Marianne Montgomery
Friends, we may be in trouble. My conversation with OpenAI's ChatGPT about the theme of honor in 1 Henry IV (on which I just graded student posts). These aren't brilliant, but they are credible and I would probably not recognize them as not being the students' own work. #Shakespeare #AI #EdTech
Dec 6, 2022 at 3:21amWeb
Show threadMarianne MontgomeryDec 6, 2022
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Show threadMarianne MontgomeryDec 6, 2022
I already use some more creative prompts for student writing, and I can see myself going further in that direction.
Show threadCristina León Alfar, PhDDec 6, 2022
@DrMMontgomery I wonder if it would help to make them quote from the text to prove their reading? I suppose AI can catch up with that?
Show threadMarianne MontgomeryDec 6, 2022
@CristinaLAlfar Oh, I do use a more detailed prompt that asks them to quote from the text to support their points. It also asks them to focus on a single character. But the AI bot was able to come up with pretty good quotes when I prompted it. Oddly the citations were wrong but that seems like a pretty easy thing for it to catch up with. The AI's sentence-level writing is better than many of my students', though its engagement with the text is more surface-level.
Show threadCristina León Alfar, PhDDec 6, 2022
@DrMMontgomery depressing
Show threadYusuf ToropovDec 6, 2022
@DrMMontgomery Verbal exam time. :-) And is that really a bad development? Seems to me the kids who hate reading Shakespeare are the ones who would appeal to a text generator to write an essay for them. Maybe conversation is a better way to engage with them and assess them. And most of the students who love or are open to learning about the Bard would respond well, I think.
Show threadMarianne MontgomeryDec 6, 2022
@YusufToropov I think there is some advantage to verbal exams but they are not always practical in larger classes.
Show threadYusuf ToropovDec 6, 2022
@DrMMontgomery true that
Show threadYusuf ToropovDec 6, 2022
@DrMMontgomery backup plan: essay questions in controlled setting, handwritten in a blue book
Show threadMarianne MontgomeryDec 6, 2022
@YusufToropov Certainly an option. I am not a big fan of proctored exams, and that raises some accessibility considerations, but everything is on the table.