Teachers lean further into obsolescence, using AI to grade and provide feedback on assignments



Americans' confidence in public schools has plummeted to all-time lows. The eagerness with which teachers' unions and school districts have subjected children to mask mandates, lockdowns, and radical propaganda in recent years likely didn't help.

It also doesn't help that teachers have been doing a poor job overall of teaching reading and mathematics compared with previous years, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Unsurprisingly, homeschooling has become the fastest-growing form of education with nearly 4 million homeschooled K-12 students nationwide.

Rather than evidence their value in the face of record-low public confidence, poor assessments, and increasing competition, teachers appear to be offloading more of their duties onto their potential replacements.

According to Axios, teachers are increasingly adopting ChatGPT and other AI-boosted tools to do their jobs for them. Writable is one such tool.

Acquired last year by the education company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Writable supposedly "scaffolds student learning and builds lifelong writing and reading skills for students in grades 3-12, while saving teachers time on daily instruction and feedback."

It works thusly: A student submits a writing assignment to a teacher electronically, then the teacher submits it to Writable. Writable runs the essay through ChatGPT. ChatGPT then does the work customarily performed by an engaged teacher, providing comments and feedback. The teacher is afforded an opportunity to review or adjust the chatbot's work, then sends it back to the student.

According to the Writable website, the RevisionAid feature will provide students with feedback and constructive criticism so that students can improve their writing. The GrammarAid feature will help students with grammar, mechanics, and style.

As for fleshing out a curriculum, teachers need only pick a lesson from one of thousands of ready-made plans, which they can then customize if they are feeling up to the challenge.

"We have a lot of teachers who are using the program and are very excited about it," Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CEO Jack Lynch told Axios.

There are various other AI tools besides Writable that spare teachers the onerous task of grading tests and papers. These include Gradescope, EasyGrader, and Canvas.

Blaze News reported last March that a poll commissioned by the Walton Family Foundation and conducted by Impact Research found that 51% of 1,002 K-12 teachers surveyed were using ChatGPT to perform their duties.

"Three in ten teachers have used it for lesson planning (30%), coming up with creative ideas for classes (30%), and building background knowledge for lessons and classes (27%)," said Impact Research.

Education Week reported last month that 73% of educators surveyed by the EdWeek Research Center said their districts do not presently prohibit the use of ChatGPT and other large language models powered by AI. Another 20% said there were prohibitions on such use but that the bans only applied to students. Only 7% of respondents indicated teachers were prohibited from offloading their work onto AI tools.

According to the same survey, 56% of respondents said they expected an increase in the use of AI in schools.

One unidentified Texas teacher told Education Week, "I frequently use ChatGPT to write lesson plans, syllabi, and parent letters. It can be a very effective tool, but I still look over and edit anything that looks off."

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The elites’ plan to replace God with AI



Are the elites trying to replace God with AI?

Allie Beth Stuckey and her guest Justin Haskins, co-author of “Dark Future,” think so.

“Imagine a future in which everything is controlled by artificial intelligence. I’m not just talking about your smart home. I am talking about our legal system, I’m talking about major international decisions like whether to launch a nuclear attack on another country,” Stuckey says.

“That might sound like a crazy dystopian conspiracy theory, but that is where the world’s most powerful people are taking us: into a future that is completely and totally controlled by artificial intelligence,” she adds.

Stuckey dives into a story that should serve as a warning to everyone who uses this kind of technology — which is basically everyone.

Global giant Amazon shut off a man’s smart home devices for a week after a delivery driver falsely accused the customer of using racial slurs via his Amazon doorbell camera.

The homeowner, Brandon Jackson, is a black man, but was digitally exiled by the company and reported for being racist.

“That could be a really big deal if a company decides to shut down the features in your home that you actually rely on and increasingly rely on for important things like air conditioning and security,” Stuckey says.

Haskins agrees.

“The more interconnected and dependent we become on technology, the easier it is to control and manipulate people’s behavior,” he says.

He warns that while this was a relatively small story, the future looks bleak when it comes to our use of artificial intelligence — and a lot like the film "Minority Report."

“Most people don’t know this,” Haskins explains, that when people are convicted of crimes, “there are governments that use artificial intelligence to tell them what they think the sentencing decision should be.”

“That’s terrifying,” Stuckey says. “This technology is not unbiased.”


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