ChatGPT in Education: Partner or pariah?

摘要

ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, with educators reeling from its implication for curricula and assessment. This article examines how ChatGPT resembles earlier technologies and predicts how we can expect it to impact education going forward. Prior to the invention of writing-and certainly before the creation of the printing press and the large-scale distribution of the written word-much of education was focused on memorization. As Justin E. H. Smith writes in The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: "It is not that the technology of writing was unavailable to medieval scholars, but only that, for the most part, until the modern period true knowledge of an object of study involved internalizing that object by committing it to memory" 1. Smith goes on to note that as the written word-enabled by new technologies like the printing press-became more widespread, early educators lamented the loss of emphasis on rote memorization and the negative impact that would have on future learners.