I know, I know, I know, it’s rude to interrupt.
But hear me out.
Teaching spelling can be boring.
It’s boring for the students.
It’s boring for the teacher.
But it’s necessary.
To liven up my classes, I’ll have the students write silly sentences with their words.
The only rule is that the sentences must make sense grammatically.
They can be as outrageous as they want.
As long as they keep it clean.
One kid went above and beyond the assignment.
Instead of a silly sentence, he wrote an entire silly story, incorporating all the spelling words on our list.
He wrote a very long missive about how he loves to interrupt (which was one of the spelling words.)
It was a funny story, and he had the whole class giggling.
However, when we ran the story through our classroom AI Text Proofreader, he got a long, stern lecture about manners.
It’s rude to interrupt.
Well duh.
Of course it’s rude.
That’s what made the story funny.
We tried all kinds of different prompts to let the text proofreader know that this story was satire.
It kept giving us the same response.
It was the perfect opportunity to talk to the students about the limitations of artificial intelligence.
AI doesn’t understand nuance.
Satire is nuance.
AI just doesn’t get it.
Artificial Intelligence is good, but in the end, you have to rely on your own sound judgment.
I hope they remember this very important lesson.
Liz Brenner
Everyone has a story to tell.
Even you.
Especially you.
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