Trinity Meachem is a year 12 International Baccalaureate high school student at Wesley College in Melbourne. She and her peers have been using ChatGPT to generate ideas for assignments.Trinity Meachem is a year 12 International Baccalaureate high school student at Wesley College in Melbourne. She and her peers have been using ChatGPT to generate ideas for assignments.“Artificial intelligence technology will become part of our everyday lives,” it said.
“There’s a lot more online collaboration now than in the past,” she says, pointing to collaborative note-taking tools such as OneNote. Come exam time, notes, mobile phones and other IT equipment are banned, minimising the risk of cheating. “When you look at why students cheat, a lot of the time they don’t know the rules. They don’t know the difference between collaboration and collusion. They need to be taught how to research and reference.”
Meachem is completing maths, English, psychology, chemistry, biology and German, with the aim of getting in to the University of Melbourne and studying a Bachelor of Science.“But I like that it’s self-led – you design your own experiments, run your own studies … you need to be organised.”