The topic for my project is looking at the relationship between artificial intelligence and education, specifically looking at the rise of ChatGPT and how education systems have reacted. The reason I decided to write my digital essay on this topic is because of the prevalence of artificial intelligence recently and how popular ChatGPT has become. The biggest technology companies in the world are investing heavily into artificial intelligence and are attempting to create something similar to ChatGPT. Some potential research questions are how will schools react to artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT and how will it hurt/help the education system? I also plan on researching the history of how ChatGPT came about and why it was created. I plan on doing text analysis and possible data visualization if I can find supportive data. I have not found specific data yet that I could use to make a visualization but plan on doing some more research that would make it possible. I was thinking about maybe using the articles and tallying whether a student or faculty member supported ChatGPT in schools or not. I have done a solid amount of research finding scholarly and non-scholarly articles relating to artificial intelligence and specifically ChatGPT and schools. Here is a link that brings you to the annotated bibliography I created with descriptors of each article. These articles will be extremely helpful in the process of research and creating my digital essay. Success for me will look like learning more about the topic I am researching and presenting a detailed essay on what I have found. Some skills I want to develop is improving my academic writing as well as learning how to collect and present data in the best way possible. Learning more about ChatGPT and its possible competitors is something I am really interested in and think it will be instrumental to the future of society.
Proposed Schedule:
Create Outline for Digital Essay (March 17)
Begin writing essay (March 19)
Finish data visualization (March 24)
Finish essay exam week
Sections:
- Brief History of Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT
- Artificial Intelligence and Education
- ChatGPT and Education
- Other Artificial Intelligence Tools
- Conclusion and findings
Waiting to talk to Professor on best way to go about digital medium and how to display it.
