By: Savannah Yancey & Farrah Wagner
Carver students in Silverman's computer science honors class complete a coding assignment on November 21st, 2025.
As the 2025 school year starts off, the School District of Philadelphia implemented AI into the school system. George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science is adapting to the development of access to Google's Gemini AI.
Campbell Academic Technology Services conducted a survey by Ellucian to attest to the idea that college campuses will adopt Ai among educators at an increasing rate in the next two years; they found that 93% of higher education staff expect to expand their use of AI for work purposes over the next two years.
Given that AI is prominent on college campuses, Silverman, a teacher at Carver, is incorporating AI in his computer science class to better prepare his students for college courses.
According to Lee Silverman, a teacher at Carver, “..we’re learning prompt engineering right now. That's really big on college campuses, is learning how to develop prompts correctly.”
Aside from Ai usage among teachers, Ai could possibly be used for personal usage among students.
Silverman believes students aren’t using Ai to its fullest potential.
“I don't think we've even scraped the surface of what we can do with it, they've rolled out gems and notebook LM, which you can upload, like aggregated bunch of sources and be it can become your personal tutor, your personal assistant."
Jhandiel Mora Gonzalez, a student who learns from Silverman's teaching habits talks about how AI can provide in helpful ways.
“To be honest, AI, it makes my life a little easier, you know, like some things I can't get in a teacher can't help me with. So, you know, going to AI not only to use as like a resource, but like a helping hand."
Some teachers aren’t as optimistic about this tool and its abilities. A Penn expert weighs in as the technology keeps advancing, he believes we’re going to see both benefits and harms from it.
Mrs. Moore-Almond believes Ai can help produce ideas but if not used correctly, it can be threatening.
“If you use it as a springboard, as a way to maybe generate ideas or refine them, or do administrative tasks, it can be really useful if you are using it to do the work without critically evaluating what comes up, then it's very, very dangerous,” Moore-Almond said.
According to Adey Tsegaye, a student of Moore-Almond believes that students shouldn’t use AI to help them with their school work.
“I think you shouldn't use like generative AI in your classroom for your work, because it's really not your work. Then. So why are you doing it? It's not reflective of what you know. It's reflective of what the AI knows, and the Ai knows a lot of stuff. So it's not your work. You shouldn't use it.”
As Mrs. Moore-Almond noted, “AI can be a tool or a weapon”–a line that frames the stakes of the district’s technological shift.
Student in Mrs. Moore-Almond's AP US history class complete a group assignment on November 26th, 2025.
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