Curriculum Writing with Robotics: Enhancing Learning Through Integration

Workshop Description: Teachers will be given the time to explore, find, and/or develop a lesson(s) incorporating robotics for a particular skill or concept. Or spend some time planning out your goals for your robotics class or club. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with fellow educators, exchange ideas, and gain inspiration from a community of like-minded professionals. Don't miss this opportunity to make robotics an integral part of your curriculum.

ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with the chatbot. Currently, it is limited to things that happened by the end of 2021. The language model can answer questions and assist you with tasks like composing emails, essays, and code. 

There is both a free (slightly limited) version and a more robust version for $20/month. Other tools that are similar include Google Bard, Microsoft Bing, Jasper, FastGPT, and more.

• “Suggest 10 Chrome extensions for high school students designed to improve productivity while studying.”

• “Create a set of eight practice problems for third-grade students learning beginner algebra. Have the problems start out easy and get harder.”

• “What promotes student engagement? Identify and summarize articles from trusted sources over the past three years that deal with this subject. The summaries should be 200 words or less each.”

• “Create a quiz with five multiple-choice questions that assess [grade four] students’ understanding of [concept being taught].”

• “Create a step-by-step guide to instruct [audience] how to [topic]. Include important tips and tricks.”

• “Brainstorm 10 content ideas related to [topic] that [your audience like ninth grade students] would find interesting and beneficial.”

• “Pretend you are a sixth-grade student. Explain the concept of [insert concept or idea] in simple terms and provide relevant examples of how it can be applied in a real-world situation. Simplify complex terms or concepts.”

• “Give me five fun ways to introduce a lesson on the properties of water to fourth grade students.”

• “Create a rubric to grade an eighth-grade informational report on the history and culture of the Cherokee tribal nation.”