Presentation Today at the CUNY IT Conference!

Dear Colleagues,

I will doing a presentation today at the CUNY IT Conference entitled, Graduate Education Students Evaluate ChatGPT as an Essay-Writing Tool.  It is based on data I collected from Graduate Teacher Education students in Spring 2023. Below is an abstract. My PowerPoint presentation is available on Slide Share at: https://www.slideshare.net/apicciano/cuny-it-piccianopptx.

If you are attending, please stop by.  I would love to see you!

Tony

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CUNY IT Conference

John Jay College of Criminal Justice,   524 West 59th Street,  New York, NY 10019

Thursday – November 30th –  2:15pm.

Presentation Title:  Graduate Education Students Evaluate ChatGPT as an Essay-Writing Tool

Presenter:  Anthony Picciano, Hunter College

Abstract:

In Spring 2023, the speaker invited 15 graduate education students (N=15) to participate in a qualitative evaluation of ChatGPT as a tool for completing an essay assignment. All of these students have master’s degrees in education and experience as teachers in New York City schools. Their training and experience give them keen insights into pedagogical practice making them ideally suited to evaluate ChatGPT as an instructional tool. This session will provide a recap of their evaluations, both positive and negative. They were specifically asked to respond to the following:

  • How well did you feel ChatGPT assisted you in completing the assignment?
  • Do you believe that you could have done as good, better or not as good paper without using ChatGPT?
  • Would you consider allowing students in your own classes to use ChatGPT for essay assignments?
  • What recommendation do you have, if any, for other teachers or educators in using ChatGPT?

Most of the participants saw ChatGPT as an aid for developing writing assignments for themselves. Several also saw it as a tool that special student populations (i.e., students whose first language is not English) could use.

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