Amidst the growing uncertainty regarding the usage of ChatGPT in the classroom, as well as an exceeding amount of interest regarding the same, OpenAI, the parent company behind the AI tool recently released a new teaching with AI guide that will help educators incorporate the AI tool in their students’ learning without any added trouble. The resource, for those who are wondering, would include an Educator FAQ on the use of ChatGPT and learning prompts to support interested educators seeking ways to incorporate AI in learning environments or their own classroom planning.
ChatGPT Could Be Used Effectively By Educators
The teacher’s guide has implied that educators need to maintain oversight over the use of ChatGPT, which suggests that both students and teachers need to collaborate and share their conversations about ChatGPT with each other- while they keep exploring the technology. The prompts would function as primers for the entire AI chatbot- which the educator will offer as examples for fellow teachers- or send to students directly for help with their own assignments.
OpenAI has mentioned that by keeping track of the conversations with AI, students will be able to reflect on their own development. They will be able to see how their skills in analyzing responses, asking questions, and integrating information have developed over time.
Along with an explanation as to how ChatGPT could be used for student feedback- coupled with an acknowledgment of its own bias, the FAQ has also noted the very limit of the detectors that educators use to find AI-generated content in the assignments written by students- tools which have been accused of flagging plagiarism inaccurately- as well as singling out submissions made by non-native English speakers.
