“With literacy, there are two processes: the first is to read the letters and map the sounds. The second is the understanding of oral language-as if you were talking and telling me a story,” she declared. “We hope that AI will develop to develop a better capacity to understand oral language.”
Students also speak to humans less during the school day, the more they interact with artificial intelligence on their computers or tablets, she said. This decreases the practice of oral communication at school.
Resistance to artificial intelligence persists among some of the country’s English teachers. Some surprised students using AI chatbots to write their tests, others are impatient that AI slows down critical thinking in their classrooms and that some are threatened that the tools could replace their teachers’ jobs.
Three weeks ago, the English professor of New Jersey High School Katie Thomas prohibited her students from hitting their tests on their computers or finishing their writing tasks at home.
