AI in the Classroom: Teaching Smarter, not Harder

Teachers Off Duty

Bored Teachers

Comedy, Stand-up

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Teachers spill the tea on ChatGPT in the classroom—hilarious stories, game-changing hacks, and why AI might just save your sanity!

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AI in the classroom? Love it or hate it, it's here to stay—and we've got thoughts. In this week's episode of Teachers Off Duty Podcast, KC Mack, Bri, and Anna are cutting up as always while diving into the wild world of ChatGPT, Magic School AI, and all the ways artificial intelligence is shaking up teaching.

From hilarious stories on the Bored Teachers Comedy Tour (including a teacher sliding KC a note mid-show!) to real talk about how AI can save time, grade essays, differentiate lessons, and even write IEPs, this conversation is equal parts funny and eye-opening. We're asking the big questions: Should students be allowed to use AI? Are we becoming hypocrites as teachers? And how do we keep the "rigor" alive when ChatGPT wants to make every test multiple choice A?

Plus, the crew shares their favorite AI tools for lesson planning, classroom hacks, and even how teachers are using AI to spice up professional development. By the end, you'll be laughing, taking notes, and maybe rethinking how you use AI in your own teaching.

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1:07.6	Will I let my kids use AI or will I not? And I argued that we should because they're already using it behind our back. How are they used? But what do you put the kids on? Chat, GPT. I'm like, hey, plug in your work and get feedback. The feedback is really the only time I let them use it. Yeah. How do you verify that footage is not AI? Because that's also a scary thing. She said, take it and make it say that she said this. Like for me. Like the students did me. Yeah. Wait, are you for real? No. Oh, I was like, he's crazy. I can never. Casey says things so freaking convincingly. Each chat GPT conversation is estimated to use about 500 milliliters to one liter of water, roughly
1:44.5	a ball of water behind the scenes.
1:45.9	You're lying to my face.
1:48.5	That's based on recent research estimating water consumption per prompt across AI models.
1:52.5	Well, I know some teachers that's probably used enough water to fill up an Olympic-sized swimming
1:56.0	pool.
1:57.0	Do you think we're becoming hypocritical as a society?
2:16.2	Hey, what's up, wonderful educators.
2:18.5	You already know what it is another wonderful episode of the Teachers Off Duty podcast.
2:22.3	It is your man, KC. Mac.
2:24.4	Casey McFunny to be exact.
2:26.1	Yeah, I saw that right.
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