Exploring ChatGPT for
Effective Teaching
and Learning
Stan Skrabut, Ed.D.
@Skrabut

ChatGPT is a disruptive, emerging technology.

You are an educator who must decide how to use chatGPT

Students will use chatGPT to write essays
and shortcut their learning.

You want to know how to enhance student learning
in the age of artificial intelligence.

It is important to understand what chatGPT is and how it works
so you can best employ it in your classroom.

What is chatGPT and why
should you use it?

ChatGPT is a Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer.

It is a form of artificial intelligence built on GPT-3.

ChatGPT uses natural language to answer questions
and engage in conversation.

The training corpus for GPT-3 is
over 45 terabytes of text data and billions of tokens.

ChatGPT does have some limitations.

ChatGPT is not connected to the internet
and therefore, does not have access to current information.

The text data used to train chatGPT reflects
the biases and perspectives of the sources it was trained on.

ChatGPT has a lot of facts, but it lacks the common sense
and understanding of the world that humans have.

Here are some thoughts on why you cannot disregard AI.

Artificial intelligence is not going anywhere.
It will become better and more prevalent.

Businesses are using AI as a force multiplier. The future
workforce needs to understand how to use it effectively.

ChatGPT can help you save time and energy
for a myriad of tasks.

Ways that you can use
chatGPT as an educator.

Keys to using chatGPT

Foundational knowledge is essential
for creating effective prompts and understanding results.

Save key chats and delete the rest.

Expand on the conversation you are having.

Let’s Do It!

Use chatGPT to prepare for a new course.

ChatGPT can help you create a course description,
general outline, and learning goals and objectives.

Given the right prompt, you can develop
classroom activities, discussion questions, and rubrics.

chatGPT will help you draft
lesson plans, lecture notes, and presentation outline.

ChatGPT can help you with classroom support.

Are students stuck on a concept?
Have chatGPT provide an explanation at the level you need it.

Have chatGPT help you build
vocabulary lists, study guides, and examples.

Create how-to instructions on countless topics.

Do you need a script for a role-playing activity?

Need help with assessments? ChatGPT is at your service.

Provide chatGPT with some text
and it can create multiple choice questions for you.

Or true and false.

Fill-in-the-blank?

ChatGPT can help you grade essays.

ChatGPT can help you with your other activities.

Are you looking for an executive summary for
an article you should have read but was too long?

ChatGPT will help you draft all types of letters and emails
to include recommendation letters.

Do you need to prepare for an interview?
Have chatGPT provide you with targeted questions.

Need help with a conference proposal description?
Journal article topic? Press release?

Do you need a script for a video you want to make?
How about a shot list?

ChatGPT can help you translate journal articles.

You can use chatGPT as
an in the classroom
teaching tool.

Use chatGPT as a classroom participant.

Use chatGPT as part of the Think, Pair, and Share activity.

Post a question in chatGPT
and have students predict what the response will be.

Have students debate chatGPT on a topic
and reflect on the results.

Require AI as part of assignments or intentionally prohibit it.

Have students use chatGPT to create initial drafts
and then track improvements.

Have students critically analyze a chatGPT-generated essay.

There are many ways
students can use chatGPT
to support their learning.

ChatGPT can support students in all aspects of their writing.

ChatGPT can help students brainstorm topic ideas,
build research keyword lists, and generate outlines.

ChatGPT can review an essay prior to submission.

Students can find support for language learning.

ChatGPT can serve as a language discussion partner.

ChatGPT will translate text from one language to another.

International students can use chatGPT
to help with their writing assignments.

ChatGPT can serve as a learning partner for students.

Students can use chatGPT to expand upon
and strengthen their notes.

Students can paste in complex documents to get a summary.

If students are unclear about what a confusing topic means,
they can ask chatGPT for clarification.

ChatGPT is on hand to act as digital tutor
ready to support students.

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