I chose to review two of the techniques used in the provided video the parent video and the formative assessment.
During the portion about the parent email we saw that she started with a basic request "write me an email reply to a student's parent about the book challenge and recommendations". Initial thoughts the teacher had were that the email could be better. Based on the response the teacher realized that additional information (parameters) would be needed to compose the parent email that she wanted so the teacher progressively added more detail and requirements (ie. grade level, genre). Email drafted at this point is of much better quality - the updated version after adding specifics has a better tone however it required final modifications- to modify length, formality and oddly AI removed not just one but two books from the final draft. Final takeaways were that after re-reading the draft made the teacher was able to make final modifications to ensure that the email to parent drafted reflected what the teacher wanted.
During the portion about the formative assessment the teacher asked for "a five-question quiz based on a website's content to ensure student understanding". She found that the response back from AI didn't include the website which wasn't really surprising. Thankfully the teacher realized that she needed to include a link the website in the prompt. Once it had the website the majority of the questions provided were formatted as short answer. To further drill down the final product the teacher asked that the format of the assessment be moved to 50% of the questions being multiple choice based. AI made revisions and now 50% of the questions were multiple choice - the teacher seemed disappointed as she wanted an answer key and had to ask AI with a separate prompt to provide the answer key. To further enhance the assignment and confirm student understanding she asked for creative ways to incorporate content and AI created 5 different options of activities that allowed for creativity.
Overall, we learned that while in our mind the prompts we are giving AI might be too vague. As a result AI leans on it's training because it lacks the common sense that we have as humans. To avoid the disappointment that the teacher had during this video it's suggested that we provide more detail to ensure that we get the final product desired.
During the portion about the parent email we saw that she started with a basic request "write me an email reply to a student's parent about the book challenge and recommendations". Initial thoughts the teacher had were that the email could be better. Based on the response the teacher realized that additional information (parameters) would be needed to compose the parent email that she wanted so the teacher progressively added more detail and requirements (ie. grade level, genre). Email drafted at this point is of much better quality - the updated version after adding specifics has a better tone however it required final modifications- to modify length, formality and oddly AI removed not just one but two books from the final draft. Final takeaways were that after re-reading the draft made the teacher was able to make final modifications to ensure that the email to parent drafted reflected what the teacher wanted.
During the portion about the formative assessment the teacher asked for "a five-question quiz based on a website's content to ensure student understanding". She found that the response back from AI didn't include the website which wasn't really surprising. Thankfully the teacher realized that she needed to include a link the website in the prompt. Once it had the website the majority of the questions provided were formatted as short answer. To further drill down the final product the teacher asked that the format of the assessment be moved to 50% of the questions being multiple choice based. AI made revisions and now 50% of the questions were multiple choice - the teacher seemed disappointed as she wanted an answer key and had to ask AI with a separate prompt to provide the answer key. To further enhance the assignment and confirm student understanding she asked for creative ways to incorporate content and AI created 5 different options of activities that allowed for creativity.
Overall, we learned that while in our mind the prompts we are giving AI might be too vague. As a result AI leans on it's training because it lacks the common sense that we have as humans. To avoid the disappointment that the teacher had during this video it's suggested that we provide more detail to ensure that we get the final product desired.