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Hello, educators 👋🏼 Every Tuesday we send out The EdTech Lab Roundup, which is made up of:
One tweet we love
Two quotes we’re pondering
Three articles we've bookmarked
Let's make education smarter with technology.
Today’s theme is - you guessed it - ChatGPT.
Are you over it yet?
Neither are we.
Here’s the roundup.
One tweet we love.
Why we love it: Ethan Mollick, a professor at Wharton, encourages his students to embrace ChatGPT (and other AI tools) rather than avoid it. Yes.
Two quotes we're pondering.
💭 On teachers worried about how ChatGPT is being used in the classroom:
We're just in a new world now. Like, generated text is something we all need to adapt to - and that's fine. We adapted to, you know, calculators, and changed what we tested for in math classes, I imagine. This is a more extreme version of that, no doubt, but also the benefits of it are more extreme as well.
💭 On using ChatGPT as a virtual tutor:
I have used it to learn things myself and found it much more compelling than other ways I've learned things in the past. Like I would much rather have ChatGPT teach me about something than go read a textbook. It's an evolving world and we'll all adapt and, I think, be better of for it.
Both of these quotes were spoken by Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI, in a recent fireside chat with StrictlyVC. Follow these links to watch the full conversation: part one, part two.
Three articles we've bookmarked.
"Education As An Incubator For Innovation", a thoughtful piece by Ken Shelton on how he defines innovation and why it should be encouraged more in education
Ethan Mollick (from the tweet above) writes about the AI experiments being done during class in "All my classes have become AI classes"
In "ChatGPT and what we value in writing", Hetal Thaker encourages us to rethink what we value, and how we teach, writing in schools
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