K-12 educators can and should resist the sales pitch. And that's extra work, I know, and I'm sorry—K-12 educators already have more than enough on their collective and individual plates. Even the effort it takes to turn away from glitzy sales pitches seems like a lot to ask, much less the effort it takes to resist when administrators buy in and start pushing these systems. Let's add this to the pile of harms that OpenAI has perpetrated on the world, even as they claim (here too! think of the children!) to be acting for the good of humanity.
If you're exhausted by all of this you can stop here, with the affirmation that it's not only reasonable but in fact principled and beneficial to say no to ChatGPT and all other GenAI in the classroom. But I'll keep going for a bit in this post, because the guide itself is a rich text as a hype artifact and it may be useful to apply the usual MAIHT3k lens to it. Here is a brief overview of some of the hype. It's incomplete, because I have things to do (my own class to teach, among others), but it's a start: Continua su https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/chatgpt-has-no-place-in-the-classroom/ Una breve lettura utile per molti insegnanti (e genitori). Ad esempio: In the section on responsible use, the guide says: "While AI bias may be hard to detect, you can reduce its occurrence and impacts by critically thinking about when and how to use generative AI, by using the product's reporting function when you encounter objectionable content, and by adopting best practices for prompting." As someone who has spent a lot of time critically thinking about "AI", I can confidently say that the answer to when to use generative AI to produce anything that will be put in front of students is: never. Giacomo
