Artificial intelligence has become a useful tool for advancing in the workforce and in education. As time continues, students and employees alike use it to adapt in the ever changing world of knowledge. Popular applications like ChatGPT are especially helpful when it comes to writing and math problems. Other apps like Notion help with taking notes and writing reports.
An executive order signed by President Trump titled ‘Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education For American Youth’ has made AI a part of the core curriculum of grades K-12. Its purpose will be to embed AI concepts into courses to help students develop their AI knowledge. Research done by the National Science Foundation found that Artificial Intelligence may be the exact tool students need to become independent thinkers in the classroom and local environments.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, AI in education has grown exponentially. At first, it started with more students relying on Duolingo and Grammarly when they were forced to learn at home. The University of Illinois reported on a 2023 survey done by Tyton Partners which recorded that 27% of students reported being regular users of AI tools, opposed to just 9% of teachers. Overall it’s the educators goal, to make sure how to use AI technology correctly and see the advantages of it. According to a Times Higher Education article, educators find that the pros of using AI can be used for self reflection and feedback to ensure clarification and consistency across student comments.
Along with the new course numbers, Fullerton College now offers AI classes students can choose to take in the fall 2025 such as Business 256 F – Artificial intelligence and Prompt Engineering for Business. Business professor Gary Graves will be teaching some of the classes next semester.
Since becoming part of the business department faculty in 2013, Graves has always been looking for new ways to improve his classes. “I incorporate AI because it mirrors how the world is evolving. Today’s students need to know how to work with AI, not against it,” said Graves.
Besides the new fall classes, Graves also mentioned that there will be three new AI programs launching at Fullerton College in 2026 which includes two new certificates and an associate degree.
However, not everyone agrees with the use of Artificial intelligence in classrooms. Second-year student Ollie Gomez, said he has used AI applications to help him with his psychology class when coming up with parasocial relationship examples for homework assignments .
“I’m not opposed to it but it defeats the purpose of having a professor. If other students want to take other people away from the idea of teachers in classes I wouldn’t want to be the one enrolling in classes,” said Gomez.
Until the fall semester comes, there is no way of telling what major improvements Artificial Intelligence will bring in the future. Having computer programs as part of a certain core curriculum may put teachers in tension but it should give everyone the independence they need to put them to use in the workforce. For people part of the business faculty like Gary Graves, there is no limit to what they can do.
“AI has completely reinvigorated my work. I am an entrepreneur at heart, which means I love to solve problems, and I’ve had the opportunity to develop new courses, create AI-driven learning tools, and mentor students through cutting-edge projects,” said Graves. “I’ve also designed custom AI chatbots to support students, alumni, and entrepreneurs.”
