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Recently, ChatGPT has become popular worldwide. As a generative artificial intelligence software, ChatGPT can generate text on any topic, accomplishing various tasks including answering questions, writing articles, papers, and poetry. It has been praised as having “significant historical significance, comparable to the birth of the internet or personal computers.”
What challenges will ChatGPT bring to education? How should education respond to the challenges posed by ChatGPT? How can schools and teachers make use of ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is essentially achat tool, officially launched by the San Francisco AI company OpenAI in November 2022. So, what makes ChatGPT special compared to other AI products?
In addition to answering structured questions, such as grammar correction, translation, and finding answers,the most crucial aspect is its ability to solve relatively open-ended questions, such as programming. It can also solve complex structured problems, such as creating tables, translating, and summarizing.
Moreover, with just a little prompting, ChatGPT can generate eloquent and beautifully written text. It has already been used to write love letters, poetry, novels, and school papers. In a recent survey, it was found that 89% of American college students used ChatGPT to complete assignments, raising concerns among many.
With ChatGPT trending across the internet, what challenges does it bring to education? Is it a poison or a remedy for education? Let’s take a look →
What challenges will ChatGPT bring to our education?
The emergence of ChatGPT marks a significant milestone in the development of AI,and the rapid advancement of technology is, to some extent, “forcing” the education sector to initiate deeper transformations. We must rethink the impact and challenges that AI brings to education and teaching systems. The main challenges are as follows:
1 Challenge Our Talent Concept
What kind of people should we cultivate in the future? In contrast to the mechanical efficiency of AI, what are the advantages that humans need to develop? In the future, many jobs may be replaced by AI, thusclarifying the direction of talent cultivation is the primary issue that education needs to address, ensuring that students have sufficient “future survival skills.”
2 Challenge Our Curriculum Concept
Looking to the future, what should children learn to adapt to challenges? How can we guide students to use artificial intelligence reasonably to improve learning efficiency while stimulating their creative thinking?Education must help students set creative learning goals, and promoting creative learning is a significant challenge.
3 Challenge Our Teaching Concept
How should educators teach? The rapid development of AI brings more technical challenges to education,and educators need to seize opportunities to utilize AI technology to update teaching methods, enhance teaching experiences, and improve educational quality.
4 Challenge Educational Assessment Concepts
Artificial intelligence has caused a certain impact on the assessment of learning outcomes. Surveys abroad show that completing assignments with ChatGPT has become a common phenomenon among students.
Moreover, many students online admit to using ChatGPT to write papers. Faced with assignments completed by students and AI, many teachers find it challenging to distinguish between the two. Therefore,educators need to rethink and make substantial and innovative changes to teaching and assessment methods.
In summary, in terms of educational behavior itself, the development of artificial intelligence represented by ChatGPT has already cornered the education model centered on knowledge transmission.
On the one hand, ChatGPT can almost answer all questions posed by students and can teach according to their needs, so what value do our teachers still hold?
On the other hand, since knowledge can be obtained so conveniently, what significance do our children have in spending so much time learning and doing exercises? What do our children need to learn most urgently?
How to Adapt and Utilize ChatGPT in Education?
Fear and avoidance cannot stop the tide of technology; the era of deep integration of education and AI has arrived,and how to use AI as a tool, turning it into an opportunity rather than a threat for education, is a new change that the education system must face in the future.
Accepting ChatGPT as a teaching aid can make it a friend or helper for teachers, unleashing students’ creativity, providing personalized tutoring, and better preparing students to work alongside AI systems in the future.
So, for the disruptive value of ChatGPT, how can schools and teachers get started?Here are six common uses:
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Designing Courses
ChatGPT can provide creative ideas for teachers’ course designs, assist in retrieving and organizing literature, and generate complete course materials, such as syllabi, course plans, and reading materials.
For example, inputting “Please design an inquiry-based course for second graders with the theme ‘The Sound of Crickets’,” quickly yields results from AI. We then provide more detailed design requirements: “To be conducted during the summer vacation, lasting ten days, aiming to cultivate children’s inquiry skills, critical thinking, collaboration skills, and knowledge related to natural history, measurement, and statistics, combined with formative and summative assessments, along with a timeline, required materials, and background information.” Soon, ChatGPT outputs a detailed course report (see below).
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Assisting in Lesson Preparation
In addition to course design,ChatGPT can effectively participate in lesson research and preparation, giving teachers a starting plan, providing general and routine content, and helping teachers save initial brainstorming time. Of course, such plans often resemble a simple recipe design guide, which a chef can use to create an actual recipe based on the ideas provided.
Specifically, lesson preparation can be conducted through the following methods.
Knowledge Search: Quickly search for relevant knowledge points through Q&A. Just ask AI a question, such as “Explain the Doppler effect in a way that eighth-grade students can understand” or “Convince me to ban animal testing,” and ChatGPT will quickly generate a set of plans.
Generating Teaching Content: By giving ChatGPT some instructions, it can automatically generate relevant teaching content, thus improving lesson preparation efficiency.
Conducting Classroom Simulations: By simulating conversations with ChatGPT, teachers can better understand students’ questions and prepare for class.
Conducting Language Translation: If teachers need to use other languages in class, they can utilize ChatGPT for translation to better prepare lessons.
3.
Classroom Assistant
ChatGPT canprovide a real-time sharing platform for teachers and students, answering questions in real time, offering ideas for classroom activities, increasing classroom fun and richness, and helping students understand complex content and concepts, becoming an AI teaching assistant, after-school tutor, or debate practice partner for teachers.
For example, in an English class, teachers can use the following methods to enhance classroom effectiveness.
Becoming a Writing Prompt Generator: Teachers can ask ChatGPT to generate story openings or creative writing prompts for students to use as a basis for writing.
Becoming a Reading Comprehension Tool: Teachers can have ChatGPT generate an article on the topic students are studying, allowing students to read and answer related questions. This helps assess students’ understanding of the material and identify areas where they may need additional support.
Becoming a Vocabulary Builder: ChatGPT can generate sentences using unfamiliar words for students, allowing them to guess the meaning of the words based on context, thus expanding their vocabulary.
Becoming a Generator of Class Discussion Questions: Teachers and students can pose questions to ChatGPT, combining them with substantive discussions in class, making discussions richer and helping students refine their thinking and practice their ideas.
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Assignment Assessment
ChatGPT can also participate in student assessments, generating assignments, tests, and exams,helping teachers evaluate students and observe learning progress.
For instance, a teacher sends a thematic article to the AI, requesting it to generate ten multiple-choice questions to test students’ understanding of the article. As a result, six out of the ten questions generated by the AI are usable, which undoubtedly makes it a great teaching assistant tool, allowing teachers to generate new questions anytime and anywhere based on teaching requirements.
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Assisting Learning
ChatGPT can provide rich explanations, methods, information, and ideas, helping students understand knowledge more deeply and creatively, improving learning efficiency and interest,and effectively assisting students in achieving autonomous and personalized learning, understanding their learning gaps and needs, motivating learning and self-improvement, which stems from its following functions.
Extracting Points of View. It can quickly generate study materials such as summaries, flashcards, and quizzes, helping students review and learn course materials. Students can ask ChatGPT to read a chapter from a textbook and generate a concise and understandable summary. ChatGPT can also help students chunk tasks, breaking large tasks into smaller, achievable parts, fostering students’ sense of autonomy and confidence in completing tasks.
Content Translation. ChatGPT can freely translate teaching content, making it easier for students to understand. Students can also seek assistance from ChatGPT to learn various languages, obtaining resources such as vocabulary lists, conversation practice, and grammar lessons. Moreover, when we learn a new word, we can also ask the AI how to use that word in a sentence.
Personal Guidance. The technology of ChatGPT can diversify teaching resources and information, helping students acquire problem-solving skills by providing explanations, distributed instructions, and additional resources. This is significant for students who struggle with a particular subject or concept and need extra support, as it can enhance their self-efficacy and motivation to learn.
Project Research. ChatGPT can also play an important role in research-based learning, project-based learning, problem-based learning, and thematic inquiry learning in primary and secondary schools. For example, a student writing a research paper on climate change can ask ChatGPT for relevant information and receive a list of materials.
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Administrative Assistant
ChatGPT can easily handle tasks such as writing emails, papers, scripts, creating business proposals, composing poetry, stories, and even coding and debugging programs. Naturally, it can alsoassist teachers and students in daily activity planning by generating ideas, improving suggestions, and providing feedback on written work.
For example, automatically generating various work summaries, weekly reports, and monthly reports, fully implementing “reducing burdens for teachers and students”.
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