Opportunities,Challenges and Responses of ChatGPT Application in Basic Education——"Exercises Duplication"Phenomenon,Student Learning,"Super Teachers"and Educational Equity
ChatGPT is bringing rare opportunities for basic education,such as empowering education with added-value and accelerating transformation of education system.However,its arrival also poses serious challenges in many aspects:is it suitable for basic education and are there any risks?For instance,whether ChatGPT is a"game changer"or an"accomplice"to"exercises duplication"phenomenon;whether ChatGPT is a"vitamin"or an"heroin"to students'independent and proactive learning;whether ChatGPT,as a"super teacher",is a helper or a substitute to human teachers;whether ChatGPT will promote or impede educational equity?On this basis,how to take advantage of this generative AI and avoid its potential harm?A practicable gesture could be:stay prospective and open-minded,carefully seeking proof."Evidence-based"research approaches such as in-depth experiments,action research,and other relevant analyses are expected,along with repeated attempt,reflection and reconstruction.Only in this way can we human beings work together with increasingly intelligent machines to create a bright future for education.
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