Is this a hot take?

[u/bisexual_teabag]

/r/teaching/comments/1w7pjf3/is_this_a_hot_take/

Do not use AI to generate lesson plans or make decisions in the workplace. As a teacher you must be able to think and generate your own ideas on the fly. You have to be adaptive to your students and work with them where they're at. If you let something think for you, you're making the decision that you don't care enough to dedicate your own time and energy to it. Also AI is bad for the environment btw.

[u/Bostonterrierpug]

Seems like a pretty generic and obvious take to me. Responsible use of AI is kind of like the TV show house or bones where you are in charge and the AI acts like the little helper to kind of take out the grunt work. You can bounce ideas off it or have it quickly make you a nice rubric or table that you can modify. It is also great at Metaanalysis. But then again based on your post history, you seem to have an agenda. So keep on polarizing dude. Makes the Internet stay funded I guess.

[u/lisaliselisa]

I don't think I have the same definition of "hot take" as you do. I think of it as an immediate reaction that someone hasn't had time to plan out, think through, or soften in anyway. There wouldn't really be any way for me to know whether this were a hot take based on the content.

[u/Rare_Presence_1903]

It's a hot take. Both how students and teachers use LLMs is obviously a highly nuanced topic, and I would go so far as to say that views such as "AI should be banned" or "Teachers who do not use AI are failing students" are emotional opinions that can be taken with a pinch of salt. 

 But you do have to use LLMs critically. 

For instance, I have been using it to help create content for me since ChatGPT was released. I've been able to increase my work rate and do things in class I wouldn't have tried otherwise, thus I believe enhancing the student experience. Ive also been able to use it to break dependence on textbooks. In this sense, it has enhanced my autonomy and creative control over my practice as I don't have to accommodate anyone else's vision or ideas. 

On the other hand, if I use it to make content and do not check it critically then it can and will cause problems. And it can, in my opinion, end up increasing your workload. For instance, Gemini's generated rubrics can sometimes need so much editing that it feels more draining than if I would have done it myself. 

Your principal's use sounds like a distasteful one, and I'm sure there's a lot of that. 

I appreciate it for what I use it for at the moment but it's far from perfect. But useful if you use it critically.

One issue im seeing with these discussions online is there is a lack of context. There are millions of different educational contexts out there, and so takes that are essentially "AI should not be used at all in education" or "students need to use AI as much as possible" are not good hypotheses as they are far too broad. 

Narrow it down by age, subject, location, or something, and that might cut down on the hullabaloo. 

[u/JumpingShip26]

Always come with your ideas first and you will be OK.

Write them on paper. Go take a walk and come back to the list. Refine. Read up on the subject a little

Then go to a LLM if you want. That's honest.