5 AI Prompts For Educators Using ChatGPT And Google Gemini
AI-savvy teachers are armed with the power of carefully crafted prompts for tools such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini. These innovators are quietly revolutionizing their classrooms.
AI-savvy teachers are armed with the power of carefully crafted prompts for tools such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini. These innovators are quietly revolutionizing their classrooms.
A year and a half into ChatGPT’s life, the AI program’s impacts on education in Colorado and beyond are irrefutable. Conversations about artificial intelligence in the classroom have dominated conferences and training sessions for schools and universities across the state.
“We’re seeing a little upping of that skill, where students are getting code snippets from generative AI that they need to test for correctness.”
While the inner workings of these algorithms are notoriously opaque, the basic idea behind them is surprisingly simple. They are trained by going through mountains of text, repeatedly guessing the next few letters and then grading themselves against it.
This technique embeds a hidden instruction within the essay prompt that directs the inclusion of specific, unrelated words in the student’s submission. Formatted in white text and minimised in size, it remains unseen by students but is detected by the AI.
“A small portion of the sample indicated that either they did not see these behaviors as forms of academic misconduct (between 8 and 17 percent, depending on the specified behavior) or were unsure (between 8 and 21 percent).”
The tool, acquired last summer by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is designed to streamline the grading process, potentially offering time-saving benefits for teachers. But is it a good idea to outsource critical feedback to a machine?
“As the dialogue unfolded, a central theme emerged concerning how higher education institutions can adapt to the rapid pace of technological change, emphasizing the need for responsibility to guide the conversation around AI.”
As artificial intelligence steamrolls ahead, the nation’s K-12 school superintendents are largely flummoxed by how they should teach, use and set guidelines around AI — even though they know it’s an imperative.
“By infusing GPT with its own database of lesson plans, essays and sample problems, Khan Academy improved accuracy and reduced hallucinations. The full archive of Khan Academy math problems is now baked into GPT…”
The instructor said even the students who started as skeptics came out of the experiment thinking of AI as a “really powerful and helpful tool.”
But she said there were also concerns expressed by the students.
The framework, released in December, outlines principles for the use of emergent technologies including privacy and security standards, equity and accessibility.
The university will begin taking project submissions from faculty and students on where to use ChatGPT beginning in February.
According to new research from Stanford University, the popularization of A.I. chatbots has not boosted overall cheating rates in schools.
“I’m fascinated by the prospect of generative AI not as a replacement for human authors, but as a tool for allowing us to actively explore and engage with alternative versions of the world.”
“I operate a business in [describe your business and niche]. To gain mastery and establish myself as an expert, I’m looking for potentially overlooked strategies that could propel me ahead in my field…”
Why does this matter? First, different conversation types serve distinct information needs and demand varied UI designs. Second, there is no one optimal conversation length — both short and long conversations can be helpful, as they might support different user goals.
To create an academia-worthy structure, Bilal says it is fundamental to master incremental prompting, a technique traditionally used in behavioural therapy and special education. It involves breaking down complex tasks into smaller, more manageable steps.
The tool has the potential to ease the burden on burned-out, over-scheduled parents. But it’s no replacement for a human’s judgment — especially regarding what’s best for their kids.
This doesn’t just teach them historical research and fact-checking — it also helps them develop skills for working directly with generative AI that I suspect will be valuable in future job markets.
While many students have been using ChatGPT, Bing Chat and Bard to get some help with their homework, teachers have been more reluctant to use generative AI tools in the classroom. OpenAI has written a great introductory guide for educators who want to integrate AI chatbots into their instruction:
A recent column in COSMOS Magazine explored the need for folks to come up to speed – quickly – with the capabilities and pitfalls of AI Chatbots: