Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has students correct them

That is a really cool idea!

It helps students learn history, but also gives them a critical eye toward stuff that is mindlessly produced (this includes both ChatGPT and human produced clickbait).

i read recently that ChatGPT could replace teachers

so will ChatGPT have its students correct itself ??

Beyond the adaptation to AI angle on this, the idea is compelling in its own right I'd say.

Anyone who's gone on to mark/grade or write assessments would probably attest to the perspective it provides. Whatever your opinion of assessment in academia/schooling (I, for one, am generally negative), there is something to seeing the difference between someone who actually understands and someone who is spamming to get the best grade they can. There's also, maybe less controversially, great value in actually teaching a topic and then assessing your students to see how much they've understood. It all really clarifies a topic and prompts you to revisit and reevaluate it in edifying ways.

Taking all of that and using it as a form of learning and even assessment makes a lot of sense to me, where the aim of the education process is shifted to, you could say, making some sort of new teacher, not an assessment "hacker".

My personal bias here is that I always instinctively approached learning this way, not feeling that I've learnt something properly unless I felt I could teach it to someone else.

Outcome: students feed essays into Bing/Sydney and ask, "Hey Sydney, can you correct this essay for me?"

Bing is more accurate and able to reference live internet data.