Rachel Carbrey

Part 3 - Digital Citizenship & Ethics

Incorporating the personal touch

  • November 17, 2023 at 9:50 AM
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I believe it is important to discuss the changing climate or writing and using tech with students. AI is changing what teachers expect students to know and be able to do. This will definitely change the way students also react to writing as well. Tools like ChatGBT can be used to model effective writing and researching but we should continue to reinfoce academic integrity when using the softward. Teachers must make sure tasks are meaningful, this is a clear opportunity to revise our expectations and curriculums. At times, teachers may choose to go back to more basic forms of technology to complete assignmnets to provide students with the space and help them value the thought process. 

One strategy Turnitin pointed out was “Adjust prompts to incorporate personal stories, authentic situations, and/or sources and citations”. This is something ChatGBP is not authentically be able to do. This comes with us getting to know the student and vice versa. The value of using personal stories and authentic situations is typically the application of the topic we are studying, and students need to continue to learn to think these scenarios and decision making moments through with a critical and realistic perspective. I am intruiged by this comment, to use personal elements to prove autheniciticy.