Chat GPT

Chat GPT describes itself as:

A conversational AI system that is based on the GPT-3 (Generative Pretrained Transformer 3) language model.  It is capable of generating human-like responses to text input, allowing it to enagage in natural language conversations with users.  Unline other chatbots, which are typically limited to pre-programmed responses, ChatGPT can generate responses on the fly, allowing it to have more dynamic and varied converstaions.  Because it is based on the powerful GPT-3 model, ChatGPT has a vast knowledge base and is able to understand and respond to a wide range of topics. 

There have been numerous discussions on this topic since Chat GPT was introduced in November of 2022.  We cannot prevent students from going online and gathering information.  What Chat GPT is doing is culling this information from a variety of sources and putting it together for the user.  Although ChatGPT is blocked in school, students can access it on their own personal devices. So, how can we use it for good?  Below you will find several ideas that can be used by both teachers and students to allow Chat GPT to help them become more productive thinkers, learners, and educators. 

PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ASK STUDENTS TO LOG IN  TO CHAT GPT AT SCHOOL AS IT HAS NOT BEEN EDLAW APPROVED

THIS IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF CHAT GPT IN ANY WAY. 

This website is meant for informational purposes only.

Additionally, CHAT GPT is blocked by Elwood UFSD.

Thank you to Saul Kay from Sir Joseph williamson's Mathematical School in Rochester (UK) and Katie Harmon for the ideas below. 

For Teachers:
Use it to CREATE lesson plans

1. Have it create a lesson plan for you on a topic to see what ideas it could give you or get new ideas to present information in a fun way.

2. Ask it for ideas to engage students in the topic you are teaching, or find more interesting activities to teach something difficult. 

3. Use it to learn something new about the topic you are teaching. Stay current.

4. Create learning activities where the answers cannot be looked up on the internet (examples - collaborating on ideas, debates and discussions during class, creating something new like a website, video, or podcast, or physical art).

5. Take Chat GPT’s answers and try to find contradictory information in the sites/text/articles you are using in class.

6. Allow students to use it and talk about responsible use.

7. Spark a PBL project, or some sort of creative ideas for a project.

8. Helps students learn how to ask better questions and how to phrase things differently.

9. Coding examples and excel formulas for when you are stuck.

10. Debate a topic with ChatGPT, take a stance and ask it to give you opposing viewpoints.

11. Ask for help with research, finding media or podcasts to further your learning of a topic.

12. Ask it for feedback on your writing.

13. Try to stump it.

14. Look for false information - ask it questions you know the answer to or you know would return false information (“Who was the first female president of the USA?”)

Tips for Subject Areas:

English Language Arts

• Compare what Chat GPT has to say about the text you are reading to what your peers are saying in class.  Form your own opinion.

• Analyze the essay Chat GPT has written against the text you read, look for anything missing, underline/highlight things you didn’t think about, circle ideas you liked, different color for things you already knew. 

• Ask Chat GPT to create a rubric based on whatever parameters you need.  For example, create a rubric used to grade an informational report for an 8th grader (any of these parameters can be changed).  Here's an example, thanks to Eric Curts. 

• Take the summary from Chat GPT and come up with details that support it in class.

• Instead of a written essay, create a podcast or talk show to discuss literary elements during class and collaboratively with peers. 

• Ask it for feedback on your writing, share the feedback with a peer to decide what to do with it.

Science, Health, and Math

• Compare the methods that Chat GPT uses to solve problems to what you learned about it in class. Discuss with your partner and take notes. 

• Use Chat GPT to find current use cases for the topic you are studying - ie. trigonometry topics. Use it to conduct research on careers that utilize the kind of math you are learning. 

Social Studies

• Ask GPT what it thinks about the current topic that you are studying, and come up with opposing viewpoints with details to support it.

• Use GPT to summarize the event you are studying, fill in the details in between.

Other resources

• Finding AI Plagiarism - Website

• Quill.org and CommonLit.org launched AIWritingCheck.org, a free tool that allows educators to determine whether a text passage was created by humans or AI.

• AI Text Classifier - OpenAI’s tool to determine human versus AI text generation

• Toolkit for Addressing AI Plagiarism in the Classroom

• History of the Google Doc - was it all typed “at once” or over time?

What is ChatGPT? - BBC Youtube Video