Using AI to Revise/Study for Paper 2
Thursday 7 September 2023
We’ve updated the site this week to focus on how AI, and specifically ChatGPT, can be used to help students with their Paper 2 exam.
You can find the page and the assorted materials for it here.
Specifically, we’ve designed this page – Using AI to Revise/Study for Paper 2 - to help students see how they can (and cannot) use ChatGPT in preparing for their Paper 2 exam. Here’s a quick summary.
How to Use AI – Studying, Writing, and Discussing
Studying
- AI can create a revision or study schedule for you.
- AI can give you a list of topics and concepts to review and study for each literary work.
Writing
- AI can create an outline for what to write in a Paper 2 using a past paper question.
- AI can provide you detailed and personalized feedback on a Paper 2 you wrote.
- AI can score or grade your Paper 2 using the assessment criteria.
- AI can compare and contrast your work with a model example.
Discussing
- AI can generate a Paper 2 response. You can then grade it, provide feedback to the AI, and have a discussion about their writing.
- AI can be a study partner! Discuss and debate your literary works with the AI.
What else?
- There are bound to be many more ways you can use AI to support you in the revision or study process for Paper 2. Just make sure to use it ethically and judiciously!
This page in particular, published by OpenAI, is linked to #8. It says, in part “Dr. Helen Crompton, Professor of Instructional Technology at Old Dominion University, encourages her education graduate students to use ChatGPT as a stand-in for a particular persona—like a debate partner who will point out weaknesses in their arguments.”
This is still a wide open and quite controversial area in education. As always, we welcome your thoughts!
Best,
Tim and David