Post AVhDOl2GM5QzS2marw by ryancordell@hcommons.social
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 (DIR) Post #AVhDOl2GM5QzS2marw by ryancordell@hcommons.social
       2023-05-15T21:03:28Z
       
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       A small data point, but a non-negligible  number of my students new to programming reported using ChatGPT to help brainstorm ideas or figure out how to translate something they wanted to do into Python or R code. That fact inspires two quick thoughts:1. when students simply report about using LLMs matter-of-factly in their process description, it does dial the temperature waaaay down from the moral panic over whether students will "use it to CHEAT!!!!@#!!!" 2. None of them reported generating code wholesale in ChatGPT. I mean, maybe they did, but see #1 above—it all seems pretty above board. Instead, they report using it the same way you might use Stack Overflow, with the same mixed results. That's not a profound discovery, maybe, but seems notable.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVhDOmK1ZXEhRQ6IC0 by CitizenWald@historians.social
       2023-05-16T00:40:35Z
       
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       @ryancordell Yes, that was how I read this piece:I’m a Student. You Have No Idea How Much We’re Using ChatGPT. https://www.chronicle.com/article/im-a-student-you-have-no-idea-how-much-were-using-chatgpt Nothing wrong with it if it is a tool to teach thinking and writing