Can teachers use AI? Of course! Understand how

When ChatGPT became popular, some professions were afraid of having technology like this in their hands. Teachers were some of them.

Partly out of fear of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) stealing their jobs, and also out of fear that the software will make their students lazy.

This week, however, the answer was clarified: teachers can, indeed, use Artificial Intelligence to improve their classes and enhance student learning. OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, clarified this discussion.

In a post published on its official website, the company gave several suggestions on how educators can implement its technology in the classroom. The objective is to guide teachers.

Are you a teacher? See below some of the main points of the article and reflect on the possibility of using them in your daily life.

How can teachers use ChatGPT in the classroom?

You speak English?

One of the main suggested points is the use of the chatbot to assist with translations. Mainly in activities in Higher Education, Artificial Intelligence can be extremely useful for those students who do not master foreign languages, but need to read some content important.

ChatGPT can also help refine work in other languages. You can enter a few paragraphs into the software and ask for them to be improved on grammar issues.

Critical thinking

The article also points out that teachers can use the software to help their students use the internet more critically and responsibly. As? Teaching them not to trust everything ChatGPT responds to.

Refuting the results generated by AI, students they don't sit back and understand how they can work to solve problems alone. Furthermore, they also develop the habit of always checking information.

Creating personas

Another interesting use for ChatGPT is to create fictional situations and have it act as an active character in the dynamics. Just create a persona and ask the software to interpret it.

For example, he could be a debate partner with a very radical opinion or a job recruiter. Just use your creativity.

Can you do the test for me?

Teachers can also use the ChatGPT to create quizzes, tests and lesson plans. In fact, the ideal is to use it to improve what you already have. The software can give you new directions and ideas for driving your content.

Additionally, you can ask AI to modernize what you have already been using for many years. Although the platform's content dates back to September 2021, it still offers up-to-date references.

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