The use of ChatGPT in History and History Education

[jonnichol17]

Since February 2024 I have been carrying out Action Research into the use of ChatGPT and now GPT Plus to History Education for 5-18 year olds and related curricular areas in particular in the Social Sciences, Humanities and English. The context is both the activities and reach of the History Educators International Research Network [HEIRNET] that I co-founded 20 years ago and the History Education Research Journal a also co-founded, an open access blind-refereed publication that University College London publishes. I would be grateful if you have any reports of the application of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT Plus, i.e. reports, reviews, cases, case studies, musing and interpretations, I would love to hear from you.

[platypus]

Hi @jonnichol17 !

I think OpenAI is really ramping up focus on education. For example they recently hired a former Coursera executive Leah Belsky to be their general manager for education. So you will likely start seeing more resources/references in this area.

I tried to collect some information that I hope could benefit you:

• Khan Academy launched a product called Khanmigo, which uses GPT-4 under the hood; not sure if you can find reviews and some case studies there?
• Oxford University was one of the early adopters of GenAI for education, and they published a very comprehensive report here.
• Arizona State University used ChatGPT to create a “language buddy” to bridge the barrier with some of its foreign-language students, see here.
• There is this impact study on the use of GenAI in educational contexts, from the National University System
• There is also this study on impact of GenAI on the assessment in higher education, from Hong Kong
• I also found this article on the impact of AI on history education, from EuroClio

I hope some of these will generate some interesting leads for you!

[turkovichmom]

This is so helpful! Thank you

[buriedthenie]

@jonnichol17

Since February 2024 I have been carrying out Action Research into the use of ChatGPT and now GPT Plus to History Education for 5-18 year olds and related curricular areas in particular in the Social Sciences, Humanities and English. The context is both the activities and reach of the History Educators International Research Network [HEIRNET] that I co-founded 20 years ago and the History Education Research Journal a also co-founded, an open access blind-refereed publication that University College London publishes. I would be grateful if you have any reports of the application of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT Plus, i.e. reports, reviews, cases, case studies, musing and interpretations, I would love to hear from you.

Been noticing more history teachers playing around with chat for things like custom bots that act as historical figures or help students dig into primary sources. There’s been some case studies with secondary school kids chatting with AI versions of past people, and it can boost engagement if you build in fact-checking.