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Why AI chatbots make bad teachers - and how teachers can exploit that weakness
ChatGPT Study Mode's rote answers and lack of intellectual stimulation made me give up before I learned anything. AI developers - and educators - can do better. Here's my modest proposal.
OpenAI's answer to the question is a new feature introduced to ChatGPT last week, Study Mode, which my colleague Sabrina Ortiz explored. After about half an hour, I refused ChatGPT's suggestions to continue along the way we had been going, and instead asked the bot to give me many examples of real words using the characters I had already learned. Both Study Mode and normal ChatGPT are too much shaped to produce a kind of common ground in the typical exchange without any real sense of how to bring a student to the point of asking questions that open up their desire to learn more.
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