An AI Unit of Inquiry

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Prompt: "use technology to communicate ai"

I am working with the Grade 5-5 team on their How We Express Ourselves Unit of Inquiry. They are focusing on how we use technology to communicate and specifically on AI. It's my role to pull small groups of students and work with them. 

The plan I am weaving through the UOI is to talk about 

• what AI and ChatGPT is,
• the strengths and weaknesses of AI tools,
• how to write a good prompt,
• the ethics of using AI tools.

The Unit is framed around the learner profile attributes of communicators, open-minded, and risk-takers. For my part, I have not found an authentic way to integrate risk-takers and open-minded yet, but communicators will be addressed by inquiring into how to write a good prompt and what a good ethics policy might look like.

The highlight of the unit so far was last week when students tried to write stories using ChatGPT and the resulting stories were just a regeneration of the prompt. Next week we will have to look to see what went wrong.