> (If the goal is to make students write essays, theses, etc. without an LLM writing it for them.)
This is one of the "I don't think that this is the path that we should be taking."
When I was in school, my parents would proof read the essays to catch the spelling and grammatical errors that were in what I wrote (Bank Street Writer had a rudimentary spelling checker but that was it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Street_Writer ).
While my parents are both native English speakers and college educated, some of my classmates had less involved parents, or parents that didn't have the same degree of proficiency for writing. Did their essays suffer from a lack of parental proof reading?
In the past few months I wrote two short works of fiction as lore for a game that I play. I used ChatGPT to act as an editor for those works looking at it and occasionally prompting it to help refine a passage.
Having ChatGPT act as an editor (not text editor but as a critique of the text) helped refine the text that I wrote.
Working with ChatGPT as a tool (that is far beyond the red squiggles in a word processor) to help people working with the written word is a good and useful endeavor. This isn't trying to have ChatGPT supplant human creativity but rather help the person communicate more clearly.
Not only basic calculations, over use of calculators is great at making students that are able to get the correct numbers, but don't develop the deeper intutions about numbers that are required to be able to do more abstract thinking which is needed in higher mathematics.
This is one of the "I don't think that this is the path that we should be taking."
When I was in school, my parents would proof read the essays to catch the spelling and grammatical errors that were in what I wrote (Bank Street Writer had a rudimentary spelling checker but that was it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Street_Writer ).
While my parents are both native English speakers and college educated, some of my classmates had less involved parents, or parents that didn't have the same degree of proficiency for writing. Did their essays suffer from a lack of parental proof reading?
In the past few months I wrote two short works of fiction as lore for a game that I play. I used ChatGPT to act as an editor for those works looking at it and occasionally prompting it to help refine a passage.
https://chat.openai.com/share/204de7f7-9cd7-4c45-aa2b-556791... for part of the editor session with it.
Having ChatGPT act as an editor (not text editor but as a critique of the text) helped refine the text that I wrote.
Working with ChatGPT as a tool (that is far beyond the red squiggles in a word processor) to help people working with the written word is a good and useful endeavor. This isn't trying to have ChatGPT supplant human creativity but rather help the person communicate more clearly.
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I am leaving this in an unedited form, but here is this post with ChatGPT as an editor as an example of how I believe students should try to interact with it. https://chat.openai.com/share/d891f9ac-923b-47a8-8de9-ab7301...