Inquiry Questions
Inquiry Questions
In what ways can AI help me think better?
How might AI replace or enhance jobs (or my job) in the future?
What should I do differently to prepare for this future?
Key Terms: SAMR Model, Bias, Hallucination, Automation complacency, Great averaging
Study cited: Goh, E., Gallo, R., Hom, J., et al., 2024
ATL Skills
Main Project
Main Project
Choose a job/profession from Unifrog's Career Library.
Should be something that you're interested in exploring more.
Explore ways in which artificial intelligence can now enhance some part of a person doing this job.
Present your findings to the class. Imagine you are presenting at an industry conference to people with this job. Your goal is to prepare/inform them.
Project Requirements
Project Requirements
Spend at least 10 hours using at least one AI tool.
You can work in groups of 2 or by yourself.
Presentation:
can use slides as a visual aid. (No more than 3.)
is between 2-3 minutes.
should describe
the use case,
in specific detail the procedure used,
(if appropriate) the prompts used.
⚡️ Resource
⚡️ Resource
Do you know how to use "few shot prompting" and "CoT prompting"?
Be sure to check out: Tips when chatting with AI
Extension Activity 1: Interview a Chatbot
Extension Activity 1: Interview a Chatbot
Objective:
Explore how assigning a persona and providing context to a chatbot can impact the responses produced.
Critically evaluate the best strategies for assigning a persona/providing context.
Understand how chatbots work and reflect on their responses.
Activity: Students draft questions and interview a generative AI chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, Co-Pilot or Claude).
Extension Activity 2: Interview a Famous Person
Extension Activity 2: Interview a Famous Person
Objective:
Explore how assigning a persona and providing context to a chatbot can impact the responses produced.
Critically evaluate the best strategies for assigning a persona/providing context.
Understand how chatbots work and reflect on their responses.
Activity: Students draft questions and interview a generative AI chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, Co-Pilot or Claude).
Extension Activity 3: Make a Challenging Life Decision
Extension Activity 3: Make a Challenging Life Decision
Inquiry Questions
What are the potential benefits and limitations of using AI for decision-making?
Learning Objectives
Evaluate the usefulness of responses given different personas/context provided.
Develop critical thinking skills to evaluate AI-generated advice.
Practice using AI to explore different perspectives and options.
Sample Prompts
Why did you give that answer?
Are there any other options?
What are some frameworks that could be used to help make a decision?
What are some consequences that I may not be considering?
What might be a weakness/drawback to the [approach you're suggesting/I'm leaning towards]?
Extension Activity 4: AI Art Creation
Extension Activity 4: AI Art Creation
Activity: Use an AI tool to generate artwork based on specific prompts.
Objective: Explore the creative potential and limitations of AI.
Duration: 20-30 minutes.
Extension Activity 6: NotebookLM as a Research Assistant
Extension Activity 6: NotebookLM as a Research Assistant
Extension Activity 7: Negotiation
Extension Activity 7: Negotiation
Coming soon
Extension Activity 8: Create a Policy
Extension Activity 8: Create a Policy
Activity: Develop a classroom policy for AI use.
Objective: Understand ethical considerations and responsible AI use.
Duration: 30-45 minutes
Extension Activity 9: Create a Business Solution
Extension Activity 9: Create a Business Solution
Activity: Develop a business idea that could solve a social problem you see around you.
Use a generative AI chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, Co-Pilot, Claude) to get feedback on your business idea.
Sample prompt:
"I'm a startup founder. This is my business idea. You are a hard charging venture capitalist. Give me three objections and three insights about the viability of my idea."
"What are some frameworks entrepreneurs use to think about this problem?"
Interesting Rabbit Holes
Interesting Rabbit Holes
Podcast: Co-Intelligence: An AI Masterclass with Ethan Mollick (Stanford Grit & Growth, 2024)
Article: Generative AI And The ‘Great Averaging’ (Schmelzer, 2024)
Article: NotebookLM for personalized knowledge synthesis (Spencer, M. & McFarland, A., 2024)
Mollick’s Four Essential Rules for Integrating AI into Work and Life
Always invite AI to the table. “You don’t know what AI is good for or bad for inside your job or your industry. Nobody knows. The only way to figure it out is disciplined experimentation. Just use it a lot for everything you possibly can.”
Be the human in the loop. “The AI is better than a lot of people in a lot of jobs, but not at their whole job, right? And so, whatever you’re best at, you’re almost certainly better than the AI is.”
Treat AI like a human. AI models are “trained on human language, and they’re refined on human language. And it just turns out that they respond best to human speech. Telling it and giving tasks like a person often gets you where you need to go.” … (but tell it what kind of human to be) “AI models often need context to operate. Otherwise, they produce very generic results. So, a persona is an easy way to give context. ‘You are an expert marketing manager in India, focusing on technology ventures that work with the US’ will put it in a different headspace than if you say you’re a marketer or if you don’t give it any instructions at all.”
Assume this is the worst AI you will ever use. “We’re early, early days still. I mean, there’s a lot of stuff still being built.”
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