Using ChatGPT and AI as a Pedagogical Tool
The WSU Office for Teaching and Learning (OTL) has gathered suggestions for using ChatGPT from POD listserv discussions and chats. Here are some ideas to consider:
Embrace the tools used in the real world. One rule of thumb I have for teaching is to try to think about how or if this task would be done in the real world or workplace. Would they use AI to help them do some task? Then let students use it, too. Of course, that's not always feasible or desirable.
Have students generate something with AI and then discuss how to improve on it. Or how it could be used to in the professional world to speed up tedious or repetitive tasks.
- Alternative Strategies for Artificial Intelligence in the Writing ClassroomAbriana Jette shares a useful analysis of ChatGPT writing and ways to incorporate it in the classroom, and detect its writing style.
Teacher & Writers Magazine
February 21, 2023 - Why All Our Classes Suddenly Became AI Classes Strategies for Teaching and Learning in a ChatGPT WorldSuggestions for class policy, use, and integration of ChatGPT and other AI tools. From Harvard Business Education, February 9, 2023.
- ChatGPT Advice Academics Can Use NowThis Insider Higher Ed article shares how to invite students into the conversation about AI and ChatGPT, and ways to integrate it in learning experiences. (Insider Higher Ed, Susan D'Agostino, January 12, 2023)
- Chat GPT and Artificial Intelligence ToolsSuggestions for integrating ChatGPT and other AI tools into teaching and learning by the Georgetown University Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship.
- Chat GPT and EducationAn evolving slide deck compiled by Torrey Trust, PhD., College of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- ChatGPT and the rise of AI writers: how should higher education respond?Nancy Gleason from New York University Abu Dhabi offers insights and sample writing assignments that use ChatGPT and student response. (Times Educational Supplement,
December 9, 2022) - ChatGPT Transforms a Classroom.In this January 13, 2023 podcast from the New York times, a high school teacher on how the new chatbot from OpenAI is transforming her classroom — for the better.
- AI Text Generators Sources to Stimulate Discussion among TeachersA fairly comprehensive list of articles, resources and more compiled by Anna Mills for the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse as part of a larger resource collection: AI and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry.
- teachonline.ca AI ResourcesA resource for post-secondary faculty and instructors in Ontario, Canada. Their AI guide provides info about latest developments, practical applications for your teaching, and ethical implications.
Creating ChatGPT and AI Resistant Writing Assignments
- Teaching Actual Student Writing in an AI WorldKevin Jacob Kelly provides strategies for creating assignments and outcomes that cannot be fulfilled through ChatGPT. (Inside Higher Ed, January 19, 2023)
The WSU Office for Teaching and Learning (OTL) has gathered suggestions for using ChatGPT from POD listserv discussions and chats. Here are some ideas to consider:
AI (so far) is not very good at scaffolding work from one assignment to another, so any time you can build writing assignments that build on prior work, it's more difficult to rely on AI to produce meaningful content. Topic proposals, intro paragraphs, drafts and revisions, any kind of scaffolding is difficult to fake with AI.
AI (so far) has no concept of "indexicallity," it can't refer to external objects in a meaningful way. If your writing prompt is "based on the annotated bibliography your peers shared last week, write about the trends or themes..." AI has absolutely no idea what to do with a prompt like that.
AI (so far) doesn't know how to synthesize knowledge or make inferences. If you ask it to write a book report or summarize an article, it can do that surprisingly well. If you ask it to compare and contrast the themes of two different books, it struggles to do that coherently and tends to just stack two book reports on top of each other.
ChatGPT and AI Detection
OpenAI AI classifier for indicating AI-written text
From OpenAI, a classifier trained to distinguish between text written by a human and text written by AIs from a variety of providers.
- Testing OpenAI’s New AI Text Classifier For Identifying AI-Written ContentMedium, Corbus Greyling, 2/1/2023
Puts OpenAI Classifier through several tests. - A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essayThis NPR story talks about the ChatGPT detection app created by a Princeton Computer Science student, and other bot detection apps that are available.