Ana Otero

I see AI as something that can assist us in teaching and learning, but not as a substitute for critical thinking and creativity. My responsibility as an instructor is to help students develop thoughtful inquiry and ingenuity, and I try to bring AI tools into my courses in ways that serve that goal rather than work against it. For me that means treating these tools as a complement to the methods students still need to learn, pairing them with traditional approaches rather than replacing those approaches outright.

I also try to stay honest about what I do not yet know. Some of my colleagues are enthusiastic about using AI and others are skeptical, often for good reasons, and I take concerns about accuracy and rigor seriously. So I approach this as something to test rather than assume: I want to look at how students actually perform, and at what they tell me about their experience, before I draw conclusions. Responsible use of AI in teaching, to me, is less about adopting the newest tool and more about asking whether it genuinely helps students learn.

My Assignments and Activities

• Biology Quizzer

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