Blog Post #5: The ChatGPT Experience

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This image shows the ChatGPT logo in black and white.
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    As a teacher, using ChatGPT, or other AI systems, is something that I am becoming steadily more experienced in as it is slowly being integrated into instructional practices. With my experience in education, I was very intrigued to experiment with Ethan Mollick's AI Tutor Blueprint ChatGPT prompt. With this prompt, I was able to create my own prompt to support students in a specific skill that I teach. His prompt assisted me in creating a guide for students to successfully craft a literary analysis essay using the RACE (restate the question, answer the question, cite evidence, explain) and S/M/M (say, mean, matter) strategies. In his lecture, Mollick states that, "Baseline knowledge matters more than ever because you need to know enough to be able to work with these systems." (2024, 4:28). This was proven to be true while working with his prompt as I was tasked with explaining the common mistakes that students make with RACE and S/M/M as well as key elements they need to be sure to understand before using the strategies to write a literary analysis. 

    Interacting with this prompt made it clear that an outside expertise was needed to create a resource that would be the most beneficial to student learning. Mollick noted about AI that, "...education matters more than ever in a time of AI...This is not a replacement for teaching. This is not a replacement for formal education. This is something that actually spurs us on to do more." (2024, 6:24). After discussing the specific student needs, the AI clarified if there was a specific text or analysis question that needed to be used or if it should be up to student input. It then created a prompt to be copied and pasted into a new ChatGPT chat. Working with the AI Tutor Blueprint prompt was very simple and, surprisingly, did not take much time to get to a prompt blueprint being created. 

    After pasting the prompt blueprint into a new chat, the process that a student would follow began immediately. The AI asked questions to gauge current student knowledge in relation to RACE, S/M/M, and literary analysis as a whole. From there, it gave further explanations where they were needed - with all of the instructional content being correct and aligned to state standards. After covering the background information, the AI walked the student (me) through practicing breaking down a prompt to understand what it is asking. Then, step-by-step, the AI guided me through completing a simplified version of a RACE response. It also made sure to incorporate into the lesson how S/M/M can be used during the "explanation" section of RACE to give a more insightful analysis of the cited textual evidence. Once the practice was completed, the prompt allowed for the student to share the text and question for a literary analysis being done in class so that it could assist in the assignment. 

    The AI Tutor Blueprint prompt is something that can be used to support students as they are engaging with content in the classroom to make sure that the practice they are doing is done correctly and in a way that is both meaningful and personalized. 


References

CHATGPT logo PNG vector (PDF) free download. SeekLogo. (n.d.). https://seeklogo.com/vector-logo/465219/chatgpt

Global Silicon Valley. (2024, April 16). Co-Intelligence: AI in the Classroom with Ethan Mollick |                     ASU+GSV 2024 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FnOkxj0ZuA 

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