Within my experience blogging, I like the interactive format it introduces. For example, blogging allows for the blogger to use different formats such as text as well as images in order to convey their thoughts. In addition, it allows for viewers to comment and include their thoughts on the pieces written by the blogger. So far, I have learned how to add text to the blogs, how to add images to the blogs, and how to add copyrights to the blog posts. Overall, blogging is an interactive and exciting new experience that I enjoy.
Artificial intelligence within education has become more popular within the last couple of years. My initial thoughts about using AI within a K-12 setting, is that while it can be helpful in the short term, I believe it to be harmful in the long run. While AI can quickly find answers for specific questions, it lacks originality, by paraphrasing or plagiarizing other sources, as well as even sometimes lacking credibility/accuracy. Therefore, due to the lack of originality and credibility, I believe that if students were to use AI from K-12, it would limit their understanding of the knowledge and core skills that K-12 provides, instead relying on AI which ultimately fails the purpose of schooling.
While using Generative AI for Participation Portfolio Item #10, I used the Generative AI ChatGPT. I asked ChatGPT to generate a science lesson for 7th graders about cells and their functions and the lesson plan it gave me was highly detailed. There wasn’t anything that didn’t work, as the lesson plan covered activities and accommodations, and was extremely helpful. Next time, I would possibly use it to create an outline for an assignment or I may use it to structure tables or other miscellaneous objectives.
Within my teaching practice, I would use Generative AI sparingly. I would use it for outlines, tables, or other small items within my lessons, however I would be hesitant to commonly employ the use of AI. I would use very little AI in order to address ethical concerts, because I believe that many of the ethical concerns from AI are because people use so much of AI. For example, the ethical concern of originality being lost when AI is used is eliminated if one simply does not use AI. Overall, while Generative AI may be very helpful, this is mainly due to other materials that AI is taking from, therefore rendering your work when one uses AI as a copy of something rather than a unique and original piece of work.
