IT in Education and schools

We’re releasing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom—including suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias.

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The potential for using artificial intelligence in education to assist teachers and enhance learning is profound. Here’s an overview, plus examples of how AI is being used in education today.

Sample prompts 
To clarify various ways instructors could utilize the technology, below are several instructional goals followed by a sample ChatGPT prompt:

Goal: To create a sample of student work for students to analyze prior to giving the assignment to pinpoint parameters of quality work
Prompt:  Write a ten-paragraph, persuasive essay that provides reasons to use fewer disposable plastic products using the words renewable, nonrenewable, biodegradable, and organic. Write this at a college-level reading level, by a student who has a garden.  
Goal: To analyze student feedback from student reflections from the semester
Prompt: Summarize these responses, and show patterns. Next, paste the copied selection of responses after the above prompt.  
Goal: To write a recommendation letter for a student
Prompt: Write a recommendation letter for a teacher who graduated with a middle school teaching certification who engages students, demonstrates effective classroom management, and possesses strong professionalism. 
Goal: To determine common misconceptions college students have about a topic
Prompt: Can you tell me common misconceptions that college students have about (concept/skill)? 
Goal: To identify prerequisite skills, knowledge, and vocabulary
Prompt:  What prerequisite skills, knowledge, and vocabulary should a college student know to understand (concept/skill)? 
Goal: To review key topics
Prompt:  I want to review (concept/skill)  with college students. Generate activity ideas that I can use for a 20-minute activity.  
Goal: To introduce a new topic
Prompt:  I want to creatively introduce (concept/skill) to college students. Generate activity ideas that I can use for a five-minute activity. 
Goal: To create informational sources for students to read
Prompt: Act as an environmentalist, write an article on a college-level reading level against industrialization in Kentucky integrating five different sources that were published within the last five years.