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Teachers are terribly overworked and most probably benefit by having a computer slave take care of the menial stuff.
Does it yeild better and/or more results than a teacher in training could?
I'm mostly interested in challenging the idea that it has been/will be world changing. I'm not seeing it yet. Most likely it is my own deficiency in imagination.
speaking from my personal experience and through the lens of my students,
I think AI can produce better results. if we are talking about national exams, I know the answers but sometimes find it hard pressed to express them to my students because I don’t have the words to articulate my thought processes. I just know. this is in regard to the nuances between synonyms and rationale behind choice of a particular grammar rule. I lean on AI that way.
I see AI like how a calculator aids us in doing Maths. I don’t think it will be world changing too. I used it quite extensively to ask it to critique my creative writing but has since stopped because I don’t want to be bound to its formulaic ways. My writing may be sprinkled with warts and all, but hey they articulate my thoughts in my own original idiosyncratic way. And I think that’s what AI can never replicate
I don’t think there is a universal right or wrong answer, only an answer that fits your particular situation.
My context is that I am an overworked public school teacher whose overwhelming array of responsibilities ironically leaves me with little time to do the job I have signed up for: teach. Sensei is by no means lazy or fatalistic though. This is what I came up with after I realised that I needed to come up with some study material of sorts for my charges to consolidate their learning:
This June school holiday, I discovered that ChatGPT had enhanced its image generation capabilities by leaps and bounds. Colourful images, no mistakes, efficient than my painstaking process. This is what I can churn out with, provided that I have complied my target material:
So now I feel that I’m not shortchanging my students in spite of my legitimate reasons not to center them amid my work life. But have I stolen more time to pursue my hobbies? Not really. I am working hard this holiday because I now realise the immense potential of AI, so my expectations of myself have increased accordingly. Not to mention that ChatGPT only allows for 3-4 free images every other day, so I cannot really release my foothold on the accelerator haha.
I think AI has made my life more fun lar