What is AI and What is its Place in a Christian School? Part One

"Although it's called artificial intelligence, it's not intelligence. It's math. It's all a series of mathematical algorithms and binary code that is just searching data and then looking for patterns and putting them together in fresh and original ways." Penny McKnight

Part One

AI is prevalent, and as educators, you would be hard pressed not to bump into it in your classroom, even with efforts to keep AI out of the classroom.  There are a lot of voices about AI right now, and we as educators need to understand the truth about AI. 

 

This episode of the Teacher Edition podcast, host Jenny Copeland and guest Penny McKnight bring this important topic to light.  Penny McKnight, is an educator, missionary, wife and grandmother. Penny is a teacher who is working in the trenches, serving faithfully, and facing head on the waves of the culture and society we live in- including the breakneck speed of technology advancements.  Like many Christian school teachers, Penny navigates the reality of AI and realizes the need to decide how to respond inside of the classroom.  

 

Throughout this conversation, Jenny and Penny discuss these important questions:

• What can generative AI do, and why is it so important?
• What is the difference between Google and AI?
• How can teachers utilize generative AI in the classroom?

 

Jenny and Penny barely scratch the surface on embracing AI in the classroom as Christian educators in this episode.  Be sure to listen to part two as you will hear more practical suggestions to incorporate AI appropriately within the classroom.  Every day in the classroom is YOUR day to impact and inspire through God's power and His grace working in you. 

Go do what God has called you to do!

"We can't control it. We can't really ban it, but we can help students to learn it, to use it in a supervised way, in a thoughtful and a meaningful way."- Penny McKnight

 

Resource:

How to Define “Cheating” and “Plagiarism” with AI 

https://ditchthattextbook.com/ai/#tve-jump-18606008967

AI Tools:

https://www.magicschool.ai/ 

https://undetectable.ai/  

                                                                  

About Penny McKnight

Penny McKnight is a devoted educator, missionary, wife, mother, and grandmother. Raised by Christian parents who sacrificed for her education, Penny discovered her love for children while volunteering in Sunday school and Good News Clubs as a teenager. Determined never to be a school teacher, Penny graduated with a degree in church ministries and ministered for 17 years as a missionary in Jamaica with her husband and four children. Since returning to the States, Penny has been teaching high school English for the past 19 years at Harford Christian School in Maryland. When she’s not teaching or grading papers, Penny enjoys time with her grandson, taking walks with her husband, and reading a good book.

 

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