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Thank you for continuing to be a voice for how AI can be used well. I appreciate your thoughts and your tone.

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I would like to know if you believe your recommendations are also applicable to K-12 teachers. If so, who will teach them? When will they find the time to learn? How far behind their students (7-12, in particular) are they already?

The only people I've seen commenting about ChatGPT (any version) in education are retired K-12 teachers, educational pundits, and non-teachers. Since the program only came out in November, K-12 teachers have not had time to learn about it or learn how to cope with it, let alone adapt it to their teaching practices.

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Super useful. Trying to build a product useful for teachers based on AI

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Really it is very useful

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I have been dipping my toes in ChatGPT and find it extraordinary. (I teach Business Management to 11th graders in an IB program). I find the practical tips and examples you share in this article will be very helpful to me. I am even considering conducting a brief workshop for colleagues using these tips. (I work in a British School in Uruguay). Thank you! Maria (Blanco Pate)

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This is so in-depth and practical. Thanks!

I'm missing one thing. Why do you say

I want you to ask me two questions

instead of providing the information directly in your prompt?

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Thanks for sprinkling in a great set of references in addition to the really interesting thoughts on AI in teaching. What's the best starting point for learning about the new insights from pedagogy research?

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Interesting that it chose opportunity cost examples specific to college and college students - was this because it keyed off the word "college?" If it had been "university" or "advanced degree" would it have chosen university-related examples. If one specified "real-world opportunity costs" or "post graduation"... I may be answering my own question here....

I used to develop curriculum in a past life. Would be interesting to see it generate in-class activities. In fact, when GPT 4 makes image gen available, would be cool to do this example again and see if it can create class room activity resources, diagrams, graphs, etc... An AI-based curriculum developer would put a lot of publishers in an awkward spot! (Educational publishing is a tough market - regulations govern what schools can purchase.)

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But if AI isn't necessarily accurate, why encourage this?

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Hey, you and the guy at “AI Explained” youtube channel are doing by far the best journalism right now on AI. It’d be really interesting if you two started a podcast! Regardless, I’d contact him, I bet you two would hit it off if you aren’t in touch already. Thanks for the great work!

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Schools got to teach kids how to use these tools rather than just banning it

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Ethan, do you have a link or reference to the Sarah Thoms work from which you've taken the pedagogical science chart?

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