@edutooters
Seeing more reactions and actions on ChatGPT in education reminds me that looking at technology in Ed a "good" or "bad" is really unproductive.
We really should be considering affordances and constraints, and really importantly HOW a technology tool is used.
There are few technology tools that I have not seen used both extremely poorly harming students and well to support student learning based on the underlying pedagogy driving the use of the tool.
I also think that privacy, especially with minors is often wholly ignored in these discussions.
@ZingerLearns @edutooters here's some teaching aids i have been experimenting with :
1. an admissions evaluator : https://cookup.ai/a/admission-whnqib7b/
2. GPT-checker proof essay generator https://cookup.ai/a/easy-essay-detector-proof-y9ojklov/
3. Mind Mapper : https://cookup.ai/a/mindmap-create-structured-thoughts-r9sqgmca/
4. Generate a Preprint : https://cookup.ai/a/pre-print-latex-vy0hga2j/
5. Make a table : https://cookup.ai/a/pdf-table-converter-1aqnprrk/
6. Musical Education : https://cookup.ai/a/musical-exercise-tzftq3tw/
7. PE : https://cookup.ai/a/k-12-physical-activity-inspiration-7baaoy3k/
8. Lesson Plan generator
9. Probem Solver : https://cookup.ai/a/problem-solver-lrsnpcdw/
10. WorkSheet Generator : https://cookup.ai/a/quiz-workbook-for-education-8qrs5rkl/
Hope this fits in the discussion with concrete and testable examples for folks , feedback welcome :-)
In the future i'm very sure that there will be a company with "turnkey" entire curriculum textbook / workbook generators that will cost anywhere from 600 to 4000 euros per output
@ZingerLearns @edutooters lesson plan generator link : https://cookup.ai/a/lesson-plan-for-k-12-classrooms-nuzysbgl/
@tonic @edutooters
Thanks for sharing these. I messed around a bit with it, and in many ways it affirmed what some have been saying. There are some ways in which the AI can be helpful, and others that it's not useful.
I asked it to explain evolution to me, and then design a lesson on evolution.
The explanation was good enough to serve as a basis for an explanatory model I might have for a lesson plan (a very small component of the lesson), that would require a fair bit of editing on my part, but definitely a time saver.
For the lesson plan, it generated something that was absolutely awful, used traditional pedagogy and was entirely too short. I suspect I could have added some criteria like, "Evolution for 5th graders who are predominantly Latinx living in Southern California" but I doubt it would do much better. My lessons and those I expect my students to write should be culturally responsive and cognitively demanding to the specific population I am teaching. This requires knowing students, their interests, how they engage and what motivates them etc, which the AI is not responsive to.
@ZingerLearns well, on your last point, the AI is very responsive to it, more input the better the output, just freeform it in a stream of consciousness . But overall what you're seeing is more the limit to the number of tokens (ie $) spent on each output. So for example i use other tools that produce better results. I'm really honored you took the time to thoughtfully consider and work through the prompts provided, you seem to have your finger on the pulse of these mores , so hopefully you'll keep being a bellweather or even a lighthouse to the whole community of educators 🚀
