I found this post by Emily (I don’t know Emily, but apparently Emily Bender is a linguist professor) interesting:
ChatGPT Has No Place in the Classroom
If we value education, educators, and students, we shouldn’t look to technologists (and especially not techo-solutionists) to frame and solve problems. And we certainly shouldn’t redirect resources away from teachers to tech giants.
Are we going to end up pushing valuable resources and actual dollars to AI companies (i.e. tech giants)?
If we value information literacy and cultivating in students the ability to think critically about information sources and how they relate to each other, we shouldn’t use systems that not only rupture the relationship between reader and information source,
This is a crucial point. Teaching kids to think critically is our biggest challenge. I fear that we haven’t been extremely successful in that of late. However, AI tools are also coming. Those tools will be part of the landscape.
If we value inclusivity, both in terms of making sure all students feel welcome in the classroom and in terms of all students learning to see each other as fully human, we shouldn’t use software known to amplify biases,…
This is a tough one. Bias is everywhere. We are biased. We can’t get away from biases, but we do need to be aware of them. We also need to teach about them.
Anyway, I found the post interesting. I don’t agree with everything in it, but I do think that we need to be critical thinkers ourselves.
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