Reading Time: 2 minutes In this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles explore the origins of AI and how they led to ChatGPT. They discuss how AI’s continued growth has led to innovative tools as well as potential challenges in education. Check out the episode to hear them set the stage for the upcoming series on ChatGPT. Podcast links Show notes This episode sets the stage for our summer series exploring ChatGPT. Our conversation begins with how the web has changed: Web 1.0, the internet’s ”Stone Age,” featured static pages and one-sided conversations. Web 2.0, the ”Renaissance,” brought interactive pages; while Web 3.0 offered machine-readable, interoperable, and decentralized…
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Turnitin Adds AI Writing Indicator to Similarity Report
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s no secret that ChatGPT’s popularity is growing. And plagiarism detecting tools are aware of that – and the need to adjust their offerings to help identify when student work may have been supplemented or entirely created by AI. Turnitin recently announced that it will now display a score to instructors within the Similarity Report to indicate what percentage of a paper is highly likely to be generated by AI. Turnitin is quick to say that their detection isn’t foolproof and the percentage displayed “should not be used as a definitive measure of misconduct or punitive tool.” The AI percentage is presented to inform instructors and…
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ChatGPT: What’s Next?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Vaulting onto my stand-up stool, I contorted into a jockey’s position while piping the Classical Motivation playlist from Apple’s freshly minted Classical Music app–off to the races of the new, new frontier. Using the old to discuss the new isn’t unfamiliar, but Apple isn’t the only tech company to release something recently. OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, released ChatGPT-4 last week–a total paradigm shift. Below is an example of the power of ChatGPT-4. I fed it my first two ChatGPT blog posts and asked it to write the next post. As we continue to grapple with the integration of AI tools like ChatGPT into our…
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Transform Your Teaching: Servant Teaching with Dr. Quentin Schultze, Part 2
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles continue their interview with Dr. Quentin Schultze. Dr. Schultze—who has written several books, including one on servant teaching—talks about cheating and how to discourage cheating. They also touch on the topic of using ChatGPT effectively in a course. Check out the episode to hear their conversation about the relationship between respect and cheating. Podcast links Show notes Many students will cheat without realizing that they are cheating. They could be citing sources incorrectly or asking a student about a test they just took. Other students will cheat intentionally, doing things like acquiring completed assignments. The truth is…
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ChatGPT: Issues in Teaching and Learning
Reading Time: 2 minutes Standing at my trusty stand-up desk, I again pondered the beginning of this post. Yearning to recapture the muse from my last blog post, I leveled up my music selection to Snarky Puppy’s Trinity and again directed my web browser to chat.openai.com. After acknowledging ChatGPT’s stability warning due to heavy usage, I asked my question: “what are the top three teaching and learning issues with ChatGPT?” ChatGPT provided the following: 1. Bias and ethical considerations: ChatGPT is trained on large amounts of text data from the internet and can reflect the biases in that data. This could potentially impact the accuracy and fairness of responses provided…
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ChatGPT: The New Frontier
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sitting at my stand-up desk, I mused about the beginning of this post. Thwack! The idea came to me like a bug playing tag with my windshield on a South Dakota interstate in the middle of June. I would use ChatGPT, a freshly minted artificial intelligence (AI) chat robot. I asked Siri to play the theme from the movie Inception and carefully steered my browser to http://chat.openai.com. With Hans Zimmers’ electronic sound garden in the background, I placed my cursor in the chat box and typed, “Write a 300 word introduction to Servant Teaching.” ChatGPT began working on the query and produced, word-by-word, six paragraphs. I…