Wake County Schools have decided to ban ChatGPT on all Wake County Chromebooks. But is this ban really helping students, or is it actually hurting them? Since AI is still available, students are finding ways to use it anyway, and some people worry that we’re preventing students from using and learning about a tool they’ll need in certain scenarios. We’re going to look at both sides. Is the ban keeping us honest, or just holding us back?
Some students think that the ban is harmful. For instance, students can use ChatGPT a lot to get immediate help with hard concepts, explaining grammar, or studying for a test. For them, it’s like a private teacher they can always ask questions to without being judged. Another thing is that sometimes, the new AI detector tools that schools use to catch cheating make mistakes and wrongly flag high-quality, human-written work as being AI generated. One of those many students who thinks this is Sophie Kimbark.
“I think it can be more harmful because Chat GPT was helpful for me personally for quizzing myself for classes. Not exactly for cheating but for extra support.” Says Kimbark…