How to Use Technology to Connect with Students

Your students are going to use AI. You can put as many blockers, rules, policies, etc. in place. It won’t work. They will find a way. You can pretend AI doesn’t exist, try to bury it, and put your students at a disadvantage - OR you could get familiar, make a plan, and implement a strategy. What are four immediate things you could do? 1. Get familiar with ChatGPT, GROK, and ClaudeAI Knowing the tools is step one. There are many more out there, but these are your current Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Dr. Pepper of AI world. Know the ways they can check your work, help you outline, help you iterate, help you build materials, and help you do tedious tasks. Why? This can actually reduce cognitive load and let students focus on more rigorous material! 2. Determine the “why” for your AI policy. Why are you letting students use AI sometimes but not other times? You may want them to try hand calculate an equation a few times to build the muscle memory, you may want them to outline an essay a few times to build the muscle memory. That said, worked example theory shows that having an example can help alleviate cognitive load so you get the skills out of students. Wherever you land, give a compelling rationale so students understand how you arrived at your decision. 3. Practice and model using AI effectively and ethically. Do you really want to hand type all of your objectives and hand scaffold them on a long term plan? Awesome. I hope you have some good Netflix on in the background! That would bore me to tears. You can model how to effectively use AI by using it AND telling students when and how you used AI to develop lessons, develop assessments, check your work, etc. 4. Finally, learn how to write clear, crisp, and effective prompts Garbage in, garbage out. Learn how to write effective, detailed, clear, crisp prompts for your AI tools. Then model this for students. I use AI a lot to put together the jobs blast. Mostly it helps me categorize through prompts I have refined over the last 18 months. It helps me organize and build advertising posts. It helps me put together the bi-monthly newsletter. I would be at a considerable disadvantage if I didn’t use AI! Your students will be too if you don’t get ahead of this and embrace it. Remember, math teachers freaked out when Microsoft Excel came out too - but we are smart. We can use tools to our advantage!

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🔭 When we go beyond simply permitting or prohibiting #GPT and have a deeper understanding how our students adopt new technologies then we might be getting a little bit closer to the future of learning: “…Tools like ChatGPT prompt critical thinking, understanding and engagement in students, moving away from the rote memorization and copying methods of yesteryears. Yes, AI tools can be used to copy…The challenge lies in how we, as educators, guide our students in harnessing the potential of AI tools like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Learning Code: 🎙️Converse: Engage with ChatGPT in a dialogue. Chat! Remember, it's not a simple search engine. 💡Hypothesize: Predict possible responses to your questions. This will help you identify errors. 🔧Adapt: If the first response isn't what you need, reframe your question or dive deeper into the topic. ⏱️ Think: Reflect on the responses. Do they make sense? Are they accurate? Are they potentially biases? 🪝Gather: Use ChatGPT as a tool to gather information, but cross-verify with other sources. 🧪Probe: Ask follow-up questions. Seek depth in understanding. Don't settle for the first answer. 🏋️♀️Train: Continually refine your interaction with ChatGPT. Learning to use it effectively is an ongoing process. https://lnkd.in/eft9EK4n