Getting students excited about the work you have to grade later can be one of the more frustrating things about teaching, but when an assignment hits the right chord, it has the potential to inspire and impact not just the classroom, but the whole school and beyond.
Reconciling the curriculum and assignments with standards and learning objectives sometimes established out of a teacher’s control can really sap the creative side of your brain. Here’s how artificial intelligence can help broaden your horizons when trying to create assignments that make a lasting impression and keep your classroom excited about learning.
Since there will need to be a fair bit of refinement to create an assignment that is both fun to complete for students and fun to review and grade for educators, I’ve used ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that uses machine learning and large language models to generate conversational style answers to search queries, so that I could go back and forth brainstorming ideas. My area of study is media and communications, so for this example I’m putting together an assignment on media literacy, or the ability to think and interact critically with everything from TikTok content to front-page news.
- Getting students excited about learning
- Using artificial intelligence to create impactful assignments
- Refining assignments with ChatGPT for better results