VSG Maintenance Group
Thursday, December 4, 2025
There is so much to be concerned with about AI. I did use it my last year of teaching for a couple of things: if I wanted a quick multiple choice quiz to measure comprehension it worked pretty well, although I did edit every quiz it generated because there were mistakes. But it was nice to not have to invent the entire quiz myself. I also used it for sub plans. I would find what I thought anyhow, was a high interest news article and I would run it through AI and ask it to edit it to my student's reading level (very helpful) and generate comprehension questions. I would post the document on the platform w used, with questions imbedded in the article so they didn't have to search the whole article, just the previous sections. Easy peasy for the sub: I left them a copy with the answers, and then they could read it aloud, pause, have them answer the questions, continue reading. Most of my subs really liked it.
Students often tried to turn in work that was AI generated. Either they would forget to ask it to write at a 9th grade level, and I'd get some college level response about symbolism in To Kill a Mockingbird, or I would get something so bland and boring, but error free. No matter how a kid struggles with writing, their own voice is going to be so much more interesting. I had students write really beautiful things that I know was their own work because I saw them handwriting it. There were times they surprised themselves. AI takes that discovery from them.
And apropos of nothing, two deer just appeared behind my fence eating on some scrubby trees. (there's a buffer of natural trees etc between our yard and the yards behind us. )If I hadn't sat down to write, I wouldn't have seen them. They're very well fed and quite pretty.
