As I strive to become an English teacher, I’ve learned that using Artificial Intelligence, or AI, to create lesson plans is something I will never do.
As we become more technologically advanced as a society, AI continues to play a significant role in the lives of younger individuals, especially when in the educational field. Students can look at AI as a reliable tool because of the information it contains and can access.
Despite what students may think, it is the main source that students need to avoid if they want to achieve academic success.
There are many reasons why I don’t plan to use AI when I develop lesson plans.
First off, I would be setting a bad example if I used AI when creating something for my students. Teachers encourage students not to use AI when doing their essays and other schoolwork. So if students see me using AI, then they’ll think it’s okay to use. If I use AI to teach and they use AI to do their work, what is the point?
Secondly, everything I create for my future students, whether a lesson plan or assignment, needs to come directly from me. If I use AI to help me make something, it’s not coming from me. It’s coming from an unreliable source. Everything I make digitally should not involve AI usage.
A third reason is that using AI to help me with my job is not me doing my job. It’s called being lazy. With how important teaching is, I can’t afford to use something unreliable to help my students succeed. Plus, as a teacher, I’m always supposed to be learning myself and AI will take that away from me.
If a teacher uses AI for lesson plans or anything school-related, then it shows they have a lack of care for their educational profession and their students. That is a bad look for teachers, considering how important it is to have good teachers.
It would be very dumb if I found out a teacher actually used AI to make a lesson plan. Lesson plans are for teachers to make on their own. It’s up to them to decide how they want to teach their material throughout a singular day, a full week and so on. Not AI’s. In fact, lesson plan topics are better developed and thought out by people in comparison to AI.
It’s scary times we live in, with how much technology students are exposed to. AI has now become a thing that they see on a daily basis and it is becoming more advanced to the point where students find it believable and what they read and see is factual.
The more I’ve learned about my future profession, the more I’ve learned about how unreliable AI truly is. It does not give out essential information. It tries to take the easy route, explaining things quickly and a person can explain things more in depth than AI.
These reasons should demonstrate why AI should not be included in the educational field. There could be teachers out there now who are using AI to make their jobs easier and students probably don’t realize it. I don’t want to become one of those teachers.
I have never cared more about a profession than I have since I started majoring in English Education. I want to do all I can to be a great teacher and positively impact the lives of the future generation, and I hope to do all of this without the use of AI.
When I become a teacher, I hope I can show my students why AI is not a reliable source.
I hope I can help them achieve greatness without AI. I hope they can realize the dangers surrounding AI and don’t use it in order to succeed both academically and personally.