The structural features of any given debate, including speakers, speaker roles, speech times, speech expectations, speech organizational patterns, rules for question-and-answer periods, and judging.
Published in Chapter:
Debating About, Against, and With ChatGPT: Redesigning Academic Debate Pedagogy for the World of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Copyright: © 2024
|Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-0831-8.ch005
Abstract
Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has recently emerged as a potential threat to educational integrity. In particular, ChatGPT can be used to invent assignment submissions, thus raising the specter of plagiarism and cheating. This chapter takes on these challenges through a series of thought experiments aimed not at banning ChatGPT but seeking its pedagogical integration. These experiments are contextualized within academic debate where the authors have spent a significant part of their professional careers. Debate spans the gulf between many disciplines, takes place both within and beyond the classroom, and has been a site for pedagogical innovation throughout its history. It is thus an excellent space to address the challenges of GAI. The authors ultimately argue ChatGPT is neither a panacea nor a death knell for educational integrity. Rather, it is an opportunity to (re)design education for artificial invention and, thus, address the problems and concerns it has recently raised.