Examining Chat GPT's Role in Education Plagiarism: Hero or Villain?

As an Academic Performance Coach, I am excited about the significant changes that are about to take place in the world of academia. The apparent moral and ethical issues that many other experts may be commenting on will not be addressed by myself. Yet, I want to draw attention to the fact that, at all stages of education, this technology is altering how students learn and how teachers educate.

Given that ChatGPT has more than a million users, the educational sector must lead this shift. This tool is making us reevaluate our position in education. The truth is that we have no idea how many of those million users are students. In essence, nobody will know if a student submits a piece of work that was made using this application. As this technology can provide multiple distinct solutions to a single question or prompt, there is no effective way to detect plagiarism or academic dishonesty.

Writing assignments and assessments have always been the gold standard in determining student learning and have often held more weight than a multiple-choice or short-answer response. Could this technology be the end of such assessments? Will this be the end of traditional homework assignments as we know them?

Also, may this technology spell the end of academic institutions emphasizing student compliance or grades more so than their growth and learning?

Think of higher education, where the majority of homework is completed outside of the classroom, and how this technology may be utilized for group projects or even research. There are several ways in which technology is affecting schooling.

Students will not only be tempted to use this technology, but they will come to rely on it if our schools continue to place their primary emphasis on grades and compliance. We'll produce a generation of "doers," not learners, who are more concerned with getting the grade than with furthering their own intellectual growth.

One method to counteract the negative consequences of this tool, in my opinion, is to place more value on active learning opportunities that emphasize student interaction and empowerment rather than grades. The conventional approaches we have been employing in our academic settings are no longer appropriate.

We must concentrate on improving the curriculum's relevance and encouraging student agency. More than student performance, student innovation has to be honored.