Using AI Chatbots to Enhance Planning and Instruction (Quick Reference Guide)

An overview of how teachers can use AI chatbots like ChatGPT to design learning experiences and accelerate their workflow. Artificial intelligence is increasingly finding its way into our everyday lives, including in the classroom, and it is important for teachers to explore emerging technologies that will affect students and how they interact with digital tools.

Curriculum and educational technology expert Monica Burns offers teachers hands-on advice for how to incorporate chatbots into their planning and instruction, including the following:

* Opportunities for and challenges of using chatbots.
Prompts and examples to support instructional planning.
Ideas for designing assignments and assessments.
Tips for boosting productivity so that teachers can focus on higher priority tasks.
Ways to optimize chatbots and other AI tools.

Using AI Chatbots to Enhance Planning and Instruction also addresses teachers' concerns about students using AI to complete essays and homework and how to craft assignments with that in mind. ChatGPT offers significant possibilities as well as obstacles for teachers, and this guide will help teachers harness its abilities to support student learning.

8.5 x 11 3-panel foldout guide (6 pages), laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage. This quick reference guide is a joint publication of ASCD and ISTE.

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