John Dewey pointed out that “if we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow”. Traditional education is ICT-free, Teachers interact face-to-face with students using paper textbooks and blackboard writing in the classroom. However, contemporary education has recognized the importance of ICT and integrated technology and artificial intelligence (AI) into teaching. The AI we are going to introduce this week is ChatGPT, officially launched by enterprise OpenAI in 2022.
Software Overview
ChatGPT is essentially a chat tool. Compared to past artificial intelligence, it can not only answer structural questions such as grammar correction, translation, and answer finding, but most importantly, it can solve relatively open problems such as programming. In addition, ChatGPT can solve complex structured problems, such as creating tables, extracting abstracts, and so on.
Software Usage Guide
Step 1: Go to ChatGPT through the link: https://chat.openai.com/. Create an account and log in.
Step 2: Ask a question and wait for answers.
Step 3: Ask a more detailed question and wait for answers.
ChatGPT in Language Teaching
Firstly, ChatGPT can provide creative ideas for our course design, assist in searching and organizing literature, and generate complete course materials, such as syllabuses, course plans, and reading materials.
Secondly, ChatGPT can assist us in lesson preparation. For example, we can conduct simulated conversations with ChatGPT to better understand students' issues and prepare for class. In addition, if we need to use other languages in the classroom, we can use ChatGPT for translation.
Thirdly, ChatGPT can become a classroom teaching assistant, providing a real-time sharing platform for students, answering questions, as well as providing ideas for classroom activities, increasing classroom fun and richness, helping students understand complex content and concepts.
Fourthly, ChatGPT can help us generate brand new questions based on teaching requirements.
Fifth, ChatGPT can assist students in autonomous learning. It can provide rich materials to help students achieve self-directed and personalized learning.
Advantages of ChatGPT ππ
1. ChatGPT has a certain predictive model that can achieve accurate automatic chat service recommendations, and can complete accurate recommendations based on the user's actual environment, chat skills, and needs.
2. ChatGPT can automatically chat or assist with real-time services, providing services according to different user needs.
3. User friendly and easy to operate.
4. ChatGPT can achieve fast chat, save customers' time, and improve the service efficiency.
5. ChatGPT can enhance students' interest and participation in learning.
6. ChatGPT can provide targeted teaching content and Q&A based on students' needs and feedback, helping students better understand and master knowledge.
7. Reducing teachers' work pressure.
Disadvantages of ChatGPT ππ
1. ChatGPT utilizes a large amount of data and requires it to be stored on servers. If the system does not have proper data security controls, it may lead to data loss or theft.
2. ChatGPT cannot meet users' needs based on their psychological needs like manual intervention.
3. ChatGPT may reduce our ability to express ourselves and think independently. The excessive use of ChatGPT may make users lack the willingness and ability of active learning and exploration.
5. ChatGPT may lead to Students plagiarize.
If you want to learn more about ChatGPT, you can see the video below. ππ
In brief, pay attention to balancing advantages and limitations of ChatGPT, and avoid excessive dependence and abuse, it is an excellent AI to assist teaching and learning. Although ChatGPT can answer almost all questions, teachers still have value in existence. In class, we need to emphasize the cultivation of students' independent thinking and expression abilities. Moreover, we need to supervise students' usage of ChatGPT and prohibit plagiarism.
