Tag: essay
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Get rid of essays
Mark Carrigan (2024). Are We Deluding Ourselves About GAI-proof Assessment? We need to get rid of essays to the greatest extent possible, scaffolding them in new ways when we can’t abandon them without distorting the pedagogical intention of a unit, ideally to be replaced by forms of assessment which are processual in their scope and/or…
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Link: More than half of UK undergraduates using AI to write essays
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/01/more-than-half-uk-undergraduates-ai-essays-artificial-intelligence More than half of undergraduates say they consult artificial intelligence programmes to help with their essays, while schools are trialing its use in the classroom. Why are we still asking students to write essays?
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AI is highlighting the limited value of our assessments
We’re now at the stage where AI can generate decent essays and a different AI system can do a respectable job in marking them. The students and lecturers can then __retire to the cafe and get on with discussing the interesting stuff. Martin Weller (2022). 25+ Years of Ed Tech: 2022 – AI Generated Content.…
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Using LLMs to raise our expectations
Instead of spending so much of our time thinking about whether students 1) should use LLMs, 2) how much they use it, and 3) what they use it for, let’s just say that they should use it, a lot (IMO, the more, the better), and look more closely at what they use it for, and…
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Link: I’m a student. You have no idea how much we’re using ChatGPT.
Via Dave Nicholls’ Substack newsletter. https://www.chronicle.com/article/im-a-student-you-have-no-idea-how-much-were-using-chatgpt “In reality, it’s very easy to use AI to do the lion’s share of the thinking while still submitting work that looks like your own. Once that becomes clear, it follows that massive structural change will be needed if our colleges are going to keep training students to think…
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Comment: OpenAI discontinues its AI text detector…
Bastian, M. (2023, July 25). OpenAI discontinues its AI text detector due to lack of accuracy. THE DECODER. https://the-decoder.com/openai-discontinues-ai-text-detector-due-to-lack-of-accuracy/ “OpenAI was aware that the system had a low reliable detection rate and that it misidentified human text as AI text nine percent of the time in tests. The company was open about these weaknesses and explicitly…
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Example: Using ChatGPT to generate ideas for authentic and innovative assessments, based on workplace requirements
I copied the content of an advert for a physiotherapy post in the NHS. The exact content of the post doesn’t matter, as the process below will work for most jobs in most sectors. The idea is that you take a posting for a real job in your professional domain, and then ask the language…
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Comment: Automated feedback for reflective essays
Solopova, Veronika, et al. PapagAI:Automated Feedback for Reflective Essays. arXiv, 10 July 2023. arXiv.org, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.07523. Written reflective practice is a regular exercise pre-service teachers perform during their higher education. Usually, their lecturers are expected to provide individual feedback, which can be a challenging task to perform on a regular basis. In this paper, we present…
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Prompts you can use to train ChatGPT to write in your style
This article describes 5 steps you can take to train ChatGPT to write in your style. Full disclosure; I haven’t tried it but given my previous experiences with ChatGPT, it seems plausible. As I said, I haven’t tried this but it seems like the kind of thing that’s possible. Having said that, I don’t see…
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Language models produce pretty generic – one might even say, boring – outputs. It’s an indictment of our education system that we see this as a threat.