Practical AI for Instructors and Students Part 4: AI for Teachers

if you've been watching our video so far hopefully remember I'm Ethan Malik a professor at the Wharton School the interactive pedagogy also at the Wharton School and in this video we're going to talk to you about using AI as a teacher as your teaching assistant we'll walk you through how to use and create prompts to help you make sure that learning happens in your classroom using trusted evidence-based pedagogical strategies to ensure that students learn and so this is about making your life as a teacher easier and more effective we have tons of research on how to do good pedagogy but almost every instructor everywhere is overwhelmed and doesn't have the time to implement things so we're going to talk about some simple things we could do with AI to multiply your own work increase your own productivity and so that you can spend time doing the things you want to in classrooms that are most effective rather than having to do busy work that isn't as effective so let's talk about the first thing that you could use AI for and all the prompts that we're doing here will be in the notes to the YouTube video so you feel free to copy and paste them in to your own models and if you haven't seen how to use prompts you can watch our earlier videos on that so the first prompt we're going to try is something that is very effective uh but it just takes time and is hard to do which is develop explanations examples and analogies students learn through example and analogy and these are really difficult for teachers to just create on the fly so we're going to use a prompt that asks teachers and this is a generic prompt what concept they like taught and then the AI will create examples analogies and then explanations and those can be tailored to any specific learning levels of your student so in this case we're pasting The Prompt into chat GPT and as we've discussed in our previous videos You'll see all the elements of kind of good prompting here it provides a context that you're an experienced teacher that generates examples it provides information what is a little different is it actually also gives instructions so it says to ask for information as well so the first thing that the prompter is going to ask for is it's going to ask me about what subject I want to teach and again you should try this yourself so take the prompt that you see in the show notes and just paste them right in to Chachi PT and you'll get similar results so here we're using gpt4 to do the work you could also do this in gbt 3.5 and again you should paste in the prompts to experiment with yourself and you'll notice that if you the prompt that we're giving you for Bing is a little bit different because Bing is connected to the internet it adds some additional instruction that Bing should look up the concepts that we're going to be asked to explain to get a little bit more detail but for this example we'll use gpt4 and you can see it's already doing what we said which is it's asking us what constant we want to explain what concept should we explain let's explain the concept of scaffolding and education excellent and next it seems to be wanting to ask us about what audience we're aiming for so what audience do we want this to be I think that we're aiming for an audience College freshman okay so now we've got that stuff entered in and it's creating a tailored explanation of scaffolding and education I'm learning something from it as a result and it's giving us both a bunch of examples right imagine a college freshman trying to write a research paper the first time it might be overwhelmed with the task of creating a thesis statement finding credible sources and formatting their citations a professor using scaffolding could break down the process into smaller tasks starting with a class a thesis statement then giving feedback on that then moving on to finding sources and teaching students how to discern credibility and giving feedback on that and gradually stepping back as the students gain more confidence in skills it's a pretty good explanation and in fact the personalization that we're doing here really helps students learn because we learn based on what we already know the personalized explanation is especially helpful for students and then it provides these great analogies right like it's like a chef teaching an apprentice to cook a complex dish they don't start with the entire dish they start with simple tasks like chopping vegetables and as The Apprentice becomes more skilled they're given more complex tasks so analogies are really useful because they highlight different aspects of a concept and in order to really learn what we have to do is to take what we've learned in one situation and transfer it in a new situation to do that we have to understand not just the concrete example but the underlying aspects of that example giving students multiple and diverse analogies and examples helps them transfer that knowledge to new situations another effective pedagogical strategy the teachers can use and help the AI Implement are lost takes tests these are formative assessments that guide your teaching so that you can tweak your teaching based on your understanding of what students know Los tags tests also help with retrieval practice asking students to remember partially forgotten information deepening their memory we're going to demonstrate how the AI can help you create a lows takes test using Bing in creative mode so to do this low stakes testing AI assistant we're going to do something a little different than we've done before so the previous versions of the AIS we've shown you have all been Standalone on their own websites that isn't the only way to interact with these AI models though so AI is increasingly able to be integrated into other systems and tools so you soon if not already your copy of Microsoft Word or Google Docs will have an AI assistant with it so in this case we're going to use an AI assistant which is Bing's chat bot which is the same thing as gpt4 in creative mode which I'll show you in a second and we're going to use that to read a website and create quizzes about that topic so in this case I'm using the Microsoft edge browser which is just a web browser like Chrome or Safari you can use it on any computer and of course there might be other browsers you want to use but in this case Microsoft Edge comes with this Bing sidebar and I'm going to open that up right here by clicking on this B and I get the choices again about what version of Microsoft Bing I want to use I want to select creative mode the purple mode here to make sure that I have the right choice underway and now I'm going to paste in the prompt that you find below so it's going to specifically do the things that we know good prompt does is going to tell how the AI what it is you're a quiz creator of good diagnostic quizzes tells you what it's going to do create low stakes tests and gives it step-by-step instructions about how to create a good multiple choice test and I'm just going to enter and now what it's going to do is read the web page and this could be a PDF document it could be a syllabus for my class it could be a piece of a textbook and it's now creating a quiz in this case it's creating a quiz based on the scientific method which is what we're looking at on Wikipedia but it could be something else and you can see it's both creating quizzes and it's actually going to create an answer key for us as well so now we've created an easy low stake test just like any other piece of work that you're doing with AI you need to check it to make sure that it's good you don't want to just hand students this and run with it you want to make sure that you're checking the results and being very careful that they're accurate and you can see it's even providing an answer key here so now we've created a low stakes test that we can start and build from to be able to test student knowledge and help their retrieval so what's another tool that teachers could use another tool the teachers could is could you help build a syllabus using all of the pedagogical strategies that we know work like formative assessment retrieval practice interleaving and really making connections between Concepts so for that we're going to use chat 4.0 and ask it to help us create that syllabus so now again because we're switching over to a system that's not connected to the internet we should be extra careful about hallucinations and mistakes so we're going to use this but it's not going to do all the work for us it's giving us suggestions that help for us to build upon right and we can give feedback to the system to make the system better as a result if we're connecting the internet the results might be a little bit stronger but maybe not right so you have to pay attention to what you're doing while you do this we're going to take the prompt Again The Prompt is available to you in the show notes and in this case again context you're an expert learning designer specializing building curriculums for classes that promote direct instruction Active Learning retrieval practice assessment all of these things that we know are important and remember these problems result in different things every time so it may not read or pay attention to all these things this is a starting point for us as teachers to become better at our teaching tasks to save us time to do better work it is not a replacement for our expertise because it's not going to magically do all these things it will create a good result and it's going to ask us a couple questions so the first question this problem is going to ask us is about what course we want to teach and what level our students are and how many times we're going to meet so do you have an idea for those things what course we're teaching and the learning level of our students sure I think we're teaching a course in psychology to college freshmen cognitive load Theory and human memory so now it looks like it's working right now so I'd like that it complements us it's very friendly it's telling us something engaged in course and it takes into account how a form meeting and now it's building a syllabus for us right with some really clear ideas of how we're using these techniques of direct instruction how we're doing Active Learning so really all of the latest pedagogical techniques it's creating for us so it's beyond just a syllabus it's actually giving us some really great points to start building out our own teaching agenda here and what you'll be able to do with this is actually explore this further so this is the beginning of an interactive series of discussions with this particular AI so you may be asking why we switch tools why we're using Bing before and gpt4 here Bing in general is a very powerful tool but also has a bit of a personality it can be a little bit hard to work with at times so if I'm not interested in being connected to the internet and if I've already paid for in this case chat cpt4 I'd rather use that tool because it's a little better at long form answers again one of the reasons you want to experiment with these systems is you'll learn what's good at what right maybe you'll use Bard for some things gpt4 for some things Bing for other things and other systems like anthropics Claude there's lots of AI models out there and the more you learn about them the better they work but again you must stick with these foundational models and work with these core systems to learn how they operate for you so in this case you can see it did some really nice job here of creating different sessions and we could actually ask for more details we could say could you explain more about the connections I could make in session two I was going to expand on one of the ideas that it had in session two so now it's talking about all the details and it's giving us more information about this session and about how we could teach it and again you want to be very careful to watch out for hallucinations make sure you're taking everything you know not too seriously but this can be a really powerful beginning here so and it can even go as far as we can ask it to give me exactly what to say to the class and it will introduce exactly that phrasing with a quote so it's actually saying welcome back everyone today we're going to take a deeper dive into cognitive load Theory and understand its intersections with other parts of psychology first let's consider how cognitive load Theory relates to other Concepts so you can even get help on what to say and again experienced teacher you should be able to outperform the AI but this is a good guide a good starting point for you to do work and these are just some examples of how you can use AI to do better work as a teacher and to be able to focus your time on the things that matter most to you and matter most to your students rather than on sort of busy work and be able to create more customization and more results so in this video we focused on pedagogical strategies that you can Implement in the classroom in the next video we'll focus on how you can create prompts to give students as homework assignments so they are prepared for your class [Music]

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Length: 12min 36sec (756 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 03 2023