The AI line, What is The Line For Educators and Students

Artifical intelligence has quickly become a part of everyone’s daily lives, including in our schooling. From using it for grading or an explanation on assignments, we as students do see that teachers and professors are using AI to help manger their workloads and improve efficiency. Some programs check for grammatical errors on student work, suggesting what though write to their students as feedback and help the overall organizations of classwork. With continuous growing classroom sizes at Anoka Ramsey Community College, tools like this can help teachers AI have the potential to focus more on their instruction and lecturers than repetitive tasks. I approve of teachers using this to help with their job as times change, we must adapt with them, but what is the line for students then? After reading syllabuses from Anoka Ramsey professors over the past three years often more than not there is no tolerance policy for AI, so where is the line.

One of the main concerns that I have heard from many classmates, and students at universities is the apparent double standard of using AI. Many cases that multiple friends are in we notice the same responses on grade work, summarized writing, even grading. While students that use it to help them with their homework wether it be an outline or help, starting an assignment is incorrect. From a student's perceptive this to me seems a tad unfair, yes using copy and paste for assignments is wrong I completely agree but why is it that professor can utilize the tools of AI, but we can't? The issue simply isn’t just banning or allowing it fully but as we know technology is always changing and especially changing the way that students learn. For example, I went to a school before Anoka Ramsey that was strictly pencil and paper, after covid they converted mainly to computer use only.

Some educators do believe in the existence of AI being involved in the classroom but not all are on this page. Instead of having a no tolerance policy I think educating students on the correct ways to us AI would be much more beneficial. Now that AI has been introduced, what will be the correct solution for students and educators using AI?