Artificial Intelligence is all around us, and no sector is untouched by it. Education, too, has seen the impact of AI through ChatGPT.?
ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI in November 2022, responds to any question.With educators finding that students are using ChatGPT to write their assignments, it has resulted in an ethical debate.?
Should students be using ChatGPT to write assignments? What are the pros and cons of using AI tools for education??
There are quite a few cons of using AI tools such as ChatGPT.?
According to teachers, students use ChatGPT to write essays, resulting in plagiarism.?
ChatGPT is preferred since it generates responses quickly. However, it inhibits students' ability to think for themselves and be creative with their answers.?
Further, ChatGPT can provide inaccurate answers as well as outdated data.?
But instead of pushing students off ChatGPT, they should be encouraged to use ChatGPT as a learning tool.?
ChatGPT can be used as a source of information across various subjects. Since ChatGPT is a tool that gathers information from the Internet, it has a plethora of information on every topic.?
As long as ChatGPT is used for information and not for direct plagiarism, students can actually learn using the tool.?
This will help the student save time while researching any topic.?
After getting the necessary information from ChatGPT, students can write an assignment using their creativity.?
This is how ChatGPT can help students with essay writing:?
1. Use ChatGPT to generate essay ideas?
Usually, teachers give students a broad idea and ask them to choose a topic within that. With the help of ChatGPT, students can find an angle to approach the topic on which to write an essay.?
On ChatGPT, just input an assignment topic, and the answers will be provided.?
2. Use ChatGPT to find sources?
Once your topic is down, you can ask ChatGPT to generate sources.?
For any topic you search, ChatGPT outputs various sources with a bullet point for each that explains the source and why it could be useful.?
3. Use ChatGPT to write a sample essay?
If you input any topic into ChatGPT, the chatbot will generate an answer in essay format within seconds.?But students should use this as a sample or a backbone and not copy paste this essay as is for their assignment. Otherwise, it would lead to plagiarism.?
Further, the data in ChatGPT is not updated based on the latest data, and students need to be careful about that and get up-to-date information from authoritative sources.? ? ? ?
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