The Future of Education

BloomGPT is a project combining ChatGPT to Bloom’s taxonomy of educational outcomes. My team has developed a web application which can be used by the students of any subject, at primary, secondary and higher education. The use of the application is based on Bloom’s six cognitive learning processes (remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating) and the texonomy’s four types of knowledge (factual, conceptual, procedural and metacognitive). [1]

The application has been already piloted in my Bachelor course at the University of Agder (Introduction to Historical Consciousness), in seminars where students discussed the content of the course, prepared their own teaching, analyzed and evaluated essays generated by ChatGPT, and reflected on ChatGPT as a student and historian and on their own Chat-GPT assisted performance. (Preliminary results are presented in [2].)

According to the students’ feedback, using the application helped them prepare for the classes, be more active during interactive lectures and seminars, and improving their conceptual knowledge (by using ChatGPT as a discussion partner in Socratic dialogues we have designed), their procedural knowledge (as they can better understand how a historian or a history student functions), and their metacognitive knowledge (by reflecting on their own work by comparing it to the work of ChatGPT or by rethinking their own use of the application, individually and collectively).

The paper discusses positive and challenging dimensions in using the application and presents our plans for improving it both as teaching and learning assistant.