Curate resources on your blog and reflect on them to compose a well-reasoned blog post response to the weekly topics.
Care should be taken to ensure posts demonstrate critical reflection on the topics or technologies discussed with attention paid to how they impact philosophical, cultural, and pedagogical stances as well as their practice.
Text-based posts are acceptable, but learners are also encouraged to employ multimedia strategies for reflection (e.g., podcasts, vlogs, images or other formats).
Posts should utilize social writing strategies such as hyperlinks to blog posts (e.g., trackbacks) or to articles/resources consulted, images, embedded media, social sharing, evidence of reading/integrating the posts/thoughts of others, and/or soliciting feedback from prospective readers.
In this reflection I will reflect on my experience
Tabarak and I are inquiring about the use of AI in education for our project. Through the exploration of article and videos we found that AI can help some students in school but can also bring multiple issues around cheating and copyright. Students have used AI for a number of creative endeavors, but also for things such as studying, which is concerning as AI has been proven to give false answers at times. Also, with AI there is a big issue with Privacy because it collects student data. While we think AI is useful in the right circumstances, it can also be harmful and students, as well as teachers, need to be careful when implementing it into their education.
Step 1: Starting
Think about the big ethical questions around AI in education.
Some initial questions: o Does AI encourage cheating in school? o How do we use AI in a way that’s fair and responsible?
Step 2: Deepening
Do some research using online articles, reports, and studies.
Look into examples where AI has changed education.
Step 3: Refining
Update the research questions based on what you’ve learned.
Make a simple mind map connecting the pros and cons of AI in schools.
Think about new things, like privacy concerns in AI tools.
Step 4: Planning
Decide how to share the findings (paper, presentation, blog, etc.).
Plan activities to gather more info: o Ask teachers or students about their experiences with AI. o Check out surveys on AI in education.
Look into stats on how often AI is used in schools.
Set up a simple timeline to keep things on track.
Step 5: Learning
Think about the ethical challenges that come up.
Summarize the main points into a final project.
Resources
“The integration of AI technologies in education may lead to a reduced sense of support and understanding among students due to the absence of human educators. Furthermore, AI-mediated learning could compromise emotional connections and empathy within the educational experience” (Al-Zahrani, 2024).
