Some teachers and professors across Canada are inviting ChatGPT into the classroom, amid debate about ethics, plagiarism and other potential pitfalls.
In December, Brendan Benson started noticing his Grade 12 students were handing in essays that looked the same.
He's among teachers and professors across Canada who are inviting ChatGPT into the classroom, amid debate about ethics, plagiarism and other potential pitfalls. Joshua Armstrong, director of teaching and learning at Pickering College, said AI is going to be part of education and he's concerned about the ethical implications.
Pennefather also asked students to test how ChatGPT writes essays and established that the AI loves using "in conclusion" to start an essay's final paragraph. He said ChatGPT did not produce extracts from existing prose or texts, but instead was a "large language model," a type of algorithm that bases its output on vast amounts of data. In so doing it could produce content without proper citation of the original creators.He said students would have to apply critical thinking to come up with ways to add value and avoid plagiarism.Headmaster Jason Rogers said the school is taking an informal, exploratory approach to AI in classrooms.
The Vancouver School Board released a podcast last week focusing on ChatGPT and discussing how it would affect students and teachers.
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