Educators should also disclose the use of ChatGPT in generating learning materials, and ask students to do so when they incorporate the use of ChatGPT in assignments or activities.
Yes! We must begin to cultivate an ethic of transparency around synthetic text. We can acknowledge to students that we might sometimes be tempted to autogenerate a document and not acknowledge the role of ChatGPT (I have certainly felt this temptation).
export their ChatGPT use and share it with educators. Currently students can do this with third-party browser extensions.
This would be wonderful. Currently we can use the ShareGPT extension for this.
a starting point for discussion among education professionals and language model providers for the use and impact of AI on education.
I appreciate the open and humble tone here and the invitation to further discussion.
they and their educators should understand the limitations of the tools outlined below.
I appreciate these cautions, but I'm still concerned that by foregrounding the bulleted list of enticing possibilities, this document will mainly have the effect of encouraging experimentation with only lip service to the cautions.
custom tutoring tools
I'm concerned that any use of ChatGPT for tutoring would fall under the "overreliance" category as defined below. Students who need tutoring do not usually have the expertise or the time to critically assess or double check everything the tutor tells them. ChatGPT already comes off as more authoritative than it is. It will come across as even more authoritative if teachers are recommending it as a tutor.