SE Speaking 2022/2023: Text 8

SE Speaking: text 8 ChatGPT

What is ChatGPT?

Many teachers are afraid of what this will mean for their classes. How could education in general benefit from the use of ChatGPT, do you think?

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Would you use it for your schoolwork? Why (not)?

What would you ask ChatGPT to do for you?

Now read text 8 in your SE Speaking reader and discuss the following questions in pairs:

1. What concerns does the New York City Department of Education have? Can you explain the 2 types of concerns?

2. What does this ban in NYC schools actually mean? Are students unable to access the AI chatbot at all times?

3. What is a ‘watermarking technique’? How would this help teachers?

4. Why is plagiarism a problem?

5. What is the ‘pedagogical potential’ of ChatGPT?

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