Artificial Intelligence Will Help Us Revolutionize Education!
Many schools will try to ban Artificial Intelligence (e.g. ChatGPT) rather than adapt, leading to a digital divide favoring those with access to the technology. Let's explore how AI can transform education as teachers leverage this new technology with revolutionary curriculum development that will engage students with relevant, challenging projects.
The artificial intelligence will help us revolution education. Does education need a revolution? I mean, are we are we not overdue? I I think it's been well overdue. I didn't predict that our official intelligence would be the catalyst that gets us into this next stage. And so, you know, so quickly. But I'm Sean Neufert, and so I've I've had an interest in an AI for a while. This was an interesting session.
You know, the proposals are due in January, and now we're in July. And so a few things have have changed. And, so it's maybe ambitious. And I don't want to talk, you know, so so intensely that it it loses some people I also don't want to say things that we've already heard in many other sessions and and webinars and articles that we've we've read. So I kind of wanna balance in between that a a little bit.
I'm gonna talk a little bit about, some some terms that I think we need to know. And then why is Chat GPT so important? And then some ramifications for students, educators, instructional designers. And I'm hoping to go to fast clips so that we can act have some conversation among us, because I wanna hear what your thoughts are and what you're doing and and your insights as well. And so I had prepared and infographic, and I'm not going to share that here, but, offline that Canvas has, or Instructure has this deck, and so you can click on that image, and it'll take you to an infographic. But I wanted to showcase the evolution of technology in our classrooms, which is vast in hundreds years.
So we introduced the pencil to, teaching and learning, typewriters, chalkboards. In fact, our industry fights technology, like, like, no other, I think. And anytime something's introduced, like, we hate it, we we fought the chalkboard when it was introduced into the classrooms. People thought you shouldn't be turning your back on learners, and that's not engaging your your students. And now chalkboard is just seamless.
It's well, you know, the evolution of the chalkboard with the smart boards, it's just part of the educational landscape. And one day AI is going be part of that too. And so we've seen things come and stay, like typewriters, copy machines, calculators. People compare, like, the this movement of to well, we have calculators. I think really a better example would be, if there's any statistics for people here, if you use SPSS or statistic or r or something, did that replace, stats teachers? It's like, no contrary.
I think that stats do do more statistics now with these tools than they did before. We don't have slide rules, and we're we're not doing a nova's by hand. And instead the focus is different. It's not about finding the r square. It's about what does that mean.
And depending on your field, how do you interpret that and tell a story with that? And so we teach statistics is different than before. And with AI, we're gonna find, you know, some different approaches to how we teach. And I think we've heard a few times in this conference, AI is not gonna replace teachers, of course. But the teachers who do a spouse AI and incorporate it into their curriculum are gonna probably replace the teachers who, who issue AI. And some that's why I wanted to talk about that.
I have a a brief AI glossary that I wanna talk you through For one LLM, if you've heard language learning model, a few of you maybe understand what that is, but essentially a language learning model or LEM that you might have heard in some of the sessions is it's like a really smart computer that reads lots of books and articles, and it becomes a language expert. And so it's able to, determine how words are used and how sentences are structured, and even what a word means based on other words. And if you think of a hug right now, you know what a hug means. Right? You you can probably visualize hugging you, you know what it feels like. You have experience with hugging.
And as part of that, you can define what a hug is using words. And the machine's not able to do other things, but it can use words to define things just like if I were to have to describe a a hug using words, then a machine could do that just as well as I could. So these LLMs, they can help us to translate languages. And, you know, they understand how sentences are and even help us tell stories or write songs or poems, and it gets smarter with practice and and with learning. So generative AI I'm glad to be hearing this term in this conference, a little more than previous conferences, but artificial intelligence is not new.
You know, the fifties and sixties was a big booming era of artificial intelligence. Going into the seventies, then we had the winter of AI, which was the eighties and early nineties, ninety three ninety four, it kind of picked up again. Now we have something new called generative which didn't exist in those previous eras. And that's essentially where you have prompts, and you can generate images You can generate text, another media, just using prompts. And you've probably heard of OpenAI.
Open AI is the company that creates platforms like and chat GPT. So that's a a company just like in structure would be. The prompts and inputs with generative AI, is the AI has to do something, and we we we put that prompt in. You know, we we have to say, can you help me with this? Can you help me a a poem to my girlfriend, or can you help me, write a country music song about small towns, and AI could probably do that, you know. The output would be what you receive from the AI.
And is the output perfect? I mean, anybody had a perfect output from Chachi Preeti, like the first time? I've I've hit some pretty close ones before, But even if you say it's like ninety five percent, well, that's pretty good. That means that it's like ninety even if it's sixty percent, like we were talking about earlier, if it helps sixty percent done with your task. That's time that you don't have to spend doing that sixty percent. So the outputs are, are generate, are, they're valuable. And then there's something called prompt engineering.
If you've heard of this term, that's essentially helped nobody raise their hand when they said when I asked if you've had a perfect output for, that's because there's iterations that you have to, you have to interact with the AI, and it's conversational. That's what the the GPT is. It's, you know, a generated pre transformer, some whatever that means is that it has limited memory. I can ask a question, and then it'll give me an answer, and then I say, well, what about modify? I don't have to re ask the question. I can just continue like a conversation, and has a limited memory, and it can remember what I talked about.
And so that's important as we're doing things like course development, and we're revising we're saying, can you come up with some learning outcomes for me? Let's modify some of these, and that would be prompt engineering. And it's a skill that I think students students and teachers and instructional designers are going to want to master in, well, imminently right now. And so, now let's talk about wh white chatty PT is important. So there are various useful tools. Chatty PT is one, but, you know, it really depends on what what thing you're doing.
And you can take pictures, but, you know, this slides are available offline online after the the thing as well. So there are all kinds of platforms, for depending on what you want to do. Are you drawing an image? Are you writing something? There's a good list here get your get your cameras out and take a picture of of this one that's coming out. Where is it? Oh, it's where's the animation? Because I'm gonna make It's supposed to animate. Let me see.
The animation is not there, but I was gonna wow you with a big scrolling list of, like, a thousand platforms, and I wrote it on a Mac, and this is a, or a PC, and this is I don't know. I blame I blame my bomb, whatever. Thanks so much. So there's just this April alone, there were more than like a thousand, AI platforms released on to the market. Everybody's trying to, you know, get their get their product out there.
Why is it we only talk about, like, chat GPT in education, or most of our conversation is chat GPT? And I wanna put that into perspective for us. And this was supposed to animate to supposed to kind of wow you one at a time, but nope, the animations are all not gonna be be great here. But how much time does it take to each one million user. How many days? Netflix, it took two and a half years to get their fur three and a half years to get their first million subscribers to their platform. Twitter was much sooner.
That was two years, about seven hundred days or so. Instagram was super fast. You know, they got a million users in two and a half months. It took seventy five days. Chat GPT got its first million users in five days from going public, which is I'm gonna say with an asterisk, it's the the fastest growing technology in the history of technology.
And you can say the fastest, you wanna be hyperbolas. It's the fastest growing technology the history of human civilization and the solar system, as we know it, you know, the asterisk there, I would say, is at Facebook meta released threads, which is the competitor to Twitter, and they were able to get a million there's, they were able to get like a hundred million users pretty quickly. And I don't know if that counts because they're already the largest social media platform, and then they release another. So they already had hundreds of millions of people logging in every day, and then it's like, oh, we got another thing. And so it's easy to sign up and know, Twitter's kind of on fire right now, but chatty PT is unique in that, Open IR isn't a new company, chatty PT isn't even a new product, but it's newly released, and instantly, it just, it just caught fire.
In fact, if you look at the first hundred million subscribers, it took TikTok nine months to get their first hundred million users. It took, it took Chachi BT two months to get a hundred million subscribers Instagram was two and a half years, you know, to put that into perspective. And people are spending a lot of time on chat GPT too. The average amount of time per session that they measure is just over eight and a half minutes, which is more than, I have to look at my notes here at Instagram. Wikipedia, Amazon, Yahoo, not quite as long as YouTube or Facebook, but that's still pretty monumental that people and just flippantly like, oh, chatty PT for real quick recipe, and then I'm I'm done.
It's like, people are spending time on this platform. And so I'm gonna we're gonna talk about a little bit about what Chaty BPT can do, and explore, you know, so explore some aspects that you might not have known about. So for one, you can define a role for ChachiPT. You can tell Chachi act as a role x here. And so I can say, okay, chat, GPT, you're a weight loss and diet expert, and your task is to help your client find, a diet and a strategy that's gonna help them, so that they can meet their goals.
And, you know, what else would you say, I want you to create a detailed diet that they can follow, and I want you to include some motivational speeches along the way, if you want, make an accountability plan, and I don't want you to be helpful. And so and then you can say, respond to this by saying yes and stay idle. And so then you put that the prompt, it's gonna say yes, and it's not gonna produce anything yet. And then you can add to it. That's the prompt engineering aspect of it.
You can keep going and say, okay, I want, specifically your client is going to want to lose, ten pounds in the next ten months or something and you, like, create a persona for the person. So you can give them a role and say, you're a programmer. In fact, I have some animations that I think are working, so hit and miss here. You can say, okay, you're a nutritionist. You're a web designer.
You're a realtor. You're an education. More be like, you're an educator or an admissions recruiter, you're an instructional designer, give Chachi PT that framework, and the output is going to be different than if just ask generically. You can also say, I'm sure a lot of people know bright in a certain style. And so you could say, I want this to be a formal paper, letter of recommendation.
I want this to be persuasive or an inspirational talk, or I want you to be descriptive or humorous or friendly. And a lot of you probably know you can also say, I want you to write in the style of Ed Ground Po or Heming Way or Taylor Swift or something, and it'll do a good job of of imitating that. And you also want to specify, so where does this content go point. Are you going to draft a text message to somebody or an email, or are you doing a social media post, is this a canvas page, or is it a canvas quiz, or is this a podcast? And you can script it out And scripting is kind of interesting, in fact, because I've had it script out things, and sometimes it's very theatrical. And so it'll give me notes, like a, like director's notes, a panning skyline, and then it zooms in on a lone person, and there's background music and stuff.
And so I specify, like, okay, I'm just my office, and I have my webcam, and I'm talking to students, how about we redo the script, and I just want to talk about neuropsychology, for module two. And so you have to be, you know, that's part of the prompt engineering too. So, it's kind of fun it can create that cinematic scripts as well. And so then combine all these factors, and this would be the prompt engineering chain. And so you can I'll read it for the people in the back here.
I want you to create a blog post for my students on a certain topic that includes a headline and then several section headers. And then it gives you your output, and you say, I want you to rewrite one of the sections so that's more detailed and comprehensive. And then you give me ten persuasive titles. I always ask it to give me, ten or twenty ideas for a blog post title or something because you don't want want just one or two. You wanna choose from of those.
And then you can tell, I like number three and five, seven, and eight. Can you generate more that are similar to that? And then can you give me five ideas for accompanying images? And then I'm not gonna talk about Dolly today, but you could take that and go over to Dolly, and then take the chat, EPT, what they describe as images, and see if Dolly can Dolly's a a chat EPT for visual elements. And so you and say I want to I want you to draw a fox who's on the moon, and the fox is on fire, and there's an asteroid be high, you know, something crazy, and it'll it'll create it'll animate something like that. And I want to give you another tip about Chachi PT, which is be mindful of efficiency gaps. If you've heard of this, essentially, quickest way to get from point a to point z.
Chachi Pizzi is gonna look for that. It's a it's the efficient way. But know that there might be we're in the mountains here. There might be an apex, and there's several different paths that you can take. And a a lot of times, we're not looking for the most efficient path.
We're looking for an interesting path. So if I were to ask chat JPT, write me a love story. Like, what's the most efficient way that you can write a love story. Probably be something like, these people meet and they fall in love, and then the end, you know, that that's pretty efficient, I would say. You know, I'm not gonna pay it to go that movie.
It's probably a better story than Twilight still, but you were looking for we're looking for something a little more engaging We we want those ups and and that was supposed to be a fun animation too. I'm a little disappointed in myself. But we're looking for the whole, you know, Jim and Pam but she's engaged to somebody, and then she breaks off the engagement. But Jim is working in a different office, but then he comes back, but then he's dating somebody. You know, we're looking for peaks in these valleys, and think of a Pixar movie.
I mean, that's essentially what we're what we're up for. You know, Wally could be a much shorter film if it's like, well, we went to space, and then they came back. You know, well, that's efficient, but that's not exactly going to make any in the box office. So I want to talk about, let's bring this back to education. So I covered kind of the the base level we're on the same page as with Chat GPT, but I wanna talk about and I don't know how this animation is gonna work.
This is a very, But, so what does this mean for students, for example? Nope. No, I know Okay. Just so I was really impressed with the was it this morning, or I don't know, my my days are blur. The keynote this morning with Conmigo going into Canvas Is anybody not familiar with Khan Migo, with how Khan Academy is using chatty PT? So not everybody, but essentially so I'll read this because it's it's small print. And it says it's a chat in within Khan Academy.
And so the student is can you tell me the answer to this? It's a math problem. So they say, well, it's important that you learn how to do this yourself. So what do you think you need to do to multiply two by five and a half? I think that's five and a half, five twelves. Maybe two by five twelves. Sorry, I'm, like, an extreme angle here, and the screen's really tiny here.
Okay. So, they need the same denominator. It's like, and then the response is, well, that's a good thought. But in this case, you don't need to find a common denominator because you're multiplying. You're not adding or subtracting.
What else can you subs what else can you try? And so what is that what is this chat bot doing? This computer is doing it's essentially acting as a tutor would, instead of just linking to resources and sites and video it's guiding them through the steps so that they can and this is a very simple example, but what if it was some a a more complicated math problem, then it's to get the student to figure out and explore ways that they can come up with the answer themselves. It's acting as a one to one tutor. So this is how one reason one aspect of how AI will help revolutionize education is that it can act as a tutor, and it has subject matter expertise. And any subject that has been written about in articles, books, the internet. And so if that would be math, I wanted these to all up here.
Math English science programming. And for accessibility, I I don't think there's much contrast. So I'll just go ahead and and read them to you again. We have program foreign language is very not accessible there. Psychology, health, economics, arts, computer science, know of a subject that we're teaching that doesn't have a book written about it.
And if there's a book written, then artificial intelligence would help to help help with that book. And so what are the benefits for students then? And when they have access to information, beyond their teacher, beyond their their classmates, beyond the materials of you know, the textbooks that we have. They have personalized learning, so they can go to Chachi PT and say, this concept that the teacher is teaching is very hard for me you come up with examples to try and explain this to me, if that makes sense, you know, at my level, it would be a supplement to whatever we're learning in the classroom, whatever we're teaching them in the classroom. And it's also available outside of school hours, for example, teachers are finite resources. And chatty BT is less finite, you know, if you can you have a time limit, obviously.
We don't have infinite time, but, and this can help students build confidence. And help with writing support. And usually for academic type things, ChapGPT has a boiler plate that they put at the bottom saying that AI is a good tool like chatty PTS. So I I'm a good tool, but I'm no substitute for a teacher. And it's important that you engage in learning process with collaboration and with your peers and your teacher and things like that.
So let's talk about teachers then. Foom. Alright. So here's an example of a chat GPT prompt that I said. I'm teaching a course on training and development.
Here's the course description, copy, paste, and then I say, please write me five good learning outcomes for this course. And for me, learn writing learning outcomes or objectives is a challenge. It's usually one of the hardest parts of course development for me, because I want to do a really good job, and I want it to be want it to be sound, and so it would take me a long time, like, sometimes hours to do that and now chat to you. PT, I can do a matter of minutes, it's not gonna be perfect, but I can iterate and I can refine it, and it saves me a lot of time And I think that that's I think that's a good process. So write me five good learning outcomes for the course, or help me come up with an assessment, an assignment, an activity, help me up with a script for a plot podcast, or I wanna do a weekly introduction video, and you can copy and paste the materials from your Canvas course into chat to BT to give it context and so that it can do a better job.
And so in this case, it says Okay. Sure. Here's five learning outcomes that align with your description needs analysis, and we have understanding and applying learning theories. It's like, well, I'm gonna take out I don't usually like that, but I do like applications. And, so this is at least something that I don't have to start from scratch.
And then I came up with a different activity. I think this is a lot of fun. So I know there's a couple math a couple stats people in here. And so I thought Can you help me explain some of squares, the concept to my students? And so it said certainly, here's an example most people can relate to. The world sports, especially a basketball game.
And so ChachiBC says, let's say we have a basketball team called the Stat Super Stars with five players in the names, and they each scored in a basketball game. One person scored six points, another eight, seven, five, and four. And then it goes through the process. Okay. Since we have those numbers, and we have this data, what are the steps that we go through, to get the sum of squares? We're gonna add up all the scores to get the total, divide by the number of players to get six.
Now we have the average number of points. I'm not going to go through the whole thing, but essentially it walks me through, and so we're looking for how to get the square deviations. And then from that, we can get the sum of squares, and this is why it's important. And it wasn't clear why it's important, I could follow-up with a chat saying, why is all of this important, and when am I going to use it? And so I so that's an example. I that's a fairly clever example, but I wanted more examples.
So it's like, okay. On the same thread, I'm like, okay, that's basketball. May everybody likes basketball. Maybe, maybe people have a traumatic experience that's related to basketball. And so I wanted to come over the different examples.
So, my examples where I said, what about if the students are art students? Okay. And so in that case, the the scenario is their art students, and they're tasked with creating a certain shade of purple. And they're we're gonna measure how much red paints each student uses in order to come up with shade of purple. And then we measure in milliliters or however, paint is is measured. But the concept is the same, but they're gonna have different numbers for purple, and then we're gonna find that variance based on art and paint.
And I asked, what about if we're doing gardening? So they said, okay. So now you're part of a garden club, and you're and so people are growing tomato plants. And every month, they're going and tracking the amount of growth for each of their tomato plants. And so then we have variants each person's tomato plant is a different length, and then we can find the average length, and we can find the sum of squares that way. I had asked about camping.
Like, what's an example regarding camping? Alright. So we have campers and they have a competition where they have to gather firewood, and we're gonna measure the the firewood in kilograms after a certain amount of time, and then, you know, go through the process. What about libraries? Okay. So now you're a librarian in, and you have some regular patrons, and you you you gauge how many books they check out every month, and they check out different amounts of books, and then you're gonna find the sum of squares that. And then I asked, can you just come up with like a fun, crazy silly example for me? And I have my notes here.
So absolutely. Let's dive into a world where cats have formed a music band called the fuzzy whiskers. In the fuzzy whiskers, there are five cat members, Autobase Crescendo Dolce and an an ensemble. They love to play the piano and they've each composed the song. The duration of their song in minutes are as follows.
And then they have different lengths for their songs. And we're gonna find the sum of squares for these cats who wrote piano music in their band You know, and so, so chatty pizza is great. I mean, whether you're k twelve, especially the k twelve, I mean, for the the littles, you can find all kinds find examples. You can find relevant examples. What's going on in current events right now, and how can I incorporate just ask scratch APD? How can I incorporate this event copy the news article in there so that they so that it has its context? And here's what I'm trying to teach.
How can I integrate that into my class? So I have some, you know, how is how could chat JPT be good for teachers? We have lesson planning. We have creative explanations, emotional support. I'm not gonna, not gonna minimize that grading assistance. To ask Chachi PTM, am I doing okay? Give me some give me some positive feedback I had a rough day. And you're you're gonna be surprised.
You know, it it it can do fun stuff. But, I mean, you can going back here, you can ask for book recommendations. And here's where here let's put the caveat. And then, chatty PT, especially three point five. If you pay twenty dollars get their premium like chatty PT four, and it's a little bit better.
But chatty PT will lie to you. You know, it'll flat out I we were talking about in our, on conference, but I asked at one time, can you create a list of articles for this one class that teaching that I could share with my students as additional resources if they're interested. And it's like, great. APA format. Perfect.
I went to look at the articles and they weren't real articles. I mean, the journal is perhaps a real. I'm sure the name I'm sure there's a lot of, comma r's in the in the world who have written articles on on topics, but, then I look it up, and it's like, it's pages forty seven through fifty three. Yeah, but that's like the end of one article in the beginning of the next. And then some of them had the same page number in journal with different goals and different authors.
And it's like, I was disappointed. Like, it it gives you what it thinks that you want. It's a it's an LLM, and so it's basically saying based on the prompt, here's the sequence of words that mathematically I think makes the most sense in the context. And, Chachi BT four was a little bit more more reliable, I would say, in coming up with sources and references for me, to put in perspective, I can't remember the numbers, but chatty BT three point five has something like seven hundred and seventy eight million parameters to it, which is science, computer science talk for whatever, but it's a big number. And we don't know chat GPT four, but the experts have estimated somewhere between one and one hundred trillion parameters.
So it's more sophisticated, and I don't even know what that means, but I know bigger numbers are bigger than smaller numbers. So, you know, I'm a psychologist. I don't. So I think and, you know, the the rumor was that Chachi PT five was you know, come out in December, and I don't know if they're holding, you know, hitting the brakes on that because of, you know, skynet reasons or what the plan is, but and I'm not even talking about academic integrity in this session, but if you're trying to catch up to students and trying to do plagiarism checkers, and you're gonna get lost. You know, the AI is gonna it's it's already well ahead of where where we are.
So we have to fundamentally change our curriculum to accommodate artificial intelligence in the world, which I think we should be doing anyway. And I know I need to get on to the next slide, but need to be doing that anyway because our students are gonna be using chat JPT in the world. And, like, why would we say, you can't use this tool that you that will you'll use it later but we're not going to teach you how to use this tool. You know, I heard an amen, I think. Alright.
So course development I think that this will be very good in course development. And again, I shared this at the end conference a moment ago at the pre on conference, because tomorrow's the on conference. Stick around afterwards and, gonna have a good time. This is a real life assignment. I didn't I was, contracted to teach the course, I didn't create the course.
It was handed to me right as chatty BT is being released. And so it says created non discrimination policy. This is for a, organizational diversity, managing organizational diversity course. So you're going to create this policy for a multinational that will employ individuals in several Asian markets. The policy will be a guide as it hires new employees.
And so it's like, well, that's an assignment that would have been good last year years ago, twenty years ago, a thousand million years ago, but, I put that I copied it, put it into Chat JPT, three point five and it spit out a paper that was good. And if I was grading it, it would get a passing grade, you know, and all the students could do they can copy it, they can paste it in chat, GPT, and they can spit out papers, and it takes a matter of moments. And so I thought, why don't I have the students do that? And so I restructured the entire assignment. I kept this thing, and I told the students, take this prompts, put it into, I introduced them chatty PT, but if they wanna use Bard or Jasper, whatever AI, you choose, get a free account somewhere, and I want you to to generate a paper, generate a policy. And then I want you to iterate.
So then, so that's like step one is use chat GPT. Step two is now you have the the output. It's not perfect, so I want you to revise it. I want you to refine, improve, clarify, rephrase, add omit contact, provide context for this because it's not gonna be perfect. And maybe you're a multinational company, you know, provide context for it.
Maybe it's different than the generic one. After that, I want them to finalize. So let's create a final of the policy, after you've tinkered with it a bit, and then I want you to reflect on it. So I have them write a quick reflection paper, not not anything sophisticated, but like half a page, and talk about the process that they went through. Not necessarily the final output, but I want them to reflect on how what it was like working with AI to generate this thing.
And then the deliverable wasn't just a paper. It was everything. I told them, give me all of the things. I wanna see your initial output. I wanna see how you interacted with the AI.
I wanna see your final output. I wanna hear your reflections on the process. And so what I'm teaching is more a process than deliverable. And so one day maybe one of my students is working in HR and they have to create a policy specifically like I did. And so they can say, Oh, I have a policy that I already wrote in grad school.
It's like, that's not gonna happen. You know, my student, I teach Iowa psychology some of them go into HR, some of them go into organizational development, some of them they were going to become behavioral economics, you know, people. Some might be go into academia. But the important thing is the process that I had them engage with. And so the the feedback was was very good.
I I think. And, and I think it was meaningful and that this I was teaching them a skill, not so much write this paper, and now I have the paper. But I'm focusing on on the process. And I had a thought also during our on conference, we were talking about how do you teach writing, and I don't have an answer to this. How do you teach creative, how do you teach creative thinking? How do you teach writing in a world where an AI can write for you? Hang on a second.
So I'm used to Florida humidity, and now I'm up in up in the clouds. And, so my thought, I I just wanted to put out here, not descending from Mount Sinai with tablets or anything, but I just had a thought that I thought. I I wanna share share with you. What if you're teaching writing Instead of throughout the course, you teach, here's here's an essay, here's a here's a paper, here's a paper, here's a paper. Why don't you have them write all of the papers at the same time And in this first section, we're gonna work with chatty PT to create an outline or and I'm not an a writing and professor or anything, but let's focus on this portion of writing and let's let's use AI and let's write all four of your papers.
And so this week, we're learning about, outlining. And now we're gonna do certain structures, and we're gonna do other things. And so by the end, they've written all of their papers, but it's taken the entire duration of the course to write all four papers. You know, that I don't know. I'm throwing out there, but we have to think about, where we're going with our assignments, because we no longer live in a world where we were we can have written assignments and discussion board and call that education.
You know? It it's no unless we want to become, like, diploma mills because and, and eventually, we're gonna have computers grading it. And so, students are gonna create copy and paste and have computers write it, and we're have computers grade it. And it's just like Mark Twain says, you know, education is when when the notes pass from the the lecture to the to the tablet and without, you know, passing through the ears without, you know, landing on the brain of either. So, you know, it's like, I'm gonna say it. You're gonna write it down, and that's education.
You know, we don't want that. And so I have a question. What will assignments look like going forward? And I've already been tinkering with my courses I think you've been tinkering with years, and, and I do want to open up the floor, but I think we're gonna see a lot of, multimedia, for example, chattyPT can't help you with video production and editing and producing and presenting. It can help you script out things. It can help you outline.
But we might have we might see more infographics, presentations, multimedia, perhaps, you know, blogging aspects of blogging or other technologies like padlet and thing link, project based learning could be important, debates I think I I teach only online, but I have my students engage in small group debates and class debates, and I have them work together to come up with their arguments and counter arguments, and I have them in canvas, groups, and then I can see their interaction as they formulate. And, and, yeah, team based projects. I have an assignment where I have a designated provocateur where I assign certain topics of that module to certain students and say, I want you to to expand on this topic and say, why it's the most relevant, why it's the most important topic that we're studying week, and then I have other students who are designated provocateurs, and their job is to counter argue, argue, like, to essentially argue with the other students, and it's really fun activity, with a lot of back and forth. And students are usually, you know, trepidation. It's about, being a designated provocateur because especially in higher ed, everything seems to be, the discussion posts go, Hey, I really liked your discussion posts.
That was really good. You said it really well. I agree with all of the things and fill in the blank question. What do you think about that? And then think that that's checking out. And I told my students, I want you to argue with each other, scholarly, you know, orderly, respectful, discourse, at the end of the week, we're all friends, but I wanna introduce a little bit of contention into my my classes.
And so, I have a microphone. I'd I've talked a lot, and I I wanna hear you talking. So if you have anything to say, I have some some questions for you, you know, if you want to to think about this, or if you have your own question, and so they gave a microphone. Who who would like the mic So I was having a conversation last week with several I was having a conversation last week with several faculty, and so we're thinking, like you said, it's given that our students are going to be using the this, you know, outside of, of the education. So we need to relook at the outcomes of our courses.
So we to really get together and brainstorm what type of skills are students going to need given that they have what skills are they going to need in life and in the workplace? I don't have the answers, but we need to start having those conversations because it's going to be very different types of skills. This one works. So that one works. Alright. You wanna hand it to him in the back? We've talked about twenty first century skills, and I guess what it's twenty twenty three.
We're almost a quarter of the way to the twenty second century. If you can't believe that, And I think that we have new skills. I think Chachi PT, prompt engineering, teaching them how to interact with AI is the next skill that we need to be teaching students. So I guess the question I have is it really about the how an instructional designer is going to kind of be that middleware. Between the AI and the curriculum.
So you talked a little bit about prompt designing and how in, what is it called, kamigo, how it would kind of step through the process. What skills do we as educators need to know so that we can help the AI do that step by step and help out because it's not going to just grab our course content and know exactly where those benchmarks and those outcomes are. Yeah. So, with the limited capacity memory that ChatGPT has, you can dump a lot of information. And right now, ChatGPT gets its information from the internet up till twenty twenty one and you can you can give it more information for the purpose of that.
So I've gone and copied articles and I pasted into the thing and and I tell ChachiPT, use this as a reference for what we're talking about. Here are my court, here's my course assignment, here's my syllabus, here's my, and you can just put all kinds of information in there, to give it as much information as possible so that it can get give you the best output as as possible. And, prompt engineering is that that term I recommend if you haven't heard of prompt engineering after this conference, go just Google prompt engineering, try and learn as much as you can a out that topic. Because you're gonna see the quality of your outputs exponentially improve after you incorporate that? Hi, Christie from Renton Technical College. I I wanna share an assignment success story, but on that note, yeah, we need to be, looking beyond just the moments we also need to be thinking about what degrees are we offering that are not gonna exist in two years or less? And what do we need to offer that's known on the table, and we should be planning to participate.
But quick assignment success story, I was in the middle of teaching a business class that was communication for business managers when this came out. And I decided, yeah, let's embrace it. The class had a research paper at the end. And I said, let's talk. Anyone really wanna do that paper.
And I really didn't wanna grade a bunch that the AI had done. I was fortunate that I had podcast equipment, but the same thing would work in Zoom, that I introduced them to it and and to prompt engineering. And I said, okay, We are not at a fancy university with fraternities and sororities. We're at a small technical community college. You need to start your networking now on LinkedIn, on getting your job searches.
So we're gonna do podcasts that you're gonna put on LinkedIn as your final project. And if you were doing it by yourself, then the AI would write the script, but by doing it in groups, where they had to have conversations together, there wouldn't be a way to organically put that in. But I said, Hey, let's look at the course outcomes. And use the AI to help you come up with your topics, with your titles like you were sharing. And they are already getting jobs from having those.
On LinkedIn. So, I'm Erin, and I'm, the prince of Georgia virtual school. I think at this conference, we've talked a lot about what we need to do to prepare students to use AI responsibly and ethically I feel like as a principle, I'm not really ready to answer these questions in application. Because I need to get my teachers there. They still see it as a villain, not as a resource or a tool.
Here. We can finish. Yeah. Respect it. Hello.
I'm Togen from University of Nebraska Medical Center. I there are two things here to grab my attention. One is the how my AI, transform assessment, and grading. One of the things that lately, I mean, working on with this concept is with AI, it is very possible to, achieve this psychometric, assessment. Not only the numbers, like, in the rubric of the assessment, but, there are the AI can actually use a psychometric and the user's emotions during to learning.
And according to those learnings, there's a big chance to enhance the teaching. The other thing is Sorry. I was like, looking over that. Oh, yeah. Other thing, like, we always, I always, suggest to instructors that you can actually use it to give the whole concept in the classroom and also ask for the real time assessment, and then tell them, okay, now start, and then you can have your students interact with it.
And, you can, at the same time, you can have a dynamic assessment and, the following questions could be generated to close the knowledge gap of the students. We'll find out. I wanted to know, and I was hoping other blood answers Is it still working? Okay. About chat, GPT, and using it to actually accomplish the grading because I'm not even gonna go into the privacy issue because I think that's kind of another conversation. But, I mean, you you even mentioned that Chad GPT is kinda telling you which you want to hear when you answer ask these questions.
So if you're putting a student's work in, again, privacy issue, other element is it just gonna tell you what you think you wanna hear or is it actually gonna give feedback on that material so you can actually take that assessment, that feedback, revise it to your own voice or your own thoughts, and then you can give it back to the student. Like, would it actually help with that in grading? I guess that's my question. You can turn those off now. I think we're we're gonna wrap them. And I think that AI is never gonna replace teachers because even if it's a tool that teachers can use for for grading, for creating things, it doesn't replace the subject matter expertise.
It's like a really smart friend who knows a lot of trivia, but doesn't know how to teach that. And so so our job's just secure, and we still have work to do because we have to check, and we have to teach our students to fact check AI as well, you know, and that's our our responsibility. And so We're wrapping up now, but, as we leave, I wanna challenge you to be champions of AI. There's a whole lot of topics we didn't even begin to talk about Feel, feel free to come to the on conference afterwards if you wanna continue talking and and mulling this over. But I challenge you to be champions. Go back to your institutions and really try and, get people excited about integrating the technology to learn about it, incorporate into the curriculum and and to be excited because, this is the change that our students need to see from us. So thanks everybody for attending.
You know, the proposals are due in January, and now we're in July. And so a few things have have changed. And, so it's maybe ambitious. And I don't want to talk, you know, so so intensely that it it loses some people I also don't want to say things that we've already heard in many other sessions and and webinars and articles that we've we've read. So I kind of wanna balance in between that a a little bit.
I'm gonna talk a little bit about, some some terms that I think we need to know. And then why is Chat GPT so important? And then some ramifications for students, educators, instructional designers. And I'm hoping to go to fast clips so that we can act have some conversation among us, because I wanna hear what your thoughts are and what you're doing and and your insights as well. And so I had prepared and infographic, and I'm not going to share that here, but, offline that Canvas has, or Instructure has this deck, and so you can click on that image, and it'll take you to an infographic. But I wanted to showcase the evolution of technology in our classrooms, which is vast in hundreds years.
So we introduced the pencil to, teaching and learning, typewriters, chalkboards. In fact, our industry fights technology, like, like, no other, I think. And anytime something's introduced, like, we hate it, we we fought the chalkboard when it was introduced into the classrooms. People thought you shouldn't be turning your back on learners, and that's not engaging your your students. And now chalkboard is just seamless.
It's well, you know, the evolution of the chalkboard with the smart boards, it's just part of the educational landscape. And one day AI is going be part of that too. And so we've seen things come and stay, like typewriters, copy machines, calculators. People compare, like, the this movement of to well, we have calculators. I think really a better example would be, if there's any statistics for people here, if you use SPSS or statistic or r or something, did that replace, stats teachers? It's like, no contrary.
I think that stats do do more statistics now with these tools than they did before. We don't have slide rules, and we're we're not doing a nova's by hand. And instead the focus is different. It's not about finding the r square. It's about what does that mean.
And depending on your field, how do you interpret that and tell a story with that? And so we teach statistics is different than before. And with AI, we're gonna find, you know, some different approaches to how we teach. And I think we've heard a few times in this conference, AI is not gonna replace teachers, of course. But the teachers who do a spouse AI and incorporate it into their curriculum are gonna probably replace the teachers who, who issue AI. And some that's why I wanted to talk about that.
I have a a brief AI glossary that I wanna talk you through For one LLM, if you've heard language learning model, a few of you maybe understand what that is, but essentially a language learning model or LEM that you might have heard in some of the sessions is it's like a really smart computer that reads lots of books and articles, and it becomes a language expert. And so it's able to, determine how words are used and how sentences are structured, and even what a word means based on other words. And if you think of a hug right now, you know what a hug means. Right? You you can probably visualize hugging you, you know what it feels like. You have experience with hugging.
And as part of that, you can define what a hug is using words. And the machine's not able to do other things, but it can use words to define things just like if I were to have to describe a a hug using words, then a machine could do that just as well as I could. So these LLMs, they can help us to translate languages. And, you know, they understand how sentences are and even help us tell stories or write songs or poems, and it gets smarter with practice and and with learning. So generative AI I'm glad to be hearing this term in this conference, a little more than previous conferences, but artificial intelligence is not new.
You know, the fifties and sixties was a big booming era of artificial intelligence. Going into the seventies, then we had the winter of AI, which was the eighties and early nineties, ninety three ninety four, it kind of picked up again. Now we have something new called generative which didn't exist in those previous eras. And that's essentially where you have prompts, and you can generate images You can generate text, another media, just using prompts. And you've probably heard of OpenAI.
Open AI is the company that creates platforms like and chat GPT. So that's a a company just like in structure would be. The prompts and inputs with generative AI, is the AI has to do something, and we we we put that prompt in. You know, we we have to say, can you help me with this? Can you help me a a poem to my girlfriend, or can you help me, write a country music song about small towns, and AI could probably do that, you know. The output would be what you receive from the AI.
And is the output perfect? I mean, anybody had a perfect output from Chachi Preeti, like the first time? I've I've hit some pretty close ones before, But even if you say it's like ninety five percent, well, that's pretty good. That means that it's like ninety even if it's sixty percent, like we were talking about earlier, if it helps sixty percent done with your task. That's time that you don't have to spend doing that sixty percent. So the outputs are, are generate, are, they're valuable. And then there's something called prompt engineering.
If you've heard of this term, that's essentially helped nobody raise their hand when they said when I asked if you've had a perfect output for, that's because there's iterations that you have to, you have to interact with the AI, and it's conversational. That's what the the GPT is. It's, you know, a generated pre transformer, some whatever that means is that it has limited memory. I can ask a question, and then it'll give me an answer, and then I say, well, what about modify? I don't have to re ask the question. I can just continue like a conversation, and has a limited memory, and it can remember what I talked about.
And so that's important as we're doing things like course development, and we're revising we're saying, can you come up with some learning outcomes for me? Let's modify some of these, and that would be prompt engineering. And it's a skill that I think students students and teachers and instructional designers are going to want to master in, well, imminently right now. And so, now let's talk about wh white chatty PT is important. So there are various useful tools. Chatty PT is one, but, you know, it really depends on what what thing you're doing.
And you can take pictures, but, you know, this slides are available offline online after the the thing as well. So there are all kinds of platforms, for depending on what you want to do. Are you drawing an image? Are you writing something? There's a good list here get your get your cameras out and take a picture of of this one that's coming out. Where is it? Oh, it's where's the animation? Because I'm gonna make It's supposed to animate. Let me see.
The animation is not there, but I was gonna wow you with a big scrolling list of, like, a thousand platforms, and I wrote it on a Mac, and this is a, or a PC, and this is I don't know. I blame I blame my bomb, whatever. Thanks so much. So there's just this April alone, there were more than like a thousand, AI platforms released on to the market. Everybody's trying to, you know, get their get their product out there.
Why is it we only talk about, like, chat GPT in education, or most of our conversation is chat GPT? And I wanna put that into perspective for us. And this was supposed to animate to supposed to kind of wow you one at a time, but nope, the animations are all not gonna be be great here. But how much time does it take to each one million user. How many days? Netflix, it took two and a half years to get their fur three and a half years to get their first million subscribers to their platform. Twitter was much sooner.
That was two years, about seven hundred days or so. Instagram was super fast. You know, they got a million users in two and a half months. It took seventy five days. Chat GPT got its first million users in five days from going public, which is I'm gonna say with an asterisk, it's the the fastest growing technology in the history of technology.
And you can say the fastest, you wanna be hyperbolas. It's the fastest growing technology the history of human civilization and the solar system, as we know it, you know, the asterisk there, I would say, is at Facebook meta released threads, which is the competitor to Twitter, and they were able to get a million there's, they were able to get like a hundred million users pretty quickly. And I don't know if that counts because they're already the largest social media platform, and then they release another. So they already had hundreds of millions of people logging in every day, and then it's like, oh, we got another thing. And so it's easy to sign up and know, Twitter's kind of on fire right now, but chatty PT is unique in that, Open IR isn't a new company, chatty PT isn't even a new product, but it's newly released, and instantly, it just, it just caught fire.
In fact, if you look at the first hundred million subscribers, it took TikTok nine months to get their first hundred million users. It took, it took Chachi BT two months to get a hundred million subscribers Instagram was two and a half years, you know, to put that into perspective. And people are spending a lot of time on chat GPT too. The average amount of time per session that they measure is just over eight and a half minutes, which is more than, I have to look at my notes here at Instagram. Wikipedia, Amazon, Yahoo, not quite as long as YouTube or Facebook, but that's still pretty monumental that people and just flippantly like, oh, chatty PT for real quick recipe, and then I'm I'm done.
It's like, people are spending time on this platform. And so I'm gonna we're gonna talk about a little bit about what Chaty BPT can do, and explore, you know, so explore some aspects that you might not have known about. So for one, you can define a role for ChachiPT. You can tell Chachi act as a role x here. And so I can say, okay, chat, GPT, you're a weight loss and diet expert, and your task is to help your client find, a diet and a strategy that's gonna help them, so that they can meet their goals.
And, you know, what else would you say, I want you to create a detailed diet that they can follow, and I want you to include some motivational speeches along the way, if you want, make an accountability plan, and I don't want you to be helpful. And so and then you can say, respond to this by saying yes and stay idle. And so then you put that the prompt, it's gonna say yes, and it's not gonna produce anything yet. And then you can add to it. That's the prompt engineering aspect of it.
You can keep going and say, okay, I want, specifically your client is going to want to lose, ten pounds in the next ten months or something and you, like, create a persona for the person. So you can give them a role and say, you're a programmer. In fact, I have some animations that I think are working, so hit and miss here. You can say, okay, you're a nutritionist. You're a web designer.
You're a realtor. You're an education. More be like, you're an educator or an admissions recruiter, you're an instructional designer, give Chachi PT that framework, and the output is going to be different than if just ask generically. You can also say, I'm sure a lot of people know bright in a certain style. And so you could say, I want this to be a formal paper, letter of recommendation.
I want this to be persuasive or an inspirational talk, or I want you to be descriptive or humorous or friendly. And a lot of you probably know you can also say, I want you to write in the style of Ed Ground Po or Heming Way or Taylor Swift or something, and it'll do a good job of of imitating that. And you also want to specify, so where does this content go point. Are you going to draft a text message to somebody or an email, or are you doing a social media post, is this a canvas page, or is it a canvas quiz, or is this a podcast? And you can script it out And scripting is kind of interesting, in fact, because I've had it script out things, and sometimes it's very theatrical. And so it'll give me notes, like a, like director's notes, a panning skyline, and then it zooms in on a lone person, and there's background music and stuff.
And so I specify, like, okay, I'm just my office, and I have my webcam, and I'm talking to students, how about we redo the script, and I just want to talk about neuropsychology, for module two. And so you have to be, you know, that's part of the prompt engineering too. So, it's kind of fun it can create that cinematic scripts as well. And so then combine all these factors, and this would be the prompt engineering chain. And so you can I'll read it for the people in the back here.
I want you to create a blog post for my students on a certain topic that includes a headline and then several section headers. And then it gives you your output, and you say, I want you to rewrite one of the sections so that's more detailed and comprehensive. And then you give me ten persuasive titles. I always ask it to give me, ten or twenty ideas for a blog post title or something because you don't want want just one or two. You wanna choose from of those.
And then you can tell, I like number three and five, seven, and eight. Can you generate more that are similar to that? And then can you give me five ideas for accompanying images? And then I'm not gonna talk about Dolly today, but you could take that and go over to Dolly, and then take the chat, EPT, what they describe as images, and see if Dolly can Dolly's a a chat EPT for visual elements. And so you and say I want to I want you to draw a fox who's on the moon, and the fox is on fire, and there's an asteroid be high, you know, something crazy, and it'll it'll create it'll animate something like that. And I want to give you another tip about Chachi PT, which is be mindful of efficiency gaps. If you've heard of this, essentially, quickest way to get from point a to point z.
Chachi Pizzi is gonna look for that. It's a it's the efficient way. But know that there might be we're in the mountains here. There might be an apex, and there's several different paths that you can take. And a a lot of times, we're not looking for the most efficient path.
We're looking for an interesting path. So if I were to ask chat JPT, write me a love story. Like, what's the most efficient way that you can write a love story. Probably be something like, these people meet and they fall in love, and then the end, you know, that that's pretty efficient, I would say. You know, I'm not gonna pay it to go that movie.
It's probably a better story than Twilight still, but you were looking for we're looking for something a little more engaging We we want those ups and and that was supposed to be a fun animation too. I'm a little disappointed in myself. But we're looking for the whole, you know, Jim and Pam but she's engaged to somebody, and then she breaks off the engagement. But Jim is working in a different office, but then he comes back, but then he's dating somebody. You know, we're looking for peaks in these valleys, and think of a Pixar movie.
I mean, that's essentially what we're what we're up for. You know, Wally could be a much shorter film if it's like, well, we went to space, and then they came back. You know, well, that's efficient, but that's not exactly going to make any in the box office. So I want to talk about, let's bring this back to education. So I covered kind of the the base level we're on the same page as with Chat GPT, but I wanna talk about and I don't know how this animation is gonna work.
This is a very, But, so what does this mean for students, for example? Nope. No, I know Okay. Just so I was really impressed with the was it this morning, or I don't know, my my days are blur. The keynote this morning with Conmigo going into Canvas Is anybody not familiar with Khan Migo, with how Khan Academy is using chatty PT? So not everybody, but essentially so I'll read this because it's it's small print. And it says it's a chat in within Khan Academy.
And so the student is can you tell me the answer to this? It's a math problem. So they say, well, it's important that you learn how to do this yourself. So what do you think you need to do to multiply two by five and a half? I think that's five and a half, five twelves. Maybe two by five twelves. Sorry, I'm, like, an extreme angle here, and the screen's really tiny here.
Okay. So, they need the same denominator. It's like, and then the response is, well, that's a good thought. But in this case, you don't need to find a common denominator because you're multiplying. You're not adding or subtracting.
What else can you subs what else can you try? And so what is that what is this chat bot doing? This computer is doing it's essentially acting as a tutor would, instead of just linking to resources and sites and video it's guiding them through the steps so that they can and this is a very simple example, but what if it was some a a more complicated math problem, then it's to get the student to figure out and explore ways that they can come up with the answer themselves. It's acting as a one to one tutor. So this is how one reason one aspect of how AI will help revolutionize education is that it can act as a tutor, and it has subject matter expertise. And any subject that has been written about in articles, books, the internet. And so if that would be math, I wanted these to all up here.
Math English science programming. And for accessibility, I I don't think there's much contrast. So I'll just go ahead and and read them to you again. We have program foreign language is very not accessible there. Psychology, health, economics, arts, computer science, know of a subject that we're teaching that doesn't have a book written about it.
And if there's a book written, then artificial intelligence would help to help help with that book. And so what are the benefits for students then? And when they have access to information, beyond their teacher, beyond their their classmates, beyond the materials of you know, the textbooks that we have. They have personalized learning, so they can go to Chachi PT and say, this concept that the teacher is teaching is very hard for me you come up with examples to try and explain this to me, if that makes sense, you know, at my level, it would be a supplement to whatever we're learning in the classroom, whatever we're teaching them in the classroom. And it's also available outside of school hours, for example, teachers are finite resources. And chatty BT is less finite, you know, if you can you have a time limit, obviously.
We don't have infinite time, but, and this can help students build confidence. And help with writing support. And usually for academic type things, ChapGPT has a boiler plate that they put at the bottom saying that AI is a good tool like chatty PTS. So I I'm a good tool, but I'm no substitute for a teacher. And it's important that you engage in learning process with collaboration and with your peers and your teacher and things like that.
So let's talk about teachers then. Foom. Alright. So here's an example of a chat GPT prompt that I said. I'm teaching a course on training and development.
Here's the course description, copy, paste, and then I say, please write me five good learning outcomes for this course. And for me, learn writing learning outcomes or objectives is a challenge. It's usually one of the hardest parts of course development for me, because I want to do a really good job, and I want it to be want it to be sound, and so it would take me a long time, like, sometimes hours to do that and now chat to you. PT, I can do a matter of minutes, it's not gonna be perfect, but I can iterate and I can refine it, and it saves me a lot of time And I think that that's I think that's a good process. So write me five good learning outcomes for the course, or help me come up with an assessment, an assignment, an activity, help me up with a script for a plot podcast, or I wanna do a weekly introduction video, and you can copy and paste the materials from your Canvas course into chat to BT to give it context and so that it can do a better job.
And so in this case, it says Okay. Sure. Here's five learning outcomes that align with your description needs analysis, and we have understanding and applying learning theories. It's like, well, I'm gonna take out I don't usually like that, but I do like applications. And, so this is at least something that I don't have to start from scratch.
And then I came up with a different activity. I think this is a lot of fun. So I know there's a couple math a couple stats people in here. And so I thought Can you help me explain some of squares, the concept to my students? And so it said certainly, here's an example most people can relate to. The world sports, especially a basketball game.
And so ChachiBC says, let's say we have a basketball team called the Stat Super Stars with five players in the names, and they each scored in a basketball game. One person scored six points, another eight, seven, five, and four. And then it goes through the process. Okay. Since we have those numbers, and we have this data, what are the steps that we go through, to get the sum of squares? We're gonna add up all the scores to get the total, divide by the number of players to get six.
Now we have the average number of points. I'm not going to go through the whole thing, but essentially it walks me through, and so we're looking for how to get the square deviations. And then from that, we can get the sum of squares, and this is why it's important. And it wasn't clear why it's important, I could follow-up with a chat saying, why is all of this important, and when am I going to use it? And so I so that's an example. I that's a fairly clever example, but I wanted more examples.
So it's like, okay. On the same thread, I'm like, okay, that's basketball. May everybody likes basketball. Maybe, maybe people have a traumatic experience that's related to basketball. And so I wanted to come over the different examples.
So, my examples where I said, what about if the students are art students? Okay. And so in that case, the the scenario is their art students, and they're tasked with creating a certain shade of purple. And they're we're gonna measure how much red paints each student uses in order to come up with shade of purple. And then we measure in milliliters or however, paint is is measured. But the concept is the same, but they're gonna have different numbers for purple, and then we're gonna find that variance based on art and paint.
And I asked, what about if we're doing gardening? So they said, okay. So now you're part of a garden club, and you're and so people are growing tomato plants. And every month, they're going and tracking the amount of growth for each of their tomato plants. And so then we have variants each person's tomato plant is a different length, and then we can find the average length, and we can find the sum of squares that way. I had asked about camping.
Like, what's an example regarding camping? Alright. So we have campers and they have a competition where they have to gather firewood, and we're gonna measure the the firewood in kilograms after a certain amount of time, and then, you know, go through the process. What about libraries? Okay. So now you're a librarian in, and you have some regular patrons, and you you you gauge how many books they check out every month, and they check out different amounts of books, and then you're gonna find the sum of squares that. And then I asked, can you just come up with like a fun, crazy silly example for me? And I have my notes here.
So absolutely. Let's dive into a world where cats have formed a music band called the fuzzy whiskers. In the fuzzy whiskers, there are five cat members, Autobase Crescendo Dolce and an an ensemble. They love to play the piano and they've each composed the song. The duration of their song in minutes are as follows.
And then they have different lengths for their songs. And we're gonna find the sum of squares for these cats who wrote piano music in their band You know, and so, so chatty pizza is great. I mean, whether you're k twelve, especially the k twelve, I mean, for the the littles, you can find all kinds find examples. You can find relevant examples. What's going on in current events right now, and how can I incorporate just ask scratch APD? How can I incorporate this event copy the news article in there so that they so that it has its context? And here's what I'm trying to teach.
How can I integrate that into my class? So I have some, you know, how is how could chat JPT be good for teachers? We have lesson planning. We have creative explanations, emotional support. I'm not gonna, not gonna minimize that grading assistance. To ask Chachi PTM, am I doing okay? Give me some give me some positive feedback I had a rough day. And you're you're gonna be surprised.
You know, it it it can do fun stuff. But, I mean, you can going back here, you can ask for book recommendations. And here's where here let's put the caveat. And then, chatty PT, especially three point five. If you pay twenty dollars get their premium like chatty PT four, and it's a little bit better.
But chatty PT will lie to you. You know, it'll flat out I we were talking about in our, on conference, but I asked at one time, can you create a list of articles for this one class that teaching that I could share with my students as additional resources if they're interested. And it's like, great. APA format. Perfect.
I went to look at the articles and they weren't real articles. I mean, the journal is perhaps a real. I'm sure the name I'm sure there's a lot of, comma r's in the in the world who have written articles on on topics, but, then I look it up, and it's like, it's pages forty seven through fifty three. Yeah, but that's like the end of one article in the beginning of the next. And then some of them had the same page number in journal with different goals and different authors.
And it's like, I was disappointed. Like, it it gives you what it thinks that you want. It's a it's an LLM, and so it's basically saying based on the prompt, here's the sequence of words that mathematically I think makes the most sense in the context. And, Chachi BT four was a little bit more more reliable, I would say, in coming up with sources and references for me, to put in perspective, I can't remember the numbers, but chatty BT three point five has something like seven hundred and seventy eight million parameters to it, which is science, computer science talk for whatever, but it's a big number. And we don't know chat GPT four, but the experts have estimated somewhere between one and one hundred trillion parameters.
So it's more sophisticated, and I don't even know what that means, but I know bigger numbers are bigger than smaller numbers. So, you know, I'm a psychologist. I don't. So I think and, you know, the the rumor was that Chachi PT five was you know, come out in December, and I don't know if they're holding, you know, hitting the brakes on that because of, you know, skynet reasons or what the plan is, but and I'm not even talking about academic integrity in this session, but if you're trying to catch up to students and trying to do plagiarism checkers, and you're gonna get lost. You know, the AI is gonna it's it's already well ahead of where where we are.
So we have to fundamentally change our curriculum to accommodate artificial intelligence in the world, which I think we should be doing anyway. And I know I need to get on to the next slide, but need to be doing that anyway because our students are gonna be using chat JPT in the world. And, like, why would we say, you can't use this tool that you that will you'll use it later but we're not going to teach you how to use this tool. You know, I heard an amen, I think. Alright.
So course development I think that this will be very good in course development. And again, I shared this at the end conference a moment ago at the pre on conference, because tomorrow's the on conference. Stick around afterwards and, gonna have a good time. This is a real life assignment. I didn't I was, contracted to teach the course, I didn't create the course.
It was handed to me right as chatty BT is being released. And so it says created non discrimination policy. This is for a, organizational diversity, managing organizational diversity course. So you're going to create this policy for a multinational that will employ individuals in several Asian markets. The policy will be a guide as it hires new employees.
And so it's like, well, that's an assignment that would have been good last year years ago, twenty years ago, a thousand million years ago, but, I put that I copied it, put it into Chat JPT, three point five and it spit out a paper that was good. And if I was grading it, it would get a passing grade, you know, and all the students could do they can copy it, they can paste it in chat, GPT, and they can spit out papers, and it takes a matter of moments. And so I thought, why don't I have the students do that? And so I restructured the entire assignment. I kept this thing, and I told the students, take this prompts, put it into, I introduced them chatty PT, but if they wanna use Bard or Jasper, whatever AI, you choose, get a free account somewhere, and I want you to to generate a paper, generate a policy. And then I want you to iterate.
So then, so that's like step one is use chat GPT. Step two is now you have the the output. It's not perfect, so I want you to revise it. I want you to refine, improve, clarify, rephrase, add omit contact, provide context for this because it's not gonna be perfect. And maybe you're a multinational company, you know, provide context for it.
Maybe it's different than the generic one. After that, I want them to finalize. So let's create a final of the policy, after you've tinkered with it a bit, and then I want you to reflect on it. So I have them write a quick reflection paper, not not anything sophisticated, but like half a page, and talk about the process that they went through. Not necessarily the final output, but I want them to reflect on how what it was like working with AI to generate this thing.
And then the deliverable wasn't just a paper. It was everything. I told them, give me all of the things. I wanna see your initial output. I wanna see how you interacted with the AI.
I wanna see your final output. I wanna hear your reflections on the process. And so what I'm teaching is more a process than deliverable. And so one day maybe one of my students is working in HR and they have to create a policy specifically like I did. And so they can say, Oh, I have a policy that I already wrote in grad school.
It's like, that's not gonna happen. You know, my student, I teach Iowa psychology some of them go into HR, some of them go into organizational development, some of them they were going to become behavioral economics, you know, people. Some might be go into academia. But the important thing is the process that I had them engage with. And so the the feedback was was very good.
I I think. And, and I think it was meaningful and that this I was teaching them a skill, not so much write this paper, and now I have the paper. But I'm focusing on on the process. And I had a thought also during our on conference, we were talking about how do you teach writing, and I don't have an answer to this. How do you teach creative, how do you teach creative thinking? How do you teach writing in a world where an AI can write for you? Hang on a second.
So I'm used to Florida humidity, and now I'm up in up in the clouds. And, so my thought, I I just wanted to put out here, not descending from Mount Sinai with tablets or anything, but I just had a thought that I thought. I I wanna share share with you. What if you're teaching writing Instead of throughout the course, you teach, here's here's an essay, here's a here's a paper, here's a paper, here's a paper. Why don't you have them write all of the papers at the same time And in this first section, we're gonna work with chatty PT to create an outline or and I'm not an a writing and professor or anything, but let's focus on this portion of writing and let's let's use AI and let's write all four of your papers.
And so this week, we're learning about, outlining. And now we're gonna do certain structures, and we're gonna do other things. And so by the end, they've written all of their papers, but it's taken the entire duration of the course to write all four papers. You know, that I don't know. I'm throwing out there, but we have to think about, where we're going with our assignments, because we no longer live in a world where we were we can have written assignments and discussion board and call that education.
You know? It it's no unless we want to become, like, diploma mills because and, and eventually, we're gonna have computers grading it. And so, students are gonna create copy and paste and have computers write it, and we're have computers grade it. And it's just like Mark Twain says, you know, education is when when the notes pass from the the lecture to the to the tablet and without, you know, passing through the ears without, you know, landing on the brain of either. So, you know, it's like, I'm gonna say it. You're gonna write it down, and that's education.
You know, we don't want that. And so I have a question. What will assignments look like going forward? And I've already been tinkering with my courses I think you've been tinkering with years, and, and I do want to open up the floor, but I think we're gonna see a lot of, multimedia, for example, chattyPT can't help you with video production and editing and producing and presenting. It can help you script out things. It can help you outline.
But we might have we might see more infographics, presentations, multimedia, perhaps, you know, blogging aspects of blogging or other technologies like padlet and thing link, project based learning could be important, debates I think I I teach only online, but I have my students engage in small group debates and class debates, and I have them work together to come up with their arguments and counter arguments, and I have them in canvas, groups, and then I can see their interaction as they formulate. And, and, yeah, team based projects. I have an assignment where I have a designated provocateur where I assign certain topics of that module to certain students and say, I want you to to expand on this topic and say, why it's the most relevant, why it's the most important topic that we're studying week, and then I have other students who are designated provocateurs, and their job is to counter argue, argue, like, to essentially argue with the other students, and it's really fun activity, with a lot of back and forth. And students are usually, you know, trepidation. It's about, being a designated provocateur because especially in higher ed, everything seems to be, the discussion posts go, Hey, I really liked your discussion posts.
That was really good. You said it really well. I agree with all of the things and fill in the blank question. What do you think about that? And then think that that's checking out. And I told my students, I want you to argue with each other, scholarly, you know, orderly, respectful, discourse, at the end of the week, we're all friends, but I wanna introduce a little bit of contention into my my classes.
And so, I have a microphone. I'd I've talked a lot, and I I wanna hear you talking. So if you have anything to say, I have some some questions for you, you know, if you want to to think about this, or if you have your own question, and so they gave a microphone. Who who would like the mic So I was having a conversation last week with several I was having a conversation last week with several faculty, and so we're thinking, like you said, it's given that our students are going to be using the this, you know, outside of, of the education. So we need to relook at the outcomes of our courses.
So we to really get together and brainstorm what type of skills are students going to need given that they have what skills are they going to need in life and in the workplace? I don't have the answers, but we need to start having those conversations because it's going to be very different types of skills. This one works. So that one works. Alright. You wanna hand it to him in the back? We've talked about twenty first century skills, and I guess what it's twenty twenty three.
We're almost a quarter of the way to the twenty second century. If you can't believe that, And I think that we have new skills. I think Chachi PT, prompt engineering, teaching them how to interact with AI is the next skill that we need to be teaching students. So I guess the question I have is it really about the how an instructional designer is going to kind of be that middleware. Between the AI and the curriculum.
So you talked a little bit about prompt designing and how in, what is it called, kamigo, how it would kind of step through the process. What skills do we as educators need to know so that we can help the AI do that step by step and help out because it's not going to just grab our course content and know exactly where those benchmarks and those outcomes are. Yeah. So, with the limited capacity memory that ChatGPT has, you can dump a lot of information. And right now, ChatGPT gets its information from the internet up till twenty twenty one and you can you can give it more information for the purpose of that.
So I've gone and copied articles and I pasted into the thing and and I tell ChachiPT, use this as a reference for what we're talking about. Here are my court, here's my course assignment, here's my syllabus, here's my, and you can just put all kinds of information in there, to give it as much information as possible so that it can get give you the best output as as possible. And, prompt engineering is that that term I recommend if you haven't heard of prompt engineering after this conference, go just Google prompt engineering, try and learn as much as you can a out that topic. Because you're gonna see the quality of your outputs exponentially improve after you incorporate that? Hi, Christie from Renton Technical College. I I wanna share an assignment success story, but on that note, yeah, we need to be, looking beyond just the moments we also need to be thinking about what degrees are we offering that are not gonna exist in two years or less? And what do we need to offer that's known on the table, and we should be planning to participate.
But quick assignment success story, I was in the middle of teaching a business class that was communication for business managers when this came out. And I decided, yeah, let's embrace it. The class had a research paper at the end. And I said, let's talk. Anyone really wanna do that paper.
And I really didn't wanna grade a bunch that the AI had done. I was fortunate that I had podcast equipment, but the same thing would work in Zoom, that I introduced them to it and and to prompt engineering. And I said, okay, We are not at a fancy university with fraternities and sororities. We're at a small technical community college. You need to start your networking now on LinkedIn, on getting your job searches.
So we're gonna do podcasts that you're gonna put on LinkedIn as your final project. And if you were doing it by yourself, then the AI would write the script, but by doing it in groups, where they had to have conversations together, there wouldn't be a way to organically put that in. But I said, Hey, let's look at the course outcomes. And use the AI to help you come up with your topics, with your titles like you were sharing. And they are already getting jobs from having those.
On LinkedIn. So, I'm Erin, and I'm, the prince of Georgia virtual school. I think at this conference, we've talked a lot about what we need to do to prepare students to use AI responsibly and ethically I feel like as a principle, I'm not really ready to answer these questions in application. Because I need to get my teachers there. They still see it as a villain, not as a resource or a tool.
Here. We can finish. Yeah. Respect it. Hello.
I'm Togen from University of Nebraska Medical Center. I there are two things here to grab my attention. One is the how my AI, transform assessment, and grading. One of the things that lately, I mean, working on with this concept is with AI, it is very possible to, achieve this psychometric, assessment. Not only the numbers, like, in the rubric of the assessment, but, there are the AI can actually use a psychometric and the user's emotions during to learning.
And according to those learnings, there's a big chance to enhance the teaching. The other thing is Sorry. I was like, looking over that. Oh, yeah. Other thing, like, we always, I always, suggest to instructors that you can actually use it to give the whole concept in the classroom and also ask for the real time assessment, and then tell them, okay, now start, and then you can have your students interact with it.
And, you can, at the same time, you can have a dynamic assessment and, the following questions could be generated to close the knowledge gap of the students. We'll find out. I wanted to know, and I was hoping other blood answers Is it still working? Okay. About chat, GPT, and using it to actually accomplish the grading because I'm not even gonna go into the privacy issue because I think that's kind of another conversation. But, I mean, you you even mentioned that Chad GPT is kinda telling you which you want to hear when you answer ask these questions.
So if you're putting a student's work in, again, privacy issue, other element is it just gonna tell you what you think you wanna hear or is it actually gonna give feedback on that material so you can actually take that assessment, that feedback, revise it to your own voice or your own thoughts, and then you can give it back to the student. Like, would it actually help with that in grading? I guess that's my question. You can turn those off now. I think we're we're gonna wrap them. And I think that AI is never gonna replace teachers because even if it's a tool that teachers can use for for grading, for creating things, it doesn't replace the subject matter expertise.
It's like a really smart friend who knows a lot of trivia, but doesn't know how to teach that. And so so our job's just secure, and we still have work to do because we have to check, and we have to teach our students to fact check AI as well, you know, and that's our our responsibility. And so We're wrapping up now, but, as we leave, I wanna challenge you to be champions of AI. There's a whole lot of topics we didn't even begin to talk about Feel, feel free to come to the on conference afterwards if you wanna continue talking and and mulling this over. But I challenge you to be champions. Go back to your institutions and really try and, get people excited about integrating the technology to learn about it, incorporate into the curriculum and and to be excited because, this is the change that our students need to see from us. So thanks everybody for attending.
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