John Elliott

Part 2 - Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant

  • January 29, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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In a short paragraph or two, explain what the did to get the response she was looking for from one of the demonstrations shown in the video (email to parent, lesson plan, or formative assessment).  NOTE: you can focus on just one demo...

I will focus not he writing of the email to a parent. This is a task that is definitely tedious, and often is very rote in nature, but needs to be polished and professional. I found that the increased prompts were fascinating. The way she would add, "for a tenth grader", and "shorten... take off this book..." 
act, and then Chat GPT would tune it up a bit. It was also interesting to see that sometimes it would do a bit of overkill. 

I tried to have it write a parent email, and it did a decent job. But I also found that it was not that much faster than writing it myself, after doing all the prompts. One of the slowest parts is accessing student data, this requires multiple clicks and access to different student screens. I look forward to the near future when ChatGPT is integrated with our PowerSchool and could pull data for student, "John Elliott in Living environment, list out bullet list of missing assignments, and what grade calculation would be when each is completed" - that will be amazing!