{"id":2630,"date":"2023-01-01T14:24:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T19:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:45","slug":"teaching-in-a-chatgpt-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/teaching-in-a-chatgpt-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching in a chatGPT World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I prepare for the new semester, I&#8217;m spending time contemplating the implications of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/chatgpt\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/chatgpt\/\" target=\"_blank\">chatGPT, a recently released AI tool<\/a> that returns a detailed response to your instruction prompt. While I&#8217;ve had a blast playing and thinking about the possibilities as a writing tool, I&#8217;m also struggling to integrate it within the work we&#8217;re doing in my course. I&#8217;m an active user of writing tools like Grammarly, but I&#8217;m working to strike a delicate balance between tools that <em>assist<\/em> the work and tools that <em>do<\/em> the work. As I&#8217;m pushing 20-years of blogging about the opportunities and challenges of educational technologies, AI feels like a major inflection point. However, we&#8217;ve been at inflection points like this countless times before &#8230; Web 2.0, I&#8217;m looking at you \ud83d\ude19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To that end, I found a lot of value in this <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@rwatkins_7167\/updating-your-course-syllabus-for-chatgpt-965f4b57b003\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@rwatkins_7167\/updating-your-course-syllabus-for-chatgpt-965f4b57b003\" target=\"_blank\">writeup by Ryan Watkins titled <em>Update Your Course Syllabus for chatGPT<\/em><\/a>. He breaks down suggestions on how to address syllabus updates and assignment (re)design. I appreciate the approach of considering how tools like chatGPT can foster critical thinking versus the futile attempts to catch and ban their use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Featured Image Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@philipsfuture?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Philip Oroni<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/hB68GGpQHF8?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I prepare for the new semester, I&#8217;m spending time contemplating the implications of chatGPT, a recently released AI tool that returns a detailed response to your instruction prompt. While I&#8217;ve had a blast playing and thinking about the possibilities as a writing tool, I&#8217;m also struggling to integrate it within the work we&#8217;re doing in my course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[323,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}