A local school is setting boundaries for artificial intelligence use in school work for the coming school year.
McQuaid Jesuit High School will rank permitted AI use from level zero to level three depending on the situation. The district says it’s important for students to cite their AI use regardless of the level at which it is used.
School leaders say they would be negligent not to prepare students on how to use AI appropriately and productively before they head into the workforce or college world.
“We’re battling a little bit the proper usage of it, you know, and I think we’d be foolish to believe that it’s not efficient, it’s efficient for kids, it’s easy, it’s a great way to get them to get their work done quickly, but unfortunately, it’s producing non-authentic work.”
Many educators have raised concerns that AI allows students to rely too much on technology without doing the work themselves and it could impact their ability to think critically.
A recent study from MIT discussed a problem called “metacognitive laziness” and how there is a red flag being raised in schools to embed AI tools into the classroom.