An academic paper entitled Chatting and Cheating: Ensuring Academic Integrity in the Era of ChatGPT was published this month in an education journal, describing how artificial intelligence (AI) tools “raise a number of challenges and concerns, particularly in relation to academic honesty and plagiarism”. What readers – and indeed the peer reviewers who cleared it for publication – did not know...
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Failure isn’t shameful – in fact, it’s the perfect reason to have an ice-cream
High school students in the US are tackling the brutal process of college applications with rejection parties, the New York Times reported last week. At one school, students bring along a printout of their college rejections, ceremonially feed them into a shredder, and then get ice cream; there is a prize for the most rejected. It...
AI race is disrupting education firms – and that is just the star
The artificial intelligence race is already producing losers. On Tuesday, education companies trading on the London and New York stock exchanges saw hundreds of millions wiped from their valuations after Chegg, a US firm that provides online help to students for writing and maths work, said ChatGPT was affecting customer growth. The firm said it had...
ChatGPT in Education: The Pros, Cons and Unknowns of Generative AI
There’s a lot of drama swirling around this groundbreaking artificial intelligence chatbot, released in November by the startup OpenAI. A few months later, in early March, OpenAI’s GPT-4 was introduced and has already stunned many by easily outperforming its older AI sibling. Not to be outdone, Google announced the arrival of its own AI chatbot, Bard, in late March. Like everywhere...
Kaduna State initiates education strategies to empower teenage mothers
Teenage pregnancy is one of the major impediments to the educational success of girls in sub-Saharan Africa because in many cases the birth of a baby marks the end of schooling for the teen mother.
Ministries should collaborate to foster research and development ̶ former TETFund Executive Secretary, Prof Bogoro
Education and research are engines of national development and economic growth. It is therefore necessary that there should be continuous synergy among all the various ministries in the country.