{"id":3242,"date":"2022-12-17T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2023-01-20T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:24:00","slug":"some-thoughts-on-chatgpt-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/17\/some-thoughts-on-chatgpt-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts on ChatGPT \/ Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some thoughts \/ questions on ChatGPT and how it will impact education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How many students are already using it to write essays, book reports, etc.?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is the current awareness of educators about it and how many schools already have written policies in place about it this technology?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Should it be highly discouraged for students, or could it be a good tool &#8211; eg to get a basic outline for an essay and then authentically write the essay based on that outline?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of ChatGPT providing an outline for a book report. Using this verbatim would be cheating of course but what if the student just used this as a framework for their report? I can see this also being useful for teachers for lesson planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/chatgpt-book-report-outline.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/chatgpt-book-report-outline-646x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3243\" width=\"485\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/chatgpt-book-report-outline-646x1024.png 646w, https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/chatgpt-book-report-outline-189x300.png 189w, https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/chatgpt-book-report-outline-768x1217.png 768w, https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/chatgpt-book-report-outline.png 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Update:<\/em><\/strong><br>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/04\/podcasts\/hard-fork-technology.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hard Fork podcast<\/a> interviewed a teacher who is very optimistic about using Chat GPT in the class room. This is in contrast to other stories that have developed around this &#8211; like the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ny.chalkbeat.org\/2023\/1\/3\/23537987\/nyc-schools-ban-chatgpt-writing-artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\">New York City school district banning Chat GPT in the classroom<\/a> and another school teacher calling this <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2022\/12\/openai-chatgpt-writing-high-school-english-essay\/672412\/\" target=\"_blank\">the end of high-school English<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/0fHQL42qAOvhY3iILfgeVx?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts \/ questions on ChatGPT and how it will impact education. Here&#8217;s an example of ChatGPT providing an outline for a book report. Using this verbatim would be cheating of course but what if the student just used this as a framework for their report? I can see this also being useful for teachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,151],"tags":[293,150,319],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-thoughts-on","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chatgpt","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4097,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}