ChatGPT can write a half-decent essay and answer many common classroom questions, sparking a fierce debate about the very future of traditional education. FILE PHOTO
New York City's education department banned ChatGPT on its networks because of "concerns about negative impacts on student learning". However, some in the education sector are more relaxed about AI tools in the classroom, and some even sense an opportunity rather than a threat.To give one example, it thinks Guatemala is bigger than Honduras. It isn't.Ask the tool to describe the Battle of Amiens and it will give a passable detail or two on the 1918 confrontation from World War I.
"ChatGPT can help people who are stressed by a blank sheet of paper to write a first draft, but afterwards they still have to write and give it a style." Teachers should instead "experiment with the limits" of AI tools, he said, by generating texts themselves and analyzing the results with their students.But there is also another big reason to think that educators do not need to panic yet.