It has been stated that students have always looked for ways to shortcut assignments. If we only focus on the product and not the process in education, tools like ChatGPT will be used by students to create a sufficient product. We need to reevaluate our instructional strategies, assignments, and assessments to include more of a focus on the learning process. In the article, "ChatGPT may doom high school English classes like mine. Maybe that’s not so bad," Mr. Berman explains that educators should make sure they are providing students with authentic learning experiences and focusing on teaching what is meaningful rather than what is easily measurable.
Teachers can include ChatGPT and other forms of AI as part of the writing process as explained in "Teaching Students to Write with AI: The SPACE Framework." In this article, it explains the acronym SPACE stands for:
Set directions for the goals
Prompt the AI to produce the specific outputs needed
Assess the AI output
Curate the AI-generated text
Edit the combined human and AI contributions
Students can use ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas for a project or essay. It also could be used to provide feedback to students almost in the same way as a peer review. Teachers could use ChatGPT to develop discussion topics for class. Also, a teacher could have students generate an essay using ChatGPT and then write about its strengths and weaknesses and how it could be improved.
Information collected from 5 ways to use ChatGPT to stimulate active learning
ChatGPT and other forms of AI could be used to provide adaptive tutoring for students. ChatGPT can ask a student questions, provide feedback, and adjust subsequent questions to be either more challenging or easier based on the student's answers. The article "How ChatGPT can Enhance K12 Education" discusses this idea along with other uses such as providing summaries of passages and scaffolding for complex topics.
Bryan Alexander suggests in his online post from March 2023 that ChatGPT could be used as simulation practice. ChatGPT can be prompted with information about a classroom setting and then ask the user how they would respond to a given situation. ChatGPT could provide feedback on the user's response and ask follow-up questions. This idea is very innovative!
ChatGPT could be utilized to create various supports and accommodations for students:
strong and weak examples of an assignment to share with students
translate directions and prompts for non-English speaking students
provide passages with different reading levels
generate multiple formats of an assessment
Information gathered from an article on the National Education Association website, "As ChatGPT Enters the Classroom, Teachers Weigh Pros and Cons"
Have students choose activities that will allow them to learn about a given topic while also analyzing the accuracy of information from ChatGPT. You can explore an example of a student choice board on the topic of black history.