Between Thought and Text: AI and I
By ChatGPT One of the students of my last batch ever said in a farewell speech that I was the first teacher who used AI [Artificial Intelligence] in their class. I think it was in 2024 that I used ChatGPT to generate instant MCQ test papers in class for the first time. As soon as the day’s lesson was over, I asked ChatGPT to generate a test on the lesson. My students were impressed both with the efficiency of AI and their own ability to answer most of the questions correctly. I didn’t tell them that ChatGPT was generating easy tests because I had already programmed it do so. Eventually I got ChatGPT to generate entire question papers for the school’s official 3-hour exams. And boy! They were of excellent standard. I performed a bit of editing, of course. After I left school teaching, I took up some online teaching of spoken English. Again, AI came to my help. Very magnanimously, I should admit. I got entire lesson plans made by ChatGPT or Gemini. They gave me immensely helpful im...
