In recent years, many students and teachers around the United States have used Artificial Intelligence (AI) for educational purposes. AI was created to allow machines to learn tasks that require human intelligence. Now, AI has a huge number of purposes in the education system, such as tutoring, personalized learning, language translation and much more.

Teachers in the high school have recently had issues with students abusing the power of AI. Students have been using it to complete their homework, essays and test answers. It is frustrating as a teacher to deal with the negative aspects of learning that AI brings to the table.

Fortunately, teachers can catch AI-generated plagiarism by using specific software that scans the student’s assignment. The websites that catch plagiarism can tell the teacher exactly what was AI-generated versus what was written by the student. This allows teachers to stop the issue before students continue to abuse their AI powers.

AI has slowly started to deteriorate students’ learning and education. Students who continue to incorrectly use AI for school assignments are only hurting themselves in the long run. If students continue to copy or plagiarize, they will never be able to properly learn the given school material. This will cause students’ grades to drop and they can face risks such as failing a class or potentially getting held back.

Although these negative uses of AI diminish a student’s educational experience, there are ways students can use AI to help with assignments. Students should not use it to complete their entire homework, but they can use it to get inspiration.

The app ChatGPT is a very common AI-generated software used by many students. The app allows users to ask questions and receive general information quickly. Students can use this software to get inspiration for assignments, including project ideas, studying tactics or virtual labs. Being able to get small pieces of inspiration is much better than a student plagiarizing a whole assignment.

Students in high school should be educated on both the positives and negatives AI has to offer. Since AI is such a powerful tool, it is hard to tell students not to use it. There are multiple beneficial ways AI can be used in the classroom.

The Print Media Workshop and Broadcast Media Workshop courses provided at the high school are great examples of classes in which AI can help students. The teacher of these courses, Mr. Aaron Fitzpatrick, constantly educates students on the benefits AI has to offer. AI has allowed students to form interview questions, find topics for monthly cycle videos and create headlines for the school’s newspaper. For example, the headline of this article was created by an AI-generated software just to prove there are ways to get inspiration rather than plagiarism.

Although no one knows what the future AI will create, it is known that AI can benefit the educational system if used properly. As long as students use this software to excel in school rather than cheating, they will continue to grow as students.