ChatGPT could be seen as a tool, like the calculator or Microsoft Excel, taking up automated low-level, repetitive tasks and allowing us to get into higher-level, more complex thinking, and to be more creative. Photo: Shutterstock
ChatGPT could be seen as a tool, like the calculator or Microsoft Excel, taking up automated low-level, repetitive tasks and allowing us to get into higher-level, more complex thinking, and to be more creative. Photo: Shutterstock
Yanto Chandra
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Yanto Chandra

How academia can embrace ChatGPT and reignite a love for learning

  • Resistance is reminiscent of the 1988 US maths teachers’ protest against the calculator
  • But if teachers can reassess their roles and how they teach and grade work, ChatGPT and AI in general can help shift education from rote learning towards discovery in learning

Yanto Chandra
Yanto Chandra

Updated: 3:45pm, 22 Mar, 2023

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ChatGPT could be seen as a tool, like the calculator or Microsoft Excel, taking up automated low-level, repetitive tasks and allowing us to get into higher-level, more complex thinking, and to be more creative. Photo: Shutterstock
ChatGPT could be seen as a tool, like the calculator or Microsoft Excel, taking up automated low-level, repetitive tasks and allowing us to get into higher-level, more complex thinking, and to be more creative. Photo: Shutterstock
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