How will ChatGPT and artificial intelligence be used in our classrooms?

When ChatGPT first started to gain traction, the immediate reaction of most in education was to worry about how it could be used to cheat, as it produces original text that evades traditional plagiarism detection tools.  Picture: Alamy Stock

It’s not every day a spirit visits the classroom, but that is what happened when history teacher Patrick Hickey conjured up the ghost of a medieval peasant as a special guest for his first-year students.

To a spellbound class at Boherbue Comprehensive School in Mallow, the ghost told students all about his hard life on the farm, working dawn till dusk.