I did the letter to the parent. I guess my challenge was how to ask AI the written question with my concerns. When I opened up my web browser with the school computer I was blocked and could not get access. I turned to my phone that works with Gemini and I used the microphone and talked into Gemini. This was much easier, I did not have to figure out the right way to type in the question. All I had to do was speak, wait for the answer and speak again to make changes. Success!
The challenge was to narrow down the exact topic I wanted to cover in my lesson plan. At first, AI was creating a generic lesson plan and after a couple of prompts it produced a more specific and detailed lesson plan.
On success was creating a five-question quiz in a few seconds on one of the CCSS standards in ELA. One of the challenges was making sure that the questions were directly related to what was taught in class. I think that it is important to check and review everything and make sure that it really something that your students can be successful at.
The challenge was to adjust the suggestions made form the LLM to fit my class and the needs of my class. The success was to have used a LLM to create a lesson plan.
The success I had when writing the parent email was being very specific with details. I requested an email to a parent asking their child to be able to watch a video for sex education. The students are in the 3rd grade. ChatGPT did an excellent providing appropriate language. Instead of using sex education, AI used human development. The email was written with delicacy.
One of the challenges I had was how to start the idea you want AI to write a lesson for. I ended up putting the information. from one of my current lessons, and had AI write it to make more sense to a student. I did succeed by asking it to further explain ideas for a better understanding of the grade level. And I liked that it gave an assessment.
I used ChatGPT to write an email template to parents. I wanted to update them on their child’s progress in our online program. Overall, the email was decent. It included some information about the program, which I had not included in my prompt, so it was neat to see that it knew about the program. I did have to change it, as AI assumed that students were making adequate progress, and I wanted an email for students that were behind.