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ChatGPT and Beyond: How to Handle AI in Schools | Common Sense Education

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Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom

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Although there is a huge amount of interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the consumer world, particularly since the release of OpenAI's free ChatGPT program last November, in the hallowed halls of academia the response has been more wary. Concerns abound about academic integrity. There are also worries about how AI-generated content can be biased, inaccurate, and sometimes contain entirely false information, dubbed "hallucinations."

The cautious response is to be expected according to Houman Harouni, lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former elementary and high school teacher. He has compassion for educators trying to grapple with a rapidly shifting world shaped by machine learning.

"Technology creates a shock," he explains. "This shock is sometimes of a magnitude that we cannot even understand it, in the same way that we still haven't absorbed the sharp shock of the mobile phone."

Harouni has long wrestled with the impact of cutting-edge technology on education, including experimenting in his own classroom, and is convinced that when it comes to teaching "the medium is part of the message." He believes that getting school students and those in higher ed to engage with virtual worlds is essential.

"Where we want to get to is a place where you're dancing with it, dancing with robots," he says.

If the idea of waltzing with a robot creates apprehension for educators, Harouni has some advice :
1) Stop pretending that it doesn't exist
Educators must "help the next generation face the reality of the world and develop instruments and ways of navigating this reality with integrity," Harouni says. Students are well aware that technologies such as ChatGPT exist and are already experimenting with them on their own, but they need guidance about how to use them responsibly.

Teacher education and professional development programs should not ignore generative artificial intelligence either.
2) Use AI alongside your students
Engage with generative AI tools with your students in person, when possible. Otherwise, share AI-generated responses to questions during class time and ask students to consider them or have students experiment with the technology at home, document their experiences, and share them with the class.
3) Teach students how to ask the ChatGPT tool questions
"The educator's job is to understand what opportunities are left open beside the technology," Harouni says.

Teach students to do what artificial intelligence cannot do. For example, unlike robots, we can ask ourselves questions and that is what students need to be trained in: to know how to ask questions and to learn how to critique their own questions, frameworks, and the answers generated by AI, he says.

Students can start with topics and questions that they are interested in and ask ChatGPT for answers, he suggests. The knack is then getting them excited about asking follow-up questions. Harouni uses a personal experience with his 10-year-old stepdaughter and his newborn baby to illustrate his point. When his stepdaughter asked him why he kept telling her to be careful with the baby, Harouni turned to ChatGPT to help her to get to the bottom of her question.

"My creativity as the teacher or the parent at that moment is to say, 'What is it that you're really trying to ask? What is it that you really want to know?'"

While ChatGPT churned out a "whole bunch of answers about the fragility of the baby," with some patience, Harouni helped his stepdaughter discover the question that she truly wanted to ask which was what she could safely do with the new baby. "At the moment that the exploration [with AI] ends with the answer, you know that your work as a teacher begins," he explains.
4) Use generative AI tools to spark the imagination
One frequent concern about generative artificial intelligence is that students will use it to cheat and avoid the hard work of thinking for themselves, but Harouni says that tools like ChatGPT should really challenge teachers and professors to reassess the assignments they give their students.

"You have to stop thinking that you can teach exactly the way you used to teach when the basic medium has changed," he explains. If students can turn to ChatGPT or other AI language models for quick and easy answers then there is a problem with the lesson, Harouni believes.

"We have to create assignments that push [students] to the point where they have to question what is the framework that is being used here and what would it mean for me to radically change this framework," he says.

Harouni recently wrote about how he used ChatGPT to spur higher-level thinking among his students at HGSE when he presented them with a challenging case study that had no easy solutions. The students' initial responses were no better than the chatbot's ideas. Instead "it was after ChatGPT reflected to the students their failure of imagination that they could begin to think of options that they, or any automatic language scrawler, would not have readily reached for," he explained in a co-authored article for Wired.

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(Hey Awesome educators! Don't forget to COMMENT below and let us know which of our 4 tips you'll use in your classrooms this week. The whole tribe would love to hear your insights!) Imagine the following 2 scenarios:
1. It's the first day of school. Your students walk into the classroom laughing, talking, and genuinely happy to see eachother again. They begin to take their seats and, shockingly, some even say hi to you. The noise keeps on growing and you keep on thinking, "What can I do to grab their attention so they want to listen?" Unsure, you welcome everyone in and begin the year the same way you always have. While some students do listen, you don't get the reaction you dreamed of. You wish there was a way to start the new year so that they're so enraptured with your presentation you could actually hear a pin drop.

2. It's the first day of school. Your students walk into the classroom laughing, talking, and happy to see eachother again. They start to sit in their seats and some even say hi to you. The noise keeps on growing and you do 2 things that instantly grab their attention. They're dazzled, sitting in complete silence, anxiously waiting for your next words. Your heart sings...

At the end of the post you'll learn exactly what these 2 actions were, but I have to warn you: They'll only work if you use these 4 quick effective teaching tips of a new method we discovered.

Click here to make a Powtoon to WOW your class now "

1. The Desire Method

The reason it's so hard for teachers to grab their students attention is because most teachers make the classic'About A Topic' mistake. The'About A Topic' mistake is when you teach'About A Topic'. Whether it's American History, Chemistry, or any other topic you could possible think of, when you talk'About' it, you lose people's attention.

The solution is not to teach 'About A Topic' but instead to teach 'For The Student'. Meaning, the Student needs to immediately feel the benefit of the content you are teaching. When you show a benefit, you create desire. And where there's desire, you guessed it, you hold attention.

Here's a quick start to use the Desire Method. As you know, the absolute most important part of effective teaching is how you start. If you begin the wrong way, it's near impossible to get your student's attention back. N ever start with a typical'Welcome' or'Here's what we're going to learn today' (classic'AAT' Mistake). Instead, begin your content with Headlines and with Hooks.

A Headline is a short sentence that boils down the core benefit of being part of the class. For example, take a look at what you're reading right now: You're reading this sentence now because it began with a Headline that caught your attention: 4 New "Effective Teaching" Methods To WOW Your Students.

A Headline is a Promise. What can your content promise your students? If you delve into your students minds, you'll discover exactly how they want to learn, and, trust us, they're hungry for wisdom. But they need to see how your content is a benefit for them. For example, learning about the American Revolution could show them how to be an effective leader, how to bring about a movement of change, the principles of starting something new (whether it's a company or a country or an app), etc. Or, the better a student is at Mathematics (whether it's 4th grade math or advanced geometry) the better they'll be able to Code (which is all about math and algorithms) and create innovative businesses and technology.

2. Feel The Pain

The second best effective teaching tip is to have students feel the pain of missing this benefit. Notice also how I began this post. I clearly framed a painful situation many teachers face in terms of desperately trying to get the attention of their class. After I gave the Headline with a Hook, you were drawn closer in because of the painful scenario.

The pain is always the emphasis of lack. So if the benefit is Attention, the lack of Attention is the pain. Think about it this way: If your students are LACKING the content they're about to learn, what impact would that have? How does NOT knowing your content ultimately hurt their future success?

The best form of pain is proof and/or giving a specific example. If Steve Jobs had mastered the leadership secrets of George Washington would he have been fired from Apple? Who are people you know who were worse off because they lacked the knowledge you're about to gain?

3. The Preview Strategy: How To Create Anticipation For Your Curriculum

Here's a brilliant effective teaching strategy for you: Create anticipation for your curriculum.

Most teachers start the year by saying something general like, "This year is going to be great, you're going to learn all about...." - classic AAT mistake. Instead, build up the benefit, value, pain, lack and top it off with a Preview: "... but you'll only learn the 4 secrets to George Washington's Leadership Success in a few months..."

Did you feel that? Now your students CAN'T learn something? They can't have something they WANT right now? Super powerful, 100% attention hacker gold.

Think Hollywood. They never just release a movie, it's against attention hacking DNA. Every movie ever released from Hollywood is first launched with a Preview. You go to see a movie and before that movie begins - you're shown 5 movies that are'Coming Soon'. Then you see the Preview again on TV or YouTube and you can't wait for it to come out because of all the anticipation they created for you.

4. A Wild Secret for Effective Teaching: Teach with VAK

Here's something you already know: There are 3 main types of learners - Visual, Audio, and Kinesthetic. To really master effective teaching, notice which type your students are.

Visual is seeing the material, Audio is hearing the material, and Kinesthetic is feeling the material. Meaning, the optimal learning environment is NOT to sit passively waiting for a lecture to end. The IDEAL learning environment is when the Student sees, hears, and feels the material themselves.

That's why making animated videos and presentations has become such a popular new medium of effective teaching recently. Animated videos hit the Audio and Visual, and when the Student creates one themselves, it hits the Kinesthetic type too.

How to add an instant WOW Factor in your Class Today

What did the teacher in the second scenario ( above) do that instantly grabbed their students attention? What was their secret to effective teaching? Simple: They turned the lights OFF... and turned a Powtoon ON.

Here's why that's smart, why it works, and how to use the 4 tips you just learned to rock your students world. When you turn off the lights it interrupts their pattern of what they expect to happen. They expect you to say hi, they expect people to be talking, and they expect not to be too excited. But they're not expecting for the lights to go off.

Now, if the lights went off on their own without any other medium - it would feel like some childish punishment. But when you do simultaneously turn the lights off and turn a Powtoon on, it feels like going to a Movie. Their mind associates lights going off and Movies going on with tons of positive emotion. Then, once the Powtoon begins, if you create a Powtoon with the 4 tips you just learned, congratulations, they'll love you! And if you make it with the Preview Strategy, they'll be glued to their seats, waiting for more.
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And let me know which of the 4 tips gave you the biggest 'aha' moment you'll use in your classroom this week. The whole tribe would love to hear your insights!

You're awesome,

Ari

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(Hey Awesome educators! Don't forget to COMMENT below and let us know which of our 4 tips you'll use in your classrooms this week. The whole tribe would love to hear your insights!) Imagine the following 2 scenarios: 1. It's the first day of school.