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1. Intro: Welcome to this course
on ways that chat GPT, and other text-based
AI tools can be used behind the scenes by
educators of all kinds. This is true whether you are in a corporate setting, primary, secondary, or college education, or teach in a less
formal setting. You can leverage AI tools, both to make your job easier And to get better
results from your work. I'm really excited to
show you how you can use these tools for every
stage of teaching, from planning your content, do you creating resources
and assessments, To evaluating your students work. The best part is chat GPT is a simple tool to use for people without
a technical background. In this course, you'll
first learn how to write a really effective prompt to get the most out of chat GPT. Then you'll learn about 12
specific ways you could use chat GPT as an educator
with examples for each use. By the end of the course, you'll have practiced
using it and refining your prompt to
get the result you need. Are you ready to get started?
2. Getting Started with ChatGPT: Throughout the course, we're
going to be using chat GPT. It can be accessed in
a browser at Chat.openai.com. create an account or login
with Google or Microsoft. Once logged in, the interface
is incredibly simple. Type your question at the
bottom and wait for a response. Continue typing to
continue the conversation. Old conversations are saved in the sidebar so you can return to them. The desktop app can also be downloaded from the links
in the description. A note before we start, there are plenty of paid AI products that
do specific things. Some of these are
great for education, but this course won't cover those products designed
for a specific purpose. Instead, you'll
learn about things you can do with AI on your own. Once you explore a
variety of uses for it, you can know what
you want to look for if you get a budget
to use more AI tools.
3. Writing Prompts for the AI: So let's get started with
writing effective prompt. You can ask chat GPT, anything and get a response. But what you put in will determine the quality
of what you get out. In short, the more
detailed your request, the more your results will
align with what you want. In many cases, one
clear sentence asking exactly what
you want is fine. Asking for ten names
for bar trivia based on the office gave ten names
based on the show done. However, in cases
where you want to use the AI to do a complex
task repeatedly, you can keep building
and refining the prompt. Specifically, you can use
a detailed prompt called a mega prompt to define the AI's role in the
output you want. Omega prompt includes a role. Define the role for the AI. How would you describe an
expert human equivalent? Information about the audience? Who exactly is it
aiming the result at? This can include
demographics, level of understanding,
and types of learners. Instructional goals. You can include your
instructional strategy, reasoning, or specific methods
you want to use or avoid. Give it as much context as
you can and constraints. An example. If you were looking for
something specific, you could give an example. You could even give a non-example
and explain why that is not the result you want and what you'd
like to see instead. A task. Provide clear instructions on
what you want the AI to do and how if you've already
given it a role, audience, goals and example, you could just say using the
information above, generate and then a
clearly defined output. Tell the AI how to present
the information it generates. Lastly, a title and topic. If you are using the same
role for many outputs, you'll want to give it the
topic of each request, which it will use as a title. You can find a ton of
excellent megaprojects for different purposes
at prompts dot chat. Now let's look at 12th great
uses of AI for education, using both simple prompts
and mega prompts. I'll ask you to pause
and go to Jack GBT to practice with some prompts to
help you with three phases. Planning, generating
useful content and working with students.
4. Planning Phase: The planning phase.
AI can help you from the very beginning of
your process by helping you generate ideas and
plan out a course. Use number one: get started, planning your lessons
by helping you identify what is commonly
taught about a topic. For example you could ask chat GPT to list objectives
about a topic, Summarize key points
about a topic, Ask what is essential to
understand about a topic, Create an outline for a
10-minute class about a topic, suggests five ways of
expanding on this topic. You can decide how much
you want it to do. If you just want some
quick lists to get started, ask a simple prompt. If you want it to generate
a really useful outline, consider a mega prompt that
is tailored to your lesson. Use number two: use as a
creative idea generator. Ai can help you think
outside the box to make your lessons
interesting and unique. You could ask it for a
different approach or specific ways to
change the material, such as... what is a novel
approach to compliance training? What are some interesting ways that Romeo and Juliet could be altered to provide
in-depth class discussion? List three detailed ideas. You could provide
a draft and ask it to make the language punchier
and more descriptive. Or write this in the
style of a mystery novel. Let's start thinking
about the class project. I'll send you over to chat GPT for three different prompts. Go to chat.openai.com or use the desktop downloader is
linked in the description. Take screenshots and at
the end of the course, upload whichever one is
most interesting to you. With your prompt. Tell me what surprised
you most about the AI's response and how you could refine the
prompt for better results. For this first one, give it a prompt
designed to help you think of more ideas
for the content You are teaching. Some ways to ask are... list ways to expand a
lesson about your topic. What is a novel approach to
training about your topic? Ask it to change the style or
tone of existing content. But you can use any type of
prompt you could think of. Be sure to take a
screenshot of the result.
5. Content and Resource Creation: Creating the course content
phase. Where chat GPT can really shine is in helping you create and modify the
content for your courses. Use number 3. One excellent use for ai is to simplify or adjust materials for
different audiences. You can provide existing text
and have the AI change it. For example, simplify this article by writing for an eighth
grade reading level. Summarize the parts
of this article that are relevant to
a marketing team. Simplify this article by writing for a graphic
design student. Use number four. AI is excellent at creating
quiz questions or practice problems
for any topic. To save yourself the
time of writing them. You can feed it your material and ask for questions, answers,
and feedback. You can specify open-ended multiple choice, true and false, or other question types. Or ask for general
questions about the topic. And then make sure your
material covers anything. you use. And refine those
questions to fit the course. Create a bell ringer or exit
ticket for this lesson. Just remember to check
its work carefully. Ai will confidently give incorrect answers
with no warning. Use number five. Similarly, it can create sets of examples to use with any topic. Tell it how many examples you need and what you are
specifically looking for. In this example, I asked
it to create a table with three columns labeled
present tense verb, past tense verb,
future tense verb. The table should have
five rows. In each row, choose a different verb
for the first column and put its past tense and future tense in the associated column. It did it perfectly, and titled the chat "verb conjugation table". The possibilities here are
endless for any content area. Use number six. Another great use is to pull important things out of your material for
additional resources. You can feed chat GPT
content and ask it to... create a list of
vocabulary words from your material
and define them. Identify the key
points or main ideas. Create a summary for a
purpose like introduction, advertising, or a
course description. For some of these tasks, a mega prompt is useful
to ensure it provides the right type of content
for your specific audience. Use number seven. It can make bulk edits. It can do this quickly, and in some cases could
do things that tools like Microsoft Word can't do,
because the AI is smarter. For example one of my
favorite exercises in teaching math is
numberless word problems. Remove the numbers
and have students figure out how the
problem will be solved, before dealing with the numbers. I fed it a pile of
practice problems and asked it to change all of
the numbers to blanks. This was much faster
than manually doing this and I just copied the
text back into my worksheets. Use number eight. Write directions for a task. Another job for AI
that is applicable to all types of education is
to write instructions. Some examples could
be walking students through the process of creating an account on Adobe
Creative Cloud. Instructions for creating
an accessible online video. Instructions for our
hands-on assignment that incorporate
established procedures, creating a set of steps to
follow in an employee review. This is a type of task where a mega prompt could be
useful to insure it provides the right type of content for your
specific audience. Use number nine.
Proofread and edit. Chat GPT is an excellent editor. Feed it your content
and write a mega prompt, asking it to fix grammatical errors and also make any adjustments you want, such as make the third
paragraph more concise. Replace business
jargon so that lay people can easily
understand the content. Remove ableist language.
Create a more upbeat tone. Take a pause and go back over
to chat GBT to practice, have it write or
revise content for you based on any of the
uses just discussed. As a review, those uses were simplify or adjust materials
for different audiences. Create quiz questions or practice problems
for your topic. Create lots of
examples for your topic. Create a summary or pull list of important things
out of your material. Make bulk edits to
your content. Write instructions for your task. Proofread and edit. Take screenshots and at
the end of the course, upload whichever one is most interesting to you,
with your project. Tell me what surprised
you most about the AI's response and how you could refine the prompt
for better results.
6. Working With Students: The phase of actually
teaching students. Use number ten, create
grading rubrics, evaluate written work, and
grade student assignments. Chat GPT is surprisingly good at accurately
grading assignments. If you have a project or writing assignment as
part of your course, you can have chat GBT, write the grading rubric.
Give it specifics, including the number of points, the category is being evaluated: Maybe thesis analysis, use
of evidence, organization, grammar and
mechanics, et cetera, and level of achievement: not shown basic proficient,
excellent, etc. Then once it makes the rubric, you can even have it grade student work against
this rubric. If you do so, just
be sure to review it for accuracy and have a policy and procedure where
students can easily challenge an AI
generated evaluation. Use number 11, create bespoke exercises for
individual students. One of the more
awesome uses of chat GBT is as a situational tutor. If you see a student is
struggling with a certain skill, it can quickly write an
exercise on that skill. Obviously, this is not a substitute for
in-depth discussions, teacher feedback
and remediation, but it can make a
great starting place or additional practice after
they have worked with you. Here's some example prompts:
generate an exercise for an office manager
that will help them practice responding to
constructive criticism. Generate an exercise for a
photography student that will require them to change the aperture settings
on their DSLR camera. Generate an exercise at a fifth grade reading
level that will help a student practice using commas in
the correct place. Indirect quotations. Use number 12, write the boring daily stuff. As you know, teaching comes with a lot of paperwork
and extra tasks. Leverage AI to get some
of your time back. You can use it to assist you in writing letters of
recommendation, letters to parents
and permission slip. Parts of your lesson
plans, daily objective. Parts of the syllabus. Of course, don't
rely on it to write the entire thing
for you and don't use the AI-written
result without revising and giving
it a personal touch. But the AI will happily
take on these tasks and give you a rough draft that you didn't have to think about. Take a pause now and go back over to chat GBT to practice. Have it create a rubric, create a simple assignment
to help a student learn, or do some of
your boring paperwork.
7. Class Project and Wrap Up: So those have been
12 uses to make instructors lives easier
behind the scenes. Upload the screenshot from
one of the assignments in the course as your project. Just tell me what
surprised you most about the AI's response and how you could refine the prompt
for better results. I hope that you've
enjoyed learning about ways that you can use AI behind the scenes to enhance your lessons and make
teaching easier. After completing
the class project, please leave a review and look for my other courses
on this platform.
Laura Recene, Education for Modern Learners
