Edutooters! I’d be really interested to hear any thoughts on this paper on #ChatGPT What has been your experience with students and the new AI possibilities? Have you found uses for it in academia?
Chatting and Cheating: Ensuring academic integrity in the era of ChatGPT'
https://edarxiv.org/mrz8h/ @edutooters #edutooter
@ProfDCotton @edutooters Just read this from Alfie Kohn this morning, and I think he's correct: https://twitter.com/alfiekohn/status/1613885037723762694?s=20&t=wEb2jVBx8cPMCCULmKSMXQ
Some of the issue may be that assessments are not necessarily measuring authentic learning.
@birv2 @edutooters Yes, absolutely! Maybe this will be a wake up call for educators. But I fear that many will use it as a retreat to even more conservative assessments (F2F exams)
@ProfDCotton @edutooters What do you mean by F2F exams? Pencil and paper in the room with the prof? Eww.
How about we shift towards intrinsic motivation, student choice, and personalized learning? Lots of big fancy ideas there, but I agree with you. This might be our moment to advocate for learning like that!
@birv2 @edutooters Yes, exactly. There’s what we should be going (authentic assessments etc) and what is more likely to happen (more exams) alas…
@ProfDCotton @edutooters The two major barriers to any substantive change:
1. We've always done it this way.
2. We've never done that before.
I don't really see a way to jerry rig the educational system, unfortunately. However, AI just might give us the impetus needed to get all parties' attention. Hopefully, this will be a "sputnik moment".
@birv2 @ProfDCotton @edutooters I appreciate this point and hope that we see more of
1) how can we do better and improve
2) how can we help students learn
as pervasive mindsets and approaches, but I certainly see more of the culture you share than this.
@ZingerLearns @ProfDCotton @edutooters Yes! It should be about putting learning at the center. And by learning, I don't mean the ability to memorize things, though there's a place for that of course (like multiplication tables). Isn't part of the problem the prevalence of standardized testing, which skews towards measuring memorizables?
@birv2 @ProfDCotton @edutooters
Yes for sure, evaluation and short term improvement policies perpetuate a system where initiatives are constantly changing, reminding me of the "flavor of the month" problem and one of the reasons teachers become resistant to change (because there is not persistent long lasting efforts that can actually produce change).
Most successful initiatives I have seen take 3-5 years of persistent effort. This is one of the reasons I have moved away from participating in or providing short term PD.
@ZingerLearns @ProfDCotton @edutooters Yes, I get teacher fatigue with the flavor of the month PD. I think we need more than bandaids to keep going with the present system.