How to use generative AI in teaching?
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Utilizing generative AI in teaching promotes flexible and accessible learning that takes into account the individual needs of students. However, it is essential to ensure the responsible and ethical use of AI, particularly in assessment and the handling of students’ personal data. See also Arene’s recommendations on the use of AI.
AI can be utilized in teaching for a variety of purposes—the only limit is imagination. Below are some ideas and examples of its use.
- For teaching planning, development and experimentation
- Uusi näkökulma lähestyä aihetta
- Uusi tapa opettaa aihe
- New ways for students to demonstrate their competencies.
- Course script
- Summaries and instructions
- Description for implementation
- Aikataulut toteutukselle
- For drafting assignments, sparring, experimenting and development
- See how AI responds to tasks designed for students.
- Based on this, you can create new versions to be implemented in different ways.
- Ask new perspective for tasks
- Analyze an AI-generated essay on a specific topic
- See how AI responds to tasks designed for students.
- For designing, refining, testing, and developing exam questions.
- Copy material into the application and request it to generate, for example, multiple-choice questions based on it
- Request the creation of an essay on a specific topic for students to analyze in an exam.
- For the development and testing of instructions
- Create instructions for students in different roles for a group assignment
- To explain the idea and terms of the assignment to a student who speaks a foreign language
- For creating and developing assessments
- Create an evaluation matrix with criterias and descriptions
- For creating and developing feedback
- Ask for feedback on your own content
- Create feedback for assignments
- Create feedback on feedback
- For development and testing of material production
- Generate ideas for a tutorial video
- Create a script for an instructional video
- Generate analyses and summaries from lists.
- Create tables from lists
- For summaries
- Create analyzes of writings
- Create analyzes from lists and tables
- Combine tables
- To explain what the programming code does
- Summary of feedback
- For process development
- Creating steps
- Stage descriptions
- Optimization of processes
- Analyzing processes
- Commenting
- Commenting the code
- Commenting on assignments
- Surveys and research
- Questions for the survey
- A perspective on research
- Analyzing and summarizing the answers
- For the development and experimentation of project management
- Create roles and their responsibilities for a project
- Create guidelines and examples for project management
- For development ideas
- Building shared understanding
- Explaining the terms, purpose and idea to everyone in their own familiar context
- According to statistics, suggestions from old implementations
- Suggestions according to accessibility
- Alternative methods of demonstrating competencies for the implementation
- Based on feedback
- Building shared understanding