Education has long been an affair of the heart for Diana Knodel, not just for herself but for others. With the App Camps project, she develops teaching material for programming in the classroom. In 2017 her children’s book “Simply Programming for Children” was published. 250,000 teachers have already received further training on the Fobizz training platform, which she co-founded in 2018. For Knodel it is clear that with 800,000 teachers in Germany there is still more to do, “nevertheless we are very happy,” says the computer scientist.
Since the beginning of December, the AI ??tool ChatGPT has been available to the general public, and there is no stopping it. The first webinar on ChatGPT took place on the Fobizz platform in mid-January and was used by thousands of teachers. “The webinars were well attended, but they are also recorded and made available later. The number of visitors is now four, sometimes five digits,” says Knodel in the ntv podcast “So techt Deutschland”.
The teachers had many questions. Should ChatGPT be banned? What if the students use AI to do their homework? Basically, the teachers are very open and optimistic. The boom in AI tools may mean “that you save time on tedious work, on corrections and repetitive tasks,” says Knodel. Another point is that AI will become a tool like a computer in the medium term, and “that’s why it’s all the more important to know where the limits are,” warns the founder.
