Blog Post 8

While working on the Web Design project,  learned a lot of new skills that will be very beneficial to me moving forward if I want to create a website for my classes. Firstly, I've never made a website before so everything I learned are new skills. I thought it was cool how we could link a live calendar to a page. Also, how we linked sites through buttons was a cool feature. While I thought the project was a great learning experience, I did struggle with some features. One of these  were where we were able to insert text or images. The website, Weebly, was very limiting on that kind of thing and I didn't like that I couldn't drag anything anywhere. My website: https://falloncollinss.weebly.com/

In my daily life, I do not use AI tools. This is because I feel it is an invasion of privacy to a certain extent. I don't like the idea of some government generated online thing knowing all this information about me so quickly. it makes me a little uneasy when I really think about the power AI will have one day. I have used ChatGPT in this class but I don't use it in my own life outside the classroom. 

In class, ChatGPT has helped us complete assignments quickly. One of them being when we had to look up things and find answers as fast as we could. AI moves at an unbelievably fast speed when it comes to knowing and telling information. It takes almost no time at all for the website to generate an entire research paper when all we have given is the instructions. It makes me question how it knows all this stuff and who programmed it with so much info. Moving into the classroom, I will try to make as many assignments in in person as I can to avoid my students cheating with ChatGPT. 

While I do think that AI is weird and a freakishly educated new invention, I do think that it can help to advance productivity. If someone need assistance on an assignment, all you have to do is insert the rubric or prompt and ChatGPT will have it done for you in 0.5 seconds. Due to this, I don' think it helps people be productive. It helps us get things done quick, but it doesn't teach us how to think on our own and use our own brains to create things, thus not helping us at all in the long run. I don't plan on using AI tools due to this and will aim to do my own work as an educator.