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A short-video clip describing how to use ChatGPT to help students with their writing
Hear how Jessica Lyons encourages her students to use ChatGPT in her high school writing classes.
Erin Stanley:
I’m curious if any of you could share examples of how you’ve successfully integrated AI in the classroom in some of your teaching practices.
Jessica Lyons:
Well, I can. We use ChatGPT in writing for, we do a peer review, and then I call it a machine review afterwards. So they take the rubric, and they copy and paste their paper in there. And then, I have some questions that they ask chat to answer, and then they have to share that chat with me so I can see what the response was from chat. And then, they use that for revision.
So I mean, peer reviews with your peers is like, “It good. I like. Nice paper.” And so, I’m trying to get them better at it. But if I add that extra like, “Okay, now go talk to chat and see what he says about it,” that has become just so much… The idea of show don’t tell in writing. Kids sometimes just don’t get that. And you can say it 8 million ways, but if you say, “Okay, now let’s go to chat, put your sentence in and ask him to rewrite it for show don’t tell.” And then, he does, and we look at it, but I say, “Okay, now what does this word mean? Do you know what this word means? If you don’t, let’s look it up so we can put it in our own voice.” We’re not copying and pasting it. We’re getting the idea, we’re seeing how it works. Now, let’s put it into our own voice.
