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A 1975 Science News article revealed educators' fears that students who embraced the newest technology would cease learning how to do the work themselves. The technology that worried teachers was the hand-held calculator! Like their predecessors, many of today's teachers worry that AI will eliminate students' need to learn to write.

We have all heard the dire predictions that AI will "take over" and that the newest chatbot technology is enabling students to cheat, but ChatGPT and its counterparts are probably here to stay. While some educators are threatening, "do not dare touch that", others are strategizing how and when it can be used appropriately in education. This workshop allows students to peek into the world of ChatGPT and debate whether we should eliminate or embrace it as an educational tool.

An English teacher in California teacher has incorporated ChatGPT as a learning tool and told her students, "It's fine to use this, but how will you know if it's actually doing a good job unless you know how to do a good job?" She allowed her students use ChatGPT to quickly generate sentences, paragraphs, and papers, but she also made sure that they had to know exactly what they were doing by making them refine or explain Chat GPT's work.

In this workshop, students will evaluate ChatGPT as a support tool to assist in research and writing. They will evaluate its output and look at its limitations, including how slight variations of the question posed can yield very different results.

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