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recommendations and guiding principles designed for the community.
Description:
ChatGPT-3, the FREE version of ChatGPT, can be a valuable tool for education. It is powered by OpenAI’s advanced language model, and it is revolutionizing the field of education by providing an intelligent and interactive tool for learning and knowledge acquisition.
Designed to mimic human conversation, ChatGPT-3 acts as a virtual assistant, capable of generating human-like responses and engaging in meaningful dialogue with both instructors and students.
With its vast language understanding and extensive knowledge base, ChatGPT-3 offers a wide range of educational applications, from personalized tutoring to homework assistance and language practice.
Label:
- Categories: Analysis of Financial Data, Database, Coding, Law, Excel Formulas, Literature, Paraphrase, Summarize Articles, Summarize Websites, Text, Translation.
- Cost: Free
- Website: https://chat.openai.com/
- Languages: Arabic, English, French, Others.
- Natural language processing: Yes
Features :
- ChatGPT generates answers, in the form of texts, in a conversation style.
- You can design your prompt and improve it gradually to receive better generated answers.
- ChatGPT saves your conversations in different chat box; In this case you can get back later to the specific chat box to continue the conversation.
- You can send voice messages in different languages to ask ChatGPT to provide you with a presentation/summary/translation/etc. for your voice request and in return ChatGPT will provide you with the answer and read it aloud for you.
- You need to add the extension “Voice Control for ChatGPT” on Chrome.
- It is available in the French, English and other languages; Arabic is NOT included.
- You can upload several types of files and ask ChatGPT to provide you with a presentation/summary/translation/etc. for the uploaded document.
- You need to add the extension “ChatGPT File Uploader Extended” on Chrome.
- Document types: coding files, document files, image files and archives/compressed Files
- Coding Files: .js (JavaScript), .py (Python), .cs (C#), .java (Java), .go (Go), .php (PHP), .xml (Extensible Markup Language), .yml (YAML), .yaml (YAML), .toml (Tom’s Obvious, Minimal Language), .ini (Initialization), .cfg (Configuration), .conf (Configuration), .sh (Shell script), .bat (Batch), .css (Cascading Style Sheet), .json (JavaScript Object Notation), .ts (TypeScript), .tsx (TypeScript JSX), .jsx (JavaScript JSX)
- Document Files: .txt (Text), .md (Markdown), .pdf (Portable Document Format), .doc (Microsoft Word document), .docx (Microsoft Word Open XML document), .xls (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, legacy format), .xlsx (Microsoft Excel Open XML spreadsheet)
- Image Files: .png (Portable Network Graphics), .jpg (Joint Photographic Experts Group), .jpeg (Joint Photographic Experts Group), .bmp (Bitmap), .webp (WebP)
- Archives/Compressed Files: .zip (Zipped file/archive)
Pros & Cons :
- With its translation capability, you can choose the target language of the answer to be any language different from the original language.
- You can use ChatGPT to generate definitions, feedback, personalized activities, assessments, rubrics, lesson plans, etc.
- It has a limited knowledge of the world and events after 2021.
- The links included in the answer might be broken.
- Sometimes you need to refresh the page or be locked out due to the heavy traffic.
- Sometimes it generates plausible sounding but incorrect, nonsensical, inaccurate, and even fabricated answers. (It is known as ‘hallucinations’ in the context of AI (Artificial Intelligence) language models).
Remarks :
- Think of ChatGPT as a virtual assistant, in which you must always consider its generated answers as first draft outlines requiring revision.
- Although ChatGPT seems to be confident when generating answers, these answers should not be relied upon as a reliable source of accurate information.
- Using ChatGPT is not necessarily considered a violation of academic integrity, however its unauthorized use to create content submitted as one’s own is considered plagiarism and a violation of the academic integrity policy.
Practical Usages :
Suppose you have assigned your students an essay reflecting on their personal experience, discovery, and specific learning visiting an industrial spot that is relevant to their study topic. This can be a time-consuming task for you as an educator to assess as you are expecting their submission to be descriptive and unique. However, now you can utilize generative AI to help you with this assessment in two ways.
First, you can utilize generative AI to plan a rubric for assessing this essay assignment. Below is the prompt that can help here:
The output that we got from AI is the following but it may be different each time the prompt is used. Depending on what you require, assess the output and guide the AI further till you get what you required:
Then you can use generative AI to automate the assessment by scanning the submissions following the rubrics. This would help you quickly get an overview of individual students’ submissions and guide them further with specific observations. Below is a demonstration on how this would work:
The red-marked portion is the actual prompt for AI and the later part is the essay that you want the AI to assess. The AI in return to this prompt generated the following assessment:
This worked really well for this scenario but it may not work all the time. While it can be of great help, you as the teacher, need to review this assessment to further fine-tune the assessment done by the generative AI.
You can even prepare feedback using generative AI with empathy and encouragement. This whole process will also make the assessment bias free making sure that all students get the same treatment. Below is an example prompt and output:
Of course, you as an educator are not expected to be totally absent in the process. You are also required to guide the AI for better output and to check if any important adjustment to the process is required or not. To do this efficiently, however, you also need to have a good idea of prompt engineering.
Depending on which subject or topic you are teaching, there are multiple ways to utilize AI in the process of assessment. You can also think of designing new assessment activities or processes to engage your students better. For example, if you are teaching mathematics and you want to prepare multiple assessments for your students using the Bloom’s Taxonomy to understand their learning level, this is easily possible with AI within a few minutes.
