ChatGPT for Educators

Overview

In this ChatGPT for Educators Professional Certificate in collaboration with The Georgia Institute of Technology - GTx, educators of all levels will learn how to adjust to a world in which conversational AI has become as common as search engines and smartphones.

This emerging technology demands some adjustments on the part of educators to make sure our homeworks and tests remain valid assessments of student learning, but adjusting to its existence is only the beginning: this certificate series will also cover the enormous potential of ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and other conversational AI and generative AI systems to support teachers and improve student learning.

The program is broken into three mini-courses: Assessment Design with AI, Chatbots for Instruction, and AI for Teacher Assistance. In the first, we tackle the most immediate questions associated with conversational AI: how do we adjust our assessments so that we are assured we are still assessing student learning, not just students’ ability to get answers from a chatbot?

But while part of that involves defensive changes to our assessments, this mini-course goes far beyond these steps to cover how we can embrace conversational AI as a calculator for writing and support student brainstorming, authoring, and revision—as well as design some innovative new assignments that would not be possible without AI assistance.

By the end of this certificate series, our goal is for teachers to go from anxious or ambivalent about the new era of AI in education to excited and ready to handle its increasing role.

What you will learn

• The basics of conversational AI systems like ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and more, including their strengths and weaknesses and how to interact with them effectively.
• How to design assessments for the age of conversational AI, such as how to adjust assessments to the expected student use of AI and how to embrace AI to write new, engaging activities.
• How to use chatbots in instruction, such as how to use ChatGPT as everything from a teaching assistant to a debate partner to a research subject.
• How to use AI as an assistant for educators, such as how to write a curriculum outline, revise a calendar, issue routine communications, author feedback, and develop new content with AI assistance.