ChatGPT:  friend or foe?

ChatGPT - What is it?

• Where to begin?
• Let's look at a timeline
• 11/22 to Present
• Generative Pretrained Transformer
• Khan Academy pilot program

What Can It Do?

• a strong language tool: writes essays, cover letters, resumes, lists, etc.
• generates code
• plan vacation itinerary
• translate languages
• carry on a conversation
• basically just simplifies your life

ChatGPT for Teachers

• writes lesson plans
• creates slide shows
• quizzes, guided notes, student activities, rubrics
• generate discussion questions, journal prompts
• suggests essay edits, grammar feedback

Teacher Uses cont.

• personalized learning
• ELL lessons
• creates solved examples for math and science
• generates assignment directions
• prereading organizers
• this is the tip of the iceberg

ChatGPT Detection

• ZeroGPT.com
• Openai.com
• percenthuman (Chrome ext.)
• Crossplag
• Passed.ai

Turnitin and ChatGPT

• New AI writing detector
• Minimal false positives
• New safeguards in development
• Stay tuned at FLVS for Turnitin developments