{"id":199527,"date":"2026-03-26T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/area-educators-address-growing-student-reliance-on-artificial-intelligence-910news-com\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:15:36","slug":"area-educators-address-growing-student-reliance-on-artificial-intelligence-910news-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/area-educators-address-growing-student-reliance-on-artificial-intelligence-910news-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Area educators address growing student reliance on artificial intelligence \u2013 910News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9and10news.com\/2026\/03\/26\/area-educators-address-growing-student-reliance-on-artificial-intelligence\/\">Area educators address growing student reliance on artificial intelligence \u2013 910News.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9and10news.com\/2026\/03\/26\/area-educators-address-growing-student-reliance-on-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.9and10news.com\/2026\/03\/26\/area-educators-address-growing-student-reliance-on-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-26 18:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.9and10news.com\">www.9and10news.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Growing Use of AI in Schoolwork:<\/strong> Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used by school age kids to assist with or complete their school assignments, including papers, essays, and even entire tasks.  <\/li>\n<li><strong>Critical Thinking Concerns:<\/strong> Educators like Kingsley High School Principal, Chris Rapes, express concerns that heavy reliance on AI may hinder students&#8217; development of critical thinking and original thought.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Practical Dependency Predictions:<\/strong> A 2026 poll indicates that a majority of kids aged 12-to-17 are using AI for academic help, and most expect to become highly dependent on such tools like Chat GPT and Google\u2019s Gemini in adulthood.<\/li>\n<li><strong>School Efforts to Balance Use of AI:<\/strong> Traverse City Area Public Schools Chief Academic Officer, Jessie Houghton, believes educators need to understand AI tools better and aim to teach students about the appropriate use of AI rather than blocking it completely.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Challenges in Keeping Up with AI:<\/strong> Principal Rapes describes the challenge of staying ahead of rapidly evolving AI technologies and developing a collective district-wide policy for its use in education.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Detection and Individual Insight:<\/strong> Educators are finding it increasingly difficult to detect AI-generated work due to its evolving nature, but personal classroom experience can sometimes identify anomalies in student submission authenticity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Preparing for the Future:<\/strong> Some educators argue that instead of banning AI usage, schools should teach students how to use it responsibly, as these tools will likely be part of future careers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Area educators address growing student reliance on artificial intelligence \u2013 910News.com https:\/\/www.9and10news.com\/2026\/03\/26\/area-educators-address-growing-student-reliance-on-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-26&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/910mediagroup\/NALM2HIHNRJVJNACPJ2QJPLSAE.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-199527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199529,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199527\/revisions\/199529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}