Fighting distractions and disinformation in the age of AI
UD-led seminar teaches Delaware educators lessons on digital citizenship
Middle school language arts and English teacher Alyssa Lucadamo had “played around” with ChatGPT to see how it works and what would happen when she fed it some of the writing prompts she gives her students. She also has colleagues who use the AI program for different aspects of teaching, like summarizing longer texts for students.
But she became alarmed when she started seeing evidence that some of her seventh and eighth students at P.S. duPont Middle School in Wilmington were using ChatGPT in their written work.
So she jumped at the chance to deepen her understanding of AI and its benefits and drawbacks, as well as ways to handle online distraction and disinformation, through a seminar specifically for Delaware K-12 teachers sponsored by the University of Delaware’s Delaware Teachers Institute (DTI).