ChatGPT Has No Place in the Classroom

Why are Educational Institutions so resistant to anything that veers from the traditional lecturing from the textbook. You could replace references to ChatGPT with “Internet Search Engines have no place in the classroom” or “computers have no place in the classroom” and the arguments would still be all too familiar.

If you are supposed to be doing math homework and just pasting answers you found online through a search engine (and not doing the actual work), then the student should get into trouble.

Classrooms are there for students to learn. ChatGPT just spits out an answer and doesn't really help with learning (and makes the student worse off). Why should it be allowed in the classroom?

> ChatGPT just spits out an answer and doesn't really help with learning

This 100% could NOT be further from the truth. My 11-year old daughter uses ChatGPT daily and it is best teacher and the best tutor she's ever had. You are assuming that kids will (and their parent will allow) use ChatGPT to simply put in their HW and get answers. If used properly it is an invaluable tool for children and every child who doesn't use it will be at a huge disadvantage...

what is the system/user prompt you've set for her to get it to work that way? "never give me the answer directly"?

I made a simple rule - you will "talk to her" (it's a she of course :) ) just as if she is your actual teacher. hence of course you can't ask for an answer to your homework but you can ask anything that you do not understand in order to first and foremost understand the concept(s) and then solve the problem(s).

she will frequently go "I do not understand this still, can you try to explain this in another way" over and over for some concept(s) she is struggling with (last one was related to permutations)