Good god. That is as bad as packet teachers that just follow a pre-purchased curriculum.
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And here we are, actual teachers, trying to figure out ways to prove students are using it to cheat……
It became part of a lesson in which the students had written short presentations about news articles. One student had produced a few iterations of their original script, altered by the AI in response to prompts asking for, say, a “speech version” of the script. We analysed how the vocabulary and structure changed between iterations as a result of the different prompts. Haven’t asked it for lesson plans yet haha Might try it.
I’m pretty far on the “embrace tech, it’s not going away” side of the technology use spectrum. One of my areas of research during my MA was computer assisted language learning, so I don’t mind admitting I’m biased. With that said, all tech is neither good nor bad, it’s how it’s used. The part of teaching and planning it can really help with is initial lesson planning, especially if you’re good with prompts and feeding it formats to use.
Any teacher or assistant can take a text and make a generic lesson plan. The part that can’t and shouldn’t be automated is the next step, which is customizing and altering it to your context and the needs of your students. That’s something that takes legit skill and experience to do well. You also have to go through and edit everything that is inaccurate, doesn’t meet timelines, or doesn’t have the right focus.
I recently started making a new class for my school, and I used a combination of a book scanner with OCR software and chatGPT to make searchable copy/pastable copies of the books. I then chose what chapters I wanted to cover, what sections were relevant to learning outcomes I wanted to target, and what was required based on institutional/test requirements. Next I fed that content into chatGPT one chunk at a time with specific prompts about lesson parameters to make a skeleton for all of term 1. I went back in and cut out exercises and content I wanted to replace or that I had better activities/content for, adjusted for the general schedule, changed some language, and corrected mistakes.
This really eliminated a lot of the first-step drudgery involved in going to the book, measuring out content, assessing all the exercises, finding what aligns with my goals for the class, and making it all fit a format and schedule. This is the least important and least creative part of the process, and allows me to spend more time and effort on content and customizing to my class.
I make ChatGPT rewrite native articles for different level of English learners. Different versions of same article helps facilitate conversation about same topic among students with different level of English capabilities.
No, because my school pays for a teacher who can take responsibility for the lessons they teach and who has the basic capacity to be aware of what they are teaching and act with intention.
And honestly, creating lesson plans is the least difficult part of this job, and it’s a part I really enjoy. Outsourcing it to AI would be like asking a robot to take my girlfriend on a date for me so I can free up time to renew my visa at the immigration office.
I just used it for a demo lesson because I had a next day short notice interview. I didn’t copy word for word but it really helped with my brain farts and I got the job right away 🙂
This reminds me of the situation at my local grocery store. They installed automated cashier kiosks, and at first the staff were so eager to usher customers over and show them how to use it. So easy! No more worrying about dealing with annoying customers. Hooray technology!
Then they reduced their staffing levels because they didn’t need as many people, yet the customers are often frustrated because the kiosks can’t do everything a human can, such as apply a discount code or comprehend the fact that I brought my own bag and don’t need to be charged 35c for a store one.
I don’t think it’s super ethical to do that since chatgpt plagiarizes things it finds on the internet without citing anything
There’s a section about AI in my textbook so I let my students ask it some questions in the last 5 mins of the lessons and make some ai pics on crayon (it’s not very good at Japanese pro wrestlers haha).
I just used it to write excel formulas for converting/inputting scores. A menial task that could’ve taken hours took like 15 minutes of copying and pasting. It was awesome.
If you have access use it , I’m still on the waiting list
OP, this is really cool and interesting to read about, but I literally only know the name “ChatGPT”. Is it a website you access in order to use the AI? Is it free?
ChatGPT is your dating coach. Whether you score or not is still up to you.
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Good god. That is as bad as packet teachers that just follow a pre-purchased curriculum.
​
And here we are, actual teachers, trying to figure out ways to prove students are using it to cheat……
It became part of a lesson in which the students had written short presentations about news articles. One student had produced a few iterations of their original script, altered by the AI in response to prompts asking for, say, a “speech version” of the script. We analysed how the vocabulary and structure changed between iterations as a result of the different prompts. Haven’t asked it for lesson plans yet haha Might try it.
I’m pretty far on the “embrace tech, it’s not going away” side of the technology use spectrum. One of my areas of research during my MA was computer assisted language learning, so I don’t mind admitting I’m biased. With that said, all tech is neither good nor bad, it’s how it’s used. The part of teaching and planning it can really help with is initial lesson planning, especially if you’re good with prompts and feeding it formats to use.
Any teacher or assistant can take a text and make a generic lesson plan. The part that can’t and shouldn’t be automated is the next step, which is customizing and altering it to your context and the needs of your students. That’s something that takes legit skill and experience to do well. You also have to go through and edit everything that is inaccurate, doesn’t meet timelines, or doesn’t have the right focus.
I recently started making a new class for my school, and I used a combination of a book scanner with OCR software and chatGPT to make searchable copy/pastable copies of the books. I then chose what chapters I wanted to cover, what sections were relevant to learning outcomes I wanted to target, and what was required based on institutional/test requirements. Next I fed that content into chatGPT one chunk at a time with specific prompts about lesson parameters to make a skeleton for all of term 1. I went back in and cut out exercises and content I wanted to replace or that I had better activities/content for, adjusted for the general schedule, changed some language, and corrected mistakes.
This really eliminated a lot of the first-step drudgery involved in going to the book, measuring out content, assessing all the exercises, finding what aligns with my goals for the class, and making it all fit a format and schedule. This is the least important and least creative part of the process, and allows me to spend more time and effort on content and customizing to my class.
I make ChatGPT rewrite native articles for different level of English learners. Different versions of same article helps facilitate conversation about same topic among students with different level of English capabilities.
No, because my school pays for a teacher who can take responsibility for the lessons they teach and who has the basic capacity to be aware of what they are teaching and act with intention.
And honestly, creating lesson plans is the least difficult part of this job, and it’s a part I really enjoy. Outsourcing it to AI would be like asking a robot to take my girlfriend on a date for me so I can free up time to renew my visa at the immigration office.
I just used it for a demo lesson because I had a next day short notice interview. I didn’t copy word for word but it really helped with my brain farts and I got the job right away 🙂
This reminds me of the situation at my local grocery store. They installed automated cashier kiosks, and at first the staff were so eager to usher customers over and show them how to use it. So easy! No more worrying about dealing with annoying customers. Hooray technology!
Then they reduced their staffing levels because they didn’t need as many people, yet the customers are often frustrated because the kiosks can’t do everything a human can, such as apply a discount code or comprehend the fact that I brought my own bag and don’t need to be charged 35c for a store one.
I don’t think it’s super ethical to do that since chatgpt plagiarizes things it finds on the internet without citing anything
There’s a section about AI in my textbook so I let my students ask it some questions in the last 5 mins of the lessons and make some ai pics on crayon (it’s not very good at Japanese pro wrestlers haha).
I just used it to write excel formulas for converting/inputting scores. A menial task that could’ve taken hours took like 15 minutes of copying and pasting. It was awesome.
If you have access use it , I’m still on the waiting list
OP, this is really cool and interesting to read about, but I literally only know the name “ChatGPT”. Is it a website you access in order to use the AI? Is it free?
ChatGPT is your dating coach. Whether you score or not is still up to you.