AI provides new tools and challenges for educators and students alike

As students in Indiana begin a new academic year, they have powerful technology at their disposal: generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.  This technology may necessitate changes to the way schools teach and students learn. 

Generative AI like ChatGPT can write essays and answer math questions. And educators for the most part haven’t figured out what to do with a technology that can
complete students’ homework for them. 

Kyungbin Kwon is an Indiana University professor who studies AI and student learning. Kwon says educators should TEACH students about how generative AI works — and its
limitations. “Let students understand the mechanism and the principal of AI, and then they can use the AI technology more responsibly.”

Kwon says schools shouldn’t ban generative AI tools — because many students will wind up using it in their future careers.