Tag: ChatGPT

Using rubrics and generativeAI tools to reflect on and develop writing

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One of the biggest worries about generative AI is in terms of how it could impact the development of the ability to write and the learning that is, in essence, formed and evolved through the construction of sentences, paragraphs and the outputs of writing from songs to blogs to academic essays. There’s been some really thoughtful work in this area aleady and Anna Mills has collected some amazing resources that offer a range of perspectives and approaches as well as plenty of food for thought about impacts and issues. This series of videos ‘Generative AI practicals’ is designed to suggest ways in which tools like ChatGPT and Google Bard might be used by academic staff and students in ways other than pumping out text indiscriminately and uncritically! In this video I isolate one element from a marking rubric and using two genAI tools ask them to assess a paragraph and then suggest alternatives across grade bands.

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Prompt & Outputs from ChatGPT and Google Bard

Generative AI practicals: Making sense of lecture notes (with ChatGPT)

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There are loads of things we (in HE and education more broadly) need to think about and do when it comes to generative AI, both cognitively and practically. I am alert to and concerned about the ethical and practical implications of generative AI tools but here want to focus on ways in which we (teachers and students) might find ways to use these tools productively (as well as ethically and with integrity). My view is that the ‘wow’ (or OMG) moment experienced when you witness tools like chatGPT spouting text needs to be looked beyond and ways in which the mooted idea of AI personal assistants can actually be realised need to be explored and shared. As a compulsive fiddler I am sometimes struck by how little other people have experimented but need to remember that stuff I might do in my spare time may have limited appeal for others (I am, after all, a Spurs supporter).

This first video then (4 mins) shows how I might take take some lecture notes (which may be notes from anything of course) and then uses ChatGPT to make sense of them.

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Prompts used, outputs and original notes