AI is here. How do we manage it and leverage it in our classrooms?

• Grammarly | Predictive text and semi-automatic grammatical correction

• Quillbot | Paraphrases, checks grammar, checks for plagiarism, summarizes, creates citations,  translates, co-writes. 

• Bard | Google's experimental AI system. Composes large formats of text in a variety of formats. Does not provide citations/attributions or include quotations.

• ChatGPT | Open AI product. Composes large formats of text in a variety of formats. Does not provide citations/attributions or include quotations.

• Bill Gates - "A New Era - The Age of AI has begun: Artificial intelligence is as revolutionary as mobile phones and the Internet"

"In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary.

The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface—the forerunner of every modern operating system, including Windows. I sat with the person who had shown me the demo, a brilliant programmer named Charles Simonyi, and we immediately started brainstorming about all the things we could do with such a user-friendly approach to computing. Charles eventually joined Microsoft, Windows became the backbone of Microsoft, and the thinking we did after that demo helped set the company’s agenda for the next 15 years.

The second big surprise came just last year. I’d been meeting with the team from OpenAI since 2016 and was impressed by their steady progress. In mid-2022, I was so excited about their work that I gave them a challenge: train an artificial intelligence to pass an Advanced Placement biology exam. Make it capable of answering questions that it hasn’t been specifically trained for. (I picked AP Bio because the test is more than a simple regurgitation of scientific facts—it asks you to think critically about biology.) If you can do that, I said, then you’ll have made a true breakthrough."

• NPR - "'Everybody is cheating': Why this teacher has adopted an open ChatGPT policy"

Professor Mollick, UPenn Wharton School

Re: AI: "[Mollick] readily admits he alternates between enthusiasm and anxiety about how artificial intelligence can change assessments in the classroom, but he believes educators need to move with the times

"We taught people how to do math in a world with calculators," he said. Now the challenge is for educators to teach students how the world has changed again, and how they can adapt to that.'"

• Washington Post - Teachers are on alert for inevitable cheating after release of ChatGPT

"Teachers and professors across the education system are in a near-panic as they confront a revolution in artificial intelligence that could allow for cheating on a grand scale.

The source is ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence bot released a few weeks ago that allows users to ask questions and, moments later, receive well-written answers that are eerily human."

Resource: WMHS Student and Parent Handbook

This plagiarism policy is designed to foster a commitment to intellectual honesty and integrity. WMHS students will be supported to work and succeed based on their own efforts and commitment to growth. As such, students are expected to refrain from all types of academic dishonesty, cheating and plagiarism, including, but not limited to:

● Taking a test in a dishonest way.

● Intentionally using, closely imitating the language and/or ideas of, or copying the work of another person and representing the work as one’s own (including cutting and pasting from online sources).

● Knowingly using fraud or deceit for one’s own or another student’s benefit within the school community.

● Intentionally sharing one’s own work so that another student may represent the work as one’s own.

For an assignment that is plagiarized using AI. The classroom expectations regarding student work are clear: all work submitted by students should be their own, and all sources should be credited. Based on the school plagiarism policy, here are the next steps:

1. Parents/School Administration is notified - all concerned are copied onto this email, and a note will be submitted through Powerschool

2. The assignment receives a failing grade (0/20 points)

3. For the first violation, a student is required to submit a written reflection (signed by parents) to their teacher and administrator. I will accept your previous email as a reflection submission for me.

If an administrator determines that this is not your first offense, there will be additional consequences. Please note the policy for a second offense:

SECOND VIOLATION

● Discipline referral by teacher sent to administration for inclusion in the student’s disciplinary record

● Student receives a 0 for the assignment

● Student receives a minimum of three (3) administrative detentions or (1) Saturday detention

● Administrator facilitates meeting with student, parent, and teacher