AI usage - insights from teachers

Survey results

Last week I put a survey out to the universe and asked as many teachers possible to answer some questions about how they use AI in the classroom.

Here are the results:

Teachers represented catholic, independent and public schools.

Most were based in NSW.

36% use AI with their students.

90% use AI to plan for their students.

Tools used are

• ChatGPT

• Gemini

• Pilot

• Open AI assist

• Toddle

• Canva

• NSWEDUchat

Students use AI in the classroom:

• In art lessons to work on descriptive language to generate images from chosen language.

• Google AI overview to give students a start when researching, but teaching them about critical thinking and checking sources.

Teachers don’t use AI with students:

• not appropriate for them (not a child friendly interface)

• age limits

• School has not allowed it

• Students are not skilled to use or are not aware of safety.

Teachers us AI to plan:

• Create maths word problems then differentiating them.

• Creating narratives to introduce topics across the curriculum or social stories to address behaviour issues.

• writing sentence variations for reports.

• creating engaging lessons and assessments when programming.

• creating worked examples of written responses according to criteria.

• creating comprehension passages, questions and sample answers.

• Rubrics for student assessment

• Suggestions for science experiments with limited materials on hand.

• General differentiation of all areas of the curriculum.

• Support with writing goals for students.

Please get in touch - I’d love to hear from you!

Vanessa