ChatGPT: Useful Educational Tool or Prop for a Fool?
Faculty Mentor(s) Name(s)
Ben Elliott
Abstract
The creation of Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (“ChatGPT”) resulted in a tool that has impacted the education system in beneficial ways. News about ChatGPT’s introduction spread throughout the world instantly, bringing both hope and fear for its future. All our society can do is wait and see how its developments affect the tool’s capabilities. When evaluating how ChatGPT affects the education system, it is evident that students who use the tool in school gain incremental support for their learning. Also, teachers’ use of the tool helps students learn the class’s material in ways that better suits students’ needs. Based on studies conducted on ChatGPT, the tool has already benefited students. This is due to there being an increase in both student motivation to learn and student productivity. Despite these benefits, the tool receives backlash for its various concerns and flaws, the major one being its vulnerability to abuse by students. However, these worries about ChatGPT can be solved through future developments and teachers properly implementing the tool in their classes. It is clear that ChatGPT’s capabilities make it a tool that is beneficial to the education system. Project Four Final Copy English 1102.docx
Start Date
27-3-2024 9:00 AM
End Date
27-3-2024 9:50 AM
Location
Maple A/B
ChatGPT: Useful Educational Tool or Prop for a Fool?
Maple A/B
The creation of Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (“ChatGPT”) resulted in a tool that has impacted the education system in beneficial ways. News about ChatGPT’s introduction spread throughout the world instantly, bringing both hope and fear for its future. All our society can do is wait and see how its developments affect the tool’s capabilities. When evaluating how ChatGPT affects the education system, it is evident that students who use the tool in school gain incremental support for their learning. Also, teachers’ use of the tool helps students learn the class’s material in ways that better suits students’ needs. Based on studies conducted on ChatGPT, the tool has already benefited students. This is due to there being an increase in both student motivation to learn and student productivity. Despite these benefits, the tool receives backlash for its various concerns and flaws, the major one being its vulnerability to abuse by students. However, these worries about ChatGPT can be solved through future developments and teachers properly implementing the tool in their classes. It is clear that ChatGPT’s capabilities make it a tool that is beneficial to the education system. Project Four Final Copy English 1102.docx