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Are you embracing, curious about or resisting teaching with Generative AI?
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Are you embracing, curious about or resisting teaching with Generative AI?
In the year and a half since Generative AI burst onto the scene, higher education faculty’s attitudes have run the gamut from embracing to resisting GenAI. Two articles published days apart from one another just before the fall 2023 semester demonstrate this divide. On the embracing side, Elizabeth Blakey wrote in the Los Angeles Times (21 August 2023), “Instead of letting chatbots change the learning process, I’ll show my students that anything that chatbots can do, they can do better… I want my students to learn to use AI effectively, since these tools will become ever more common and maybe even indispensable in workplaces and in education.” On the resisting side, Mark Massaro in an article for The Hill (23 August 2023) wrote, “AI has infected higher education like a deathwatch beetle, hollowing out sound structures from the inside until the imminent collapse. With the news media’s devolution into unbridled entertainment, and the internet feeding the misinformed their own narrow-minded rhetoric, the subjective process of critical and logical thinking is a more important skill than ever.”
Considering the continuum of opinions regarding GenAI in higher education, what is your attitude toward using GenAI in your teaching and what supports your attitude?
- This discussion was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by Kelly Williamson.
- This discussion was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by Kelly Williamson.
latimes.com
Opinion: I'm co-teaching my college class with ChatGPT. Will it upstage me?
After I present a new lesson, I’ll prompt ChatGPT to give a lecture on the same subject. My students will get a chance to see who does it better: the robot or the professor.
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