I recommend reading this article from Harvard Graduate School of Education: Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom by Elizabeth M. Ross.
Although there is a huge amount of interest in generative artificial intelligence(AI) in the consumer world, particularly since the release of OpenAI’s free ChatGPT program, in the hallowed halls of academia the response has been more wary. Concerns abound about academic integrity. There are also worries about how AI-generated content can be biased, inaccurate, and sometimes contain entirely false information, dubbed “hallucinations.”
Houman Harouni, lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former elementary and high school teacher, gives a cautious response. “Technology creates a shock,” he explains. “This shock is sometimes of a magnitude that we cannot even understand it, in the same way that we still haven’t absorbed the sharp shock of the mobile phone.”
His advice is expanded in the article:
- Stop pretending that it doesn’t exist.
- Use AI alongside your students.
- Teach students how to ask the ChatGPT tool questions.
- Use generative AI tools to spark the imagination.
Additional resources are listed.
Read Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom.
