AI Your Way: Create a Custom Chatbot That Gets Your Teaching Style

Outline

Outline:
Content and Engagement:
Participants will engage with a poster that introduces how to quickly create a personalized AI chatbot tailored to their unique teaching roles, routines, and resources.
Content includes:

Why Personalize AI? Benefits of creating a custom chatbot that fits their teaching style, understands their students and curriculum, and supports reusable, editable lesson plans and assessments.

Custom GPT Exploration: Participants can try example bots designed for tasks like summer school planning, reflection journals, formative quizzes, and student tournaments.

Create Your Own: A simple, 5-step process (accessed via QR code) for building a custom GPT using either Google(free) or ChatGPT (paid). Participants will be invited to think about and start planning for a chatbot tailored to their needs, with templates and examples to inspire them.

Device-based Activities: Participants will interact with sample custom GPTs via their own devices (or session-provided demo devices).

Peer-to-Peer Idea Sharing: Participants can discuss possible chatbot use cases for their classrooms with presenters and other attendees.

Visual Activity Prompts: The slide deck will feature interactive prompts like "What could your AI assistant do for you this summer?" to spark ideas.

Quick Start Guide (QR Code): Participants will take away a practical, ready-to-use resource with a simple 5-step plan for building a personalized chatbot they can edit, reuse, and share with colleagues.

Supporting research

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Lindgren, T. (2024, May 15). How to create custom AI chatbots that enrich your classroom. Harvard Business Publishing. https://hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-minds/how-to-create-custom-ai-chatbots-that-enrich-your-classroom

Miller, M. (2023). AI for Educators: Learning Strategies, Teacher Efficiencies, and a Vision for an Artificial Intelligence Future. Dave Burgess Consulting, Incorporated.

MIT Sloan Teaching and Learning Technologies. (n.d.). Custom GPTs at MIT Sloan: A comprehensive guide. MIT Sloan EdTech. https://mitsloanedtech.mit.edu/ai/tools/writing/custom-gpts-at-mit-sloan-a-comprehensive-guide/

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Office of Digital Teaching & Learning at North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (2024). “North Carolina Generative AI Implementation Recommendations and Considerations for PK-13 Public Schools.” https://go.ncdpi.gov/AI_Guidelines. Accessed August 9, 2024.

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U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology. "Artificial Intelligence and Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations." U.S. Department of Education, 2023, Full Report.
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