My last article, To be verified… , centred on an item in The Times which claimed that the International Baccalaureate (IB) was or would be allowing students to use ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) in essays and other work, as long as the use of such tools was acknowledged and attributed appropriately.
The news turned out to be true; an article by Matt Glanville, Head of Assessment Principles and Practice at the IB, was published on the same day, and may well have been the source of The Times’ reporter’s story. Titled Artificial intelligence in IB assessment and education: a crisis or an opportunity? , it provides deeper and more thoughtful detail and consideration than the story in The Times , including a rationale for the decision to allow its use and thoughts on how it might change learning and teachi
Elsewhere, on Linkedin, IB has published a slide set Guidance for students on referencing AI , with the first slide reading “How IB students can correctly (sic) reference AI tools like ChatGPT”. (I am not so sure that “correctly” is the right word, mainly because it implies that there is just one “correct” way to reference AI tools regardless of which style guide is being used for the rest of the work. I am not sure about the helpfulness of the examples used in the slides, but that is very much another ma