A couple of years ago, prominent apps like Chat GPT and Photomath were on the rise worldwide. These apps, similar to Chat GPT and Photomath, have one thing in common: they all have AI built into them. These apps have the power to answer almost any question that can be answered. AI can be accessed by anyone nowadays and can be used for whatever someone wants, which is especially to be proven in high school students. For example, students have been caught using AI to write their essays and also answer their math problems on their math tests. Most schools across the country have completely banned the use of any AI in writing and any sort of learning. There is a pattern with this, though. The reason why students use AI is to cheat, and the reason why AI is banned in most schools is that students abuse AI to cheat on their assignments or tests. What if that was the other way, though? What if instead of using AI to cheat, we used it as a source of learning? Many students I know, including myself, have used AI as a resource to help us further our education if there is a subject we do not understand. From my personal experience, I have always had a hard time with math, and when I am assigned any sort of homework on a new unit we start, I go home and use Photomath to help me break the problem down and further lead me to understand that subject. This isn’t just something I do, though; another one of my classmates does the same thing I do, and they said it helps them walk through the problem and elevates their understanding of the subject without the need to just cheat when the test day comes around.
I just personally believe that what matters most is what we do with AI. Do you just choose to cheat during an important test or an important assignment, and take that risk of being caught? Or do you choose to put in the time and effort, work hard to learn anything while using AI as a source of learning, and not as a source just to cheat? The real choice is up to you at the end, but we must all realize that in the end of all of this, the potential for AI to further educate our students is here, and we need to embrace it.
