{"id":156583,"date":"2023-01-29T17:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T23:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/chatgpt-is-coming-for-classrooms-dont-panic"},"modified":"2023-01-29T17:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T23:24:01","slug":"chatgpt-is-coming-for-classrooms-dont-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/chatgpt-is-coming-for-classrooms-dont-panic","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT Is Coming for Classrooms. Don\u2019t Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chatgpt-is-coming-for-classrooms-dont-panic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A double-whammy for systematic education since the need for knowledge-workers will decrease at the same time as AI fundamentally questions the need for \/ uses of \u201cKnowledge Gatekeepers\u201d \u2014 establishment academia, lawyers, even actors \u2014 the chatterbot classes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When high school English teacher Kelly Gibson first encountered ChatGPT in December, the existential anxiety kicked in fast. While the internet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/plaintext-welcome-to-the-wet-hot-ai-chatbot-summer\/\">delighted in<\/a> the chatbot\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/chatgpt-fluent-bs\/\">superficially sophisticated answers<\/a> to users\u2019 prompts, many educators were less amused. If anyone could ask ChatGPT to \u201cwrite 300 words on what the green light symbolizes in <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>,\u201d what would stop students from feeding their homework to the bot? Speculation swirled about a new era of rampant cheating and even a death knell for essays, or education itself. \u201cI thought, \u2018Oh my god, this is literally what I teach,\u2019\u201d Gibson says.<\/p>\n<p>But amid the panic, some enterprising teachers see ChatGPT as an opportunity to redesign what learning looks like\u2014and what they invent could shape the future of the classroom. Gibson is one of them. After her initial alarm subsided, she spent her winter vacation tinkering with ChatGPT and figuring out ways to incorporate it into her lessons. She might ask kids to generate text using the bot and then edit it themselves to find the chatbot\u2019s errors or improve upon its writing style. Gibson, who has been teaching for 25 years, likened it to more familiar tech tools that enhance, not replace, learning and critical thinking. \u201cI don\u2019t know how to do it well yet, but I want AI chatbots to become like calculators for writing,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson\u2019s view of ChatGPT as a teaching tool, not the perfect cheat, brings up a crucial point: ChatGPT is not intelligent in the way people are, despite its ability to spew humanlike text. It is a statistical machine that can sometimes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/openai-chatgpts-most-charming-trick-hides-its-biggest-flaw\/\">regurgitate or create falsehoods<\/a> and often needs guidance and further edits to get things right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A double-whammy for systematic education since the need for knowledge-workers will decrease at the same time as AI fundamentally questions the need for \/ uses of \u201cKnowledge Gatekeepers\u201d \u2014 establishment academia, lawyers, even actors \u2014 the chatterbot classes. When high school English teacher Kelly Gibson first encountered ChatGPT in December, the existential anxiety kicked in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,418,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-internet","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}