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Getting AI to Write Questions for You
You know you should make your class more active. Asking students regular, low stakes questions about the key concepts, skills, and process you are teaching is essential. In a 50-minute lesson, it is great to do that 5 times. You shouldn’t grade any of the questions, and you should asks students to talk with with each other about each one. Even when you know this is important, it can be hard to do. Who actually has time? We wind up avoiding making active learning components because we are already spending so much time making slides of our content and creating assessments. And then we spend even more time marking! The…
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Prompting Generative AI to Help You Plan for Your Class Quickly
Having a good teaching assistant (TA) can be so important. While anyone needs clear direction to grade an essay with the same criteria you use, it is incredibly helpful to have someone help carry the teaching load. It turns out that Generative AI (like Microsoft Copilot) doesn’t just force you to redesign your assessments for academic integrity reasons – with good prompting it can even help you do that redesign. It just needs the clear direction and oversight you typically give a human TA. Learning to prompt can save you time Prompting AI is the process of giving clear parameters for what you want. When you start chatting with an…