sábado, 17 de junho de 2023

"What if the devil is my guardian angel: ChatGPT as a case study of using chatbots in education"



Still following the previous post in the link above of June 10th, about the Top 10 countries that have already produced more Scopus-indexed publications on ChatGPT, its worth reading  one of the last of these publications, by a team of several researchers from several countries, with the curious title  "What if the devil is my guardian angel: ChatGPT as a case study of using chatbots in education" that was published in the journal Smart Learning Environments https://slejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40561-023-00237-x#Sec32

In the above context, it is no coincidence that the latest issue of The Economist has an article on "How ChatGPT could help teachers and lower the cost of college":
"Initially…everybody was thinking that the sky was falling,” says Jonathan Torres, an assistant professor of English at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. He also trains teachers at Quinnipiac, and argues that AI can push them to become better. For example, before Chatgpt came along, an economics teacher might ask pupils to write an essay describing Keynesianism. With ChatGPT as an option, the teacher might ask the students to assess and revise the chatbot’s response to the same question—a more difficult task. AIs have other practical uses for teachers. They can help write lesson plans and worksheets at different reading levels and even in different languages. They can also cut down the time spent on duties, such as writing recommendation letters, that devour time that could be spent teaching" https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/06/15/how-chatgpt-could-help-teachers-and-lower-the-cost-of-college

PS - The image above is an AI-generated devil