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I Asked ChatGPT How To Stop AI Cheating. Here’s What It Said

By Erik Ofgang Published 10 June 25

ChatGPT’s advice on limiting AI-generated student submissions was surprisingly sound overall.

ChatGPT Talks Now. What Does That Mean For Teaching?

By Erik Ofgang Published 2 April 25

OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode ChatGPT assistant is light years ahead of more common voice assistants, and can sometimes be so lifelike, it’s spooky.

GPT-4.5: What Educators Need To Know About The New ChatGPT Model

By Erik Ofgang Published 17 March 25

I tested OpenAI's latest and greatest large language model, GPT-4.5. Here's what I learned.

5 Ways to Use ChatGPT to Prepare for Class

By Erik Ofgang Last updated 6 January 25

ChatGPT has a lot of potential to help educators with class prep.

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I Took OpenAI and Common Sense Media’s Free Course For Teachers

By Erik Ofgang Published 6 January 25

The one-hour free course from OpenAI and Common Sense provides lots of good prompt writing advice and an overview of using AI as a teacher

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AI-Generated Essays On The Rise In College Applications: Educators Debate Impact and Ethics

By Erik Ofgang Published 2 August 24

More and more applicants for higher ed are using AI. How best to respond to these applications is causing debate.

AI Is Getting Better At Grading. Should Teachers Use It To Grade?

By Erik Ofgang Published 16 July 24

AI grading tools can now match human accuracy and consistency in certain topics and situations putting the spotlight on the ethics of machine grading.

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Scientists Compared ChatGPT Writing Assessments to Human Assessments. Here’s What They Found

By Erik Ofgang Published 2 July 24

Human teachers provided better assessments than ChatGPT but AI was closer than expected and even better in certain ways.

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GPT-4o: What Educators Need to Know

By Erik Ofgang Published 20 May 24

I tested GPT-4o, the new model powering some versions of ChatGPT. It combines text, audio, visual, and video outputs and inputs, and is faster and more natural in its responses, which has many implications for teachers.

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