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User Beware Generative AI is a powerful and promising tool for education that can offer many opportunities for K-12 teachers and students. However, it also comes with some challenges and limitations that need to be addressed. A few things teachers need to be aware of: • Tools have different ages in the acceptable use policies. Be aware of a student’s age before using an AI tool. • Both teachers and students should be careful of what they share with AI chatbots. Most of these tools are in beta, so app makers and researchers will examine the user’s chats with AI Chatbots. • Some image generators use pictures AI models. We will see court cases about whether or not companies have the right to train their AI models using copyright-protected media. • We are still in the early days of publicly available generative AI. Searches are much more costly than a regular from the internet to be trained on. There has been proof that copyright protected images were used for training Google search. Eventually, users will have to pay to use AI tools or they will have advertising. • AIs are not always correct. If they don’t know something, they will confidently make something up. Researchers call this "AI hallucination." Information from AI should be double-checked. • Most AIs are trained on large datasets from the Internet. Unfortunately, biases found in the training data may appear in search results. AI Tools As of June 2023, these AI tools might be helpful for you. = Freemium tool, some features are free to use, or you can pay to upgrade for more features. AI Cheat Check (demo.aicheatcheck. com) - Check student work to see if an AI was used to write something. Tools like TurnItIn have added AI detection to their products as well. Bard (bard.google.com) is Google’s version of ChatGTP. It is currently in Beta, and you must request to join the Beta program before it becomes generally available. Google will = tool is a paid service. = Free tool.

integrate Bard into all the Google Apps like Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Slides. Brisk (www.briskteaching.com) is a Chrome Extension that will check Google Docs and Google Classroom comments for AI-generated content. More tools are being added soon. Right now, Brisk is in Beta and is free, but that could change. Canva Pro (canva.com/education) is known for being an excellent visual design tool. Their most recent update added several AI tools like Magic Erase, Magic Edit, Magic Write, Magic Presentation and Magic Design for all Pro accounts. Teachers can get a free Pro account at the listed address. ChatGPT (chat.openai.com) is the tool that made AI chatbots popular. ChatGPT 4 is even more powerful and can take in not just words but images as well. Microsoft has integrated ChatGPT into the sidebar of the newest version of the Edge browser, and they will also add it to the Office applications. Conker.ai (www.conker.ai) auto generates quizzes on a specific topic and age level. This tool allows students to answer on devices, and it grades for you. Make sure you read over the questions before you give the quiz! Curipod (curipod.com) - Give Curipod a topic and grade level, and it will create a slide deck with interactive activities that students can do via their own devices. Always remember to check the accuracy of the information before using it with students. DALL-E 2 (labs.openai.com) creates images from text. Type what you want the picture to look like, and DALL-E 2 will give you four images to choose from. See also: Adobe Firefly (free during the beta), Midjourney and DeepAI. Elicit (elicit.org) - Taking an educational research class? Elicit can find relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the article specific to your question and extract essential information from the papers. GrammarlyGo (grammarly.com/ grammarlygo) , the tool that gives you writing suggestions, will soon have AI built into it. It will write for you from a prompt, rewrite new versions of your

writing and respond to emails. Next Three Books (nextthreebooks. com) - Tell Next Three Books what you like to read, what level you want to read and the writing style. The site will suggest three books for you to read. Paraphrasing Tool - StudyCrumb (studycrumb.com/paraphrasing-tool) - Copy and paste text into Study Crumb, which will paraphrase it for you. Recipes by AI (letsfoodie.com/ai recipe-generator) - Tell Recipes by AI what ingredients you have and it will develop a recipe using those items. No need to go to the grocery store. TeachMateAI (teachmateai.com) has 40 tools to help teachers out from Letter Writer to Math Problem Starter. This site is based in the UK. It is similar to TeacherBot (https:// teacherbot.io/) Transvribe (transvribe.com) - Don’t have time to watch a YouTube video to get information? Give Transvribe the video address, and then ask a question. Transvribe will find the answer in the video. This tool impressed me. Vocal Remover (vocalremover.org) - This free online application will help remove vocals from a song by creating karaoke. Once you choose a song, artificial intelligence will separate the vocals from the instrumental. You will get two tracks - a karaoke version of your song (no vocals) and an acapella version (isolated vocals). As you can see, AI has the potential to transform education in many positive ways. It is not a substitute for human teachers but rather a tool that can augment their role and effectiveness. Teachers still play a vital role in designing meaningful learning activities, providing emotional support and encouragement and fostering a positive learning environment. Teachers need to be aware of the opportunities and challenges that AI brings to education and be prepared to integrate it into their teaching practices in a pedagogically sound way. By the way, parts of this article have been written by ChatGPT. Can you tell which parts were written by AI?

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