Recapping OpenAI's Education Forum
Marc Watkins,
Rhetorica,
Oct 15, 2024
This is a summary of OpenAI's recent Education Forum. Marc Watkins highlights "Leah Belsky acknowledging what many of us in education had known for nearly two years—the majority of the active weekly users of ChatGPT are students." The article leans into the question, "what is OpenAI doing to support education," where education is what colleges and universites like Harvard (which purchased access for its students) provide. This approach to me feels artificial, though George Veletsianos says ed tech innovations "haven't had the systemwide transformational impacts that their proponents promised... that's how the edtech industry operates regardless of evidence and history." Of course, ed tech has transformed education; you'd have to be blind to miss that. AI will as well. Maybe just don't listen to some of the high profile proponents (or critics) without deep backgrounds in the field. What are the people who are building (not selling) the stuff saying? What are you reading (if you're reading) in the discussion lists and informal discussions saying (as opposed to the people in the glossy tech media and education magazines)?
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