Activity: trying it out
Activity aim: To test a GenAI tool to produce something you could use in your own practice.
Objective: To explore the potential of GAI tools to help you in your subject area
- Start by choosing one of the tools listed on the previous page.
- Design a generic activity to do in a class session
Ideas for prompts (adapt for your own context, but I recommend starting with something you are fairly expert in so you can judge the output easily):
- Design an activity I can use to introduce first year students in physics to errors and uncertainty. It should last around 30 minutes in total. (for an example, here is the Perplexity output Links to an external site. - I don't know how long the link will remain available, the activity is ok though)
- Design an activity I can use to teach first year students about effective literature searching. It should last around 40 minutes in total.
- Design an activity I can use to encourage second year students to prepare effectively for seminars. The activity should have something for students to do before, during and after a two hour seminar in medieval history.
- More specific activity design
Ideas for prompts (adapt for your own context):
- Produce two short introductions for student groups to use to plan a debate on equitable recruitment policy (or increasing interest rates/reproductive rights/the use of imitation in arts education/public access to science/government policy on technology development or something potentially controversial in your subject)
- Prepare notes for slides for a one hour lecture to third year fire safety students on the main evacuation calculations methods in current use.(for an example,here is the Pi output Links to an external site.- I don't know how long the link will remain available or if the models are correct!)
- Plan a two hour teaching session on effective literature searching for first year students.