ChatGPT Is Coming for Classrooms. Don't Panic

When high school English teacher Kelly Gibson first encountered ChatGPT in December, the existential anxiety kicked in fast. While the internet delighted in the chatbot's superficially sophisticated answers to users' prompts, many educators were less amused. If anyone could ask ChatGPT to "write 300 words on what the green light symbolizes in The Great Gatsby," what would stop students from feeding their homework to the bot? "I thought, 'Oh my god, this is literally what I teach,'" Gibson says. But amid the panic, some enterprising teachers see ChatGPT as an opportunity to redesign what learning looks like--and what they invent could shape the future of the classroom. Gibson is one of them.