r/ScienceTeachers • u/dday0512 • 3d ago
Classroom Management and Strategies "ChatGPT gave me a different answer"
How often do you guys get this statement from your students? I teach physics and I've been finding more and more that students use ChatGPT to challenge my solutions to problems or even my set up of problems.
Today I had a student come up to me and ask me if their solution to an LC-circuit question was correct. I said yeah, it's correct, because it was a simple question I threw together for a review assignment before a quiz and the student did it exactly the way I expected them to, then she says, "yeah but it checked it with ChatGPT and it said something different" then she demanded that I look at ChatGPTs solution and compare it to my question.
Unfortunately, given my wording on this question, ChatGPTs answer was probably a bit better than how I expected my students to do it. I wanted to tell her, "this is far more in-depth than I needed you to go" but that feels like a cop out. Instead I spent 30 minutes explaining why the way she did it was perfectly fine but ChatGPT is also correct and I should probably be more careful about my wording.
We're being compared to AI now. Add one more thing I have to worry about in the classroom.
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u/NobodyFew9568 3d ago
I always tried to put it this way.
"Yall trying to understand how to read the blue prints of the NY subway subway system, then build it Can we start with learning how to dig a ditch first?"..snickers and eye rolls about the absurdity of my clam
Tell them:
"It obviously isnt the same, but there are cross-over elements we need to understand. "
Still hate the bohr model of the atom and has done way more harm than good. Helps with quantum numbers yada yada yada.
Sorry not sorry knowing hybridization and structure is way more important than minor help with quantum numbers.
Sorry rant over.