Sora, a new AI video and social media app, has taken the social media world by storm. Produced by Open AI (the same company that created Chat GPT), the app creates semi-realistic videos using text and people’s likenesses.  Some teachers are using this latest AI phenomenon  to create videos of themselves too.  Social Studies teachers like Mr. Jeremy Klaff and Ms. Millicent Hudson have used the app to create videos of themselves as historical figures, often combining memes and humor with actual historical facts.  Creating a more fun environment for students to learn in.

     Sora AI adds to the increasing trend of teachers using AI in their teaching at Schreiber.  Many teachers have openly admitted to using Chat GPT or other AI programs to help create assignments, songs and pictures.  While teachers are openly using AI in their classrooms, students are not allowed to use AI on most assignments.  When students are using AI in school, it is usually presumed that they are cheating.  This raises the question of if it is considered “cheating” for teachers to be using AI for their work.

     While some students may see it as unfair, teachers aren’t actually “cheating” by using AI. They have solely used it as a tool to help them create materials that will help a topic make more sense to their students.  Students, however, have used AI to complete assignments for them. However, many students wish they had the same opportunity as teachers to use AI tools like Sora to help them learn, as students using AI in any capacity is frowned upon because it is usually assumed that they are cheating.  While giving students unlimited access to AI programming is a slippery slope.  However, giving them access to some AI programs may produce benefits to their learning.  

     Students can use AI as a tool to help themselves study or learn, not just to cheat.  Like teachers have shown with Sora, it can help relate topics they are learning in school to their real lives. Students in the previous years have used AI to make study and review guides to help prepare for tests.  The teachers’ use of Sora AI has displayed that students can benefit from using AI to help grasp certain concepts in the classroom.  Students and teachers alike should be allowed to use AI as a tool to learn without it being penalized as cheating.  Sora is helping to bridge the gap between students’ education and their lives outside of school.  Changes should be made to AI policies in school because it can be benefical for students to understaqnd topics and help students prepare outside of school.