Artificial Intelligence in Education

Writers are aggrieved by ChatGPT and other AI-written content not because it threatens our jobs, but because it’s so clear how and why it’s doomed to be a disaster.

By Jill DuffyJanuary 25, 2023

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Nearly everyone who writes or edits for a living knows instantly what’s wrong with ChatGPT, the free AI tool that uses natural language input to produce text, answering prompts you give it. No, it’s not that it’s going to take our jobs. The problem with having ChatGPT or any other AI write articles is that it will be wrong or do a poor job, and it will lead to lawsuits.

Take the latest drama at CNET and Bankrate, two websites owned by Red Ventures that ran AI-generated content as informational articles without being transparent about it. Once readers noticed a small disclaimer and uncovered that bots had been doing the writing, internet backlash ensued. A few days later, according to The Verge(Opens in a new window), leadership at CNET told staff that the publication would pause its use of robots to write stories, implying it would resume once the hubbub had died down.

Continue Reading: Why Writers Know Using ChatGPT Is a Bad Idea | PCMag

By Jeffrey R. Young     Jan 24, 2023

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This article is part of the guide The EdSurge Podcast.

Colleges around the country have been holding emergency meetings of their honor code councils or other committees that govern student cheating.

The reason: a whole new kind of cheating that is suddenly possible, thanks to a new AI tool called ChatGPT. The technology, which emerged just a couple of months

go, can answer just about any question you type into it, and can adapt those answers into a different style or tone on command. The result is it generates text that sounds like a person wrote it.

As we explored in an episode of the EdSurge Podcast a couple weeks ago, students around the country at schools and colleges have figured out that they can easily ask ChatGPT to do their homework for them. After all, it’s tailor-made to craft the kinds of essays that instructors ask for.

Continue Reading: ChatGPT Has Colleges in Emergency Mode to Shield Academic Integrity | EdSurge News

Technology such as ChatGPT threatens only the information-centric type of schooling, which has become obsolete.

By Joe Ricketts and Ray Ravaglia
Jan. 23, 2023 6:08 pm

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ChatGPT, the new artificial-intelligence technology created by Open AI, has many worrying about the future of education. The two largest public school districts, New York and Los Angeles, have banned the chatbot from their devices and networks, concerned that students may use it to cheat on assignments. Though ChatGPT’s capabilities are limited, it will likely continue to disrupt education as the technology advances.

But educators needn’t fear this change. Such technologies are transformative, but they threaten only the information-centric type of education that is failing to help students succeed. What young people need today is educational models that help them take ownership of their studies. They need instruction that equips them with real-life skills and prepares them for an economy in which rote, mechanical tasks will be increasingly performed by machines. AI may be a useful invention that hastens much-needed educational reform.

Read Full Article here: AI Can Save Education From Itself – WSJ

By Larry Ferlazzo — January 24, 2023 14 min readi

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Larry Ferlazzo is an English and social studies teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif.

(This is the final post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.)

The question of the week is:

How do you think artificial intelligence-powered tools like ChatGPT are going to affect K-12 schools, and what are practical strategies teachers can use to respond to them?

Brett Vogelsinger, Gina Parnaby, and TJ Wilson kicked off the series.

In Part Two, Susan Barber, Andrew Cohen, Elizabeth Matheny, and Amanda Kremnitzer contributed their ideas.

Today, I share my own reflections, as do Samantha Parker, Kelli McGraw, and Nick Kelly.

Continue Reading: Educators Need to Get With the AI Program. ChatGPT, More Specifically (Opinion)

January 24, 20235:45 PM ET

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NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Wharton professor Ethan Mollick about his decision to embrace artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT in the classroom.

transcript @: How to stop worrying and love (or at least live with) ChatGPT : NPR

🧠 Awesome ChatGPT Prompts

Welcome to the “Awesome ChatGPT Prompts” repository! This is a collection of prompt examples to be used with the ChatGPT model.

The ChatGPT model is a large language model trained by OpenAI that is capable of generating human-like text. By providing it with a prompt, it can generate responses that continue the conversation or expand on the given prompt.

In this repository, you will find a variety of prompts that can be used with ChatGPT. We encourage you to add your own prompts to the list, and to use ChatGPT to generate new prompts as well.

To get started, simply clone this repository and use the prompts in the README.md file as input for ChatGPT. You can also use the prompts in this file as inspiration for creating your own.

We hope you find these prompts useful and have fun using ChatGPT!

Find the prompts here: Awesome ChatGPT Prompts | This repo includes ChatGPT prompt curation to use ChatGPT better.

ChatGPT raises questions about what we value in writing instruction, Hetal Thaker writes.

Hetal Thaker
January 23, 2023

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Perhaps because it showed up at the end of the fall semester, when so many of us were exhausted from grading, from the tripledemic, from Zoom meetings, or maybe because we knew something like this was coming—we just knew it—but news of ChatGPT’s ability to write what many consider to be perfectly adequate student essays has not settled well on higher education.

Stephen Marche tells us “The College Essay Is Dead,” while, in a separate essay for The Atlantic, Daniel Herman considers “The End of High-School English.” Even Google seems concerned about sharing its turf. Google!

Continue Reading: ChatGPT and what we value in writing instruction (opinion)