WBUR Podcasts, Boston.

This is On Point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

It's back to school this week for Kayla Jefferson.

She's a social studies teacher at Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Brooklyn, New York.

I set it off from the start from September.

I know AI.

Don't try to get around me.

Like, I understand it.

So, you know I don't play.

This year, she's teaching seniors.

And Kayla has a rule.

No using AI to do assignments.

Not for classwork, not for homework, no AI.

It's hard because like a lot of them really do use AI for their other classes, so parts of their brain are really not like chugging.

So it's hard for them to sit in groups and talk to each other and discuss things.

And it's so easy to tell that they don't know what they're saying or what they're typing or even what is on the screen.

In Florence, South Carolina, Ludrick Cooper has been back in the classroom for more than a month already.

He teaches English language arts to eighth graders at Williams Middle School.

First week of school, I told him it's nothing wrong with using AI.

You just can't use it in class.

Don't try to cheat, you know, plagiarize.

But it's okay to use it at home if you want to learn.

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