Artificial intelligence technology, commonly referred to as A.I., is becoming more and more accessible every day.

Chat GPT is a popular AI tool capable of completing assignments and writing essays for students, and it's raising some big concerns about cheating.

But one Lexington educator is finding creative ways to incorporate chat GPT into his fifth grade classroom, while also promoting the importance of integrity.

More in tonight's Education matters.

So let's see, Sophia, can I include you?

So when people first see chat GPT, it looks very similar to a Google search.

There's a little bar where you can type in, you know, just like on a Google search would.

However, unlike Google search, where it goes in, it searches the entire internet to try to find information.

Instead, it creates for you.

So if you ask it to write a paragraph about the history of the Kentucky Derby, it'll do that If you tell it to write a poem about Cassius Clay.

It'll do that.

So as a teacher, you know, I think there's obviously a lot of concerns and also a lot of different ways that we can start to use it in the classroom as well.

It's very cool to learn about it because Mr. Piercey talks to us all the time, like even though tragedy is for 18 and older because like the safeties and stuff like that, he said he like he likes to expose us to it now.

So we have we've gotten used to it and we understand what it is and the dangers, but also what it can do.

And that's really cool for us to learn about.

I'm really just trying to come up with creative ways that we as educators can start to use AI not just to like, have it right pieces for us, but instead figure out some fun games we can play with it in the classroom.

I asked chat GPT to write ten fairy tales with only emojis.

Put them up on the screen.

We try and guess which fairy tale that is.

So like if it's princess and the frog, we try and guess if it's princess and the frog, if it Goldilocks and the three bear to try and guess.

If it's Goldilocks, then through there.

It was kind of a fun activity was more to get them, you know engaged really to get at their storytelling.

And then after we talk through like what those emojis were and they said, Oh, well, actually let's turn this into a writing prompt.

So they just pick a story, something fun that you did with a friend.

And then not only just tell your story with emojis, but also include text.

So what went from just a fun little activity that you know, it's a spitting chat?

GPT was spitting emojis out at me.

I turned it into a classroom writing activity and every single student in here was engaged.

And, you know, secretly I'm teaching them how to like, you know, add personal touches to, to their writing.

You have like a whole back story here in your story.

That's pretty sweet.

I think moving forward, it can be used as a idea generator like a prompt generator.

So then we can use our own creative abilities to put our creativity to the world.

It's like preparing us for what the future is going to be like, cause AI is like really intelligent, really cool, and it's only going to get better and better.

All of us are just trying to figure out like, what's the best way where we can incorporate these tools into our classrooms in creative ways, but at the same time also letting our students know that no, it's not okay to cheat.

We need to have integrity, we need to work on these things with fidelity.

And that's something that I think is going to take time.

But the only way we're going to get there is by figuring out how we can incorporate it.

Just be ready for the future because it's coming.

What the future is now.

Mr. Piercey is a teacher at Stonewall Elementary in Lexington and was the 2021 Kentucky Teacher of the Year.