Drawing of a pink sugar packet that reads Artificial Sweeteners: AI for Teachers

Bring more joy, relevance, and irresistibility into your lessons with the assistance of AI. Learn how to collaborate with chatbots and other tools to transform your teaching with intrigue, personalized content, and humor—making every class feel like a treat.

This page has key slides and information from Tony Vincent’s presentation. Updated November 2024. Looking for an earlier version of this page? Click here.

🚀 Introduction, 🤖 AI Chatbots, 🧠 Understanding AI

🚀 Lesson Launchers, ❓ Stronger Questions, 📚 Vocabulary Boosts

💡 Prompting Advice

  • Download Google’s Prompt Guide 101: A quick-start handbook for effective prompt

  • The guide suggests four main area to consider when writing an effective prompt. You don’t need all four, but using a few will help

    • Persona

    • Task

    • Context

    • Format

  • AI can make mistakes, sometimes called hallucinations.

    • Each AI model has a certain sized context window. A context window is the amount information a model can consider at one time when processing input.

    • Start a new chat when you are beginning a topic to keep an AI from exceeding its context window and from hallucinations.