RAB Source Entry 1-Savion

My research question is How is artificial intelligence changing education.

Proposal Revised

My research question is “How Is AI (artificial intelligence) changing education?” This topic interests me because AI can do so many things these days. It also never stops evolving. AI has an enormous impact on our education. It interests me to see if AI is a good thing or bad thing for our education. This also interests me because it mixes in with my major, which is data science. I know that we have AI like Siri and Alexa, which are just used for everyday use. ChatGPT and Jasper are also Ai that can be used for education. Some points that I plan to explore and find out more about are how students are using AI. Another point I want to explore Is to see if AI has a negative or positive effect on students and our education. I would also like to find out if the AI that we have access to are just ways to cheat or ways to learn.

Source Entry #1:

Part 1 – MLA Citation

Huang, Kalley. “Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach.” The New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023, www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/technology/chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-universities.html.

Part 2 – Summary

             In the article “Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach,” Kalley Huang shows how ChatGPT is transforming the way teachers teach. Schools are starting to shape their assignments in ways that students are unable to use AI. Huang interviewed professors from the University of Florida, George Washington University in Washington D.C, University of Texas in Austin Texas, Rutgers University, and many more. Huang mentions that schools are starting to change the outline of their courses to counter the use of AI. Teachers are making essay prompts more personal based or more complex. Teachers are also starting to do more in- class assignments, handwritten papers, group work, and oral exams. Huang interviewed Mr. Aumann, a professor of philosophy at Northern Michigan University. Aumann read what was the best paper in the class. Aumann confronted the student and turns out the student used ChatGPT. This caused him to transform the essay writing for the rest of the semester. Students are starting to get into the mindset of relying on AI and having them handle their schoolwork.  

Part 3 – Reflection

             I can connect this article to a lot of things I am seeing today in my own education. Huang mentioned a lot of points that I can agree with. She talked about how assignment prompts are changing to fight back the use of AI. I am noticing assignments involve the student’s life more. When taking a test in my computer science class. I am only allowed to take it on the school computer because of all the possible ways there are of cheating. But there is also ways AI can help you. Personally, I use ChatGPT for my computer science class when I am unable to figure out what the problem is with my code. There are also a lot of other useful AI that you can use for education. Things like Scanning documents, Grammarly which helps with grammar in your writing, and Congii which helps with virtual learning. I think schools need to adapt their teaching around AI instead of trying to fight it. AI is only going to evolve and get smarter. School systems must figure out a new way of teaching. One that works in this new world of AI.

Part 4 – Rhetorical Analysis

            Kalley Huang is a technology reporter based in San Francisco. She is originally from New York and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in statistics. The genre she used for this article is a news article. This is a very good approach because she showed a lot of awareness about the effects of Ai on some schools. Her intended audience is other educators. She showed how some teachers and universities are reacting to the use of AI. This can help other educators also react to the use of AI in their schools. Huang used ethos in her article by citing what many other professors and teachers are doing to combat AI. The New York times is a reliable source and has been for many years. They have worldwide readership and won more Pulitzer Prizes than any other newspaper. The author Kalley Huang is also credible because she has lots of experience in reporting. Before joining The New York Times, she reported for The Texas Tribune, The Dallas Morning News and the El Paso Times.

Part 5 – Notable Quotables

“Mr. Aumann confronted his student over whether he had written the essay himself. The student confessed to using ChatGPT, a chatbot that delivers information, explains concepts and generates ideas in simple sentences — and, in this case, had written the paper.”(Huang)

Alarmed by his discovery, Mr. Aumann decided to transform essay writing for his courses this semester. He plans to require students to write first drafts in the classroom, using browsers that monitor and restrict computer activity.” (Huang)

“Across the country, university professors like Mr. Aumann, department chairs and administrators are starting to overhaul classrooms in response to ChatGPT, prompting a potentially huge shift in teaching and learning. Some professors are redesigning their courses entirely, making changes that include more oral exams, group work and handwritten assessments in lieu of typed ones.”(Huang)        

“That’s especially true as generative A.I. is in its early days. OpenAI is expected to soon release another tool, GPT-4, which is better at generating text than previous versions. Google has built LaMDA, a rival chatbot, and Microsoft is discussing a $10 billion investment in OpenAI. Silicon Valley start-ups, including Stability AI and Character.AI, are also working on generative A.I. tools.” (Huang)

“At schools including George Washington University in Washington, D.C., Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., and Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., professors are phasing out take-home, open-book assignments — which became a dominant method of assessment in the pandemic but now seem vulnerable to chatbots. They are instead opting for in-class assignments, handwritten papers, group work and oral exams.”(Huang)

“Gone are prompts like “write five pages about this or that.” Some professors are instead crafting questions that they hope will be too clever for chatbots and asking students to write about their own lives and current events. “(Huang)

” In case the changes fall short of preventing plagiarism, Mr. Aldama and other professors said they planned to institute stricter standards for what they expect from students and how they grade. It is now not enough for an essay to have just a thesis, introduction, supporting paragraphs and a conclusion. “We need to up our game,” Mr. Aldama said.’”(Huang)