In December, Brendan Benson started noticing his Grade 12 students were handing in essays that looked the same.
“I had voices that resembled one another,” said Benson, who teaches English at Pickering College in Newmarket, Ont.“I started to wonder about students’ writing process,” he said. It wasn’t long before he figured out the answer was ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, often used as a search engine alternative.
Benson said he saw an opportunity to work with ChatGPT and encourage critical thinking among students, who he believed could do better than AI. “We still want students to understand what plagiarism looks like,” he said. “It’s a core principle that we’ve taught our students for generations.”At the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Patrick Parra Pennefather has just finished a project in which students used ChatGPT to write a play in the style of William Shakespeare.
He sees it as a way of equipping students with the knowledge of how to navigate tools such as ChatGPT while improving their critical thinking. As a result, one of his students realized he was writing in a formulaic way and is now exploring new ways to compose. “Once we start to deeply consider those questions, we can look at more innovative and contextual approaches to implementing changes."
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