Im a spanish speaker learning english, i have been going to classes for 1 year and i use chat gpt for practices, especially for tests. Like im 19 and I would never replace my teacher for an IA , simply because as human i value when my teacher give me his tips when he was a student, his procces, when he share stories, when we laughed together when i made a mistake, the human conexión and community that is build by teacher and students is beautiful and such an amusing experience that ia could never give me. (sorry if i made a mistake)
Crazy isn't, how much the world of teaching has changed? I do wonder how long it'll be before AI gets so good that they will replace teachers. Sure, there will always be demand for a real-life teacher, but surely that'll decline as the younger generation embraces robots?!
Funnily, I anticipated the rise of ChatGPT many years ago, early 2010s (haha) - as a teacher, I was big on emergent language and as much as I enjoyed creating dialogues and gap fills as revision work, it was time-consuming and terribly inefficient since they were rarely re-usable (I'd tweak them to use with other classes). But I remember thinking 'what if there were some programme where I could just give it the vocab words and it would spit out a text' and my colleagues all agreed it would be a great idea. Alas...
The thing is, I am SO GLAD that it didn't exist back then and I actually plan to write a post about this soon. Time-consuming as it was, I enjoyed the creative flair and my students also got a kick out of my weird stories, and it helped me with materials development and writing skills in general. Sadly, the present generation...anyway, I could wax philosophically about this all day!
Rightly or wrongly. I do use it to create materials for lessons. I am not as quick or creative as I would like to be and ChatGPT saves me a lot of time! Of course I check everything carefully and make my own tweaks too.
Yep - I don’t teach much at the moment, but with a couple of my students I use it as well to create materials and make sure to double check. I’m very transparent with them too and tell them.
I was teaching at a summer school and I had a colleague who did something I thought was brilliant. He was a grizzled old cynic veteran (like me, haha) but quickly embraced chatGPT - instead of planning any lessons and doing the course material (it’s summer school, the kids wanted to have fun anyway), they would all ‘plan’ lessons together using chatGPT. They’d suggest prompts for the language and theme and see what it spit out, and honestly, the class enjoyed it. Sadly, I didn’t discover this ‘trick’ until near the end of my time there, but if I teach again next summer…
That sounds great! Doing it together with a teacher shows the students what it can do but also the limitations. The teacher can fill in the gaps. Students are going to use the technology whether we want them to or not so we should teach them how to use it properly. Even though I don’t think ChatGPT can replace a teacher (yet!) the thing that worries me most is that students will think that it can! That’s not a good scenario for the teachers or for the learners!
Im a spanish speaker learning english, i have been going to classes for 1 year and i use chat gpt for practices, especially for tests. Like im 19 and I would never replace my teacher for an IA , simply because as human i value when my teacher give me his tips when he was a student, his procces, when he share stories, when we laughed together when i made a mistake, the human conexión and community that is build by teacher and students is beautiful and such an amusing experience that ia could never give me. (sorry if i made a mistake)
I agree. You can't beat the importance of human connection and community for language learning!
Crazy isn't, how much the world of teaching has changed? I do wonder how long it'll be before AI gets so good that they will replace teachers. Sure, there will always be demand for a real-life teacher, but surely that'll decline as the younger generation embraces robots?!
Funnily, I anticipated the rise of ChatGPT many years ago, early 2010s (haha) - as a teacher, I was big on emergent language and as much as I enjoyed creating dialogues and gap fills as revision work, it was time-consuming and terribly inefficient since they were rarely re-usable (I'd tweak them to use with other classes). But I remember thinking 'what if there were some programme where I could just give it the vocab words and it would spit out a text' and my colleagues all agreed it would be a great idea. Alas...
The thing is, I am SO GLAD that it didn't exist back then and I actually plan to write a post about this soon. Time-consuming as it was, I enjoyed the creative flair and my students also got a kick out of my weird stories, and it helped me with materials development and writing skills in general. Sadly, the present generation...anyway, I could wax philosophically about this all day!
Rightly or wrongly. I do use it to create materials for lessons. I am not as quick or creative as I would like to be and ChatGPT saves me a lot of time! Of course I check everything carefully and make my own tweaks too.
Yep - I don’t teach much at the moment, but with a couple of my students I use it as well to create materials and make sure to double check. I’m very transparent with them too and tell them.
I was teaching at a summer school and I had a colleague who did something I thought was brilliant. He was a grizzled old cynic veteran (like me, haha) but quickly embraced chatGPT - instead of planning any lessons and doing the course material (it’s summer school, the kids wanted to have fun anyway), they would all ‘plan’ lessons together using chatGPT. They’d suggest prompts for the language and theme and see what it spit out, and honestly, the class enjoyed it. Sadly, I didn’t discover this ‘trick’ until near the end of my time there, but if I teach again next summer…
That sounds great! Doing it together with a teacher shows the students what it can do but also the limitations. The teacher can fill in the gaps. Students are going to use the technology whether we want them to or not so we should teach them how to use it properly. Even though I don’t think ChatGPT can replace a teacher (yet!) the thing that worries me most is that students will think that it can! That’s not a good scenario for the teachers or for the learners!