CUE podcast- Innovative Education Insights

ChatGPT is an AI-powered tool that can assist educators in lesson planning, answering questions, and providing personalized feedback to students. It can also be a valuable resource for students, offering clarification, guidance, and language learning support. However, it should not replace human interaction in education. There are concerns about students using ChatGPT to cheat or rely on it too heavily. AI detection tools are being developed to address these issues, but their accuracy is currently low. Some colleges are using AI detection to examine student work, but there have been cases of false identification of original work as AI-written. Educators can use ChatGPT to automate tasks and create study guides and assessments. Students can use it for inquiry, coding, and problem-solving. Overall, ChatGPT has the potential to enhance teaching and learning experiences. Hello, welcome to Innovative Education Insights. I'm your host, Lisa Salgado, and today we have an exciting topic to explore, how educators can harness the power of AI with ChatGPT. Imagine having an intelligent assistant at your fingertips, ready to support you in the classroom. That's exactly what ChatGPT offers educators, a tool to enhance teaching and learning experiences. Powered by artificial intelligence, ChatGPT is a virtual companion that can assist with lesson planning, answering questions, provide personalized feedback to students, and even write the introduction for this podcast. Let's start with the dreaded lesson planning. When I first started teaching, lesson plans took me hours, and sometimes I didn't even get to use the whole thing. Now I can use ChatGPT to give me a list of choices for essential questions, activities, and assessments, and that way I can have my lesson plan and then be the teacher that I need to be with my students. With ChatGPT, educators can brainstorm ideas, gather resources, and receive suggestions tailored to their teaching style in seconds. Whether you're seeking engaging activities, creating projects, or differentiating strategies, ChatGPT can be your trusted collaborator, saving you time and inspiring you with fresh ideas. But ChatGPT isn't just for teachers, it's also a valuable resource for students. Students can interact with ChatGPT to seek clarification, receive guidance, or even practice their skills. This personalized support empowers students to take ownership of their learning and foster independence. One of the benefits of ChatGPT is the ability to provide instant feedback. As students engage with ChatGPT, they can receive timely responses to their queries, allowing them to refine their understanding and address misconceptions. This real-time feedback promotes a growth mindset and encourages students to persist in their learning journey. Moreover, ChatGPT can be a powerful tool for language learning. Students can practice their speaking and writing skills by conversing with ChatGPT, receiving language corrections, and expanding their vocabulary. It's like having a language tutor available 24-7. However, it is important to remember that ChatGPT is a tool and not a replacement for human interaction. It should complement, not substitute, the role of educators. Human connection, empathy, and personalized support remain paramount in the educational experience. We're here with Nick Zagorin. He's our IT expert. I'm going to ask him some questions about ChatGPT. With ChatGPT, how does it impact the field of education in the near future? How do you see that? So I think there's a lot of pluses and minuses to using ChatGPT in education. Obviously, the benefits are that we can change work and have students look at work in different ways and use it to help them correct work or level reading to different levels. But obviously, some of the downfalls are that our students are going to start using this to cheat on classwork or write their essays for them or not really think for themselves. And so along those same lines, I think we're seeing a huge surge in AI detection to try to circumvent this before it becomes a problem. Yeah, and is that detection any good at this point? At this point, it's really poor, but a lot of people are still putting a lot of emphasis on this as being good. But I think the ratio is something like detect 10%, maybe, correctly. Out of all the original work that's submitted. Okay, so not good quite yet. What else is happening with upper education? So a lot of colleges have started using this AI detection as a tool for the professors to use to look at student work and original content. And the problem that we're seeing now is a lot of these detection tools are incorrectly identifying original work as AI written work. And so the students are now having to, you know, fight to prove themselves and show that it's original work. So one of the articles I was reading about, the student turned in an original work. It got flagged by a detector. The professor asked them to rewrite the essay with a new prompt. So the student did that. It got flagged again. And so the professor asked them a third time to then rewrite this. And this time, the student actually had to record their screen in order to prove that they were actually writing this and not using ChatGPT to write this. So it's creating a lot of extra work on students and difficult for people to discern kind of, you know, what's original and what's not original. Wow. We'll be looking forward to better detection of AI and implementing those tools in education. Thank you so much, Nick, for your time and for talking with me today. You're welcome. And now we have Deborah Saxton, our local seventh grade science teacher. So how do you plan on using AI or ChatGPT in your planning for next year? Okay, so I'm hoping to use it to take over the busy work of being a teacher, either to create study guides about certain topics or to even write assessments for the students. My own children are in college and their classmates are using it to write tests for them to practice their knowledge before they go into their midterms. I think a middle school science topic would easily lend itself to ChatGPT producing something appropriate for the students in the classroom. That's so clever. And how do you think that the students should be using it outside of the classroom? How are they going to use it in their daily life? I've heard a lot of them talk about it now. I haven't experienced any of them using it in school for their homework, but I think that they use it for inquiry. I do think they need to understand where they'll discover ChatGPT in their life, so how they will be interacting it, maybe without them knowing in certain circumstances for that. But yeah, definitely some of them into coding. They can use it to help them with their code. Some of them into remote control cars. Some of them help using it to help solve problems for that too. Yes, AI has made itself known, and we need to figure out how to help our students know how to navigate it successfully and appropriately. Thank you for taking your time to talk with me. You're very welcome. As we wrap up today's episode of Innovative Education Insights, remember that ChatGPT is a game changer in education by leveraging its capacities. Educators can elevate their teaching, empowering their students, and unlock new possibilities in the classroom.