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If fine-tuned on pedagogy,

Lesson plan generation / feedback

Studies show that a surprising proportion of teachers do not have a core program but use their own lessons or search TeachersPayTeachers or Pinterest,

Could that change if every teacher had an assistant, a sort of copilot in the work of taking a class of students (with varying backgrounds, levels of engagement, and readiness-to-learn) from wherever they start to highly skilled, competent, and motivated young people?

Emphasize Humans-in-the-Loop

In the first half of the 2021-22 school year, the average K-12 student accessed 74 different education technology products, platforms or services while the average K-12 teacher interacted with 86 different tools in the course of their work.

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ensuring salespeople and customers understand it.

They are developing into sophisticated reasoning engines that can contextualize, infer and deduce information in a manner strikingly similar to human thought.

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They get points here and there. I think it incentivizes them more than if you had known points. It's one of those things. Extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation. It's a great debate to have but. Maybe having a little bit a little bit not 50% of their grade, but five. Something really small, I think is enough to get them to pay attention. Oh, this is part of the. Learning process as opposed to thinking. Okay. What is the grade? Oh, it's 50%. This okay. That's all Jeremy D.I need to pay attention to. Right. Start paying attention right before the Viranga P.midterm, because Nothing, right? Yeah. That's the downside. If you make the whole course grade because people will advocate for that, people will say, okay, the grade should be based on demonstrating learning, not activities, right. There's a school of thought that way. Okay. So if you do that, then midterms and the final is the whole grade. Essentially, maybe homework. Then that's when they are going to pay attention to it. Right. So they might pay attention when the homework is you. But they're largely going to be disengaged till midterm one shows up and go, oh, I have to study from interim one, but by that time. It's not one of those classes. You can't do that in physics. You can't just do it three Jeremy D.days Viranga P.before. I've Jeremy D.been there Viranga P.thinking I could do that. Jeremy D.Yeah. You can't do it with. I should have been Viranga P.going to lecture. Yeah. So I think it's one of those things where it's a tricky balance. But to say, look. You have to show up and if it helps here's 5% to help you come

Spend half an hour. Just focus half an hour and do this and you'll get what. I have talked to them about the fact that I'm not expecting them to read every word. Of the assigned reading. Glance through it. Get an idea, right? Just get an idea and ask a question. Start the conversation so that. You're not showing up to class without any understanding of what this is about and expecting in 50 minutes or something like that. To gather a lot of information. It's not very effective to do that. It's a process

Right. So what do you see in a class, when this is working, when the students are reading and engaging before class. What registers for you as the instructor. What Viranga P.do you see? Changing. Well, kind of posing questions. During lecture, you get responses that say, oh, they understood the basics, right. If I ask a basic kind of question because it's a game of throw a question. See where they're at throw another question. Maybe that's a little bit more difficult seeing where they are and when they're reading. We're already a step ahead. Right. Clearly. And so then. What we can do is solve problems that are a little bit more difficult and get into the real world applications. Because now you know the basics. Now we'll talk about what's this mean. What is this for? Right. And. It's also the questions that come back right. Like during a lecture. The type of questions that a student is asking. Shows their understanding. Right. So sometimes that's an important thing. Your level of understanding. You can display that by the type of questions you're asking. If you have very high understanding the type of questions you're asking are very high level questions. If you don't know what is the moon made out of, you're going to ask, what is the moon made out of? Right. But the person who knows what the moon is made out of. That person is going to ask what type of minerals. Are the music made out of. How the density structure inside those are the questions that a person who knows something about it is going to ask. Right. So the types of questions are coming my way. Sometimes it trips me Jeremy D.up and go, Viranga P.oh, wait. That's a good question. I don't know the answer to that which is exactly. That's okay. Right. And so that's what I'm seeing with the readings. And so that's why. I want to keep doing that because. Even though they might start off very kind of hesitant. I don't want to read it's annoying. It's too long. I think at the end of the day, they're realizing it's good. It works for them. It's to their

The system worked in a way that it disappeared, Jeremy D.right like Viranga P.there's. A concept in design. I think Steve Jobs borrowed it from a German designer of design. That's really good disappears. Right. That design. That. Is well done is obvious. Where if you're trying to reach for a doorknob, it's where it's supposed Jeremy D.to be Viranga P.and you reach it and you don't even think about the fact that the doorknob Jeremy D.was where Viranga P.it's supposed to be. I think hypothesis like that. I think. The design is good so that. You don't really have to think about the platform. The platform kind of disappears into the background, which is what you want from. I think a student's perspective, I think it shouldn't matter. Because if that was what was happening with I think perusal is the platform itself was getting Jeremy D.in the way Viranga P.I think. Good design should disappear.

Reading helps students. Be prepared before they come to lecture. We have a lot of material to cover. And. There's complicated concepts that it's not part of everyday life per se. Right. Like idea of torque isn't something that maybe the average person kind of thinks about all the time. But to explain torque from zero. To 100 is a very difficult thing to do in 50 minutes or a very short period of time. So if they come to class with some exposure to the idea they've done some reading, they don't have to understand it. I think a lot of students think. Because I have to read. That means I have to understand it before I come to class. That's not the point. Be exposed to it before you come to class. So then when we talk about it in class. You're familiar, and then. You can solidify Jeremy D.your understanding.

It's way too sophisticated for its own good. Maybe. Right. It's trying to be AI ish in the sense like it's trying to detect. If a particular comment is worthy of two points or three points, and a lot of that system is based on that. So if student makes a comment, it marks it as one. Instead of two. And you get a lot of emails about why was this Mark. And that's not the point. I Jeremy D.think Viranga P.the point of social. Is you're getting them to just have conversations. Encouraging conversations. Not necessarily to judge if that comment was good or Jeremy D.bad. Viranga P.It's just get it done. And we expect the fact that you're in the room having a conversation will help you realize, oh, this is useful. When I have a question, I can ask it here, and somebody else may have the same question. And we can have a discussion around it. And that social part. It's Social constructivism. Is helpful. Right. So people realize that they learn from other people.

For 15 years, I assigned readings without knowing for sure that students read them. Now, I know.”

We ought not to dismiss the non-learning applications of generative AI because that is exactly where the best uses of it for learning are likely to spring.

Rather than doing that we need to understand the way that generative AI may finally push us into a long-needed rethink of what and how we teach and especially how we assess learning.

we need sustained attention, experimentation, and refinement in order to reap the benefit of a particular tool or approach. The trendiness factor often detracts from that sustained attention.

retention, loyalty and advocacy.

When the latter happens, you’re likely to see a conflict of interest between the educators and the marketers, mismatched goals, and a watered-down learning experience.

find long-term success

lack of instructional design

There’s another distinct problem that occurs from this arrangement: Because the marketing department is so focused on engagement and conversion metrics, it develops its educational content specifically to meet those goals. Even if the content is informative, it is generally not written as educational content that builds proficiency through specific learning objectives. There tends to be content like passive videos that are informative but do not help build viewers’ competencies.

organizations that paved the way in their field

Education-based marketing is a strategy that shifts the message from a persuasive sales focus to one that imparts knowledge and builds trust,

To take full advantage of our students’ emerging expertise, we must also commit to designing assignments that challenge them to integrate experiential knowledge as a scholarly resource.

. We need to design more opportunities for students at all levels to do original research, participate in fieldwork, co-create with peers, conduct interviews, collect data and leverage their insights and experiences to advance society.

Should we deepen our emphasis on creativity and critical thinking in hopes that our humanness will prevail?

To get real value out of ChatGPT, you have to treat it less like an all-knowing Oracle and more like a colleague.

How hard would it be for LLM-powered individual authors to replace the textbook industry?

Don’t be fooled by the LLM hallucination fear. The technology doesn’t need to (and shouldn’t) produce a perfect, finished draft with zero human supervision.

What will happen to this tottering industry when professors, perhaps with the help of on-campus learning designers, can use an LLM to spit out their own textbooks tuned to the way they teach?

And not just the asynchronous, discussion-board kind:

What if we rearranged our universities around departments of critical thinking rather than departments of chemistry?

Case in point: a few years ago, I got a backup camera for my car. Now I can barely drive without it. What happens when AI becomes so integrated into our daily decision-making that we become dependent on it?

I don’t consider myself a pessimist about human nature, but in what world do we humans take a perfectly good tool that helped us get from point A to point B and then decline its offer to take us from point B to point C?

Central to that effort is UF’s push to apply AI teaching across the full breadth of curriculum at UF.

According to a draft, the principles say the use of publisher content for the development of A.I. should require “a negotiated agreement and explicit permission.”

He said one upside for publishers was that audiences might soon find it harder to know what information to trust on the web, so “they’ll have to go to trusted sources.”

the Wikipedia-ization of a lot of information,”

authentic student-teacher relationships

Center the lived experiences of student

facilitators of learning2, knowledge creation, and meaningco-construction.

extent to which instructorsengage with students in an online course, can be achieved with classdiscussions, daily or weekly multimedia announcements in the LMS,synchronous meetings, virtual office hours, and providing substantivefeedback.

digital nudges, early-alert interventions, andautomated and immediate feedbac

enable all students to feel that they and their unique background have aplace in the life of the classroom

Meta-cognition, self-regulation, and agency through practices that helpstudents learn to be better learners and take control of the learningprocess.17

foster the construction of meaning

Opportunities to project their personality to the community

Presence

Community of Inquiry

Equity-minded practice requires educators to acknowledgethat traditional academic curricula privileges students who have academic,social, financial, and cultural advantages

Equity-minded teaching practices offer targeted support to students,thereby addressing and mitigating the specific barriers they encounter byproviding resources that meet their needs

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Be easily accessible to your students. Provide multiple regular opportunities for connectionand support via email, virtual office hours, prompt feedback, and virtual study sessions orstudent conferences

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Throughout this text, we intend to promote equitable andinclusive digital learning experiences that support minoritized students who have been historicallymarginalized, such as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander, poverty-impacted, transgender,first-generation, international, those for whom English is a Second Language (ESL), student parents,student veterans, students with disabilities, or neurodiverse students.

options

control

The central aspect of equity requires educators to identify, critically evaluate, and change the policies and practices that students experience as inequitable barriers to their persistence and success

meet students where they are

Student voice and choice means more than letting students select from various assignment options; it means allowing students to develop a sense of ownership of the classroom and their own learning

Their purpose is “to build new open, interoperable infrastructure connecting the world’s people and ideas over all content on every platform using a new unit of speech—the digital annotation—to enable a world of diverse collaborative services for the benefit of humanity.”

Senate Bill 17: Banning Discriminatory “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” (DEI) Policies in Higher Education

inconsistent with the law” for state agencies to fund diversity, equity and inclusion positions with taxpayer money. He

It might also help to visually split the mapping area in zones, such as "on-stage" (what the customer experiences) versus "back-stage" (what systems and processes are active in the background).

critique the products of AI writing tools

an intimidating blinking cursor on a blank page

We should be familiarizing ourselves with, and nurturing, our student’s writing styles and lines of inquiry.

annotate the readings with Hypothesis

In this moment of generative AI, Hypothesis continues to rely on what we’ve always done: support process-oriented pedagogies that make learning more accessible.

It’s hard to avoid concerns about plagiarism with the rise of ChatGPT.

Over one thousand people registered for the webinar and over five hundred attended synchronously.

They also help me to avoid being vague, controversial, or off-topic.

synthetic writing

In PRS, I encouraged teachers to shift their focus from asking questions to teaching students how to ask high-quality questions themselves.

We solicited feedback from educators in developing this resource

Why are people so quick to be impressed by the output of large language models (LLMs)?

So will AI text generation tools revolutionize or kill college writing? Both! Neither! For sure! Probably! Eventually! Somewhat! It’s…complicated.

e-Literate isn’t about what I know. It’s about what I’m learning.

Particularly if used judiciously as part of the writing curriculum rather than the whole thing, it could be quite useful.

students are heavily influenced by whether they believe their teacher cares about their learning.

Then I would have edited the output

ChatGPT doesn’t mark the end of high school English class, but it can mark the end of formulaic, mediocre writing performance as a goal for students and teachers. That end is long overdue, and if ChatGPT hastens that end, then that is good news.

Both started with a version of “Work A and Work B have many similarities and many differences,” an opening sentence that I would have rejected from a live student

If they put a great degree of thought into designing a prompt, would that not mean that they were doing something involving real learning?

I suspect that test runs with ChatGPT depend in part on the richness of the prompt given,

And the algorithm cannot manage supporting its points with quotes from the works, a pretty fundamental part of writing about literature.

He said it was “very naive” to think it would be possible to impose restrictions on internet platforms, particularly with Microsoft primed to integrate AI into its search engine, Bing.“Are you going to ban Google and Bing?”

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AI is increasingly used for assessments of student learning. These are all valuable and enhance our efficiency and effectiveness.

At the same time, we need to continue building activities and assessments to make classroom work more specific and experiential.

Pedagogically speaking, focusing on the grunt work of trying out ideas—watching them develop, wither, and cede ground to better ones—is the most valuable time we can spend with our students. We surrender that time to Silicon Valley and the messy database that is the internet at the peril of our students.

digital utopians might claim that students and teachers will have more opportunities for critical thinking because generating ideas—the grunt work of writing—isn’t taking up any of our time. Along this line of thinking, ChatGPT is just another calculator, but for language instead of numerical calculation.

Analysis of recent events not in the training data for the system.

Note that ChatGPT can produce outputs that take the form of  “brainstorms,” outlines, and drafts. It can also provide commentary in the style of peer review or self-analysis. Nonetheless, students would need to coordinate multiple submissions of automated work in order to complete this type of assignment with a text generator.

get a better sense of their thinking

a process that empowers critical thinking

students who feel connected to their writing will be less interested in outsourcing their work to an automated process.

skip the learning and thinking around which their writing assignments are designed.

Augmenting teachers, not replacing them

There’s a line somewhere between using ChatGPT in collaboration, and getting it to do all the work.

ChatGPT is not an original thinker, but you are.

using the model’s suggestions as a starting point

Right now, one of the most powerful things you can learn about ChatGPT is how to write quality prompts.

Beyond the media hype about cheating,

"I would much rather have ChatGPT teach me about something than go read a textbook."

the company has also heard from them that the chat bot can be "an unbelievable personal tutor for each kid," Altman said.

"We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested for in math class, I imagine.

This framing means that as educators we need to be clear not only about what we hope our students are learning but also about how and why.

The main goal of transparent teaching is simple: to promote students’ conscious understanding of how they learn.

The educational issues surrounding ChatGPT are similar in kind to those we've seen with the growing power of the web

Note that students will not be able to cite ChatGPT using a link to their generated response;instead, ask students to repeat the exact language of their search query in the footnotes in lieu of a link

formulaic syntax

These tools, along with a range of other practices,

creating a more proximal andcontextual environment for reader response, peer interaction, and shared meaning-making

Bryant’s (2002)emphasis on the “fluidity” of written texts; namely, that processes of composition, revision,publication, reading, analysis, and discussion are fundamentally collaborative endeavors

SA scholarship has primarily advanced SA as a learning technology–andnot just a writing technology

synthesizes reading with writing (e.g.Wolfe, 2002)

create assessments that “take into consideration the processes and experiences of learning.”

Ask students to engage in metacognitive reflection that has them articulate what they have learned, how they have learned it, and why the knowledge is valuable.

Is this moment more like the invention of the calculator, saving me from the tedium of long division, or more like the invention of the player piano, robbing us of what can be communicated only through human emotion?

The question isn’t “How will we get around this?” but rather “Is this still worth doing?”

The rudiments of writing will be considered a given, and every student will have direct access to the finer aspects of the enterprise.

Last night, I received an essay draft from a student. I passed it along to OpenAI’s bots. “Can you fix this essay up and make it better?” Turns out, it could. It kept the student’s words intact but employed them more gracefully; it removed the clutter so the ideas were able to shine through. It was like magic.

nor does it successfully integrate quotations from the original texts

What GPT can produce right now is better than the large majority of writing seen by your average teacher or professor.

methods of assessment that take into consideration the processes and experiences of learning, rather than simply relying on a single artifact like an essay or exam. The evidence of learning comes in a little of different packages

The fact that the AI writes in fully fluent, error-free English with clear structure virtually guarantees it a high score on an AP exam

ChatGPT may be a threat to some of the things students are asked to do in school contexts, but it is not a threat to anything truly important when it comes to student learning.

an opportunity to re-examine our practices and make sure how and what we teach is in line with our purported pedagogical values.

Rather than letting students explore the messy and fraught process of learning how to write, we have instead incentivized them to behave like algorithms, creating simulations that pass surface-level muster

The meaning of life is

In The New Laws of Robotics, legal scholar Frank Pasquale argues for guidance from professional organizations about whether and how to use data-driven statistical models in domains such as education or health care.

we need collaborative processes to seek clarity.

slow thinking,

Should I ask students to prompt a language model and then critique its output?

preferences of data scraped from internet sites hardly renowned for their wisdom or objectivity.

“mathy math,” a model of language sequences built by “scraping” the internet and then, with massive computing, “training” the model to predict the sequence of words most likely to follow a user’s prompt

What a contrast to the masochistic persistence I had practiced for so many years and preached to my struggling students.

Back in the early 2000s, I used to demonstrate to students how EasyBib often gets it wrong when it comes to MLA formatting.

having students socially annotate the paper, practicing their editing and fact-checking skills.

The text is being generated on behalf of the student and is being substituted for the student’s self-generated text. This use of AI is inherently dishonest.

Teaching students to be good critical readers takes time and requires instructors develop activities, such as social annotation assignments, that draw students’ attention to the details of a well-written text.

So, while effective editors may or may not be exceptional writers, they must be great critical readers.

“As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.”

“Cooperation, community, and connectedness are central features of culturally responsive teaching. Mutual aid, interdependence, and reciprocity as criteria for guiding behavior replace the individualism and competitiveness that are so much a part of conventional classrooms. The goal is for all students to be winners,

cognitive benefits of sharing ideas with peers, but also the socio-emotional benefits of being a member of a learning community

I could instead present students with ChatGPT’s response alongside some marking instructions and ask them to provide a critique on what grade the automated response deserves and why.

do we really need all students to be writing the same essays and responding to the same questions?

an opportunity to improve the way we assess

articulate its inability to fully replicate the expertise and real-world experience that human teachers bring to the classroom

If ChatGPT is used to grade assignments or exams,

making it capable of engaging in natural language conversations.

ZTD captures the essential spirit

keep you doing what you need to do,without distractions

but an opinion is different from a grounded understanding.

“A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem,” Jobs said. “The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”

But more crucially, the humanities have not fundamentally changed their approach in decades, despite technology altering the entire world around them.

It’s painful and extraordinary to watch the ham-fisted way a brilliant engineering mind like Musk deals with even relatively simple literary concepts such as parody and satire.

It’s around 24/7, it never gets tired or sick,

It can summarize things you’ve said to it in new language that helps you look at yourself in a different light and reframe situations more effectively. 

Journaling in GPT-3 feels more like a conversation, so you don’t have to stare at a blank page or feel silly because you don’t know what to say.

If you know how to use it correctly and you want to use it for this purpose, GPT-3 is pretty close, in a lot of ways, to being at the level of an empathic friend

more and more jobs involve the use of generative AI for everything from discovering new drug molecules to developing ad copy,

more creative assessments that require students to demonstrate application of knowledge rather than simply the ability to produce information.

It forces us to reconsider what is distinctly human about intelligence if a machine can generate human language complete with analysis.

I fully believe that the fact that the essay was written by AI and not a live person would be undetectable for many college admissions committees.