Fear and avoidance cannot stop the wave of technology. The era of deep integration of education and AI has arrived. How to use AI as a tool and make it an opportunity rather than a threat to education is a new change that the education system will have to face in the future.
Embracing ChatGPT as a teaching aid, becoming a teacher's friend or helper, can unleash students' creativity, provide personalized tutoring, and better prepare students to work with AI systems in the future.
So, for the disruptive value of ChatGPT, how can schools and teachers get started? Here are six of the more common usages:
1. Design courses
ChatGPT can provide teachers with creative ideas for course design, assist in searching and sorting out literature, and generate complete course materials, such as syllabus, lesson plans and reading materials.
For example, if you enter "Please design an inquiry course for second-grade children, the theme is "The Sound of Crickets", and soon, AI will give the following results. Subsequently, we put forward more detailed design requirements: "It will be held during summer vacation for ten days. The final evaluation and summative evaluation, and need to specify the time plan, materials to be prepared, and background information." Soon, ChatGPT output a detailed course report (see the picture below).
2. Assist in lesson preparation
In addition to course design, ChatGPT can well participate in teaching research and lesson preparation, give teachers a starting plan, provide general knowledge and normalized content, and help teachers save initial brainstorming time. Of course, such a plan is often like a simple recipe design guide. As a chef, you can design an actual recipe based on the ideas provided by this recipe.
Specifically, lessons can be prepared through the following methods.
Conduct knowledge search: Quickly search for relevant knowledge points by way of question and answer. You only need to ask questions to AI, such as "explain the Doppler effect in a language that eighth graders can understand", "persuade me to ban animal testing", and ChatGPT will quickly generate a set of plans.
Generate teaching content: By giving ChatGPT some instructions, let it automatically generate relevant teaching content, thereby improving the efficiency of lesson preparation.
Conduct classroom simulations: Through simulated conversations with ChatGPT, you can better understand students' problems and prepare for the classroom.
Language translation: If teachers need to use other languages in the classroom, they can use ChatGPT to translate, so as to better prepare lessons.
3. Classroom teaching assistant
ChatGPT can provide teachers and students with a real-time sharing platform, answer questions in real time, provide ideas for classroom activities, increase classroom fun and richness, help students understand complex content and concepts, and become teachers' artificial intelligence teaching assistants, after-school tutors or Debating sparring.
Taking English class as an example, teachers can use the following methods to improve classroom effectiveness.
Become a Writing Prompt Generator: ChatGPT can be asked to generate story starters or creative writing prompts, allowing students to use the prompts as a basis for writing.
Becoming a reading comprehension tool: ChatGPT can be asked to generate a passage about a topic a student is studying, and have the student read it and answer related questions. This helps assess students' understanding of the material and pinpoint areas where they may need additional support.
Become a vocabulary builder: ChatGPT can generate sentences using unfamiliar words for students, allowing students to guess the meaning of words based on the context and expand their vocabulary.
Become a generator of class discussion questions: Teachers and students ask questions to ChatGPT and combine them with substantive discussions in the classroom to enrich discussions and help students improve their thinking and practice ideas.
4. Homework assessment
ChatGPT can also participate in student assessment, generate homework quizzes and exams, help teachers evaluate students, and observe learning progress.
For example, a teacher sent the robot an article about Ukraine and asked to generate 10 multiple-choice questions to test students' understanding of the article. As a result, 6 of the 10 questions generated by AI are available. This is undoubtedly a great teaching aid. Teachers can generate brand new questions anytime and anywhere according to teaching requirements.
For another example, enter the prompt "Please generate an English cloze question", and you can get the English homework shown in the figure below.
5. Assisted Learning
ChaGPT can provide rich explanations, methods, information, and ideas to help students understand knowledge more deeply and creatively, improve learning efficiency and interest, and help students realize independent learning and personalized learning, and understand their own learning gaps and The need to motivate learning and self-improvement derives from its following functions.
Viewpoint extraction. It enables rapid generation of study materials such as summaries, flashcards, and quizzes to help students review and study course material. Students can ask ChatGPT to read a chapter in a textbook and generate an easy-to-understand summary. ChatGPT can also help students divide tasks into chunks, break down huge tasks into smaller, achievable parts, and cultivate students' sense of autonomy and confidence in completing tasks.
Content translation. ChatGPT can freely translate teaching content to make it easier for students to understand. Students can also turn to ChatGPT for help learning a variety of languages, accessing resources in that language such as glossaries, conversation exercises, and grammar lessons. And, when we learn a new word, we can also ask AI how to make a sentence with this word:
Exclusive guidance. Chatgpt technology can diversify teaching resources, information, and help students acquire problem-solving skills by providing explanations, distribution instructions, and additional resources. This can mean a lot for students who are struggling with a subject or concept and need additional support, improving self-efficacy and motivation.
project research. ChatGPT can also play an important role in research-based learning, project-based learning, problem-oriented learning, and topic-based inquiry learning in colleges and universities. For example, a student who is writing a research paper on climate change can ask ChatGPT for relevant information and receive a list of materials.
6. Business helper
ChatGPT can easily complete email writing, essay writing , script writing, formulate business proposals, create poems, stories, even type codes, check program errors, etc. Naturally, it can also generate ideas, improve suggestions, and feedback on written work. To assist teachers and students in planning daily activities.
For example, various work summaries, weekly reports, and monthly reports are automatically generated to reduce the internal friction of normalized affairs and carry out "teacher burden reduction" and "student burden reduction" to the end.
