Using AI meaningfully can facilitate learning opportunities and open new possibilities, which is more important to consider than whether students will use it to cheat on assignments, asserts Karleen Pendleton Jiménez (Trent University). In an article for the Toronto Star, Pendleton Jiménez argues that educators should embrace AI while rethinking their evaluation and teaching strategies, noting that past technological advances have not stopped people from thinking. The author shares that she has seen her students searching for “meaningful relationships with AI” and using it creatively to enhance their assignments. “[T]he sheer scope of possibilities is why I think it’s not a question of allowing students to use AI or not,” writes Pendleton Jiménez.
