For Australian teachers starting back at school for the year, ethical questions about whether AI is 'good' or 'safe' will soon make way for pragmatic questions about student access.
Terrific post Kelli. I too had been thinking of ways that the tech could be used for good instead of evil. Considering that kids often falsify their age when signing up for social media I have no doubt that many will do this to gain access. My initial thoughts for detecting cheating is to head in the direction of teaching them how to cite in text properly. Use the AI if you wish but validate the information with a citation or two 🤔
A colleague has investigated this further and explains that the 18+ might only apply to using the API, not to regular use of ChatGPT through the website. It's deeper into the fine print than most teachers usually have to go, that's for sure! You're right, the juicy conversation is about how it will be used, because it will be.
Thanks for this fantastic post which I am going to be sharing with the Teacher Librarian community. I completely agree that until assessment tasks change, and there is a change in emphasis from content to process, tools like ChatGPT will be considered unsafe and seen as a threat to traditional ways of working rather than an opportunity. This change is needed regardless of the fact that we can't design learning experiences where K-12 students actually use the platforms; because as you say, we know that they will, and we do need to recognise (finally!) that the time of content regurgitation as assessment of learning is over.
Obviously it takes time to redesign tasks and rethink pedagogy, and I feel heartily for teachers who are the ones who bear the brunt of constant curriculum and pedagogy redesign; it's important work, but work that is so often unseen in terms of their role, and unrecognised in terms of the time, effort and expertise required.
Of course, this is where I feel the TL role could play a huge part. If every school had a qualified full time teacher librarian, they could be working with teachers to develop quality assessment tasks and redesign pedagogical approaches, providing professional learning, building awareness of AI, algorithms etc into digital literacies programs....so much!!
Terrific post Kelli. I too had been thinking of ways that the tech could be used for good instead of evil. Considering that kids often falsify their age when signing up for social media I have no doubt that many will do this to gain access. My initial thoughts for detecting cheating is to head in the direction of teaching them how to cite in text properly. Use the AI if you wish but validate the information with a citation or two 🤔
A colleague has investigated this further and explains that the 18+ might only apply to using the API, not to regular use of ChatGPT through the website. It's deeper into the fine print than most teachers usually have to go, that's for sure! You're right, the juicy conversation is about how it will be used, because it will be.
Hi Kellie
Thanks for this fantastic post which I am going to be sharing with the Teacher Librarian community. I completely agree that until assessment tasks change, and there is a change in emphasis from content to process, tools like ChatGPT will be considered unsafe and seen as a threat to traditional ways of working rather than an opportunity. This change is needed regardless of the fact that we can't design learning experiences where K-12 students actually use the platforms; because as you say, we know that they will, and we do need to recognise (finally!) that the time of content regurgitation as assessment of learning is over.
Obviously it takes time to redesign tasks and rethink pedagogy, and I feel heartily for teachers who are the ones who bear the brunt of constant curriculum and pedagogy redesign; it's important work, but work that is so often unseen in terms of their role, and unrecognised in terms of the time, effort and expertise required.
Of course, this is where I feel the TL role could play a huge part. If every school had a qualified full time teacher librarian, they could be working with teachers to develop quality assessment tasks and redesign pedagogical approaches, providing professional learning, building awareness of AI, algorithms etc into digital literacies programs....so much!!
Thanks again for sharing your thoughts...
Kay.