Many educators fear students will use the artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT to write their reports or cheat on homework. But other teachers are including it in the classroom. Donnie Piercey is a teacher in Lexington, Kentucky. He told his 23 5th-grade students to try and outsmart the tool that was creating writing assignments. Piercey says his job is to prepare students for a world where knowledge of AI will be required. He describes ChatGPT as just the newest technology in his 17 years of teaching that caused concern about the possibility of cheating. They include tools to help with math and spelling as well as Google, Wikipedia and YouTube. “As educators, we haven’t figured out the best way to use artificial intelligence yet,” he added. “But it’s coming, whether we want it to or not.” One lesson in his class was a writing game between students and the machine. Piercey asked students to “Find the Bot.” Each student wrote a short report about boxer Muhammad Ali. Then they tried to figure out which was written by ChatGPT.
