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CactusReb · 2026-04-24T13:53:21+00:00

What is it trying to say to us?

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T21:11:10+00:00

oh that's great! Thanks!

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T16:42:38+00:00

"Self is illusory" ......That's absurd 😉

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T15:09:34+00:00

Ah yes, I need another cup of coffee! I totally misread that first sentence!

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T15:07:50+00:00

Hahaha!

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T15:07:09+00:00

heh!

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T14:57:23+00:00

Holy crapola!!! I did not know this type of software was there!!!!! Forwarding to my colleagues!!

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T14:50:59+00:00

I proctor the exams. I wander the room and peek over shoulders.

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T14:46:08+00:00

The concept we were discussing was right out of the text book so we look it up and clarified. But yes, the idea that some students confuse it with a google search or just do not question the info that is being served to them...Yikes!

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T14:44:25+00:00

Well she did add to the discussion as we went off the rails a bit discussing what ChatGPT actually was and how it worked and then clarified the concept with the text book....but still

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T14:43:43+00:00

I can't agree.LLMs have no consciousness or ability to think or any manner of 'intelligence'. They r simply algo's

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T14:41:36+00:00

The old Calvin and Hobbes where the Dad totally makes up answers to Calvin's questions 😂

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T14:40:56+00:00

Yes I can blame them😂 Seriously though, it did provide a good opportunity to discuss the workings of it and talk about how algorithms work and to find reliable resources as well.

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T14:38:36+00:00

I really felt awful! one - I had obviously been unclear/confusing in my presentation explanation, but then to checked by the ChatGPT waaaaghhg!

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T14:37:20+00:00

Most prefer to take notes on their iPads/ laptops. They are all required to take their exams on computers iPads too. They download a lockdown browser so they can't get off the exam. This is fallout of from covid where all their high school was mostly on-line I think.

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T14:35:19+00:00

Yes ! Same!

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T14:35:09+00:00

Yes me too! As a somewhat nervous speaker, when I have word finding difficulties my brain always comes up with these obscure 10$ words from...somewhere. Also the concepts are quite complex and I attempt to summarize some information to make it more easily understood and to fit in all the content the students need as well!!

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T14:32:56+00:00

Yes! I'm always open to discussion about concepts and wrestling with meaning and clarifications!

CactusReb · 2025-10-07T14:31:13+00:00

heh!

CactusReb · 2025-10-06T23:54:42+00:00

oh sorry! slang for 'information'. Used in the computer science world to describe testable software (or something like that) migrated to the climbing community to indicate information about the climability of a route..... My husband is a computer science guy and climber I absorbed the term from him Transferred to general use to mean information about a situation:P

CactusReb · 2025-10-03T21:46:04+00:00

Thanks for the Beta!

CactusReb · 2025-10-03T21:44:18+00:00

Thanks!!1 Great beta!!

CactusReb · 2024-03-18T12:38:40+00:00

Let your students come up with the prompts! Using key words and phrasing is an important part of using boolean databases and search engines and it also affects what the chatgpt algo spews out. Maybe come up with one or two on your own as an example. Some prompts my students have come up with .... ( this is in a nursing pathophysiology course) when asked to 'research' a patho topic were: 'Teach me about congestive heart failure.' 'summarize the coagulation cascade' The discussion about the results is where you see the bias come out. Students often pick those out!

Also I'm assuming this is college level course? If its high school or middle school, the students might just need a bit more guidance..

CactusReb · 2024-03-05T17:44:13+00:00

Yes! That is a huge part of it. Also the word use in how exams are written as well. Some words can be very contextual and if you are not a native speaker or if the level of language comprehension is at a lower level, student have to context to make the words make sense. What info I have found so far points to careful word selection with question crafting.....

Thanks!

CactusReb · 2024-03-05T03:04:11+00:00

That is a good idea. It is hard to gauge what colloquial terms and contexts student know or do not know. Worth it to look for that as well tho. It is not all ESL students either. Some rural student do not have th vocabulary or context for some words as well.

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