Ten Ways to Model AI
How do we teach student to use AI? One method is to model using it ourselves.
1. Brainstorming Partner
Show students how to use artificial intelligence to generate initial ideas. You can project a chatbot on the board and ask it for ten project topics. Evaluate those ideas together as a class.
2. Drafting Outlines
Demonstrate using artificial intelligence to structure a paper or presentation. Ask the students to add the real substance and unique voice.
3. Keyword Generator
Use artificial intelligence to find better search terms. You can ask a tool to identify keywords for a specific research topic. This helps students test better search phrases in traditional academic databases.
4. Feedback Mechanism
Model how to paste a draft into a tool to get grammar or structural suggestions. Show students how to critically accept or reject this feedback.
5. Fact Checking Assistant
Integrate artificial intelligence tools into your lessons to check facts. You can show students how to examine the reliability of claims using these specific programs.
6. Bias Detective
Generate a response from a chatbot and analyze it for bias together. You can guide students to question the sources of the generated content and explore how biased data creates biased outcomes.
7. Simplifying Complex Text
Show students how to ask an artificial intelligence tool to summarize a difficult historical document or scientific article. Emphasize that this helps with initial comprehension but does not replace reading the original text.
8. Debate Opponent
Instruct a chatbot to argue a specific side of an issue. Students can practice their own critical thinking by countering the arguments the machine produces.
9. Logic Guide
Use artificial intelligence to troubleshoot errors. You can model asking the tool to explain why a specific formula failed instead of just asking for the final answer.
10. Routine Task Automator
Share with your students how you use artificial intelligence to handle mundane administrative tasks. Explain that this frees up your time to focus on personal connections and mentoring.
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