How can we avoid plagiarism and use AI in education ethically? I do believe that this is a question we’ll be asking for a while, and pretty much all the time moving forward. The easy answer is “incorporate it into the learning process”, but how? I think if we simply ask students to write and respond to something, it will be too easy for them to ask ChatGPT to write for them. Alternatively, if we ask them to cite the sources that ChatGPT uses, and use it as a learning resource; or we use it as a tool that supports the process rather than does all the work, that’s where it can be most useful. For example, in our EdTech Group Project, we’re working on something that incorporates a rap written by ChatGPT, but we still have to do the majority of the work in creating and using a beat that works, and perhaps creating a video to go along with it. In this way, we are using AI as a tool to supplement and speed up the process, but aren’t using it in a way that constitutes the bulk of the work and still gets across the aspects of creative thinking and collaboration that you would want in a classroom setting. This is definitely I’m still thinking about but hopefully I will be able to implement AI as a tool for learning in my own classrooms.

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