Sorry for the language but WTF?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p9jx/nyc-bans-students-and-teachers-from-using-chatgpt
Let's not address how education should look in a world filled with continuously evolving AI, let's just pretend it doesn't exist.
@scerruti @edutooters @edutooter
Was just talking with some educators about this today.
The vast majority of energy around ChatGPT in education seems to be focusing on.
1) Regulating it, or limiting it.
2) Policing and monitoring its use. Thinking about all the ways students can use it to "cheat"
3) Avoiding critical analysis of it.
Where less energy is being spent
1) thinking about how it can be used formatively to improve student work
2) thinking about the low-level work that students are bombarded with that ChatGPT would nullify that we should have moved away from long ago
3) Ethical, privacy, and equity considerations about ChatGPT
@ZingerLearns @edutooters @edutooter I think it's important to "Think about all the ways students can use it to "cheat"" because you are really examining which current methods of assessment will be obsoleted by the tool.
This gives you a roadmap to redesigning assessment to take advantage of tools that are being created.
So I don't think point 2 is all negative as it provides a roadmap for points 1 & 2 in the second list.
Otherwise, exactly.
@scerruti @edutooters @edutooter
I agree with the need to reevaluate assessment.
I just don't think that assuming students are "cheating" is a productive approach, it makes assumptions about students and shifts blame and responsibility to students, rather than
1) critically examine assessment, especially in the context of student worthy tasks, and
2) it assumes an adversarial relationship between students and teachers, rather than a community of learners working together to learn collectively.
