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Artificial Intelligence in Education

Generate Examples

Enter the following prompt to generate new examples to incorporate into your lessons: 

I would like you to act as an example generator for students. When confronted with new and complex concepts, adding many and varied examples helps students better understand those concepts. I would like you to ask what concept I would like examples of, and what level of students I am teaching. You will provide me with four different and varied accurate examples of the concept in action.

Source: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/using-ai-to-make-teaching-easier

Generate Quizzes

Enter the following prompt to generate quiz questions:

You are a quiz creator of highly diagnostic quizzes. You will make good low-stakes tests and diagnostics. You will then ask me two questions. (1) First, what, specifically, should the quiz test. (2) Second, for which audience is the quiz. Once you have my answers you will construct several multiple choice questions to quiz the audience on that topic. The questions should be highly relevant and go beyond just facts. Multiple choice questions should include plausible, competitive alternate responses and should not include an "all of the above option." At the end of the quiz, you will provide an answer key and explain the right answer.

Source: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/using-ai-to-make-teaching-easier

Assessing What Students Know

Assign a “1-minute paper” or “muddiest point” exercise, students summarize their knowledge, pinpoint uncertainties, and share their perspectives of the material covered. The assignment is short (maybe a paragraph) and done in class. Enter the prompt below into an AI then paste all of the student responses. The AI will summarize the responses and identify common themes. This can be done in class so you can give an immediate response.

I am a teacher who wants to understand what students found most important about my class and what they are confused by. Review these responses and identify common themes and patterns in student responses. Summarize responses and list the 3 key points students found most important about the class and 3 areas of confusion: [Insert material here]

 Sourcehttps://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/using-ai-to-make-teaching-easier

Ideas for Distributed Practice

Incorporating knowledge from past lessons into current lessons is a great learning strategy. AI can help make connections for you.

You are an expert teacher who provides help with the concept of distributed practice. You will ask me to describe the current topic I am teaching and the past topic I want to include in distributed practice. You will also ask me the audience or grade level for the class. Then you will provide 4 ideas about how to include the past topic in my current topic. You will also provide 2 questions I can ask the class to refresh their memory on the past topic.

Source: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/using-ai-to-make-teaching-easier

Create a Make-up Exam/Quiz

Creating exams/quizzes is hard work. Making variations of those assessments for make-up is added hard work. AI can analyze the assessment and create alternate questions.

Upload a copy of your text/quiz to an AI and enter a version of the following prompt:

I need to create a make-up quiz of the attached quiz for a student who was absent on the day of the quiz. Create a new quiz, of the same difficulty, based on the attached.

If the AI does not create the same number of questions, you can ask it to create X number more. You can also ask it to create an answer key to the questions it created.

Be sure to read over the created content to make sure the questions are appropriate and that the answers are correct.

Write Recommendation Letters

AI can write fairly decent recommendation letters, or at least give you a solid letter you can edit and personalize. Include the details that would make the letter specific to the student (or colleague) for whom you are writing the letter. However, do not include anything too personal (anything you wouldn't normally share on the internet) to preserve privacy.

Create a Lesson from a YouTube Video

  • Find a video you would use on YouTube. Copy the URL
  • Go to app.twee.com Register for an account. When asked who gave you the link, enter Tyler Tarver (the guy who created the video explaining how to do this, to credit where credit is due.)
  • When you get into the Twee site, click YouTube Video to Text
  • Paste the URL for the YouTube video and click Do the Magic! The site will create a transcript of the video (it will transcribe up to 5 minutes of video)
  • Once the video has been transcribed, scroll to the bottom and click Copy
  • Go to your favorite AI and enter the following, modifying to fit your class:
  • Create notes for a lesson for teaching college freshmen in a First Year Seminar class. Also create multiple-choice questions and a classroom activity. [Paste the copied transcript]

The AI will create a lesson plan, a homework assignment, a few multiple-choice questions, and an in-class activity.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/reel/704898471413000

Grading Papers with a Rubric

Paste the following text into an AI, adjusting the red text to fit your course:

Grade the following paper based on these rubric criteria at the level of a college freshman: All parts of the question are addressed: You summarized Lamott, connected 2-3 passages to our class learning, and gave an illustration applying a growth mindset. = 5 points; Specificity of Issue - Summary of issue is clear, thorough, and substantiated with evidence = 10 points; Paper Guidelines - Proper guidelines are followed, you met the deadline = 5 points; Grammar and Mechanics - Paper is edited for clarity (proper grammar, spelling, etc.) = 5 points. Please provide written justification of the scores and put it in table format. Here is the paper: [Paste the paper here]

Source: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1028008808553667