The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in learning is becoming more and more popular with students. Almost every student uses AI, ChatGPT, but how can we avoid being abused and "coping" in studying and doing homework?
From 5th to 12th grade students use ChatGPT to learn literature.
Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, a second-year student majoring in primary education at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, said that when she tutored two 5th graders, she was surprised one day to receive two essays that were almost "twins". Both describing Phu Quoc, the two essays describing beautiful scenery were similar in structure, expression, imagery... When asked, it turned out that both used ChatGPT support.
Many students use ChatGPT during review, math, and literature studies.
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Also using AI to help with writing, PHN, an 8th grade student at Chi Lang Secondary School (District 4, Ho Chi Minh City) once copied an entire essay describing a visit to the ancient capital of Hue from ChatGPT. The reason was "the teacher asked me to describe the scenery in Hue but no one in the class had been to Hue, I couldn't do it so I had to confess to the teacher that I used ChatGPT to do the assignment."
Nguyen Minh Hung, a 12th grader and a member of the literature team at Nguyen Thi Minh Khai High School in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, admitted to using ChatGPT to find references. "Because I needed to learn about many works outside of the curriculum, I asked ChatGPT to summarize long books that I didn't have time to read, such as Les Miserables by Victor Hugo," the male student shared.
According to Hung's assessment, ChatGPT has the ability to summarize works deeply, close to the original, especially foreign works because it has the ability to access many English and French sources. This helps you to receive knowledge more easily than manually searching on Google.
HOW TO WRITE AND SOLVE MATH PROBLEMS IN GPT ?
To "test" ChatGPT, we entered the midterm exam of literature of a 10th grade class at Mac Dinh Chi High School, Ho Chi Minh City, "Write an essay discussing the wild lifestyle of today's youth". As a result, AI gave us a 612-word essay in less than 10 seconds. The essay has a complete introduction, body, and conclusion with quite tight arguments including: explaining the concept of "wild lifestyle", analyzing the consequences of this lifestyle and proposing solutions from both objective and subjective perspectives.
Similarly, with math, we entered a question in the midterm 1 math test, grade 12, Trung Vuong High School, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, asked ChatGPT to solve it, and the answer and instructions appeared in a flash. This is a practical problem about producing school equipment products to achieve the highest profit, ChatGPT outlined each step: set up the equation and calculate the derivative. This AI application even explained why the solution should be 50 instead of -16.67.
However, ChatGPT does not always solve the problem correctly. Nguyen Le Khoi Viet, grade 9, Tang Bat Ho Secondary School, District 4, said he once used ChatGPT to solve a reading comprehension exercise but did not get a score. Specifically, when stating the argumentative operations in a text excerpt, ChatGPT answered "explain, illustrate and compare". The student copied ChatGPT's answer but it was incorrect because it did not have the "illustrate" operation; the correct name should be "prove".
Nguyen Vu Hong An, class 11A15, Trung Vuong High School, District 1 (HCMC), recalled a time when he filled in the answers according to ChatGPT's instructions, but the result was less than 5 points in chemistry. "The answers from AI all have explanations but the information is wrong. Even with the same question, if asked twice, AI can still give 2 different answers," Hong An gave an example.
Nguyen Minh Hung, a student at Nguyen Thi Minh Khai High School, believes that students should not rely too much on technology. "AI is only accurate with popular and familiar works, authors, and issues. With lesser-known works, AI can easily give false information, so it is necessary to verify before accepting them," Hung explained.
Using AI for learning is becoming more and more popular with students from middle school to high school.
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USING AI AS A "DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD"
Duong Duy Khang, a student at Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, a tutor at eTeacher company, teaches math, physics, chemistry, and biology. He admits that middle and high school students now often use ChatGPT during their studies and review sessions.
"When teaching, to verify whether a student did the exercise themselves or used AI, I asked the student to explain in more detail the process of solving the exercise. Why did I do this step; why did I use this formula and not that formula," Khang shared his experience.
"ChatGPT does not always give correct results. In my opinion, this can be a good learning tool if students grasp the knowledge and understand how to do it. Or with some natural science exercises, ChatGPT also lets students know what information to pay attention to and what formulas to use to make the review process easier. However, if students only know how to "paste" the exercises and copy the results, then the "double-edged sword" ChatGPT will hurt the students. Students become dependent on it, gradually become lazy to think, and can no longer think and be creative," Duy Khang commented.
Many students also believe that they should not get carried away and rely entirely on AI if they want to develop their learning in a more sustainable way. Ngo Gia Huy, a 12th grader at Nguyen Huu Huan High School in Thu Duc City (HCMC), said he uses ChatGPT to check the results of math, physics, and chemistry exercises that he has completed. And in case he can't figure out how to do it, he will ask ChatGPT to explain how to do it, step by step in detail.
Similarly, Tran Hoang Gia Han, grade 11 at Luong The Vinh High School, District 1, said that ChatGPT can be used to learn physics and chemistry. According to Han, ChatGPT provides a good theoretical foundation with specific examples. For example, when studying electromagnetic waves, you ask ChatGPT to give examples of wifi, GPS, radio... and get specific answers, but this technology is not suitable for advanced exercises because the solutions are difficult to understand and inaccurate.
In another case, Le Vo Gia Hoa, a 12th grader at Nguyen Thi Minh Khai High School, used AI to prepare presentation content for subjects such as history, geography, economic education, and law. For male students, AI helps you create detailed outlines, and even has tools to create standard presentation slides. However, you do not use the pre-made slides but only refer to the content and redesign it yourself because the product from AI is quite mechanical and not impressive.
Mr. Thai Thanh Tam, a student majoring in natural science education at Saigon University, a tutor at eTeacher, who teaches math to 8th graders, believes that ChatGPT can support students in the theoretical knowledge system of subjects, so that students do not waste time synthesizing and searching on other channels. However, Tam requires students not to preview the solutions on AI before each lesson, but before that, the teacher and student must master the knowledge. After solving the exercises, students can check their answers on ChatGPT, expanding many different ways of doing things, only then can students truly gain their own knowledge without "borrowing".
"Good students, passing exams to top schools, are not dependent on technology"
Ms. Nguyen Thi Tra My, a retired math teacher at Nguyen Huu Huan High School (Thu Duc City), is currently reviewing math for 12th grade students.
Ms. My cited that many of her students who passed the entrance exams to universities such as the University of Information Technology, the University of Science (Ho Chi Minh City National University), the University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City... all have in common that "they can go online to get questions to solve themselves, discuss with friends, find many ways to solve them, not ask AI to solve them for them. The teacher is the one who poses the problem so that students can find a solution, suggest the key to unlock it, not the one who solves the problem for them". And the goal of these students when coming to math review class is to need a community to review together, with a teacher who is the one to guide them to review in each stage, avoiding getting carried away.
Notably, Ms. My said that many of her students are good at math but have high scores on the high school graduation literature exam, and they do not rely on ChatGPT. She said: "Students read a lot of newspapers, follow domestic and international news, when writing, they know how to relate to reality, express their personal perspectives and opinions, making the essay have a personal mark and unique emotions - something that machines cannot do."
Thuy Hang
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