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.
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.