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What is a ChatGPT?

ChatGPT and Beyond: How to Handle AI in Schools (commonsense.org)
ChatGPT and Education (niu.edu)
E-Book: ChatGPT in Higher Education Subtitle:Artificial Intelligence and its Pedagogical Value OER (Free to copy etc. look at license) Introduction and Overview of ChatGPT Overview of ChatGPT for Faculty in Higher Education Ethical Considerations Pedagogical Uses for ChatGPT Enhancing Teaching and Learning ChatGPT-Proof Your Course Instructional Design Supporting Academic Development with Chat GPT Facilitating Research and Professional Development Supporting Academic Advising and Mentorship Accessibility and Quality Control Improving Accessibility and Inclusivity Evaluating ChatGPT-Generated Content
New York Times | Let Us Show You How GPT Works "The core of an A.I. program like ChatGPT is something called a large language model [LLM]: an algorithm that mimics the form of written language." "In just an hour of training on a laptop, a language model can go from generating random characters to a very crude approximation of language." "Language models are a kind of universal mimic: They imitate whatever they’ve been trained on."
OPINION from PEW: From Chat GPT to DALL-E, how Americans see new uses of artificial intelligence, including programs to generate text or art (pewresearch.org)
UNESCO: ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence in higher education: Quick start guide

Other Library Guides: Librarians Exploring Artificial Intelligence Tools

Video: ChatGPT Tutorial - A Crash Course on Chat GPT for Beginners

ChatGPT Tutorial - A Crash Course on Chat GPT for Beginners

ChatBot: Friend or Foe?

ChatGPT: Educational friend or foe? (brookings.edu)

"The bot is more of a synthesizer than a critical thinker. It would do well on a compare-and-contrast essay, but is less able to create a unique thesis and to defend that thesis."

Suggestion: Instead of testing students on how good they are at memorizing facts [which they can easily get he internet)] drill students on:

being able to remember information over time,
generalizing learning to new situations
creatively developing a new way of thinking about an issue
have students evaluate the program’s initial response to a prompt, then consider how to improve it through revision.
In this way, the ChatGPT writes the rough draft, "Students can then learn how to move beyond the first draft to make their essays better."

Some teachers are already "recognizing the instructional value of ChatGPT for deeper, more engaged learning."

"Adam Stevens remarks, ChatGPT is only a threat if our education system continues to 'pursue rubric points and not knowledge.'"

Tip: Proactively use ChatGPT as a Tool.

19 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Classroom (edweek.org)
EBSCO Article: CHATGPT HAS ENTERED THE CLASSROOM. "The students were dazzled by how quickly the chatbot rendered information into fluid prose—until they read it closely. The AI fudged facts. Some of its reasoning was circular and illogical. When students asked the bot to back up an argument with citations, it attributed work to the wrong authors. They concluded that simply copying from ChatGPT wouldn't actually earn them a good grade."
EBSCO Article: How ChatGPT Can Improve Education, Not Threaten It "To remain competitive throughout their careers, students need to learn how to prompt an AI writing tool to elicit worthwhile output and know how to evaluate its quality, accuracy and originality."
How to use ChatGPT as a learning tool (apa.org)
We Can’t Keep ChatGPT Out of the Classroom, so Let’s Address the ‘Why’ Behind Our Fears (.edsurge.com)

How to search for ChatGPT topics

Try the Library's Ebsco Discovery Search to search multiple databases. (You can access these off campus with your MyFVTC credentials)

Ebsco Search: Limit or expand with Descriptor term DE "CHATGPT"
DE "ARTIFICIAL intelligence"
DE "CHATBOTS"
DE "ChatGPT"
If it is not in our collection... we can order it through Interlibrary Loan (Order Form)
Please allow 7 to 10 days for delivery. Do not wait for the item to arrive before doing your project, as the request could be delayed or declined.

Focus Google search by adding site:.edu or site:.gov to the string of terms.

Google Search Strategy: ChatGPT in Teaching OR Learning OR Education site:.edu
Add site:.edu to find what is being published on education (.edu) websites.
Google doc sheet experiment for searches of "ChatGPT Teaching OR Learning OR Education"

Cases

How ChatGPT and similar AI will disrupt education
"“[We’re] color-coding,” Vogelsinger says. The parts the student writes are in green. The parts from ChatGPT are in blue. Vogelsinger is helping the student pick and choose a few sentences from the AI to expand on — and allowing other students to collaborate with the tool as well. Most aren’t turning to it regularly, but a few kids really like it. Vogelsinger thinks the tool has helped them focus their ideas and get started."

However...
"ChatGPT and other similar tools can often get things very wrong. They don’t pull facts from databases. Rather, they are trained to generate new text that sounds natural. They remix language without understanding it, which can lead to glaring mistakes."

ChatGPT User Experience: Implications for Education
"This paper concludes that new formats of assessments are needed to focus on creativity and critical thinking that AI cannot substitute."

Artificial Intelligence (AI) News, Resources, and Tools: ChatGPT