CTE - AI Teaching with ai

Course Design

This section caters to educators eager to integrate generative AI within their teaching methodologies and open to the idea of students utilizing AI tools for learning purposes. Our focus extends to AI's role in shaping course syllabi, crafting lesson plans, curating lecture materials, designing engaging student activities, and refining assessment approaches.

Course Design

Syllabus

Editing your first draft is easier than starting over, right? Well, using ChatGPT can make it even easier! It searches the internet for similar course outlines and puts them together in one handy document. That way, you can see what others are doing and make your syllabus even better. It helps you find the right words for your learning goals and course rules, saving lots of time.

But, here's the trick: when you ask ChatGPT for help, you have to be super specific! Give it all the details about your course—like what it's about, the level, how long it is, and what your students already know. The more details you give, the better ChatGPT can help you. It's like telling it exactly what you need, so it can find the perfect examples and resources just for you!

And as with any draft, you will need to edit it and polish it so that you can use it for your course.

a professor writing a syllabus in a magical space

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Lesson planning

Professor working at her desk with a magical floating screen to help her prepare to teach.

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ChatGPT is your go-to buddy for fresh ideas and personalized learning! It can improve your lesson plans by suggesting new activities and approaches that align perfectly with your learning goals. Plus, it can help you with customizing lessons to fit each student's needs, highlighting the tricky spots students might face and even offering solutions!

Just ask it about common misconceptions or tough areas in a topic, and voila—generative AI comes through! Remember, the secret is in your prompt—give all the details like lesson goals, course level, what your students know, how long the lesson is, and what materials you have. The more you tell Generative AI, the better it can help you!

You may want to try right now to ask Chat GPT or Bard about a specific activity. For instance, if I was a teacher for instructional design, I may want to ask AI: Give me 4 ideas that are hands on activities that I can do with my college students to help them practice creating Learner Personas.

Infographics, Data Visualization, & Argument Diagrams

Artificial Intelligence is pretty amazing at making visual maps of information like data, timelines, and how ideas connect. These maps are like magic—they take complex ideas and show them in a simple, easy-to-understand way. When AI crafts argument diagrams well, they become instant pictures that are super clear, perfect for sharing, grading, and understanding tricky concepts. How ever, just like anything, sometimes it doesn't do a great job. So it might just be a good place to start.

What's cool is that there are free AI tools out there that can make these visualizations. Just remember, the more details you give when you ask for these visuals, the better they'll turn out!

Here are a few tools you can try to use and see how they work:

https://www.canva.com/ai-image-generator/

https://openai.com/dall-e-2

professor creating visuals and graphics using the aid of AI.

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Further resources

https://www.aiforeducation.io/prompt-library

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