ChatGPT as a tool for honing teachers' Socratic dialogue skills

Gregorčič, Bor (author), Polverini, Giulia (author), Šarlah, Andreja (author)

In this proof-of-concept paper, we propose a specific kind of pedagogical use of ChatGPT—to help teachers practice their Socratic dialogue skills. We follow up on the previously published paper 'ChatGPT and the frustrated Socrates' by re-examining ChatGPT's ability to engage in Socratic dialogue in the role of a physics student. While in late 2022 its ability to engage in such dialogue was poor, we see significant advancements in the chatbot's ability to respond to leading questions asked by a human teacher. We suggest that ChatGPT now has the potential to be used in teacher training to help pre- or in-service physics teachers hone their Socratic dialogue skills. In the paper and its supplemental material, we provide illustrative examples of Socratic dialogues with ChatGPT and present a report on a pilot activity involving pre-service physics and mathematics teachers conversing with it in a Socratic fashion.

• Language: English
• Keywords: physics education, ChatGPT, Socratic dialogue
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FMF - Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 26.04.2024
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 10 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 59, no. 4, art. no. 045005
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-156026
• UDC: 37.091.3:53
• ISSN on article: 1361-6552
• DOI: 10.1088/1361-6552/ad3d21
• COBISS.SI-ID: 194184963
• Publication date in RUL: 29.04.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Physics education
• Shortened title: Phys. educ.
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• ISSN: 1361-6552
• COBISS.SI-ID: 13117448

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: poučevanje fizike, ChatGPT, sokratski dialog