How to Utilize ChatGPT’s Tools in the Classroom:
As you’ve likely seen in other areas of this website, ChatGPT’s flexibility allows it to cater to many different needs that might be difficult to address single-handedly.
Remember: It is to be used as a tool, not a replacement.
1. Writing Assistant:
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Have students brainstorm ideas by prompting ChatGPT (e.g., “Give me story starters about space exploration.”)
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Use it to rephrase awkward sentences or check tone.
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Compare student writing to ChatGPT’s version to build editing skills.
2. Personalized Tutoring:
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Ask ChatGPT to explain a concept at varying difficulties (“Explain photosynthesis to a 5th grader,” or “Give me a college-level summary.”)
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Students can quiz themselves by asking ChatGPT to generate questions.
3. Critical Thinking Practice:
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Ask ChatGPT to take a stance on a controversial topic (e.g., “Defend the use of school uniforms”) and have students challenge it.
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Let students fact-check ChatGPT’s answers for accuracy.
4. Language Learning Support:
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Students can practice back-and-forth conversations in another language.
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Ask for vocabulary lists, sentence examples, or even short reading passages.
5. Research Jumpstart:
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Use ChatGPT to generate lists of potential research topics.
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Ask for summaries of broad subjects to narrow down a focus.
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Generate guiding questions for inquiry-based learning.
6. Differentiated Instruction:
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Provide extension tasks or simplified explanations based on student need.
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Students with IEPs or language barriers can get real-time support.
7. Exit Tickets & Reflection
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Ask students to input what they learned and request ChatGPT to summarize it.
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Have students use ChatGPT to write reflective prompts like, “What was the hardest part of today’s lesson?”
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Old Original Asset: How to Analyze Data
Taken down because not completely related to the topic
This is not as objective as the other pages. This is subjective advice on how I would recommend interpreting data. This is of course optional advice and is not verified by an expert.
1. Verify your sources
First make sure that you are looking at a source that you know is accurate. Make sure it’s peer reviewed, credits other sources, and is based on objective information. Although the whole article or paper doesn’t have to be completely subjective, data should not be at all political or biased.
2. Read into the variables
In order to understand the results, you have to know what caused them. Although you could just look at the data you are shown without reading further into it, it will not yield as strong of an understanding. Usually by looking at the information surrounding the data, you can see the intent of the hypotheses experimented on, and you can understand specifically what to look for in the results.
3. Interpret the results
This is probably the most straightforward of all the steps. However, you have to be careful to get every detail accurate. For example, some graphs may be scaled differently. This could result in one graph appearing to have dramatic differences between variables, while another graph with the same results may seem to show no strong differences. In addition, test results almost always have multiple sets of data shown. It’s always a good idea to compared each of those sets, to contextualize each result. For example, maybe one experiment would have two versions of technology competing against each other. If they perform within 1% of each other on every task, except task 3, where they perform within 10% of each other, it’s important to make a big deal out of task 3. Even though this normally wouldn’t be a big difference, comparing it to the other results task 3 stands out. This is important to point out, as it can show strengths and weaknesses of the new technology, even if some are more subtle than others.
4. Compare against other sources
In a time of extreme bias and almost everything being tied to politics, you can’t just look at one study. Even if it’s not intentionally biased, the study could have tested the hypothesis in a way that yielded skewed results. It’s essential to check other studies testing similar hypotheses to see if they can reach a consensus.
5. Put it into your own words
Finally, all you have to do is just word the data in a way that you and others can understand it. Even if you’re not sharing it with others, it can’t hurt to reword things in a way that makes sense to you. Make sure your conclusions use different sources and studies to solidify your statement.
