Students' ChatGPT logs
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18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs
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"Admin is hard."
I'm sorry but I don't know what this means. Admin is hard? What?
In my day, we were happy to have, "word processing," and we brought our typing skills with us from high school.
I am older, and, admittedly, could be out of touch, but, I don't see how students having computers practically strapped to their wrists could not be a temptation and/or a distraction.
Then again, I think "AI" is a scam, which, I have no doubt, is a heretical thought. I do not believe that computers have or could develop human consciousness. Many scientists agree with me, which, I hesitate to mention, at the risk of being pilloried, because, admittedly, I do not have any citations, off hand.
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Ping to Mary Anna and SK ...
Soft criticism of this article: Three male "data points" doth not a strong conclusion make. This is the problem with anecdotal storytelling.
On the other hand, this is the world (or at least a part of it) that we now face in our classrooms. To the extent that these three anecdotes are representative, students have come to rely on Chat to do the bulk of the thinking, organizing AND writing of their essays. Their "work" is only at the meta stage (conceptualizing a question) and at the editing stage. I seriously doubt they will remember the content and argument of their essay in three weeks time. I can still recall the substance of some of my college papers fifty years on.
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Ping to Mary Anna and SK ...
Soft criticism of this article: Three male "data points" doth not a strong conclusion make. This is the problem with anecdotal storytelling.
On the other hand, this is the world (or at least a part of it) that we now face in our classrooms. To the extent that these three anecdotes are representative, students have come to rely on Chat to do the bulk of the thinking, organizing AND writing of their essays. Their "work" is only at the meta stage (conceptualizing a question) and at the editing stage. I seriously doubt they will remember the content and argument of their essay in three weeks time. I can still recall the substance of some of my college papers fifty years on.
@Piano-Dad said in Students' ChatGPT logs:
… I seriously doubt they will remember the content and argument of their essay in three weeks time. I can still recall the substance of some of my college papers fifty years on.
Maybe they will remember the brilliant or serendipitous series of prompts they engineered that generated an unexpectedly profound argument or surprisingly beautiful essay.
Some people draw beautiful lines. Some people come up with equations that can draw beautiful lines. Some people tweak coefficients in existing equations to draw beautiful lines. I am not aware of clear statistical evidence to show which one is usually rewarded more handsomely than others by society, or which one will ultimately feel more content while living or less regret while near death.
