Over the past month I have become increasingly curious about ChatGPT and its implications for education. If you don’t already know, ChatGPT is an emerging artificial intelligence (AI) tool that is currently freely available to be tested. I asked ChatGPT to describe itself, and this is the text it generated for me within ten seconds:

Since this tool was released in late November is has created responses of both awe and doom among educators. In a future post, I will share some of my initial thoughts about ChatGPT. For now, I have a compiled an initial links of articles, blog posts, etc., about ChatGPT for you to review. See what you think and draw your own conclusions.

Here are the links:

• How Disruptive Will ChatGPT Be? — Blog post by Caitlin Tucker — https://catlintucker.com/2022/12/chatgpt-disruptive-tech/
• The End of High-School English? — https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/openai-chatgpt-writing-high-school-english-essay/672412/ — Atlantic article written by a high school teacher about the challenges of this new technology and the fact that it is a strong step up as technology.
• https://www.novakeducation.com/blog/chat-gpt-artificial-intelligence-and-udl-how-to-harness-the-future-to-reach-all-students?utm_content=232964122&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-1228869229 — ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, and UDL — How to Harness the Future to Reach All students
• Will AI Make Us Lazy and Less Creative? — https://ictevangelist.com/will-ai-make-us-lazy-and-less-creative/
• Chat GPT is Dumber Than You Think — https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatgpt-openai-artificial-intelligence-writing-ethics/672386/?referringSource=articleShare
• How to Use ChatGPT and Still Be a Good Person — https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/personaltech/how-to-use-chatgpt-ethically.html?referringSource=articleShare
• The New Chatbots Can Change the World: Can You Trust Them? — https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/technology/ai-chat-bot-chatgpt.html?referringSource=articleShare
• ChatGPT and School Libraries — https://www.elizabethahutchinson.com/post/chatgpt-and-school-libraries
• Education is about to change radically for us all — https://www.gettingsmart.com/2022/12/16/education-is-about-to-radically-change-ai-for-the-masses/
• Has an essay been created by AI? — https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/ai-writing-detection-tool-homework-students?d_id=5341908&ref=bffbbuzzfeednews&utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bffbbuzzfeednews&fbclid=IwAR0tngvUu2FViRUjjXzpRcgkKCl0zW8zQWKkZIoq19cIyKzipjrNV5G-2Q4
• ChatGPT and Education — a long and detailed presentation from a college professor using a Google Doc to share about ChatGPT — https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Vo9w4ftPx-rizdWyaYoB-pQ3DzK1n325OgDgXsnt0X0/edit#slide=id.g1cc76543f64_0_1212
• Bots can write good essays, but that does not make good writing obsolete — https://www.forbes.com/sites/nataliewexler/2022/12/21/bots-can-write-good-essays-but-that-doesnt-make-writing-obsolete/?sh=74644b1c63b4&fbclid=IwAR0kAL4yVQt0epshp5vfhJpAwMERPJeDZyhoed1Xd4YOrrViWWwpwQBozbc
• Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/technology/chatgpt-schools-teachers.html (This article is behind a paywall but a limited number of monthly articles are available from this site by creating a free account)
• ChatGPT, Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence in Education — https://ditchthattextbook.com/ai (This site provides a long list of ways this might be used in education)