How AI can be used in education is a question that Australian schools have been discussing.
Some time ago, ChatGPT caught fire in the student circle, and the rich and efficient language model greatly helped students in Australia to complete their coursework.
For the students, this is simply a happy thing, but for the teachers, it is miserable.
Students are unable to complete independent thinking while doing assignments, but rely too much on the answers given by AI, and the answer check rate given by AI is surprisingly high, which can easily be defined as academic cheating.
As a result, major educational institutions in Australia have successively decided to ban the use of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT.
However, now the application of artificial intelligence in the field of education has won a major reversal!
From 2024
It will be allowed in major schools in Australia
Artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT
As soon as this news came out, it can be said that the entire educational community exploded.
Since the launch of the AI program ChatGPT late last year, Australian education departments have grappled with how to deal with the technology, from using it as a learning tool to banning it altogether to returning to paper-based tests.
Due to growing concerns about privacy and plagiarism, every state and territory except South Australia has introduced temporary restrictions on the use of ChatGPT in schools.
But in a communiqué released Friday morning, ministers confirmed that state and territory and non-government education departments will work with their own education systems to implement the policy from the first semester of next year.
Although the government and the education sector have worked together to define the policy, it is bound to be a thorny road with many issues to be resolved.
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare said on Today that ChatGPT is not going away and that it has become as much as the Internet and mobile phones are today.
therefore
How to use it correctly,
It's something you have to learn
Clare also stated: "ChatGPT is one of those versions of the internet that helps kids do their homework, but if we don't do it right and it's abused, it's putting the cart before the horse."
And if some students can use it, but others don't, it also creates an unfair phenomenon, so how AI such as ChatGPT can be used correctly in education is still a long way off. ”
A global report released this year by UNESCO calls for urgent governance and regulation of educational technology before it replaces face-to-face, teacher-led teaching.
It warns that in the context of rapid development of AI, countries need to develop their own provisions on how technology is designed and used in education.
Manos Antoninis, the report's director, said the industry needs to teach kids how to live with and without technology.
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Get what they need and ignore the unnecessary;
Technology can be supported,
But never replace human interaction in teaching
As things stand, Australia is still leading the way in dealing with the use of technologies such as ChatGPT and artificial intelligence.
But how to operate and support teachers and schools to cope is a huge challenge.
What can be done at the school level, what can be done at the system level, and what can be done on a national scale are all challenges that need to be addressed in the future.
While the government has set the framework for policy, there is still a long way to go before all Australians can properly use AI tools such as ChatGPT.