80 Ways to Use ChatGPT in the Classroom: Using AI to Enhance Teaching and Learning

What is the impact of chatGPT on your classroom? Should you be concerned? Should you use it or not? In the book, "80 Ways to Use ChatGPT in the Classroom: Using AI to Enhance Teaching and Learning," Dr. Stan Skrabut, an instructional technologist and designer, explores these topics and much more. He presents different ways to incorporate chatGPT into the classroom, including preparation for classes, providing instructional assistance, creating assessments, developing study aids, and using chatGPT for computer programming. The book also covers how students can use chatGPT for writing assistance, research, and personalized learning. Stan provides practical examples and suggestions to help educators fully utilize chatGPT's capabilities while addressing potential concerns and criticisms. The book aims to show that AI can enhance teaching and learning and encourages educators to embrace this technology in the classroom. See what the uproar is about! When asked, chatGPT explained that it is a pre-trained language model created by OpenAI. It is a variant of the GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) model and is trained on a large dataset of conversational text. It can be fine-tuned for a variety of natural language processing tasks such as language translation, question answering, and text completion. It can also be used to generate human-like text for tasks such as chatbot development and language generation. ChatGPT is another addition to a line of Artificial Intelligence (AI) writing tools such as Jasper, Sudowrite, Quillbot, etc. It builds on Grammarly, the Hemingway app, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and others. Historically, education has pushed back on new technologies entering the field, such as writing, printing press, slide rulers, calculators, computers, word processors, spell checkers, grammar checkers, the internet, Wikipedia, open educational resources, etc. Developers trained ChatGPT on a conversational text dataset, including an extensive collection of dialogue from various sources such as books, movies, and websites. OpenAI has not publicly disclosed the specific dataset used to train the model. The training dataset is vast, with over a billion words, used to train the model to learn the nuances of conversational language and generate human-like responses. OpenAI has not publicly disclosed the specific data used to train ChatGPT. However, they prepared the model with a diverse dataset that includes a wide range of factual information such as historical events, science, technology, and general knowledge. The training data came from various sources such as books, articles, and websites that provide accurate and reliable information. Additionally, the model could have been fine-tuned on specific factual datasets to improve its performance on certain tasks, although this information is not publicly available. The Chapter "Using ChatGPT for Computer Programming" will teach you how to utilize chatGPT to streamline your coding process. With chatGPT, you can quickly write code in various languages. Provide specific input, and let chatGPT work its magic. Not only can chatGPT write code and explain what it does, but it also can troubleshoot any issues, write SQL code, clean up HTML code, write application scripts, and even add comments to your code. By the end of this chapter, you will have a better understanding of how to use chatGPT to improve your coding efficiency.