ChatGPT wins the guide for teachers to drive in the classroom

OpenAI (31) published a guide today with tips for teachers to use ChatGPT in the classroom. The material explains how the tool works and its limitations, including biases.

The text published on the official OpenAI website mentions, for example, that the generative artificial intelligence system does not always produce accurate information. “[O ChatGPT] this is just a starting point; you are the expert and you are responsible for the material,” says a quote from the guide.

OpenAI also stated that artificial intelligence does not need to be used in all classrooms and the instructions can be changed. “Prompts are suggestions only.”

Guide to help educators it also displays current use cases of ChatGPT. Helen Crompton, professor of technology at Old Dominion University, encourages graduate students to use the system as a person proxy (discussion partner or corporate recruiter).

Fran Bellas is a professor at the University of Coruña, Spain, and recommends that teachers use ChatGPT as an assistant when designing quizzes, exams, and lesson plans.

Anthony Kaziboni, Head of Research at the University of Johannesburg, teaches non-English speaking students how to use ChatGPT for translation, writing and language practice.

Teaching with Artificial Intelligence

The guide by OpenAI gives education professionals input tips. The guide is based on four topics to assist teaching professionals: developing lesson plans; Create effective explanations, examples and analogies; Help students learn by teaching and create an AI Tutor.

The entries are complete and serve as tutorials on how to make ChatGPT a useful tool in the classroom. For example, the first topic teaches how to interact with generative AI so that students respond with the knowledge they already have, whether they know something about the topic or not.

Input on helping students learn by teaching suggests how to reflect and evaluate students’ explanations and practice, for example, on a particular topic.