In a world where technology evolves as fast as homework piles up, students at Pittsburg Highschool are discovering new ways to study smarter, not harder, using artificial intelligence. Now you might be thinking “isn’t this cheating?” and in most cases this would be cheating. But the way this individual student uses AI is a very smart way and not cheating.
Rj Mosley is a Senior Athlete at Pittsburg Highschool who will attend the University of Arizona for football. When I asked him how he balances his schoolwork and studying with his sports obligations he had an interesting answer. He said “When I need to study, I use AI apps to help me understand what I am doing, not to cheat. I use them to help me break down the content and an easier way to understand things when I have a long day after practice.” His response was very interesting to me as I never thought that people could use AI for studying. People tend to generalize AI tools as just “cheating” but they can actually be very beneficial as explained above. You can use these apps to give you practice tests, help you understand a topic better, or reexplain in a way that a teacher or classmate couldn’t do.
So the next time you feel guilty for just using Chat GPT to just get all the answers and not do your work, realize that you can be using the app to expand your knowledge, not just cheat. It will help you in every aspect of school because as you move on to college and higher grades in highschool, you have to learn how to study, so if you learn how to do it at an early age, with the help of an AI app, it will set you up to be super successful in the future with your school career.
