This post is the third in the Beyond ChatGPT series about generative AI’s impact on learning. In the previous posts, I discussed how generative AI has moved beyond text generation and is starting to impact critical skills like reading and note-taking. In this post, I’ll cover how the technology is marketed to students and educators to automate feedback. The goal of this series is to explore AI beyond ChatGPT and consider how this emerging technology is transforming not simply writing, but many of the skills we associate with learning. Educators must shift our discourse away from ChatGPT’s disruption of assessments and begin to grapple with what generative AI means for teaching and learning.
I must admit I was hoping you'd show us the kind of feedback AI would have given Raymond Carver.
If a company can train an AI to emulate a professional writing tutor and provide that affordably to public community colleges that would be wonderful. If individual students and faculty uncritically adopt random AI to offload teaching/learning work they didn't value enough to engage in thoughtfully then we've got problems AI cannot fix.
This post is spot on in a whole number of ways. I can attest that there is a massive movement underway to get cell phones out of schools. The jury is in and the digital distractions that cell phones (and even Chromebooks) cause far outweighs any kind of benefits they might offer for learning. I watched the OpenAI demo and wondered who these upgrades were for. I get that interacting with the world is fascinating and probably where things are ultimately headed, but I just don't see it being used in the way they demonstrated by most people. I'd much rather see a significant upgrade in the quality of output and reduced hallucinations which I don't know are coming anytime soon. The other main thrust of the post about AI feedback is also worth unpacking. The tricky part, as Marc says, is there are some real advantages for students having a basic editor to help them with rough drafts, but teachers entirely offloading feedback and grading to AI is not the solution. The questions are thorny, ethically complex, and technologically challenging and most teachers and educators simply do not have the expertise or capacity to engage in these questions at the moment. Not sure what that means going forward. The landscape in schools with regards to teaching and learning should be vastly different in the short term but I'm not convinced that much will change right away.
I must admit I was hoping you'd show us the kind of feedback AI would have given Raymond Carver.
If a company can train an AI to emulate a professional writing tutor and provide that affordably to public community colleges that would be wonderful. If individual students and faculty uncritically adopt random AI to offload teaching/learning work they didn't value enough to engage in thoughtfully then we've got problems AI cannot fix.
This post is spot on in a whole number of ways. I can attest that there is a massive movement underway to get cell phones out of schools. The jury is in and the digital distractions that cell phones (and even Chromebooks) cause far outweighs any kind of benefits they might offer for learning. I watched the OpenAI demo and wondered who these upgrades were for. I get that interacting with the world is fascinating and probably where things are ultimately headed, but I just don't see it being used in the way they demonstrated by most people. I'd much rather see a significant upgrade in the quality of output and reduced hallucinations which I don't know are coming anytime soon. The other main thrust of the post about AI feedback is also worth unpacking. The tricky part, as Marc says, is there are some real advantages for students having a basic editor to help them with rough drafts, but teachers entirely offloading feedback and grading to AI is not the solution. The questions are thorny, ethically complex, and technologically challenging and most teachers and educators simply do not have the expertise or capacity to engage in these questions at the moment. Not sure what that means going forward. The landscape in schools with regards to teaching and learning should be vastly different in the short term but I'm not convinced that much will change right away.