could play a role in the classroom. For example, you can imagine that the students write fewer essays and instead interact with a chat bot as they would speak to a human tutor. The Khan Academy, a large Edtech company, style a chat bot that it built with Openai Called Khanmigo In 266 school districts across the country. Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, recently said Anderson Cooper to give each student a private tutor. Khanmigo currently costs $ 4 per month per student.

What is more promising in the near future is the teachers access to AI, which can lead to new class experiences. Apart from his private tutor powers, Khanmelmigo, according to Kristen Dicerbo, Chief Learning Officer at the Khan Academy, can integrate it into them and then integrate the chat bot into them. She explained to me a scenario in which several Khanmelmigo agents essentially worked like teacher assistants and checked groups of students during a lesson. “We consider it a force multiplier for the teacher and give you only a little more reach about what you can do in the classroom,” said Dicerbo.

Apart from such tools as this Openai recently announced its own educational effort in Chatgpt Study mode mentioned. This effectively turns chatt into a tutor who answers questions with more questions than on answers. This applies in addition to Chatgpt Edu, which was started last year and offers offers A version of Chatgpt that was only created for universities With a discount. Google markets its Gemini Pro plan for students who can currently Get one year for free. Anthropic sells a version From his Claude chatbot at universitiesto. All of these educational products work very much for consumer versions, but do not train their models for student data.

That sounds good in theory and costs money. It goes without saying that schools with more resources will be able to better exploit these new AI tools and possibly improve the life of teachers and the student performance.

“Technology is and was not a silver ball to solve some of these structural topics that exist in our education system,” said Robbie Torney, Senior Director of AI programs at Common Sense Media.

This assumes that AI actually delivers the desired results in education, which defies the decades of trend in Edtech. Despite initiatives This date back to the 90s In order to give schools cheap and easy access to the Internet, a quarter of the school districts in the USA I don't even have broadband that is fast enough to support some of these applications. It is difficult to have an educational revolution if the page is not loaded.

For several reasons, chatbots will not soon replace the teachers. Other teachers can cause AI to mix their teaching plans, and the students will inevitably try to find high-tech opportunities to get homework help. A chat bot that refuses to tell you answers could be your best hope.

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