From predictive text to editing software to image generators, artificial intelligence is becoming a part of everyday life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This fall, its capabilities won\u2019t be able to be ignored in the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve always had tools in education that have been deemed dangerous or risky, but we\u2019ve always had teachers there to provide support and scaffolding,\u201d Matt Henderson, chief superintendent and CEO of Winnipeg School Division, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Winnipeg School Division finds ways to embrace the technology, Henderson says it\u2019s mostly middle and senior years using AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019ve seen teachers really kind of jump onto it and using it as a way for students to inquire, to ask significant questions and see how AI might be a tool to allow us to think even deeper about significant issues that are facing the world,\u201d Henderson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
University of Manitoba nursing professor Kim Mitchell has already allowed students to use it for a writing assignment to test its capabilities and accuracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI honestly think it\u2019s better to allow them to use it under controlled circumstances than it is to say it\u2019s banned and never know if students are using it or not anyway,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But AI can also be used for cheating. Technology like ChatGPT can write essays within seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI believe every faculty saw some example of AI in the spring and summer session,\u201d Curt Shoultz, director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology at Brandon University, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shoultz says BU has serious consequences for students who are caught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt can range from a failed grade to expulsion depending on the history of the student and their intent,\u201d Shoultz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The head of computer science at the University of Manitoba says there is detection software to help catch cheaters but it\u2019s not very good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt will often give a false positive,\u201d David Gerhard said. \u201cI might write an essay myself and the software will say that looks like it was written by AI. And then what do I do? How do I defend myself against that? At the University of Manitoba we are encouraging people to not use those detectors because we know they don\u2019t work very well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Educators plan to adjust to the new technology that\u2019s changing the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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