An inside look at a 5th grade classroom using ChatGPT
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- 09 Mar 2023
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Kentucky teacher Donnie Piercey uses ChatGPT with his fifth frade students.
With the rise of artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT, some teachers are concerned about plagiarism and cheating among students, leading some school districts to ban them.
Other teachers like Donnie Piercey, who instructs fifth graders in Lexington, Kentucky, are taking a different approach and turning to the online tool to help in the classroom.
"Like every other educator, I had that concern. Is this something that students are only going to use to cheat? So I started to think about like, 'OK, what role is AI -- artificial intelligence -- going to play in the classroom?'" Piercey, the 2021 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, told "Good Morning America." "And the more that I thought about it, I realized that there's a lot more good that can come about through AI as opposed to negative things that can come in the classroom."
ChatGPT, short for Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, refers to an online chatbot service developed by the artificial intelligence company OpenAI. Users can type in complex questions and queries, similar to a search engine, and ask the computer program to generate answers, information and even poetry.
Piercey decided to give ChatGPT a try and now uses the chatbot to generate prompts and exercises for students. For example, Piercey welcomed "GMA" into his classroom and demonstrated how he used ChatGPT to create paragraphs that he then used in a grammar exercise with students, asking them to determine whether the text was written by ChatGPT or their classmates. He has also used ChatGPT to generate personalized plays, which he then turned into reading exercises for students. Read More…
