What does the future of education have in store for us all, and how will artificial intelligence change the teaching landscape?
One key goal in teaching is to develop knowledge; to effect a permanent change in knowledge, and help students transfer this information into new scenarios. Artificial intelligence will disrupt classrooms, and we are not yet ready for what has already started ...
Many teachers have discovered ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that generates text-based content. This tool enables an individual to pose a question or a statement. The software then responds, and at
I’ve had a play with the AI software over the last couple of weeks. It produces work of about an A grade at GCSE levelb and perhaps a B at A level. The student then has the basis to hand in good work for no effort. Or they can take this and make it excellent by adding context specific info, or whatever else it lacks that the rubric demands for the top grade.
This should/could be a boon for teaching. For example, creating multiple, similar versions of an answer. Or getting some students to push on having given them the basic answer.
However, assessment done anywhere outside my direct supervision (and even then?) becomes very unreliable. Not sure how the software fares in plagiarism software. If it out smarts that then it’s the end of coursework.
It’s a bonus for ‘teaching’ alright, but what about ‘learning’? It takes all the hard work – the mental effort and memory – away from us all. I’m a big fan of tech, but like Google Alexa, the device takes away the hard mental effort and makes us lazier. Regarding, assessment and plagiarism, I’m not sure we’ve got that bit covered yet.