Can AI do my homework - CNA documentary

A wet weekend curtailed my usual outdoor activities. Browsing through Youtube, I chanced on this CNA documentary titled "Can AI do my homework" 

The documentary focuses on the Singapore school context and covers the pros and cons of AI use in education. The most important message is that we need to guide students on how to use AI to support learning. Otherwise, many will use AI to just provide answers, short circuiting the important processes of 'learning by doing' required for us to become proficient at various academic skills.

A post on "the Spinoff' offers similar observations from the Aotearoa NZ context. The post -'I wanted to be a teacher not a cop': the reality of teaching in a world of AI discusses the challenges and some possible solutions. Of note are examples of how 'policing' is a losing game as students circumvent every move to detect the use of AI. 

Hence AI literacies are important. However, working out when to introduce AI, especially to school students, is an important conversation that has to be undertaken. Too soon, and AI becomes the 'answer giver'; too late and AI is still perceived as a short cut to the actual hard work of doing the learning. Learners and students must therefore be guided to use AI as an adjunct or 'study buddy' and provisioned with the skills to interrogate and evaluate AI generated content.