Not enough limits on GenAI in the classroom

This is part of our series on GenAI in the Classroom. We would love to hear from you. How are you navigating GenAI in your classroom? Are you questioning or resisting its use? Actively integrating AI-assisted learning? Encouraging students to reflect critically on AI outputs? Using GenAI to support assessment design or feedback? Submit your GenAI thoughts. 

I was originally open to the new technology of GenAI, but that quickly turned sour when seeing its negative impact on my students and peers. The board I'm in is pushing hard for its educators to use GenAI and encourage students to use it. Board-approved GenAI includes Canva, Notebook LLM, SchoolAI, and Copilot (educators only). Out of the following, SchoolAI is the best as it allows educators to add limits to the AI and allows them to monitor all the chats of the students. Students continue to find work-arounds to use ChatGPT and unapproved AI models to get out of completing work. Students also take AI Overview from Google searches as gospel, not visiting any websites to verify the validity of their sources. Despite being taught how to accomplish a given task, they take what they perceive as the path of least resistance by using GenAI to complete the task for them, which results in them retaining nothing from course material. The literacy rates of our students are dropping significantly and with it behaviour is rising as they're unable to vocalize and work through their emotions or get along with people that do not 100% align with their own worldviews and opinions. Students continue to be extremely addicted to their phones, in part because of the access to GenAI chatbots that they talk more to than their own friends. GenAI in apps like SoraAI and Twitter/X (grok) has put students and adults alike more at risk than ever before as one can use your likeness to generate inappropriate and/or incriminating images, often without the subject even knowing let alone consenting to an image of their likeness being generated.