Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have been garnering significant attention, especially in the education sector. Teachers can leverage these innovations to make educational processes more efficient and enrich students’ learning experiences. In this article, we’ll explore how ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot can be utilized in education through various scenarios.
AI continues to amaze us with daily innovations. On May 13th, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT 4.0. The next day, during the Google I/O event on May 14th, Google showcased developments in Gemini related to image and sound, with improvements in Gemini 1.5 Pro and the announcement of the 1.5 Flash version. The following day, Microsoft presented updates on Copilot, and Claude became available in Turkey.
As of today, AI can be used to generate blog posts or articles on any topic, solve complex mathematical problems, write code in all programming languages, provide recommendations, and offer marketing strategy suggestions if you work as a manager in a corporate firm. You can even use AI as a translator, explaining solutions to problems with emotional expressions and indicating steps visually. A visually impaired individual can open their phone’s camera and hail a taxi on the street or have an assistant join a video conference, take notes, and summarize them later. AI can also attend meetings on your behalf and provide emotional feedback based on participants’ facial expressions and tone of voice.
Another scenario is when you have overlapping meetings. You can command Gemini or Copilot, “Attend the meeting for me, write to me if anything about me is mentioned, and summarize the meeting,” allowing you to stay updated without missing the other meeting. AI can also understand emotional cues, such as someone being angry or upset, and provide feedback like “This person had concerns about these topics” or “These people liked these aspects.”
For instance, during a project meeting in G.Meet or M. Teams with your team, time zone differences or other commitments might prevent attendance. In such cases, the team can send meeting invites through G.Meet/Teams, enabling Gemini/Copilot to summarize the meeting’s transcript/captions. The summary can then be shared via G.Docs or Word, allowing everyone to stay updated and plan effectively.
In another daily use case, during an online meeting, distractions can cause you to miss some points. By asking, “What did I miss so far?” in the chat screen of G.Meet or Teams, AI can provide an update. Or, you can ask, “Can you summarize the meeting?” and get a comprehensive summary. When activating this feature, a notification is sent to all participants for consent. Without consent, transcripts cannot be taken secretly.
Another example involves AI interpreting blood test results. While it advises consulting a doctor, AI can provide interpretations if the doctor is unreachable, examining and commenting on all test results. Often, the AI’s interpretation matches the doctor’s diagnosis.
General Recommendations:
- Provide detailed and clear instructions: Vague instructions yield vague results, so ask specific and precise questions.
- Incorrect: “Write an article about chemistry.”
- Correct: “Write a 300-word article about AI in the healthcare sector.”
- Incorrect: “Draw Istanbul in the 1900s.”
- Correct: “Using the following prompt, create an image: 1900s Istanbul: Show the streets of Istanbul in the 1900s, people in traditional Ottoman clothing, historic structures like Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque, ships on the Bosphorus, and details of Ottoman architecture.”
- Asking your prompts in English yields more accurate and detailed results, creating better visuals and stories.
Unlike the Google search process, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Copilot work best with very specific commands, refining language to achieve desired results. The more detailed your questions, the more personalized and useful the information will be!
If you’re unsure how to write a prompt, you can ask the AI model directly. For example, for a math question, start with, “You are a professor with 30 years of experience, a graduate of MIT, a master’s from Harvard, and a Ph.D. from Yale, an expert in equations…” then ask your question/prompt. This activates the semantic index mechanism, directly searching within the trained parameters, providing the most efficient result.
Prompt Examples for Educators:
- Upload a 300-page physics textbook PDF and prepare multiple-choice questions in seconds.
- Prompt: “I am a physics teacher. I will test my students using this book. Can you prepare 5 difficult multiple-choice questions with answers based solely on this book?”
- Prompt: “Summarize this PDF for me.”
- Upload a 10-hour audio file or audiobook and ask questions, receiving immediate answers.
- Prompt: “Can you read this audiobook and provide the main ideas and recommendations?”
- Provide a YouTube video link or upload a video, ask questions, and receive quick responses.
- Prompt: “Can you provide information about this video?”
- Prompt: “Extract the timecodes for the doctor scenes in the film.”
- Create lesson plans at the desired level.
- Prompt: “Create a lesson teaching the causes of the civil war.”
- Prompt: “Make this appropriate for 8th grade.”
- Prompt: “Make this a 30 min lesson, grade level 10, include cooperative learning and personalized learning.”
- Prompt: “Create a rubric for this lesson.”
- Prompt: “Create a history lesson plan teaching the causes of World War I.”
- Prompt: “Adjust for 11th grade.”
- Prompt: “Now adapt this plan for 6th grade.”
- Prompt: “Create an annual guitar lesson plan for 5th grade.”
- Prompt: “Include cooperative learning and personalized learning in this plan.”
- Prompt: “Create a rubric for this lesson.”
Choose from various drafts, then rate the response to personalize your assistant further. You can shorten or elaborate on the answer.
- Assist in writing formal or informal emails.
- Example: Email to a parent:
- Prompt: “Create an email to provide an update on your student’s academic progress, behavior, and recent achievements.”
- Prompt: “Suggest a motivational email to inspire students to increase their confidence and achieve their goals.”
- Example: Email to a parent:
- Use Gemini in G.Docs, G.Sheets, G.Slides, or Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, integrated on the right side, to create content without external sources. For example, in G.Docs, add a paragraph or create a table from a paragraph. In Excel, use Copilot to create automatic tables and charts with formulas, even if you’re not proficient with Excel. Gemini and Copilot can analyze past data and make future predictions (forecasting).
- For presentations, write your ideas in G.Docs or Word, then create a presentation in G.Slides or PowerPoint using those documents, saving time and effort. AI can even create a presentation from your document, which you can refine with minor adjustments.
- Use AI to break down images and audio files, brainstorm new ideas, analyze and evaluate visuals from articles, or provide simultaneous feedback on lessons. AI can interact with students, offer individual feedback, and answer frequently asked questions. Translate presentations into different languages, grade exams, visualize results, and analyze them. Create a personalized assistant for your class for evaluation purposes and hold office hours with your students.
Regarding data security, your data belongs to the user/institution and is not used to train new AI models. Data is protected by comprehensive corporate compliance and security audits.
Google AI Studio, OpenAI API, Copilot Studio, and IBM Watson provide platforms to develop your AI models, connect to external data sources, and develop custom chatbots for your institution. The possibilities are endless, enabling you to accomplish more in less time.
In the future, knowing how to write prompts will become an essential skill for employees. If AI takes away someone’s job, it will be those who haven’t developed any skills. If you’ve developed yourself, you can increase your earnings with AI and complete tasks faster. As technology evolves, so do professions and the people in them. For example, someone with painting skills could become an artist or create digital art in VR using Tilt Brush and sell it as an NFT. Therefore, self-improvement is crucial.
Regarding education, AI can equalize opportunities, allowing a student in a remote area to access the same education as someone attending Harvard University. This equality in education may lead to equal opportunities in the future. Instead of asking if AI will take our jobs, we should seek ways to benefit from this new world order.
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Useful Resources for Teachers:
https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/why-google/ai-for-education
https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/gfe_guide_to_ai_in_education.pdf
https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot-resources-for-education
