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ChatGPT is causing a lot of panic -- in me. On the HS side of the school, I have seen two instances of students using it to write out their work.

I am not panicking because ChatGPT can write for you -- I am panicking because students and teachers are not ready for it.

When I saw that a student was using it, I immediately messaged the IT team to let them know that it was happening. I got a reply that there will be a workshop in January for the upper school teachers. 

That's good, but still, I wish I would be there. My talk might go something like this:

• Ask the audience for a prompt - an assignment they just gave their students,
• Type it into ChatGPT and hope it doesn't produce an error,
• ChatGPT does its thing and we talk about it.
• Repeat with a different assignment,
• Show how similar they are (ChatGPT gives very formulaic answers to questions like a 7th-grader),
• We would then talk about what would need to change in our teaching - maybe more oral answers, maybe more in-class work, better questions perhaps, but something would need to change.