Educational uses of ChatGPT: 8 ideas for teachers

By Aditya Shukla, Psychologist, Cognition Today, EdTech Consultant

Question generation

ChatGPT is a good place to generate similar questions to a sample question for a specific topic upto k-12.

1

Alternate Explanations

For complex math, science, and history topics, ChatGPT can offer new metaphors, analogies, and wording that may attract student's attention.

2

Classroom Activities

ChatGPT's training data has a lot of science and science communication, so it is quite proficient in coming up with simple DIY activities to learn concepts.

3

Critical thinking exercises

Since ChatGPT already provides answers, students can be asked to refine those answers and judge its accuracy to engage their critical thinking skills.

4

Context swapping

Given a sample question or a set of questions, you can prompt ChatGPT to come up with different contexts for the same type of question. But this may need some manual tweaking.

5

Converting Question Types

ChatGPT can covert a multiple choice question into a long-answer or fill-in-the-blank type of question. This variation can help students at different levels of learning.

6

Text Comprehension

Teachers can feed a set of facts or a passage as a prompt and ask ChatGPT to create a set of questions that target the information/facts in the passage.

7

Classroom analysis

ChatGPT can analyze an excel sheet or word document with classroom notes and analyze it to get more insights. Teachers can specify what they want to know.

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