I use AI in my math class to teach a lesson on critical thinking and evaluation of information. There’s a few math word problems that the AI notoriously messes up almost every single time. These are problems my students can do. So during class, I’ll plug in the problem into the AI, and as a class, I’ll ask kids what mistakes they notice in the output. When they point out the mistakes (and we solve the problem correctly together) it teaches them that they can’t just plug every problem into an AI and trust the output 100%. I’m not telling the kids to avoid AI forever and never use it, but to “trust but verify” if they choose to use it. I think that’s a valuable lesson that many adults could use today. Too many people see AI as a “magic genie with 100% correct answers” and it definitely isn’t that. More on reddit.com

From my expertise with it in my classroom, in general it seems that AI is great for menial synthesis, but not for anything towards mastery. That said, I do not currently see enough benefit towards introducing my students to what AI can do that would outweigh their tendency to seek the easiest, quickest, least work required solution to whatever it is they are doing. Comparing another useful tool that students already fail to use properly: the Google search. Even when taught how to do research properly using search engines, I see students constantly asking the simplest question (typing their question verbatim into the search bar without any sense of length, quality, key words, etc) only to then read the very first line of the very first result they found; and if that didn't answer their question, oh well, because that's what Google said it was. Now I know this is not all students by any means, but I recognize that if they were then to be given a tool that they can ask any question of, and get (what seems like) a fully realized answer at any length or breadth of thought, why would they ever put in the time on their own to craft their own material or have their own thoughts and reflection on a topic? ChatGPT can do that for me. I'm a bit more open to teachers using AI, but with limitation. We are the masters of our craft and should each be expected to know our material enough to render it in a handful of ways to help students understand the topic at hand. But, in this age of IEPs, accommodations, modifications, and having 6 different versions of a test or homework assignment that are each expected to be at 6 different levels of understanding, literacy, or expectation (multiplied by however many class periods we teach), AI is a great tool to help rewrite in 2 minutes what would have taken hours. The same is true for creating project outlines, rubeics, or follow along questions for a topic. I see it in the same light as "Teachers Pay Teachers", since I could just a easily go on their foe a needed study guide that I (for whatever reason) don't want to create myself. I will still look it over, edit, and massage that document before making copies for my students do that it matches my style/ curriculum/needs, because it would be silly to do otherwise. This is true of AI as well: it is useful for synthesizing nearly anything but should be checked over and edited by the teacher before it's use to verify its veracity, content, and usefulness. Just my opinions on how I handle AI in my room. I really do think it has some amazing uses and am quite excited to see where it goes from here, I just think it is too tempting for students to use it inappropriately. More on reddit.com

To address the other comment... Replace "AI" with "the internet," and you have the exact same complaint from teachers 25 years ago. It's not going anywhere, the students have access to it (on their phone if not through district devices), and it's an incredibly powerful tool that can advance learning. To your question OP, some creative ways to use AI include as a virtual tutor, simulating conversations with historical figures, and giving feedback to written work. Look up Ethan Mollick and his work on generating awesome prompts in ChatGPT. It's also useful for teachers for the grunt work of drafting emails, creating syllabi, writing letters of recommendation, drafting quizzes, or brainstorming project ideas for a unit. Lots of amazing uses. More on reddit.com

it’s worth pointing out that the problem isn't AI itself. It's how we choose to integrate it into the classroom. Right now, many schools are still treating AI like some sudden, uncontrollable force instead of treating it like a tool that can be managed, just like calculators, phones, or even Google itself when it first became widespread. There are simple ways to reduce students misusing AI. Make more of the work classroom-based and discussion-heavy. Have students explain their thinking verbally or in writing. Require handwritten drafts or in-class brainstorming before allowing typed work. Create assignments that AI can't easily complete (personal connections, classroom-specific references, critical thinking questions). Also, I think it is essential that we teach students how to use AI responsibly. Most adults I know use it for lesson planning, writing and editing emails, reports, resumes, coding help and debugging, language translating, etc. etc. I don’t think we're heading toward total brain-mush dystopia. I think we're facing a challenge that schools and educators can meet if we start adapting. We should be teaching how to use AI as a tool. It isn't going to disappear. More on reddit.com