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Dear Commons Community,
Erik Ofgang, a technology writer, had a piece yesterday in Tech & Learning entitled, “4 Ways to Use ChatGPT to Prepare for Class.” It was forwarded to me by one of my graduate students, Rachel Carvajal.
The main theme of the article is that ChatGPT can be good at being a teaching assistant and helping educators prepare for class. Here is an excerpt:
“Using ChatGPT to prepare for class is easier than I expected.
I recently had the free GPT-3.5 version of ChatGPT create several lesson plans, quizzes, exercises, and a syllabus around journalism topics I teach, and was impressed by the quality and speed by which content was generated.
I wouldn’t personally use ChatGPT for these purposes in my own classes due to a variety of reasons, including lack of clarity on whether this would violate institutional rules at the colleges at which I teach, my personal concerns about potential plagiarism in AI-generated text, and my preference for human-generated content overall.
That said, it’s easy to see how the free version of ChatGPT, and other similar tools such as Google Bard and the GPT-4-powered subscription version of ChatGPT, could be helpful to teachers, especially new educators.”
Ofgang describes in some detail four ways to use ChatGPT as follows.
- Using ChatGPT to Prepare for Class: Generating Lesson Plans
- Using ChatGPT to Create Quizzes
- Using ChatGPT to Write Homework Assignments
- Writing Syllabi
This semester twelve graduate students (all teacher educators) in one of my courses opted to use ChatGPT to assist in doing a class assignment to write an essay related to education research. I asked all of them to comment at the end of the essay what they thought of the experience and whether they would use it in their own classes. All except one commented that they would use it in their own teaching.
ChatGPT is here!
Tony
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