Understanding ChatGPT at USF
What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a chatbot developed by OpenAI in 2022. Based on artificial intelligence and large language models, ChaptGPT can be trained to follow instructions in a prompt and provide a detailed response. It can be used to answer questions, perform different tasks, and generate content or code in a way that mimics human outputs. It has been quite controversial of its impact in academia in light of the integrity of students' works, thus we put together some resources to help you understand more about ChatGPT and to bring awareness of it as a tool in the future classroom.
- Webinar Harvard Business: Unlocking the Power of AI: How Tools Like ChatGPT Can Make Teaching Easier and More Effective (Dr. Ethan Mollick and Dr. Lilach Mollick, May 3, 2023)
- AI and the Future of Work: 5 Experts on What ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Other AI Tools Mean for Artists and Knowledge Workers
- AI in Higher Education: Research Hub
- Understanding AI Writing Tools and Their Uses for Teaching and Learning at UC Berkeley
- AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry
- Prepare students for future careers and the technology environment
- Students acquire analytical skills through the process of reviewing, examining, and critiquing generated responses
- Students develop critical thinking skills & digital literacy
- Students learn to create well-crafted prompts (“prompts engineering”) for the best results
- Educators can rethink the ways to design creative lesson plans and assignments
- Educators can consider assessments that focus on reflective learning, personal experience, collaborative work, and process.
- Ask ChatGPT a question, and evaluate how good the responses are. Learn to modify the prompt and examine the change in response.
- Ask students to act as editors and subject experts, and critique ChatGPT-generated content
- Ask students to create a bibliography fact-checking ChatGPT-generated work
- Enter a large lengthy text as the prompt, and ask ChatGPT to synthesize the long document into PowerPoint presentation slides with headers and bullet points.
- Use ChatGPT for translation in your language class, and have students discuss the room for improvements.
- Try to use ChatGPT to debug incorrect codes to help students as a personal tutor.
- Assign topics for students to debate with ChatGPT, and have students reflect on what they have learned.
- Ask students to do peer reviews on each other's work.
Sources:
UCLA The Use of Generative AI in Teaching and Education - Guidance to Instructors
Hypothes. is: "Leveraging Social Annotation in the Age of AI"
- Should You Add an AI Policy to Your Syllabus? What to consider in drafting your own course policy on students’ use of tools like ChatGPT. ( The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kevin Gannon, July 31, 2023)
- ChatGPT vs Google Bard (2023): An In-Depth Comparison (Hope Reese in Artificial Intelligence, August 18, 2023)
- Should You Add an AI Policy to Your Syllabus? ( By Kevin Gannon, July 31, 2023)
- Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (OET) Report: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations (June 1, 2023)
- My students are using AI to cheat. Here’s why it’s a teachable moment (Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Guardian, May 19, 2023)
- How ChatGPT Bested Me and Worsted My Students (Brandi Lawless, associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication Studies, University of San Francisco April 20, 2023)
- What Higher Ed Gets Wrong About AI Chatbots — From the Student Perspective (Mary Jo Madda, Columnist, May 15, 2023)
- Will ChatChangeange How Professors Assess Learning? (Beckie Supiano, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 5, 2023)
- If You're Not Already Doing These 10 Productivity Hacks in ChatGPT, You're Missing Out You can start right away (Nick Hobson, Inc.com, April 24, 2023)
- This Was Written by a Human: A Real Educator’s Thoughts on Teaching in the Age of ChatGPT (Educause, Jered Borup, Associate Professor, Learning Technologies, George Mason University, March 21, 2023)
- How Artificial Intelligence is Impacting Higher Education: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/how-artificial-intelligence-is-impacting-higher-education/
- Teaching writing in an Age of AI: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/teaching-writing-in-an-age-of-ai/
- ChatGPT and Good Intentions in Higher Ed: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/chatgpt-and-good-intentions-in-higher-ed/
- UCLA The Use of Generative AI in Teaching and Education - Guidance to Instructors
- Leveraging Social Annotation in the Age of AI (Slide deck by Jessica Fuller, Hypothes. is, July 12, 2023)
- ChatGPT Prompt eBook (Monica Burns, Class Tech Tips)
- A resources hub: Leverage AI for quality education (FeedbackFruits.com)
- ChatGPT will soon have access to the Internet (Emre Çitak, gHacks.net, May 8, 2023)
- Padlet: Generative AI and Education (Richard Fehrenbacher, Seattle University)
- How to cite generative AI in MLA style
- APA Citation Guide (APA 7th edition) AI-generated text and image