Generative AI for Teachers

This is a course to help teachers use ChatGPT and other generative AI programs to generate content for their classrooms. It is designed to be useful for a broad audience and we include an extensive glossary for people that are new to the field of generative text. Our goal is to demonstrate a wide variety of uses of generative AI from simple lesson plans to generating lesson-appropriate online interactive simulations.

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Outline of Course

1. Part 1: Introduction to ChatGPT?
   1. Ethics: When can we use generative AI?
   2. What is ChatGPT and generative AI
   3. Legal and ethical issues
   4. When to use generative AI vs. finding pre-tested resources
2. Part 2: Key Concepts
   1. Prompts and responses
   2. Tokens (with lab)
   3. Temperature and Randomness
   4. Markdown, graph and chart formats
   5. In-Context learning
3. Part 3: Prompt design
   1. Making prompts clear
   2. Giving context
   3. Refining prompts
   4. Audience: tuning to a grade level
   5. Perspective: take a historical perspective
   6. Generating analogies and metaphors
4. Part 4: Intermediate Prompts
   1. Syllabus
   2. Code of Conduct
   3. Selecting a License

5. Part 5: Interactive Simulations

   1. Generating web pages with interactive Javascript lessons
   2. Using p5.js to generate simulations
   3. Simulating real-world physics

6. Part 6: Advanced Topics

   1. Using Generative AI to Minimize Kit Part Costs
   2. Fine-tuning large-language models
   3. Embeddings - using similar lesson plans to generate new lesson plans

7. Part 6 The Future of AI

   1. AI today - the limits of large-language-models
   2. AI in the next 10 years - teachers and simulation guides
   3. AI in the long-term - regulation and existential risks

This course was originally created to help instructors generate lesson plans for teaching computational thinking.