Weekly Roundup #2: ChatGPT would be a weak law student

PLUS: Google announces ChatGPT rival 👀

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Maita Mojica
February 07, 2023

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.

One tweet we love.

Why we love it: An in-depth look at ChatGPT's performance in law school. Read the full thread (or the full the whitepaper) to see how ChatGPT scores a "low but passing grade".

Two quotes we're pondering.

"If there's a paper being handed in and I can't tell if it was written by a kid or AI, there's a process that's been broken."

- Richard Culatta, CEO of International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), in this article on AI in education

"Educational Technology is at its most useful when it is not the goal of the lesson, but a tool used to solve a problem or meet a goal."

- Jake Miller (@JakeMillerTech), during his presentation at the recent Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC)

Three articles we've bookmarked.

  • "An Important Next Step On Our AI Journey" is a blog post written by Sundar Pichai (CEO of Google) on their upcoming launch of Bard - otherwise considered their response to ChatGPT. It is not open to the public yet, but we're definitely keeping an eye out.

  • According to a recent study published by Dell Technologies on 15,000 Gen Z around the world, 44% of Gen Z said that schools only teach them basic computing skills yet 40% consider learning digital skills essential for their future. Read the full report here.

  • In "Can EdTech Be Used to Better Serve Daydreamers?", Caitlin Mills, Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota, outlines how machine learning can help educators understand disengagement in classrooms.

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