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Leveraging ChatGPT as a Teacher and Student Resource, by Matthew Washlowsky, In Desjardins, D. et al. (2023), AI-Enhanced Instructional Design. University of Saskatchewan.
What & Why
What & Why
Tools are free and fee-based. The free versions are often limited to how many times you can access it or the features available. Free versions use your input to train the AI. Paid versions, often $20/month, offer full access and privacy of the data.
The same prompt in different tools will give different (but often similar) results. Learn how to prompt for best results.
Tools
Tools
A chatbot's knowledge base is huge with many different sources of information on a topic. It will give you the most likely answer to the question for the average person from a massive database, which is why specificity is important. Lastly, it wants to make you happy, so it will make up facts rather than disappoint you.
Select Generative AI Tools
Select Generative AI Tools
View these Generative AI tool descriptions by Yost, L. (2024). An Instructor's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Handbook. Kirkwood Community College.
ChatGPT (OpenAI)
Claude.ai (Anthropic)
Copilot (Microsoft)
Gemini (Google)
POE (Quora) - a site with access to multiple AI systems
The AI Guide from the AI Pedagogy Project at Harvard University allows you to play with ChatGPT and Claude without logging in or creating an account.
Select AI Research Tools
Select AI Research Tools
Read more about specific tools in Chapter 5. AI Tools from Charles Sturt University Library. (2024). Digital Skills: Artificial Intelligence. Charles Sturt University. This chapter introduces a selection of AI tools that can be used in academic study, including Generative AI (GenAI) tools, AI research tools, and AI tools for teaching and learning.
Gemini using its Deep Research tool. Consider this question: "What are the most significant peer-reviewed findings from the last year regarding the correlation between diet and mental illness? Provide a structured summary with citations.” (Deep Research questions can take 10 minutes.) See the result. See revision. NOTE: The references may not be good or may lead to fake sources.
Elicit is a research assistant that automates parts of your workflow. When you ask a research question, Elicit will show relevant papers and summaries of key information. Users can read abstracts, filter based on study type, and save and export their work. It is good for evaluating and refining research questions.
Consensus is an academic research tool that limits its data search to the 200M published papers in Semantic Scholar and uses ChatGPT claims, methodology, sample size, and more, like a “consensus meter” that estimates the consensus in the published literature.
NotebookLM is an AI-powered research hub designed to eliminate 'hallucinations' by anchoring its intelligence strictly to the materials you add to a notebook, including PDFs, websites, text, documents, images, and public YouTube videos (not unlisted). The AI helps you analyze and synthesize information and generate visual and audio summaries without the risk of external misinformation. Learn more here.
Image Generators
Image Generators
Gemini with its Create Image tool
DALL-E by OpenAI (but not free for the best model)
Adobe Firefly is especially for integrating images into photos
Generative AI by Getty Images creates stock images
SLIDES: Canva.com, Beautiful, Plus AI and here is a review of seven more.
VIDEO: Sora (from OpenAI), Flux, and lots of APIs (that use ChatGPT but with layers of tools): here is a review of 14 of them.
AVATAR CREATOR: HeyGen
Prompts
Prompts
Writing and Refining Prompts explores strategies for supplying an AI tool with an initial prompt, adapting AI output for professional use through re-prompting and human editing, how tone and language affect AI output, and ways to prompt AI tools to write in your voice.
Jose Bowen's 100+ sample prompts for students, teachers, and researchers. Better prompts contain these elements: TASK: What exactly do you want AI to do?, FORMAT: What is the specific output?, VOICE: What style of language is desired., and CONTEXT: What further context or examples can you provide?
Paul.H.936. (2024, June 20). DALL-E: Tips for Writing Effective Prompts. D2L Brightspace Community.
A prompt format: "As a [Role], provide a [output] in [format] that will [purpose]". Then, refine the prompt by telling it what it did well and what you want to adjust. (from the Society for Technical Communication annual conference courtesy of Susie McGowen).
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