Sweeten your lessons with the help of an artificial intelligence chatbot. You interact with a chatbot like ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini through natural conversation, making it easy to tap into its vast knowledge and capabilities. Explore a variety of chatbot conversation prompts that educators find valuable, and let them inspire ideas for what you could ask a chatbot to do for you. AI is an excellent thought partner, and, when combined with a teacher's expertise, can produce captivating activities and resources.
This page has key slides and information from Tony Vincent’s presentation. Updated July 2024.
AI Introduction
Chatbots
Chatbot Prompt Examples
Emojify
Represent this sentence with emojis: Never Eat Soggy Waffles
Add emoji bullet points for each item:
Check in
Turn in homework
Open Chromebook
Answer the survey question
Read the article about moles
Replace key words with emojis in this paragraph: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Simplify
Rewrite this paragraph for a first grade audience:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Explain compound interest to a 4th grader.
Summarize
List the key points in this article:
https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/What-is-the-Singularity
Clean Up Data
Extract just the first names from this list:
Anderson, Alex James
Baker, Beatrice Marie
Clark, Christopher David
Davis, Emily Elizabeth…
Rework this list of names to be First and Last name:
Anderson, Alex James
Baker, Beatrice Marie
Clark, Christopher David
Davis, Emily Elizabeth…
Compose Email
Turn these bullet points into a “Tech Tuesday” email to teaching colleagues:
Please restart your Chromebook once a week
Jamboard is shutting down. Canva Whiteboard is a good alternative.
Book an appointment with me and I can show you Canva.
Write an email to 5th grade parents from their child’s teacher about the importance of students using deodorant daily.
Prepare to Teach
What are common struggles and misconceptions second graders have when measuring with a ruler.
What are fun facts about penguins that 3rd graders will find interesting?
Give me short, simple definitions for 4th graders for these words: pandemonium, berating, tedious, oppressive, obscure
What are 5 ways to teach digraphs to kindergarteners in engaging and interactive ways?
Generate Questions
List discussion questions for Chapters 1-3 of Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli.
Suggest interesting open-ended higher-order thinking question for 1st graders about Halloween.
Generate Writing Prompts
Ideas for interesting and creative writing prompts for 8th graders about the American Revolution.
Get Ideas for Lesson Hooks
How can I open my lesson with a curiosity gap about adverbs?
Generate Model Text
Play the role of a 9th grader. Write a paragraph about the importance of punctuation.
Write a Round Robin Story
I want to write historical fiction together that takes place during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I will write a sentence. Then you will continue the story by adding the next sentence. Then I write another, and then you, and so on. I will begin the story. Do you understand?
Ask an Expert
Play the role of a raindrop. 5th graders will ask you questions, and your responses should include educational facts and information about the water cycle. Limit your responses to two sentences.
Compose Poetry
Write a rhyming poem for 2nd graders about our animal adaptation unit. Here are things they learned about: mimicry, camouflage, hibernation, migration, physical adaptations, behavior adaptations.
Develop Two Truths and a Lie
Write two truths and a convincing lie for 10th graders about non-linear equations.
Create Riddles
Write 10 riddles for 7th graders about the basics of conducting an experiment.
Generate Content for Games
Give me a list of four items in 4 distinct categories that I could use to make my own Connection Game from the New York Times. Make the categories related to fall or Halloween.
Write Embed Code for Your Website
Create a game written in HTML that can be embedded on a website. The game is called "The Percent Progress Game." It's played like this… Read more.
Generate text that is approximately 200 words about animal adaptations for second graders. You will use this text to make HTML embed code for an interactive Mad Lib. Do not display this text until after the user has submitted their words.The Mad Lib will replace 6 key words with user input… See example.
Make a Checklist
Make a conventions checklist for 8th graders to use before turning in their persuasive essays.
Give Feedback
Below is an essay by an 8th grader. Please give feedback on the writer’s use of evidence to support their claim.
Develop Catchy Titles
Give me 10 catchy titles for a lesson about converting fractions to decimals that would appeal to 5th graders.
Reinforce Vocabulary
Use pandemonium, berating, and tedious in a single sentence for 3rd graders. Watch an example.
