EP 15 - Back to School Part 2 - A Letter to Teachers Sincerely ChatGPT

In this episode, John and Jason talk about a letter for teachers sincerely from ChatGPT. 

 

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Resources:

• Click here to read the full letter (and prompt) for teachers from ChatGPT, as well as letters to higher ed administrators, principles, provosts, edtech vendors, instructional designers, and students. 
• Ethan Mollick on LinkedIn
• Teaching with AI recommendations from OpenAI
• AI Educational Video Series from the Warton School

Transcript

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[00:00:00] John Nash: That's what they've done. That's Conamigo's Other value proposition. You can forget using a zillion AI tools. Hey, now I only pay for 

[00:00:08] Clicking: two, 

[00:00:10] Jason Johnston: right? Me too. Now 

[00:00:13] John Nash: three now, actually three. I paid for three. I went to Claude. I paid for Claude last night. And Oh, you did. Yeah, I decided to.

Oh, now you're on to four 

[00:00:21] Jason Johnston: then. What's the fourth? Oh, I thought maybe you had mid journey. Oh yeah, I do. Shoot. Huh. 

[00:00:28] John Nash: Yeah. Yeah. I pay for mid journey. Chat 

[00:00:31] Jason Johnston: for Conmigo mid journey. 

, it's like streaming services. It all started with Netflix. It was like, ah, this is great. I cut the cable. Now I only have Netflix. And now I've got 

[00:00:43] John Nash: six of them.

Intro

[00:00:44] John Nash: I'm John Nash here with Jason Johnston.

[00:00:47] Jason Johnston: Hey, John. Hey, everyone. And this is Online Learning in the Second Half, the online learning podcast.

[00:00:52] John Nash: Yeah, we are doing this podcast to let you in on a conversation we've been having for the last two and a half years about online education. Look, online learning's had its chance to be great, and much of it is, but there's still some that isn't. And how are we going to get to the next stage?

[00:01:09] Jason Johnston: That is a great question. How about we do a podcast and talk about it?

[00:01:13] John Nash: That's perfect. What do you want to talk about today?

[00:01:17] Jason Johnston: I would love to talk about Back to School, Part Two. It sounds a little bit like an 80s comedy movie or something. Back to School, Part Two.

[00:01:25] John Nash: That's right, except Rodney Dangerfield's not in it.

[00:01:27] Jason Johnston: I'm glad you got the reference exactly. No, no respect here comes to Dangerfield but yeah, let's talk about Back to School, Part Two. I wanted to throw out one thing to you here.

So I asked the chat, GPT to write a letter to teachers for this fall. What advice ChatGPT would you give. Teachers this fall as they, they enter the new school year.

And so I wanted to read this letter from ChatGPT okay. And wanted to get you to respond from a professor teacher angle to see what you what you think of this. So here it is. I don't know. What's a ChatGPT voice? I'll just use my normal voice, so I think it might be too much. It's 

[00:02:13] John Nash: you're chat 

[00:02:13] Jason Johnston: G p t, Jason, 

but it feels sincere, so I'll use a sincere voice.

Sure. I think that's right. Yeah. Yeah. 

Letter: Dear Teacher 

[00:02:19] Jason Johnston: Dear Teacher, I hope this message finds you well. As an AI language model, I wanna share three ways in which I can contribute to your classroom experience. Firstly, I can help you create engaging lesson plans, offering diverse content, ideas and activities tailored to your students' needs and learning styles.

Secondly, I can assist in generating interactive assignments and assessments, fostering a dynamic learning environment that encourages student participation. Lastly, I can provide additional explanations and resources to support struggling students and enhance their understanding of challenging concepts. To make the most of our collaboration.

I suggest utilizing me as a versatile tool for creativity, interactivity, and personalized student support. Sincerely chat. G B T. 

[00:03:13] John Nash: I think that's, I think that's pretty good. It was, and I how was it that ChatGPTwas so scoped and succinct in these things?