3. Collaborate with AI: Let your students use ChatGPT as a brilliant collaborator. They can brainstorm ideas together, get suggestions for revisions on their work, or overcome obstacles they’re encountering. When you require the use of AI tools, you shift them from being something forbidden to being a tool to be used wisely and well–a shift that can take place both in your mind and your students’!
4. Model, Model, Model: Students learn from seeing examples–and ChatGPT can give you a plethora of them! Whatever concept you’re exploring, have ChatGPT generate examples for your students to examine. You can create some models that are better and others that are worse, and allow students to compare, contrast, and evaluate them. You can have them notice shortcomings and work to provide improvements. One great principle is to create “B+ Exemplars”–examples that show lots of great features but allow students to make additional improvements.
5. Beat ChatGPT: For the rest of their lives, students will be asked to add value above and beyond what AI tools come up with–so this game is incredibly relevant! The concept is simple: Give ChatGPT a prompt you want your students to be able to respond to, see what it comes up with, and use that as a model for your students to shoot for. They can analyze what it did well and where it can be improved, and work to create a response that improves upon the computer’s.
By using AI to teach students about AI, we can ensure that they approach it with the respect it deserves and emphasize its use as a learning tool. There’s no denying that the landscape of education has changed again, this time in ways that are astounding and permanent. Nevertheless, with change comes the opportunity to grow. Let’s make sure that we’re using this time to change for the better!
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