“I said this about the pandemic: If all of our teaching and learning environments are turned upside down, then we kind of have to focus back on what’s essential.”

Abandon No Hope, All Ye Who Enter ChatGPT

by Paul Bass

The Poorvu Center’s Jennifer Frederick and Alfred Guy were interviewed by the New Haven Independent. Click to watch the full interview, and find highlights here.

“I said this about the pandemic: If all of our teaching and learning environments are turned upside down, then we kind of have to focus back on what’s essential. ​A lot of distance was traveled in a lot of places. Chat GPT presents some of the same opportunities. What’s hard is scaling. When people are responsible for lots of students, it does take time and attention to to teach well, regardless of any technology. Attention to good teaching: We have another reason to do that now.” — Jenny Frederick

“We’re helping teachers think about moving towards more personalized assignments, getting students to have a higher investment in the project. But that takes labor, it takes human resources. I think some amount of feedback, small group work, students working with each other and on personalized projects, research projects, that’s the way to keep ChatGPT not an issue. Those things take human labor.” — Alfred Guy