Event Date
ChatGPT or 1984?: A Primer for Language Teachers
Robert Blake, Distinguished Professor of Spanish, Emeritus
Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 1:00-2:30p
Summary: Much excitement as well as fear revolves around the recent public release of ChatGPT and other similar digital tools. At the university level, ChatGPT has aroused worries about cheating and manipulation. Without minimizing these dangers, this presentation will address what ChatGPT can do for students learning languages and provide a primer for L2 teachers who would like to incorporate its affordances into the curriculum.
Bio: Robert Blake is a Distinguished Professor of Spanish (emeritus) at UC Davis with a demonstrated interest in technology as a means of fostering language learning. He is author of many articles on topics in Spanish applied linguistics and co-author of Brave New Digital Classroom (3rd edition, GUP, 2020), an introduction to the field of computer-assisted language learning. He has helped author materials for the UC Spanish, Arabic, and Punjabi online courses, as well as Coursera´s first-year Spanish course that has reached over 200,000 users world-wide. He was director of the UC Language Consortium from 2000 to 2010 and director of the DLC for many years. In 2004, he was elected as a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE).
Video Recording:
https://youtu.be/GcuTeCP1hQk
Presentation PPT File:
https://ucdlc.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk9431/files/media/documents/1984_ChatGPT_FLT.pdf