If you're not using the latest, best tools available to teach your students - and if you're not teaching them about those tools - then you are a bad teacher. Pe

If you're not using the latest, best tools available to teach your students - and if you're not teaching them about those tools - then you are a bad teacher. Period. Language models should be introduced in classrooms because they're a part of society now, and they're here to stay. Kids should learn about them - how they work, where they came from, how to use them - just like they should learn how to type or send an email. It does remind me of my experience as a middle schooler in 2002, when our class took a trip to the library, and the librarian gave us a lesson on "how to use search engines properly." In retrospect, the societal worry at the time was about search engines replacing librarians, so it was perhaps notable that this librarian had the humility to teach us how to use her "replacement." Surely the same applies to teachers and ChatGPT: a good teacher will not be worried about whatever impact ChatGPT might have on them personally, but will instead take the opportunity to teach their students about the new horizons opened up by this technology. (The funny part of that seminar in the library was that the lesson emphasized the need to construct efficient, keyword-based queries, rather than asking natural language questions to the search engine directly - but twenty years later we've come full circle and now you actually can just ask your question to the language models.)