Amongst the
many forwarded videos in the numerous WhatsApp groups that we ae all members
of, I recently came across a video which raised alarm about chatGPT.
😕😟
I listened
to it out of curiosity but it made no sense. I assumed it was another of the various
websites or apps which children get addicted to. But a bit of search on Google
was my first introduction to it.
I
immediately messaged my son, “What is chatGPT & why is it more dangerous
than anything else on the net(as the video claimed)?
As it is
with most children, they find such parental queries quite boring, mundane and
not worthy of respect. Still, he gave a terse reply which seemed like a
footnote to what I had already read on Google.😒
Next day, I
read another article in the local vernacular paper on chatGPT. I read it only
because I was impressed with the fact that even the local papers, which we
usually dismissed as not worthy of anything but the movie timings and ladies
kitty party news, had kept pace with the latest technology.
At the moment,
all that I had read , talked with concern was about plagiarism in the college
exams, doctoral thesis and affecting opinion polls. Issues , too big , for us
school teachers to bother with.
But if a
local paper knew about it , then can our school kids be far behind? Is it not
true that we teachers are the last ones to hear about the latest technological
advances and mostly we hear from our students, who have by now mastered the
details and are ready to move on to the next thing.
Since after
Corona, almost all the students have access to their personal laptops and
practically unlimited internet access with little or no monitoring. Quite a few
assignments are done online and many require students to research from the
internet.
So, is it
too far fetched to think that our school students are not already using
chapGPT? Even if they are not using it now, can the day be far behind when they
will utilise its services? 🙎
In short, we
school teachers need to be ready and up to the latest technological challenge
which is just round the corner.👧
Firstly, we must start using chatGPT and
other such apps and learn to understand it. Whatever assignments we plan for
our children, we must work it out ourselves using chatGPT. It will help us to
understand, how the kids are going to utilise it and now, what kind of answers should we
expect.
Secondly, we must rethink the kind of
assignments/assessments we plan for our students.
1. We can ask the students to prepare a
paper on any given topic using the help of ChatGPT and then review the same.(
no point in brushing it under the carpet. In fact , we should try to
incorporate it in our day to day teaching and learning and try to use it to our
advantage). Students should be asked Viva on the assignments which they have
submitted.
At times, students can be asked to do a written assignment based on their
paper itself which they have completed using ChatGPT or any other source.
2. Assignments/ assessments should be
more thought provoking( I will post an example of the same in my next post).
Thirdly, we must install plagiarism checks
and run them on student’s assignments.
Lastly, pen and paper traditional exam in
the classroom which is monitored by the teachers can always be conducted.
In the end,
I would like to say that this latest elephant in the room needs to be tamed and
not feared. Like internet , mobiles and television before that , Chat GPT too, is
here to stay.
👱👦👧👨👳👩👴👵👸👷👮
References:
1. https://unsplash.com/s/photos/chat-gpt
2. https://www.quora.com/What-are-10-jokes-about-the-status-of-chat-GPT
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