I read an excellent post from France Q. Hoang about his use of a bot in a higher education class. He provided lots of details about how he used AI to brainstorm aspects of the lesson plan (how to include AI for students to use, rubrics, learning goals, hypothetical scenarios, etc.). He trained bots that (a) gauge prior knowledge, (b) contained all of the class materials and learning goals, (c) were purposely flawed to help students learn, and (d) checked for student understanding.
Mr. Hoan used AI to have an interactive session to help integrate AI with his existing lesson plan. The positive result was likely based on his having a sound understanding of effective pedagogies. He had AI analyze the student chats to suggest discussions aligned with the learning goals and provide specific feedback to each student. He had students discuss the pros and cons of each hypothetical scenario. Lastly, he had students critique the AI-generated work (i.e., case summary). His lessons learned are below.
I think that this process is beyond the capabilities of most K12 teachers and there will need to be more pre-configured bots for them to more fully embrace AI. See the graphic below.
I wonder how many students would have to use these AI resources before the class might be “knowledgeable” to be taught without a human instructor.
