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.
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.