Part 2 - How Can a Teacher Use This?

ChatGPT moves quickly to complete tasks.  I asked it to create a pattern book to use with beginning English learners.  It wrote a table of contents with 10 chapters about how to learn English:
Chapter 9: Food and Drinks

• Explore different types of food and beverages.
• Practice ordering food in a restaurant or café.
• Role-play cooking and dining scenarios.

Chapter 10: Hobbies and Interests

• Discuss hobbies and interests, such as sports, music, art, and reading.
• Learn hobby-related vocabulary and expressions.
• Share your own hobbies and interests with others.

  I can see that it would need more specific directions to complete specific tasks.  While it may be a helpful tool occasionally I do not think I could utilize it all the time to complete tasks for me.  At this time I would not use ChatGPT for my students.  It is so important for English Learners to practice their skills by doing tasks with a teacher and then moving towards independence. I fear that ChatGPT would be come a crutch.

Chat GPT is helpful and is very quick to respond. I asked Chat GPT to create stories that we can read to identify the parts of a story. It was quick to create them. I still had to modify the stories based on what I needed them to include. So yes, what was created was appropriate, but not perfect. 

I fear that teachers and students will use it without rereading and changing. This could lead to more confusion. If we trust AI to create things for our students, will it be the best? I think that it is useful for certain things, but we have to be careful about what we choose to use it for. We still know our students and their needs best. 

I am not sure if I would use this with students. I want them to think for themselves.

ChatGPT moves quickly to complete tasks.  I asked it to create a pattern book to use with beginning English learners.  It wrote a table of contents with 10 chapters about how to learn English:
Chapter 9: Food and Drinks

• Explore different types of food and beverages.
• Practice ordering food in a restaurant or café.
• Role-play cooking and dining scenarios.

Chapter 10: Hobbies and Interests

• Discuss hobbies and interests, such as sports, music, art, and reading.
• Learn hobby-related vocabulary and expressions.
• Share your own hobbies and interests with others.

.  I can see that it would need more specific directions to complete specific tasks.  While it may be a helpful tool occasionally I do not think I could utilize it all the time to complete tasks for me.  At this time I would not use ChatGPT for my students.  It is so important for English Learners to practice their skills by doing tasks with a teacher and then moving towards independence. I fear that ChatGPT would be come a crutch.

After reflecting on your searches, explain what ChatGPT did.

While working with a colleague, we used Chat GPT to craft paragraphs that explored text structure that can be used as models for mini-lessons. We also started to work on how it can be used to craft a rubric and even put it into a chart/table format.  The results are amazing if you really think about what this is doing.  The paragraphs were about teen activists and it gave me three distinct structures that can be used as great teaching models or examples for students.  

What are you thinking about ChatGPT now that you’ve used it?

This tool is the biggest innovation that teaching has seen since YouTube became the monster that it is for video hosting.  If you consider that this can be a teacher assistant tool for lesson planning and resource creation you can begin to see how this can be a massive time saving tool.  So many times we search and search for things to use as examples. We spend hours trying to find sources that can be differentiated at multiple reading levels. We wordsmith rubrics. The examples are endless.  I think that the better we get at learning how to prompt well to receive the results we are looking for (or at least getting them closer and closer as we move along) the more we can benefit from this teacher assistant giving us more time that everyone can benefit from having more of.

Would you consider using it WITH your students?  Why or Why not?

I would use it with students in ways that show how it can be an idea generator or tutor/assistant.  If students start to see it that way from the start then we may be able to have the conversation around AI be one that focuses on those use cases rather than having conversations about cheating with AI which is what many fear about the tool and what you tend to see a lot in the news.

Part 2- I asked Chatbot to plan a tour of Hollywood Studios in Disney World (since we're going there this summer) and it generated a full morning, midday, afternoon, and night itinerary. Plus, additional tips for our trip... crazy! Next it gave me information in how to train for a 5K... I'm thinking that it's pretty amazing! I couldn't believe all of the detailed information it was able to generate for me... At first, I would consider using it in a large class setting (to be better able to monitor and control what is being asked, etc.). Maybe it could help us answer any puzzling or unanswered questions that come up in US History... Then eventually branch it out to the students (for research assignments and purposes) if they can handle it in a mature, professional, academic, and respectful manner.

ChatGPT boggles my mind. It is incredible- aside from asking who would win the football game today it has always given me a spectacular answer to any question I have asked of it. It told me it can't predict future outcomes but where to find stats and such. When I searched for multiple choice questions for lyrics to a song I wanted to use for shared reading, it gave me them! It told me why the answers were correct and why the distractors were incorrect. It gave me the theme, author's craft, and many other questions I want to be prepared with for my class.
Of course, I have to fact-check it but it did much of my thinking work for me! I just need to make it my own now. 
Now that I've used it more than a few times I reach for it to generate ideas and consider different viewpoints to anticipate what my students may be thinking as well.
I never thought I would use it with my students in 4th grade but after watching the YouTube - I am curious about having chat gpt write something that the students wrote so they can compare their work to it. BUT- I think I will do that on my end and give it to them- I am not ready to share the secret (if it still is!) with them yet!

1. ChatGPT VERY quickly responded to all of my prompts using information related to my search. One of the things I asked it to do was design a 6-week social skills lesson sequence for 2nd grade students with autism. It not only created the lessons, but it provided the time that each activity would take, objectives, and gave a statement about the importance of designing unique plans to fit the needs of individuals with autism. It also gave some tips about working with students such as using consistency and repetition.
2. I think this is such a cool and easy tool...this is especially great for my counseling groups since we do not have many curriculum resources available to us. I can see how educators could really use this to be more effective.
3. I am not sure if I would use this with students...I still wonder about how this would fit in with students' development of critical thinking skills.

ChatGPT can be very helpful in helping to generate new ideas for lessons. It is a great tool for compiling resources for activities as well. If you have students from diverse linguistic backgrounds, ChatGPT can assist in providing explanations and instructions in multiple languages. It can also offer suggestions on how to adapt physical education activities to be more inclusive for students with different abilities or specific needs.

I have created an account with chatgpt and explored a few topics.  It is such a time saver.  I searched how to use technology while teaching the coordinate grid.  I got a few great ideas for lessons, I then asked how to overlay a coordinate grid on a picture to start the project, that chatgpt suggested.  Next I asked how to use that project and overlay a picture on canva and then had chatgpt create a project based on this idea.  It was amazing what ai came up with.  I am loving this resource as an educator but also in my personal life.  I have also used chatgpt to generate math questions based on a certain standard and also make up a song about fractions.  Additionally, I have used this to generate gift ideas, birthday party suggestions, etc.
As of now, I am using this as a tool to help plan and design lessons.  I have not yet thought about how to use with students in math class.

One of the things that overwhelms me is the many requests I get from students for letters of recommendation. I'm not the type of person that will just write a form letter. The process usually takes me an hour per letter and I get on average 50 requests a year. I asked Chat GPT to "write a college letter of recommendation for a high performance AP English Literature student" and it spit out a pretty generic letter. Then I wrote a letter for the same student and presented both options to her without telling her one was AI-generated. I asked the student which one she would want me to submit to the Common App for her and why. She picked the "human" letter, the one I wrote, and said "it's more personal and there was just more warmth in this one." So I think this demonstrates how a personal touch is needed in certain situations. While Chat GPT is powerful and a tempting time-saver, it won't do the best job. I can see a situation in a writer might be having trouble getting started or is looking for an organizational structure, but beyond that the authentic voice of the writing is compromised. 
Also, Chat GPT is only ask good as the prompt you give it. The more caveats or modifiers you add to the prompt, the more specific of an answer you will get.