In recent months, a range of journal and news articles featuring Harvard's AI Tutors have touted the effectiveness of AI tutorbots in fields like physics, accounting, and statistics. Harvard's AI tutor studies have found that students achieve greater academic success and engagement with personal tutorbots that can generate practice problems and questions or coach students … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: The New World of AI Tutoring
AI Spark Tips: Custom Instructions for Responsive Chats
In the world of AI, context matters. A prompt that begins "I am a university professor teaching an undergraduate course..." will produce a completely different result than a prompt for a teenage superhero attempting to balance coursework with saving the world (AI-Generated Image). If you find yourself repeatedly reminding ChatGPT.edu about your context or your … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: Custom Instructions for Responsive Chats
AI Spark Tips: Coaching Students for Ethical AI Use
The UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Students stresses the importance of AI ethics and a human-centered mindset. As educators, our goal is to guide students in their progress from novice to expert. Helping students develop responsible and effective AI prompting techniques can be an important part of their learning journey. 100 Chats for College Students … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: Coaching Students for Ethical AI Use
Detection, Dialogue, and Innovation in Classroom Uses of AI
Despite the relative newness of AI tools for all, surveys conducted by the Digital Education Council, Chegg, and TechTrends found that more than 80% of students have already built AI into their learning lives. According to the survey results, students are using tools like ChatGPT, Grammarly, and CoPilot primarily to search for information, check grammar … Continue reading Detection, Dialogue, and Innovation in Classroom Uses of AI