Re:How ChatGPT made me lazy
by bee_rider on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @12:38PM
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That’s really interesting. You seem to be in a good position to make some useful observations.
My last semester working with students was a year ago, and we were aware that they were going to ChatGPT for things, but not really sure how to deal with it. It seems obvious that in the future these tools will play a part, but of course those of us who learned without them aren’t in a particularly good position to teach how to use them or to structure things around them. It is a temporary problem but a pretty big one, IMO.
I wonder if a school-sponsored GPT with monitoring from the teaching assistants could be part of the puzzle; it seems really neat: it sets the expectation more realistically (some AI tools will be used whatever the policy is, may as well be ours), and gives the teaching staff some insight into how the students are using it and what they are struggling with. Although, it would have to be a pretty state of the art model, you’d want the students to prefer it to their own… also, setting the expectations correctly (it isn’t authoritative, it is on you to double check it—awkward, for a school-provided tool).
Anyway, hopefully there are more folks out there like you, actively experimenting with this stuff.
My last semester working with students was a year ago, and we were aware that they were going to ChatGPT for things, but not really sure how to deal with it. It seems obvious that in the future these tools will play a part, but of course those of us who learned without them aren’t in a particularly good position to teach how to use them or to structure things around them. It is a temporary problem but a pretty big one, IMO.
I wonder if a school-sponsored GPT with monitoring from the teaching assistants could be part of the puzzle; it seems really neat: it sets the expectation more realistically (some AI tools will be used whatever the policy is, may as well be ours), and gives the teaching staff some insight into how the students are using it and what they are struggling with. Although, it would have to be a pretty state of the art model, you’d want the students to prefer it to their own… also, setting the expectations correctly (it isn’t authoritative, it is on you to double check it—awkward, for a school-provided tool).
Anyway, hopefully there are more folks out there like you, actively experimenting with this stuff.