AI is Infiltrating the Classroom
- As “the fastest-spreading technology in human history,” artificial intelligence has transformed education, enhancing students’ ability to cheat and allowing them to forsake critical thinking.
- Use of AI should be approached carefully, as smartphones and technology have had a measurable negative impact on children, serving as a distraction in classrooms and contributing to a decline in mental health.
- If utilized with discernment, AI allows teachers to differentiate instruction through bespoke worksheets and engaging teaching aids.
American Schools Must Return to Primarily Tech-Free Classrooms
- For the 2025-2026 academic year, twenty states banned smartphones and tablets from classrooms, and 16 more states relaxed or localized smartphone policies, or are mandating smartphone policies to be made by a certain date.
- Through implementing timed, in-class, blue book essays and open-response questions, teachers can make cheating via AI virtually impossible in their classrooms for subjects such as humanities and science.
- By using AI to create bespoke worksheets and to aid after-school tutoring, teachers can use AI in a way that does not distract students and instead augments their work.
Education Should be Tailored to Address Illiteracies
- As 61% of fourth-grade students and 72% of eighth-grade students are not proficient in math, schools need to improve math education to prepare students to contribute to a world of technological and scientific innovation.
- Colleges that have nixed standardized testing requirements in the name of DEI, colleges do not set students up for success but instead welcome many who are woefully unprepared and will struggle to graduate. Colleges must reimplement testing requirements.
- America’s education system should prioritize equipping students with a real base of knowledge they can draw from in order to use technology effectively.
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