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by maaaaattttt
621 days ago
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The fact here is that a student, using ChatGPT, managed to give the right answer. And I agree with GP that the teaching model must evolve. The cat is out of the bag now and clearly students, of (unfortunately) almost all ages, are using it. It being "cool new tech" or anything else doesn't matter and as a teacher it must not be dismissed or ignored. Not all subjects taught have to evolve in the same way. For example, it is very different to use ChatGPT to have a technical discussion than to simply ask it to generate a text for you. Meaning this tech is not having the same impact in a literature class and here in a CS one. It can be misused in both though. I always come back to the calculator analogy with LLMs and their current usage. Here in the context of education, before calculators were affordable simply giving the right answer could have meant that you knew how to calculate the answer (not entirely true but the signal was stronger). After calculators math teachers were clearing saying "I want to see how you came up with the answer or you won't get any points". They didn't solve the problem entirely, but they had to evolve to that "cool new tech" that was clearly not helping there students learn as it could only give them answers. |
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Granted, it can do the write up for you, but if google landed you in a flat-earther web in 2024, was just as useful as GPT today…
My gripe is that LLMs don’t reason, they search and parse, but is presented as reasoning.