The concerns around AI are often pretty valid ones. When misused, these tools can easily be used to plagiarize, cheat, and avoid work. When that happens students don't gain the valuable skills they need in order to become successful adults in a constantly shifting world.

However, avoiding the tools altogether is also not the answer as AI is exploding into every facet of our lifestyles and careers. Teachers can and should continue teaching students the lessons that have been successful in the past, but we should also be including skills that will be helpful to students in the future.

In short, don't avoid AI altogether - use the tools as they were designed, as aids to improve the work we already do. Teach students the appropriate times and places to use AI and how to credit that they used AI in their work for transparency and honesty.

More information on Ethical Use and Strategies to come. But for now, here are some resources from Cornell University, EdSurge (and ISTE), and Edutopia.

(Left, Adobe Firefly, prompt: "A teacher standing in front of a classroom, robots sitting at desks write in notebooks, a single human teenage student raises their hand. In the style of 1950's art." Edited with Generative Fill.)