Recently, ChatGPT has caused a storm of public opinion, burning all over the world, and even triggered a boom in Chinese people's applications through the "Great Firewall".
As a generative AI software, ChatGPT can generate text on any topic, and do a variety of tasks, including answering questions, writing articles, essays, and poems. People from all walks of life praised it as "of great historical significance, no less than the birth of the Internet or the personal computer".
What challenges will ChatGPT bring to education? In the face of the challenge of ChatGPT, how can education take up the recruitment? How can schools and teachers use ChatGPT for their own use? This article conducts a systematic inventory.
ChatGPT is essentially a chat tool, and San Francisco-based AI startup OpenAI officially launched ChatGPT in November 2022. So, what's so special about ChatGPT compared to other AI products?
In addition to answering structural questions such as grammar correction, translation, and finding answers. The most important thing is that it can solve some relatively open problems, such as programming. It can also solve complex structural problems, such as making tables, translating and refining abstracts.
In addition, with a little hint, ChatGPT can generate brilliant and brilliant text. Now, it's used to write love letters, poems, novels, and school essays. In the latest survey data, 89% of American college students interviewed used ChatGPT to write homework, which caused many people to worry.
What challenges does the popular ChatGPT bring to education? Is it the poison of education or the medicine of education? Let's take a look together
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What challenges will ChatGPT bring to our education?
The emergence of ChatGPT has a symbolic node significance for the development of AI, and the rapid development of technology is to some extent "force" the field of education to open a deeper change, and we have to rethink the impact and challenges brought by AI to the education and teaching system. There are four main points:
1. Challenge our view of talent
What kind of people will be cultivated in the future? Compared with the mechanical efficiency of AI, what are the advantages that humans need to develop? In the future, there may be many jobs that can be replaced by AI, so the direction of talent training is the primary issue to be sorted out in education, so that students can have enough "future viability".
2. Challenge our view of the curriculum
Facing the future, what will children learn to adapt to the challenge? How to guide students to rationally use artificial intelligence in the learning process to improve learning efficiency, so as to activate students' creative thinking? Education is a challenge to help students set creative learning goals and promote creative learning.
3. Challenge our outlook on teaching
How should educators conduct lessons? The rapid development of AI has brought more technical challenges to education, how can educators seize the opportunity to use artificial intelligence technology to update teaching methods, improve teaching experience, and improve education quality.
4. Challenge the evaluation concept of education
Artificial intelligence has caused a certain impact on the evaluation of learning outcomes. Foreign surveys have shown that it has become common for students to complete homework through ChatGPT.
Moreover, many students on the Internet admit that they use ChatGPT to write papers. When faced with homework done by students and AI, many teachers have difficulty clearly distinguishing between the two. Educators therefore need to rethink and make substantive, innovative changes to the way they teach and assess.
In short, as far as the educational behavior itself is concerned, because of the development of artificial intelligence represented by chatGPT, the education model with knowledge transfer as the core has been forced into a corner.
On the one hand, ChatGPT can answer almost all the questions asked by students, and can teach according to aptitude, so our teachers still have no value;
On the other hand, since this knowledge can be obtained so easily, is it meaningful for our children to spend so much time studying and doing problems? What exactly do our children have to learn that is most desperately needed?
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In the face of the challenge of ChatGPT, how can education take up the recruitment?
In the face of the challenges posed by AI represented by ChatGPT, education must see the future trend, otherwise it is as useless as trying to educate people, only to bury one's head in the hard work of building a ship, only to find that the destination of the trip is the desert after a few decades.
To this end, Ni Minjing, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, pointed out that education reform urgently needs to make major adjustments in the following three aspects:
First, the primary goal of education is to cultivate people who can think independently and have the ability to make correct value judgments, rather than acquiring specific knowledge.
Of course, knowledge learning is still important as the most important clue to brain connections, and the key is which knowledge is the most important, which is a key question.
This knowledge should be the basis for being able to adapt to this rapidly developing world and contribute to the development of the future world, so I think the most basic humanities, science and technology and mathematical knowledge is still important, because it contains a lot of value judgments, thinking tools and problem-solving methods, and the learning content of programming thinking, modular thinking, and critical thinking urgently needs to be supplemented.
Second, the methods and methods of education need to be significantly adjusted, and the main direction is to use learning tools such as ChatGPT to improve education and teaching methods, rather than avoiding and fearing.
In fact, ChatGPT is a new knowledge tool, in this sense and the books and libraries we rely on for thousands of years, based on such powerful knowledge tools to learn, our children should learn better. If we are worried that children will not think because they will rely on it, either the content we teach is worthless, or we do not understand that there are more advanced ways of thinking that we educators need to develop on the basis of simple thinking.
We don't have to worry about the future when our children's jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence, because for human cultural evolution: new technologies always eliminate old labor by eliminating old production methods, but new technologies always create more new labor by creating new human needs.
The third is to go beyond knowledge learning and pay more attention to the quality of learning.
Really good learning is to some extent slow rather than fast, only slow can forge depth of thinking, can cast deep interpersonal relationships in communication with people;
It is difficult rather than easy, only challenges can stimulate students' motivation to learn;
It is to seek less rather than more, only less can have leisure time to develop their own personality and form a diversified brain;
It is to seek clumsiness, not ingenuity, and only by seeking clumsiness can a person's spirit of study and resilience be cultivated.
A person's real success depends on the concentration of learning, can rise from interest to interest, and become a person full of different personality traits; Relying on a sense of responsibility and resilience, perseverance and perseverance in the face of difficulties; Relying on good interpersonal relationships and collaborative spirit, you can get the support and help of the team when it is critical.
These learning qualities have never had anything to do with technology, and of course have nothing to do with the bull that suddenly ran into the porcelain shop rampaging - ChatGPT.
Therefore, in a world where new things are emerging one after another, we must maintain educational concentration, adhere to the direction of reform, and truly provide children with appropriate and meaningful education.
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How to follow the trend and make ChatGPT work for education?
Fear and avoidance cannot stop the wave of technology, the era of deep integration of education and AI has arrived, how to use AI as a tool, and make it an opportunity rather than a threat to education, is a new change that the education system has to face in the future.
Embracing ChatGPT as a teaching aid and becoming a teacher's friend or helper can unleash students' creativity, provide personalized tutoring, and better prepare students to get used to working with AI systems in the future.
So, what can schools and teachers do with ChatGPT, which has a disruptive value? Here are six of the more common uses:
1. Design the curriculum
ChatGPT can provide creative ideas for teachers' curriculum design, assist in retrieving and organizing literature, and generate complete course materials such as syllabuses, lesson plans, and reading materials.
For example, type "Please design an inquiry-based lesson for second-graders with the theme of "The Call of Crickets", and soon, the AI will give the following results. Subsequently, we put forward more detailed design requirements: "Conducted during the summer vacation, the purpose of the course is to develop children's inquiry ability, critical thinking ability, collaboration ability, natural history-related knowledge, measurement and statistical skills, etc., combined with process evaluation and final evaluation, and need to list the time plan, materials to be prepared, background information." Soon, ChatGPT output a detailed course report (see image below).
2. Assist in lesson preparation
In addition to curriculum design, ChatGPT can be well involved in teaching and research preparation, giving teachers a start-up plan, providing general and normal content, and helping teachers save initial brainstorming time. Of course, such a plan is often like a simple recipe design guide, and as a chef, you can design actual recipes based on the ideas provided by this recipe.
Specifically, you can prepare your lesson in the following ways.
Knowledge search: Quickly search for relevant knowledge points through Q&A. Just ask the AI a question, such as "explain the Doppler effect in a language that eighth graders understand" or "convince me to ban animal testing," and ChatGPT will quickly generate a solution.
Generate teaching content: Improve the efficiency of lesson preparation by giving ChatGPT some instructions to automatically generate relevant teaching content.
Conduct classroom simulations: Simulate conversations with ChatGPT to better understand students' problems and prepare them for class.
Language translation: If teachers need to use other languages in the classroom, they can use ChatGPT to translate for better lesson preparation.
3. Classroom teaching assistant
ChatGPT can provide a real-time sharing platform for teachers and students, answer questions in real time, provide ideas for classroom activities, increase classroom interest and richness, help students understand complex content and concepts, and become teachers' artificial intelligence teaching assistants, after-class tutors or debate sparring.
Taking English classes as an example, teachers can use the following methods to improve the effectiveness of the classroom.
Become a Writing Prompt Generator: ChatGPT can be asked to generate story opening or creative writing prompts for students to use prompts as a basis for writing.
Become a reading comprehension tool: ChatGPT can generate an essay on a topic that students are studying, and have students read and answer relevant questions. This helps assess students' understanding of the material and pinpoint areas where they may need additional support.
Become a vocabulary builder: ChatGPT can expand your vocabulary by generating sentences using words that students are unfamiliar with, allowing students to guess the meaning of words based on context.
Become a generator of class discussion questions: Teachers and students ask questions to ChatGPT, which are combined with substantive discussions in class to enrich the discussion, which is conducive to students to improve their thinking and practice ideas.
4. Job evaluation
ChatGPT can also participate in student assessments, generate homework quizzes and exams, and help teachers evaluate students and observe learning progress.
For example, a teacher sent a robot an article about Ukraine and asked to generate 10 multiple-choice questions to test students' understanding of the text. As a result, 6 out of 10 questions generated by AI are available, which is undoubtedly a great teaching aid, and teachers can generate new questions according to teaching requirements anytime, anywhere.
For example, enter the prompt "Please generate an English cloze" to get the English assignment shown below.
5. Assisted learning
ChaGPT can provide a wealth of explanations, methods, information, ideas, help students understand knowledge more deeply and creatively, improve learning efficiency and interest, and well help students achieve independent learning and personalized learning, understand their own learning gaps and needs, motivate learning and improve themselves, which comes from its following functions.
Opinion extraction. It quickly generates learning materials such as summaries, flashcards, and quizzes to help students review and study course materials. Students can ask ChatGPT to read a chapter in the textbook to produce a concise summary. ChatGPT can also help students chunk tasks, breaking down huge tasks into smaller, achievable parts, and developing students' sense of autonomy and confidence to complete tasks.
Content translation. ChatGPT can freely translate the teaching content to make it easier for students to understand. Students can also turn to ChatGPT for help learning a variety of languages, accessing resources for that language, such as glossaries, conversation exercises, and grammar lessons. And, when we learn a new word, we can also ask AI how to make sentences with this word:
Dedicated guidance. ChatGPT technology diversifies teaching resources and information by providing explanations, distribution instructions, and additional resources to help students acquire problem-solving skills. This is significant for students who struggle with a subject or concept and need extra support to improve self-efficacy and motivation.
Project research. ChatGPT can also play an important role in research-based learning, project-based learning, problem-based learning, and theme-based inquiry learning in primary and secondary schools. For example, a student working on a climate change research paper can ask ChatGPT for information and receive a list of materials.
6. Transaction Helper
ChatGPT can easily write emails, essays, scripts, develop business proposals, create poems, stories, and even knock code, check for program errors, etc., and naturally assist teachers and students in daily event planning by generating ideas, suggestions for improvement, and feedback on written work.
For example, automatically generate various work summaries, weekly reports, and monthly reports, reduce the internal friction of normalized affairs, and carry out "teacher burden reduction" and "student burden reduction" to the end.
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23 uses of ChatGPT by teachers
1. Answer questions
ChatGPT can be used to answer questions in real-time, making it a useful tool for students who need to get information quickly.
In this sense, ChatGPT can not only serve as an AI teaching assistant for teachers, but also as an AI companion for students.
For example. A student can ask, "What is the capital of France?" ChatGPT would answer: "The capital of France is Paris." "
2. Dissertation writing help
ChatGPT can help students write essays, suggest topics, outline structure, provide ideas, and provide help and suggestions for improvement.
For example. Students can ask for help writing an essay about the environment, and ChatGPT can provide suggestions for the thesis statement and potential topics in the main paragraph. Later, on this basis, students can combine their own thoughts and opinions to complete the article.
Of course, in the past 2 months, ChatGPT has worried many educators and local education administrations around the world the most. As a result, many local education authorities in many countries prohibit students from using ChatGPT in schools.
3. Generation of learning materials
ChatGPT can generate learning materials such as summaries, flashcards, and quizzes to help students review and study course materials.
For example. Students can request a summary of a chapter in the textbook, and ChatGPT can produce a concise summary of key points.
4. Personalized counseling
ChatGPT can provide personalized coaching to students by answering questions and providing personalized feedback. For example. Students can ask for help solving a math problem, and ChatGPT can provide step-by-step guidance to solve the problem.
5. Conversation practice
ChatGPT can be used for language learning, providing conversation practice with virtual language tutors.
For example. A Chinese student can practice Chinese with ChatGPT to improve their conversational skills.
This app is arguably what large language model chatbots like ChatGPT do best, and this conversational practice is the most conducive to students learning real, transferable language skills.
In the past few years, in English classes in many places in China, students have used iFLYTEK's Xiaofei, which is actually a similar practical application case.
6. Game-based learning
ChatGPT can be integrated into educational games to provide an engaging interactive learning experience.
For example. A history-based game, ChatGPT can provide clues and hints to help players solve puzzles and complete challenges.
In this regard, the challenge to teachers' instructional design skills is very large.
Of course, teachers can also use ChatGPT to assist teachers in designing this game with ChatGPT integrated around historical themes. For example, the historical background related to the Normandy landings.
7. Support students' research-based learning
ChatGPT can help students with research projects by providing information sources, search strategies, and other resource suggestions.
ChatGPT can play an important role in research-based learning, project-based learning, problem-based learning, and theme-based inquiry learning in primary and secondary schools.
For example. Students can ask ChatGPT to help research a topic and receive suggestions on sources, search strategies, and further information resources.
A student working on a research paper on climate change can ask ChatGPT for information on the topic and receive a list of relevant materials for easy reference.
8. Creative writing assistance
ChatGPT can assist creative writing by generating ideas, suggestions for improvement, and feedback on written work. ChatGPT can also provide students with feedback on written work, including suggestions for improvement, grammar corrections, and suggestions for structure.
This blog post was actually done with the help of a chatbot! Many of the ideas of teaching applications and some examples of practical teaching applications are provided by chatbots and modified and perfected on this basis. Likewise, our students can do the same.
For example. Students can submit a draft essay to ChatGPT and receive feedback on writing style, organization, and grammar. Students can ask ChatGPT to help them write a poem and receive suggestions for rhyming words and ideas for extending the poem. After that, students refine, revise, polish on this basis, and even, after completing it themselves, return to ChatGPT for further review and revision.
Over and over again, students complete their own creative writing with the help of ChatGPT.
9. Generation of assessment and assessment tests
ChatGPT can generate assessments, such as quizzes and exams, to help teachers assess students' comprehension.
For example. Teachers can ask ChatGPT to generate a quiz on a specific topic and receive a set of multiple-choice questions for the test.
10. Generation of course materials
ChatGPT can generate complete course materials such as syllabuses, lesson plans, and reading materials.
For example. Teachers can request a lesson plan from ChatGPT on a specific topic and receive a comprehensive, ready-to-use lesson plan.
11. Content translation
ChatGPT can translate educational content from one language to another, making it easier for students to understand and access information, and assist in multilingual education by providing information and resources to learn different languages.
Students can turn to ChatGPT for help learning English and get resources to learn the language, such as vocabulary lists, conversation practice, and grammar lessons.
Example. Teachers can ask ChatGPT to translate a scientific article from English into Chinese so that Chinese students can understand it.
The functions and practical applications of this aspect are really a piece of cake for ChatGPT!
12. Virtual learning groups
ChatGPT facilitates virtual learning groups, providing students with the opportunity to discuss course materials and project collaboration. For example, students can use ChatGPT to facilitate virtual learning groups for history lessons where they can discuss key events and share ideas and perspectives.
13. Promote the professional development of teachers
ChatGPT can respond to questions and requests from teachers, provide teachers with relevant online courses, web resources, and MOOCs, so as to provide targeted help and support.
For example, if an English teacher wants to learn and master how to use 3-2-1 in English classes to promote student reflection, she can ask ChatGPT, which can provide relevant cases, videos, reading materials, online courses, tools, platforms, software, etc. for her to learn and use.
14. Review, practice and exam preparation
ChatGPT can help students prepare for exams, providing practice questions, exam strategies, and other resources. Example. Students can request help preparing for science exams from ChatGPT and receive relevant review materials and practice question lists.
ChatGPT can provide students with an opportunity to practice public speaking, allowing them to give and speak on ChatGPT. ChatGPT facilitates debate practice by providing students with a virtual opponent to argue with and receive feedback.
For example. Students can ask ChatGPT to listen to the speech they write and receive feedback on their presentation, including suggestions for improvement. Students can join ChatGPT in virtual debates on current affairs topics, receiving feedback on their arguments and expressions.
15. Help to solve problems
ChatGPT can help students solve problems, providing step-by-step instructions, strategy suggestions, and tips.
For example. Students can request help with a difficult math problem from ChatGPT and get guidance on how to deal with and solve the problem.
Students can use ChatGPT as their research assistant and academic advisor to get help, guidance and advice on specific problem solving when completing assignments assigned by teachers, in research studies, and in their own projects and assignments.
16. Class discussion
ChatGPT facilitates online classroom discussions by providing students with a platform to share ideas and perspectives in real time.
For example. Teachers can use ChatGPT to facilitate discussion of current affairs topics in class, and students can ask questions and share opinions.
I believe that in the near future, this application will become the most common and popular classroom teaching application in universities, primary and secondary schools and all kinds of training activities at all levels.
17. Peer review assistance
ChatGPT can assist with peer review by providing students with suggestions for improvement and writing feedback.
For example. Students can submit their draft thesis to ChatGPT for peer review, receiving feedback and suggestions for improvement from other students.
Regarding this point, in the previous eighth article, creative writing assistance, we have analyzed, and we will not repeat it here.
18. Career guidance
ChatGPT can help students with career guidance by providing information on potential careers, job requirements, and related resources.
For example. Students can ask ChatGPT for career information in engineering and receive a list of potential careers, job requirements, and further information resources.
In the past few years, the country has attached great importance to students' career education. In the era of artificial intelligence, career education has become extremely difficult, because the workplace is changing too fast. Numerous jobs and occupations are rapidly being replaced by robots and artificial intelligence, and more and more new occupations are emerging.
It is really a good application to apply large language models and chatbots such as ChatGPT to students' career education and career guidance!
19. Time management assistance
Time management is a knowledge and skill that everyone will benefit from throughout their lives, and unfortunately, it is a skill that most schools, teachers and parents do not give to students.
ChatGPT can help students with time management, providing tips and strategies to keep organization and tasks on their priorities.
For example. Students can request help managing their time from ChatGPT and receive advice on creating schedules, prioritizing and staying organized.
20. Learning skills assistance
ChatGPT can help students develop study skills, providing tips and resources to improve their ability to learn and retain information.
Example. Students can ask ChatGPT to help them improve their study skills and receive advice on effective reading and note-taking skills, memory strategies, and exam strategies.
However, the challenge here may lie in the fact that teachers must teach students how to formulate prompts.
If you can't draw up a good prompt, then students will soon find this chatbot boring, let alone use it to learn and improve their study skills!
21. Education on digital citizenship and technology ethics
ChatGPT can assist in digital citizenship education by providing information on internet safety, privacy, and responsible use of technology.
For example. Students can ask ChatGPT about cybersecurity and receive a checklist of resources and tips for staying online.
This can help schools and parents to a large extent to teach students about technology for good, technology ethics, privacy protection, responsible use of technology, etc., after all, these contents are too professional for general subject teachers and students' parents!
22. Homework assistance
ChatGPT can help students with homework by providing explanations, examples, and additional resources, and can help students with homework by providing explanations, step-by-step instructions, and other resources.
For example. Students can turn to ChatGPT for help with math problems and get step-by-step explanations, examples, and additional practice questions to help solidify the concept.
By using ChatGPT, students can get immediate help and practice problem-solving skills to succeed in their coursework.
This is especially helpful for students who have difficulty with a subject or concept and need extra support outside the classroom.
23. Promote scientific research by teachers
ChatGPT can provide teachers with relevant research ideas and ideas, assist in retrieving relevant research literature, organize literature, and recommend core references.
In terms of scientific research, ChatGPT can have many practical uses and typical cases, we will not share them here!
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