If you’re complaining about ChatGPT in education, don’t come crying to me.
You’ve already cried wolf about living in the present too many times.
Now you’re panicked by ChatGPT in schools. I might concede that you have a right to be nervous. We do live in a world (or at least in the US, UK, and certain parts of Western Canada) where a large percentage of the adult population seems unable to either tell or accept the truth, so making it easier to fool fools does seem dangerous, and ChatGPT, along with Bing, Bard, et al, by allowing manipulation certainly can enable disinformation. And if you assess students with objective tests, or ask for canned five-paragraph essays, sure, kids very well might use these tools to give you exactly what you wanted and expected…
But. Over the past quarter century you’ve panicked about everything from Wikipedia to Google, Text-to-Speech and audiobooks, speech recognition, laptops, phones, spellcheckers, grammar checkers… just about everything that might force you to leave your red pen on your desk instead of using it to enforce your own sense of superiority.
“Some schools have responded to ChatGPT by cracking down. New York City public schools, for example, recently blocked ChatGPT access on school computers and networks, citing “concerns about negative impacts on…
