OpenAI Releases ChatGPT Teacher’s Guide
OpenAI, together with the non-profit organization Common Sense Media, presented an online course for school teachers. It covers the basics of working with a neural network to create curricula and interactive lessons. It has a total of 9 modules that last one hour.
Schools across the country are facing new opportunities and challenges as AI changes education, said Robbie Torney, director of AI programs at Common Sense Media. “With this course, we’re taking a proactive approach to supporting and training teachers on the front lines and preparing for this transformation,” Torney said.
Some educators, however, are skeptical. Lance Warwick, a sports science professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, worries that using ChatGPT and other similar AI bots could have ethical implications. In particular, Warwick finds the course modules on privacy and security “very limited and inconsistent,” especially in regards to guidelines for the use of any student data.
Conflicting research is also slowing adoption. For example, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that Turkish high school students with access to ChatGPT performed worse on a math test than those without the AI. In another study, German students with ChatGPT found research materials faster but were less effective at analyzing them.
