Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Promote Higher Level Thinking

In ChatGPT needs to be your newest teaching buddy from History Tech, glennw talks about how ChatGPT can be used in the classroom as a tool to encourage higher-level thinking. He states, 

“ Our kids need us to help them develop the skills needed to make the world a better place. That means we need to go beyond traditional sit and get social studies instruction.”

I hear a lot of people worried that ChatGPT is going to be used to write papers for students and the students won’t have to do the work. This might be a valid worry if you give the students the opportunity.

Glenn suggests using ChatGPT in a different way that would eliminate this possibility. We need to stop having students regurgitate the information that we give them and encourage them to use higher-level thinking skills.

One thing Glenn suggests is to have ChatGPT write a paper and then have students fact-check the information by supplying primary sources.

I think it would be fun to have an opinion paper written by ChatGPT and students choose whether they agree or disagree with the paper and give reasons that could be backed up with evidence.

ChatGPT can be just another tool in the classroom and instead of making it an enemy, use it as a resource.

Glenn also suggests that teachers can use this tool by having it create writing prompts on a specific topic that is being taught.

I think this article was really informative with great ideas!

What other ways would you use ChatGPT? Please share.

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