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Tell it to act in a very specific way.

• "Act as a ..."
  • ...community college teacher.
  • ...college [subject] teacher.
• "... do this thing ..."
  • create three fun in-class small group activities
  • write instructions for an activity about [topic]
• "... for this audience."
  • college-level class of [level] [subject] students

Examples

• Act as a college-level English professor. You are teaching your research writing course students about different types of claims, specifically claims of fact, claims of policy, and claims of value. They have read the book about this and done a few homework activities. Can you come up with some fun in-class small group activities that they could do to extend this lesson?

• When asking ChatGPT to rewrite exam questions, put the question in brackets or parenthesis in order for ChatGPT from answering any question within the question you've asked.
• Ask ChatGPT to answer your exam questions, then ask it to improve the answers based on what you want students to be able to know/do. Then ask it to write a prompt (or question) that would get that kind of answer.
• Ask it to create similar scenarios using the same concept.
• Ask to create a new question
  • Create a question about [topic]
    • Example: "create a question about the 4 functional categories of organelles"
  • Give it more information if it doesn't understand
    • Example: "Genetic control = nucleus, endomembrane system = golgi apparatus, energy processing = mitochondria, cytoskeleton = actin filaments"
  • Ask it to expand what it wrote if it's not a good enough question
    • Example: "Expand the previous question to ask about how you would identify each of the categories in the martian cell."
  • Ask it to change specific things
    • Example: "Change the second question to ask what functions each category does"
    • Example Output: "Using the 4 functional categories of organelles, how would you identify the presence of a nucleus, endomembrane system, energy processing organelles, and cytoskeleton in possible cells from soil samples on Mars? Furthermore, can you explain what functions each category performs in a cell and why it is important to identify them in potential martian cells?

Prompt with the following:

• You are an expert lesson plan writer, and I’d like you to write an example lesson plan for me. The subject of the course is X. The topic of the lesson is Y. The length of the class period is Z. The objective(s) for this lesson are A and B. First, look up https://kpcrossacademy.org/ and then look up a variety of websites that are focused on innovative strategies for teaching this course generally and this topic specifically. After that, create an innovative example lesson that is interactive and engaging and does not use any special materials I would have to purchase or make. Please provide links to any websites I would need to teach the lesson.

Prompt 2:

• Add to that lesson several means for me to check for understanding/conduct formative assessment and give feedback

Prompt 3:

• What might students need to visualize to learn this material? What might I need to model and how would I do that? What supports might students need?

This tool helps you brainstorm lesson plan ideas with AI.

AI is great for giving general feedback - technical aspects, style, research methods, citation, etc. Because of this, you can have students use it as a “first pass” and then make the needed changes before handing the paper off to you. Then you can use your time to focus on specific, higher-order feedback on content and not waste time on lower-level feedback.

Because copying and pasting the work would make the prompt quite long, it may require a paid subscription. Most free subscriptions have a word limit and/or a limit on the number of prompts you can do per day. Claude.AI might be your best bet because you can attach what you want it to look at. Maybe others will also do that soon. But they all have daily or hourly limits. Note also that you can show students how to get their own feedback using this prompt so they can make improvements before handing in anything. You may want to add a sentence to the beginning of the prompt that helps AI focus on a specfic area of expertise by giving it a role to play. “You are a (biology professor, creative writer, CEO, etc.)”

Example Prompt:

Give me feedback on this piece. Focus on the following criteria: (list criteria from rubric or other source). Tell me at least (number) things that I did especially well and (number) aspects that could be improved and how I might improve them. Here is the piece: (cut and paste or attach)

Ask AI to give only technical feedback:

Please edit the following piece for grammar, spelling, and punctuation but do not make any significant revisions to the content. Here is the piece: (cut and paste it in or use the attachment function if the AI you use offers it. Claude AI is particularly good at this.)

Please tell me what changes you made and why

Please create “transparent” instructions for an activity for (level) students.. The instructions should follow the “Transparency in Teaching and Learning” (Winklemes) method and template (https://tilthighered.com/tiltexamplesandresources). Leave me a section to add due dates. The section on purpose should convince even difficult to convince students of the value of completing the activity. The “Task” section is also very important and should break the activity down into clear steps. The “Criteria for Success” section can just say “see attached,” and I will attach or insert the rubric.  Here is the activity: (paste the performance task or other activity). 

You are an expert on student assessment in general and rubric design in particular. Please create a) a one-point rubric (or 3-point or 4-point) for the performance task, b) a form that would help (level) students give one another peer feedback on rough drafts of their task and c) a form that would allow students to self-assess their own work. Here are the standards/criteria: (paste). Here is the performance task: (paste)