In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a powerful tool that holds unlimited potential for education. While there are concerns about AI replacing teachers, I believe AI actually enhances and empowers teachers in the classroom. I believe AI has the capacity to revolutionize teaching methodologies and bring about positive student learning experiences.
In this article, we’ll explore five reasons why AI and ChatGPT significantly benefit teachers.
Reason 1: Reduce Daily and Repetitive Tasks
One of the most time-consuming aspects of being a teacher is the high volume of administrative and repetitive tasks that pull teachers away from teaching. AI can give you back time for your teaching by dramatically reducing the hours spent on admin tasks. AI, and especially ChatGPT, will do the heavy lifting on drafting all the emails, forms, and repetitive assignments that need minor changes in them. Now, you will need to provide the structure and tone for those documents as well as revise them to ensure that they meet your professional and ethical standards. Even so, the amount of time you spend on those admin tasks will be massively reduced.
By delegating these tasks to AI, you can get back the time you need so you can focus on providing the best classroom experience for your students.
Reason 2: Improve Course Curriculum and Lesson Planning
Today, teachers have more responsibilities than ever before outside of teaching. Staying current with digital teaching platforms, online learning techniques, as well as parents and administrators that are only a text away from require your immediate response. It can feel overwhelming, and wouldn’t it be great if every teacher had an assistant that could help do the heavy lifting for drafting lesson planning? Well that’s exactly what ChatGPT can do. By instructing it with the type of lesson to be planned, the grade and knowledge level of the students and the time length of the lesson. It will create one in seconds, allowing teachers to revise it to match their lesson needs.
Now, teachers can complete lesson planning in a fraction of the time, allowing them to focus on their students needs.
Reason 3: Suggest Classroom Management Tactics
“I’m at my wits end with those kids!” Every teacher has had that moment when their students just can’t focus. It can be a draining feeling since classroom management is crucial to effective knowledge retention. The days of pouring through multiple classroom management books are over. By instructing ChatGPT for suggestions on how to lower classroom noise levels, the time spent pouring through books and websites is minimized to seconds versus hours. Furthermore, asking ChatGPT for suggestions on how to support students’ emotional development can improve classroom management without heavy discipline.
Maintaining a conducive and engaging classroom environment is crucial for effective teaching. Using ChatGPT to suggest proactive classroom management techniques ensures teachers address challenges promptly while developing an inclusive and interactive learning atmosphere.
Reason 4: Fill The Student’s Knowledge Gap
The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic forcing students from in-person to online learning created massive knowledge gaps for students that are still not filled. Using ChatGPT educators can quickly fill those knowledge gaps by designing tailored lessons and assignments for students. This can be done in minutes, not the hours it usually takes. Quickly identifying a student’s knowledge gap and providing a tailored lesson or assignment fills that student’s knowledge gap without overburdening a teacher’s workload.
For literature and history teachers, you can bring the speaking style of any era to your students. Just instruct ChatGPT to change the text you’ve written into the speaking style of that era, the American Colonial period circa 1790, and instantly your students are speaking to one another as if they’re in the Continental Congress.
Reason 5: Shortens Teachers’ Preparation With Summarization
Let’s be honest: there’s so much information on the internet that a simple search becomes an overwhelming experience, wasting time and energy. Utilizing ChatGPT, teachers will save valuable time by quickly obtaining summaries of articles, websites, and research topics. Simply copy and paste the text, put it into ChatGPT, and instruct it to summarize according to personal preference. Now, instead of spending hours reading lengthy texts, teachers can use ChatGPT to provide condensed information, allowing them to efficiently gather insights and stay informed without the burden of extensive reading and summarizing.
By leveraging ChatGPT’s summarization feature, teachers can focus their time and energy on what matters to them: Lesson planning, classroom activities, and student engagement.
I firmly believe that embracing AI as a teaching tool is not about replacing educators but enhancing their strengths. By harnessing the power of AI, like ChatGPT, teachers can enhance their productivity, creativity, and overall effectiveness in the classroom. From reducing daily tasks and improving course curriculum to suggesting classroom management tactics and minimizing administrative burdens, ChatGPT offers immense potential for teachers and students alike.
It’s obvious that embracing AI as a teacher is crucial for staying competitive in today’s digital world. I believe that instead of replacing teachers, AI serves as a powerful tool, ensuring their focus stays on the students and not the tasks they have to complete. That’s why I provide person 1:1’s: to benefit teachers who want to use AI programs like ChatGPT. I’ve accomplished this by designing the OAPRA framework, a simple five-step process that guides you on how to use ChatGPT with ease!
It’s time to embrace AI as an educator and lead your students. As your AI Consultant, I’m here to help you understand AI and how to teach it ethically. Contact me today for a free 15 minute consultation, and let’s start using AI for your benefit in the classroom.
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