Teachers and universities push back against ChatGPT
Teachers and universities push back against ChatGPT
2023-02-22
Education is reeling from the advent of ChatGPT, a chatbot which can write documents in academic styles. The bot uses AI to produce texts on any topic, in any style. Although many of its documents are nowhere near the standard of real academic texts, it can sound lifelike enough to mimic a student. Taiwanese high school students are starting to use the bot to write coursework for college applications. That’s left teachers and universities scrambling to crack down on a new avenue for cheating.
Type in some key words, and ChatGPT gets to work writing an essay at once. Some Taiwanese high school students are starting to use ChatGPT to write their coursework. It sometimes does a better job than they can.
Ms. Lin
High school student
I think we should complete our own coursework, because our exams have a second level, an oral examination. The professors will ask you how you produced the report.
Ms. Lee
High school student
When I’m writing it, I start by writing a rough draft, as a reference. In the “Personal Process and Reflections” section you have to include your own ideas, so I always rewrite it again in the end.
The high school coursework portfolio is a major component in the new curriculum. It’s required by the Ministry of Education for every university application, and counts for 20% or more of the student’s grades. There’ve been numerous controversial reports of students paying tutors to write coursework for them. But since the advent of ChatGPT, essays, computer code, novels and even data analysis can all be outsourced to AI. Many high school teachers worry it will distort students’ university applications.
Lee Chi-lung
NTNU Affiliated Senior High
ChatGPT is something like a sample manufacturer; but it leaves out lots of details. We want young people to get to grips with the applications of technology, not to make inappropriate use of it, but to establish the correct attitude toward its use. That’s the goal we tend to have in educational settings.
Universities are taking action. Hong Kong Univeristy has banned the use of ChatGPT or any other AI tool, in exams or in homework. National Taiwan University says that next term it will produce guidelines on the use of ChatGPT for students and staff. National Tsing Hua University has a special working group looking into AI’s impact on teaching and learning.
Lee Chi-lung
NTNU Affiliated Senior High
Even if you ban it, it is impossible to completely prevent situations like that. Instead, we must use educational and evaluative tools to monitor students on more levels, and help them to grow.
Here’s a new essay title. “The functional and dysfunctional uses of AI in education.” You have one hour, you may begin.
傳高中生用ChatGPT代筆學檔 師生憂衝擊升學
2023-02-22
AI聊天機器人ChatGPT可用來代寫程式、文章、分析數據等，引發熱議和風潮，國內就傳出有高中生利用它來寫學習歷程檔案。不少高中師生就擔心，未來恐怕連大學考招也會受到衝擊，師大附中資訊主任李啟龍認為，ChatGPT防不勝防，學校應該教導學生如何善用AI，而不是靠它代筆。
只要輸入關鍵字，ChatGPT立刻就開始書寫文章，國內就有高中生讓ChatGPT代寫學習歷程檔案，發現還比自己寫得更完整。
[[高中生 林同學]]
“我覺得學習歷程還是要自己完成，因為學測有二階的面試，那教授也會問你說，是怎麼產出這份報告的。”
[[高中生 李同學]]
“寫的時候可能先打個草稿，會做參考的部份，心路歷程還是要自己的想法，所以我最後還是會再重寫一篇。”
高中學習歷程檔案是新課綱重頭戲，教育部要求大學各科系在個人申請階段必須採用，佔分兩成以上，過去屢傳學生花錢找人代筆引發爭議，不過ChatGPT上架後，可用來代寫程式、小說甚至分析數據，不少高中老師也憂心大學考招會受衝擊。
[[師大附中資訊主任 李啟龍]]
“ChatGPT比較像是生成樣品屋這樣的概念，可是它很多細節它並不會告訴你。我們希望孩子們去認識科技的應用，不要去做一個不當的使用，而是要建立一個正確的使用態度，是我們教育現場比較希望達到的目標。”
目前香港大學就禁止所有作業和考試使用ChatGPT或其他AI工具，台大表示，將在新學期製作專頁提供師生正確使用ChatGPT的建議與提醒，而清大也成立專案小組探討AI對教學的衝擊。
[[師大附中資訊主任 李啟龍]]
“因為禁用你也沒辦法完全避免這樣的情況，而是用我們的教學跟評量的方式，來做更多層次的觀察，也幫助我們學生去成長。”
學生該如何善用AI，而不是靠它代筆，也成了教學新的議題。
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