Thursday, 16 March 2023

ChatGPT: an Advanced AI Helper for Teaching

 

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I aim to be a good English teacher in China in the future

I am exploring some technologies or tools to be applied in my future teaching practice and glad to share my findings with you

I sincerely welcome the potential and experienced English teachers in China or other countries to communicate with me and please feel free to leave any comments 😀 

 

Have you heard of ChatGPT? Recently, ChatGPT has been gaining a lot of attention and popularity. In China, many people are attracted to explore the use of ChatGPT. Today, I would like to discuss about its impact on English language teaching and learning.

 

💬What is ChatGPT?

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ChatGPT is an advanced  language model developed by OpenAI that can interact in a conversational way. It is trained on a large corpus of data to understand natural language input and generate fluent and coherent text responses accordingly.

 

💬Why use ChatGPT?

English teachers can benefit from using ChatGPT in a variety of ways.

Feedback: ChatGPT can be used to help students improve their writing skills by providing feedback on their writing and suggesting improvements.

Provide ideas: ChatGPT can offer ideas about designing the lesson plans and solving some teaching problems, saving teachers time and effort.

Practice spoken English: You can use ChatGPT to help students to practice English. Students can firstly speak English out and then type the words to have a conservation with it.

Generate exercises: ChatGPT can be used to generate English exercises for the students, such as filling in the gaps and matching exercises.

 

💬How to use ChatGPT?

Screenshot from openai.com

 

Using ChatGPT is relatively straightforward. You can access ChatGPT through the link. Then, click on "Try ChatGPT". After you enter into the conversation page with Chatgpt, you can input text or questions into the system, and ChatGPT will generate responses based on your input.

 

💬Limitations

ChatGPT may lead to students relying on AI and using it to cheat, for example, by writing assignments for themselves, generating essays and so on.

The responses given by ChatGPT may not absolutely accurate, which needs to people's further evaluation.

ChatGPT is limited by the data it is trained on, which may be incomplete or even biased.

 

In conclusion, ChatGPT is a advanced tool that English teachers can use to help their teaching processes. As teacher, you can try to explore more different ways that ChatGPT can be used in English teaching and its limitations, then make informed decisions about if and how to incorporate this technology into your teaching practice.

The blow video is about how to use ChatGPT for learning and practicing English, hope you enjoy it!





5 comments:

  1. Hi, Runping.
    I think your structure of the blog is very clear and thank you for providing some possible negative aspects of Chatgpt, which is the trending topic around the world.
    One suggestion is that if you can attach the hyperlink so the reader can access the webpage easily, it will be better. Overall, thanks again for introducing such a useful tool for learning and teaching English! :)

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    1. Yeah, I attached a hyperlink in the part "How to use ChatGPT" and readers can access the website once they click on the link, maybe you do not notice that.

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  2. Thank you!!This is what i need now!!I am looking for guidences to use chatgpt in teaching language, it will be a great help!

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  3. ChatGPT is really a very hot topic of discussion these days! Artificial intelligence can indeed be a very positive aid to teaching and learning, but I most appreciate what you've written in this blog about its limitations, and I couldn't agree with you more! Teachers need to talk more about how to address these issues.

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