To Teach With or Without ChatGPT?

Many teachers are still being apprehensive of using ChatGPT to perform their professional activities. While they are figuring it out, you could take the lead and put their concerns to rest. You could try the tool, develop different use cases for teachers of your institute and train them to use it in effective ways. You could also train them on how to train their students on self-regulation and ethical guidelines around using this tool. We should be using technology to accomplish our real goals as teachers — to build positive learning environments, establish collaboration and connection among students, identify individual strengths and encourage students to nurture them, become a moral guide, develop their emotional intelligence and be a mentor to them. None of these tasks could be delegated to robots and therefore, our jobs are safe and secure. Also, it’s worth mentioning that AI is still in its infancy and we don’t quite know its full scope or how the future will look like. ChatGPT is just an aid and it should be treated as such. Yes, it gives us a lot of power but it also gives our students a lot of power and leeways to tweak the system to their immediate advantage. However, these benefits are short-lived leading to wider knowledge gaps. As teachers, the onus is on us to build a robust education system without loopholes using technology. To do that, we have to constantly upgrade the way we teach, give out assignments and grade our students. With better technological infrastructure, we should be building better, not weaker systems of learning. Do let us know in comments how you use ChatGPT as a teacher. TeachPro+ is a community portal dedicated to the growth and development of teachers. We have recently launched our Teacher’s program called iTeach 101 which an increasing number of professional educators, trainers and coaches are benefiting from. If you’re interested to know more about it, you can check it out here.