Blog Post #5

 I have enjoyed the blogging process so far. It makes me reflect on what I have learned in this class in a simple way and isn't too challenging of assignment. It is also a very free assignment without a lot of restrictions, making my writing feel very free. There hasn't been anything that I haven't liked about blogging. I also think it is a great resource to use when I am an educator. It is one place to see all of my students writing and it could be fun for them to design their own blog and edit it as they see fit.

I am very skeptical about using AI in the classroom. I know it has many benefits and many potential great uses, but I want my students to write all of their own papers. As an English teacher, AI has limited uses in a classroom. They will have to read books on their own and write their own material. Once I learn more about AI, I will feel better about using it in the classroom.

I asked AI a lot of questions, and the more I asked, the better the response from AI. They planned a whole lesson for me, and all I had to do was ask more and more specific questions. When I clarified very minute details about the lesson plan, it solved them for me. However, I am not a fan of using AI for this purpose. I feel much better about creating plans myself for the students that I personally work with.

When I have previously used generative AI, I have found that it is most useful as a research partner. It is especially useful in finding and quoting scholarly sources. Unfortunately, it is less reliable in its ability to create detailed descriptions or simplifications of the information it has gathered. It is also imperfect when attempting to solve higher-level math equations. In the future I intend to use AI in the way that is most accurate: as a research assistant.