A very complicated question in classrooms so far — how does artificial intelligence have to be handled in learning?
One Hingham High School student has brought that question front and center in Massachusetts. It’s an interesting case because nowadays it’s almost harder not to use artificial intelligence.
If you do a Google search, it’s the first thing that comes up.
So imagine being a high school student researching a project online – it’s totally different than even just a few years ago.
The Hingham High School student and another classmate were writing a history paper last year when they used AI for some of their research notes – not to write the paper itself.
A teacher discovered the AI usage, and the students were given a detention, kept off the National Honor Society, and given a zero on that portion of the project.
But it was such a large portion of their grade that this normally straight A …