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Get children to assign ChatGPT homework and critique its response

It’s a better way than banning it and shifts away from the emphasis on regurgitating information at exam time.

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Exams are still our best way to gauge what children have learnt. But what we test needs to change, drastically.

Exams are still our best way to gauge what children have learnt. But what we test needs to change, drastically.

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Camilla Cavendish

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“Goodbye, homework,” tweeted Mr Elon Musk after the launch of ChatGPT, a bot that writes plausible answers and even rhyming poetry. This kind of generative artificial intelligence sparks fear, loathing and awe in equal measure. But it is the world of education that is most spooked.

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OpenAI launched the ChatGPT language-generation model

before Christmas, New York’s public schools have banned pupils from using it. In Australia, universities are planning a return to supervised pen and paper examinations to evade the chatbot fakes.

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