![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In January, the New York City education department, which oversees the nation’s largest school district with more than 1 million students, blocked the use of ChatGPT by both students and teachers, citing concerns about safety, accuracy and negative impacts to student learning. Not all school systems have embraced the AI tool. Only a third of surveyed students said they had tried ChatGPT at all, with younger students in the sample actually reporting more use than older ones. But overall, students have actually been slower than teachers to adopt the tool, according to a February survey of 1,000 students aged 12 to 17 also commissioned by the foundation, funded by members of the billionaire Walton family. It’s unclear whether that’s because cheating is fairly rare or because teachers are missing the signs of students inclined to cheat (or more charitably, cut corners) using ChatGPT. Moreover, only one in ten teachers reported catching a student using the chatbot without their permission. But just 9% of nonusers ascribed a positive impact to the tool. Even teachers who haven’t tried it themselves are more likely to say it has had no impact than a negative one-44% to 10%, respectively. Of those teachers who have used ChapGPT, 88% said it’s having a positive impact on education. It’s easy to see the appeal of the tool, particularly for out-of-classroom tasks: a 2022 EdWeek survey found the typical teacher works 54 hours per week, with five hours spent on planning and prep, three hours on administrative work and two hours communicating with parents. Twenty-two percent said they use it to communicate with parents, students and colleagues. Middle school and high school teachers were more likely than those teaching lower grades to say they use the AI. ![]()
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