ChatGPT 1.0 Getting Started

Part 1 - What is ChatGPT?

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  • Last updated February 2, 2023 at 7:25 AM by sweethometc
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Is the college essay dead and is this the end of high school English classes??

In this Task...

You will learn that ChatGPT is a language "bot" that uses Artificial Intelligence and is capable of providing written responses to virtually any question.

Your Task…

  1. Watch the video: Wall Street Journal Video (6:59)
  2. Consider some of the creative questions that might be asked of Chat GPT.  Think about what you might search for your class (we’ll explore in Part 2).
  3. Listen to a portion of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast Ep. 202 “6 EdTech Tools for 2023.”  (BEGIN @ 4:45-20:10)
  4. Consider some of the creative problem-solving uses that were presented.  Think about what you might search for your class (we’ll explore in Part 2).

Resources...

1. Wall Street Journal Video: "ChatGPT, Explained: What to Know About OpenAI's Chatbot" (6:59)


2. Cult of Pedagogy Podcast Ep 202: “6 EdTech Tools for 2023.”
(BEGIN @ 4:45-20:10)
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/6-ed-tech-tools-to-try-in-2023/

Evidence of Learning…

  1. Explain what ChatGPT and what it can do?
  2. What concerns do you have for educators?  What do you look forward to?

All posted evidence

Overview

Chat GPT is a Chat bot that uses human- like conversation to generate answers to questions and prompts.  This AI Bot can do a huge number of tasks.  These range from answering simple questions, creating essay or songs to generating shopping lists & rubrics.  It can even create images.  The draw is that it can answer questions in a simple way that is easily accessible and understandable. 

As an educator, the growing concern is being able to decipher between human generated work and AI creation.  There is a huge fear that students can use and misuse this new technology (ethically & plagiarism).  Many individuals also cannot distinguish between fact and fiction.  Over the past week the AI generated photo of the Pope emerged on the internet.  As an experiment, I showed this to my one class.  Half of the students were certain this was legit; whereas the others voiced their doubts.  I agree with our presenters that we need to continue to teach digital literacy and citizenship to our students.  Companies can assist us with these tasks by fact checking or watermarking images that are AI generated.  We should also find ways to utilize Chat GPT to help our students and teaching as oppose to fearing the future of technology.
cutzig Over 2 years ago

Part1

Chat GPT is an artificial intelligence chat box. It can answer questions about quantum physics or you can ask it to write a song. I think this will revolutionize education and school itself. I liken it to the advent of wikipedia. Teachers can use this in the classroom in many ways. From formulating lesson plans and rubrics to inputting student essays and ask Chat GPT to grade them based on rubric criteria. It kind of level the playing field when it comes to educational access. I think thats a good thing. We should teach kids ethical ways to use it to enhance their work. Kids are using it already. We need to get on this. 
mbruce Over 2 years ago

Response for Evidence 1

ChatGPT is an AI tool that can allow users to enter in prompts and have the ChatBot respond.  This can cover questions from the existence of unicorns to full essay prompts and even writing lesson plans!  

One major concern as an educator, which we are already seeing, is how do we know whether a student's work is generated by ChatGPT or some of the other softwares/programs discussed in the video, or if it's the student's own authentic work.  While the hosts did discuss that sometimes the scholarly information can be inaccurate, this bot does seem capable of generating decent written responses and thought.
hannah-schultz Over 2 years ago

Part I

Chat GPT is essentially an AI powered system that can push out an answer to any question that you push out at it (within reason). As the podcast mentioned it's essentially a "better way to Google". It can do anything from write an essay, create a grocery list for a recipe even with dietary restrictions, and even write a short decodable story with certain vowel patterns.
At the secondary level of education, I would have immense concerns that students will be using ChatGPT to write their essays/homework. Every time that ChatGPT regurgitates a response, you get a response entirely different from the previous one so it would be hard to run through a plagiarism checker. However, in an elementary setting, when our students are creating all their writing in the classroom, ChatGPT can be used as a huge asset for teachers. It gives us the ability to run some ideas through it, get mentor texts and even generate text based questions to help cut our planning time down.  
jessica-sears Almost 3 years ago

I should just have Chat GPT answer for me!

Well, it very tempting to just have Chat GPT answer for me, but it is a personalized AI based response based on a request.
As an educator, my concerns are still being evaluated as I remember people saying that Wikipedia and Google were going to be the end of education. I think that the more we understand it's features and functionality, then we might be able to harness it into lessons and find a way to include it instead of fighting it. 
naryanp Almost 3 years ago

Part I Response

This is a free AI chat bot in which people can visit to ask a variety of questions/tasks/prompts and it will return (almost immediately) a unique individual response.  Responses can be fit to many different parameters and be used to create images, other questions, citations, etc… There are some limitations (but not many).  This can be used to generate or correct information through the use of questioning and prompts.
As an educator I have many concerns about this AI technology and how it will impact education and the future of my career. Will we be necessary as teachers or will this replace me?  Will students stop developing writing and expressive skills now that they have a computer to do the work for them?  I fear creativity is being mechanized through AI like Chat GPT.  I have many concerns as an educator that this type of technology (although super interesting and cool to play around with) will remove any incentive students have left to push themselves academically or creatively.
dliberta Almost 3 years ago