3 Powerful Strategies (Other Than AI Detectors) That Teachers Can Adopt to Adapt to Generative AI

Prepare for the upcoming school year by 1. taking a full-value attitude, 2. dodging problematic effects of AI, or 3. embracing AI-enabled teaching

The first strategy is taking the right mindset toward what many teachers see as an avalanche of problems enhanced, and even created, by generative AI. Not an action in itself but an attitude. Whether teachers see AI as a curse or a blessing, a mental shift is required solely because a new element has entered the equation.

The other two strategies, although opposite in nature, require this attitude shift as a prerequisite. Whatever teachers choose to do — defend against AI or embrace its promises — acceptance that something big is happening is a must.

The second strategy is about dodging the effects of AI through small targeted adaptive changes. Teachers who believe current teaching methods must prevail or are unwilling to accept new ones may take their place — which is a perfectly licit stance — can benefit from changes that are small enough so that they don’t entail an overhaul of the educational status quo but adaptive enough so that they stop AI from turning the classroom upside down.