To try to gain an understanding of what staff and students feel about AI, we have a live Menti asking what people’s hopes and fears are, with respect to Artificial Intelligence and Education.
We’ve had responses from academic and professional services staff, but, so far, no students. We’d like some student views, so, staff, please share with students, and students, please share your ideas. Remember, Menti is anonymous, so you can say whatever you wish.
For now, here are just a few of the current hopes:
Promote inclusion for students with disabilities by helping them overcome disability-related difficulties such as reading comprehension.
Resource for research as a starting point. Help with removal of first barrier to starting writing. Improved
auto-grading.
Efficiency in knowledge gathering. Creating more intuitive and accessible/understandable educational material. Find efficiencies in workload management. Contribute to work life balance.
And here are some of the current fears:
Students will lose important skills which help them to learn and think for themselves such as researching.
I think this could be quite dangerous for clinical feedback, in dentistry the outcomes and feedback would not fit into an algorithm.
That we allow panic to determine our response and we end up with a six speed opportunity that never leaves reverse gear.
Reading all of the hopes and fears, there are a lot that overlap such as the hope that AI can help with understanding large bodies of research material, yet a fear that AI may mean students develop fewer research driven skills.
If you have hopes and fears, please share them via the Menti, it will be good to create as rich a picture as possible, of how academic staff are feeling after 6 months or so of ChatGPT being made available. We have to remember that it’s new for most, we’re on a huge learning curve, staff and students together.
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