Charlie StrossFeb 21, 2023

Reddit: "My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it."

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/117gtom/my_friend_is_in_university_and_taking_a_history/

Honestly, this is great! The students learn to check sources, discover that ChatGPT is unreliable, *and* can't use it to generate essay question answers for them, all at the same time!

My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it.

My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and as the...

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Show threadEllie 🐍 🎄​Feb 21, 2023
@cstross One of my professor friends, back when Wikipedia was new, assigned her Humanities 101 class the task of creating a plausible but fake Wikipedia page and keeping track of how long it lasted, as a similar lesson in that site's trustworthiness as a source.
Show threadJoost van der Borg
@noelle @cstross That sucks. Creates extra work for Wikipedia editors, lowers its usefulness for others. Our professor tasked us with creating / updating a good Wikipedia page for a subject we were learning about. Most of the same learning experience without any adverse effects.
Feb 21, 2023 at 7:12pmWeb
Show threadEllie 🐍 🎄​Feb 21, 2023
@joostvanderborg Are you this charming all the time? Go shit in someone else's mentions.
Show threadLisPiFeb 21, 2023
@noelle @joostvanderborg That's a nice way to (dis)miss the point.
Show threadBenAvelingFeb 21, 2023
@noelle @joostvanderborg he may or may not be charming, but he’s right. Vandalism for educational purposes is still vandalism.
Show threaderisianriteFeb 23, 2023
@noelle @joostvanderborg maybe don’t hold up vandalism of a public resource as something to be proud of and you won’t have people being extremely mild in reply to you.
Show threadPeteFeb 27, 2023
@noelle @joostvanderborg
Have you just got off the plane?
Show threadLaura LangdonFeb 25, 2023

@joostvanderborg @noelle @cstross Yep, this. There’s even an official project for this, complete with scaffolding for both instructors and their students! When I taught a course about mathematical contributions to modern society, my students contributed to relevant articles. One group created the page for Data for Black Lives. 🥳

https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/