I think discussions about academic integrity, ownership and what one of the articles called “values-based conversations” are necessary to have with students not only at the beginning of the year, but ultimately throughout an academic course. I think we may begin to see a generational divide with what teachers and students feel is appropriate with ChatGPT and what constitutes plagiarism. I think setting up boundaries about what is acceptable, what is not and how we can use this in a way that benefits everybody would hopefully prove productive.
The strategy that I took away from the article and that I have used with Lona in her ELA class is “Adjust prompts to incorporate personal stories, authentic situations, and/or sources and citations.” We have had students read independent novels and then write responses about them, but have made it clear to students that we don’t want a summary or any type of traditional text-based analysis. I think that is what ChatGPT would provide and this gets us out of that lane. Instead we just ask students to write down what they were thinking about while reading the book, what they like, what they didn't like, what personal connections they can make, what predictions they have--- basically record their personal metacognition. For the most part, I think this has protected us from ChatGPT (at least for that assignment).
The strategy that I took away from the article and that I have used with Lona in her ELA class is “Adjust prompts to incorporate personal stories, authentic situations, and/or sources and citations.” We have had students read independent novels and then write responses about them, but have made it clear to students that we don’t want a summary or any type of traditional text-based analysis. I think that is what ChatGPT would provide and this gets us out of that lane. Instead we just ask students to write down what they were thinking about while reading the book, what they like, what they didn't like, what personal connections they can make, what predictions they have--- basically record their personal metacognition. For the most part, I think this has protected us from ChatGPT (at least for that assignment).