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Generate Lesson exercise

Version 1.0

For this exercise, you will ask generative AI to write a lesson plan on a subject provided by your instructor.

Background

Large language models like ChatGPT can summarize publicly available information and format it to fit particular needs and contexts. This exercise tests how well it can plan a class learning activity.

Exercise

  1. As a team, pick one of the following topics: New Media technology, history, project management, or ethics.
  2. Ask an AI to create a lesson plan for learning this topic in a single, 20-minute period.
  3. As a team, vote on which plan looks best to you, and post it to the appropriate Slack channel.
  4. As a class, distribute 1-3 thumbs-up emoji (👍) to the best lesson plans from other teams (you cannot vote for your own).
  5. The instructor conducts the highest-rated lesson with the entire class.
  6. The class discusses the results. What worked and what didn't?

Sample prompt

📍 Acting as an expert teacher, create a lesson plan that covers the Krebs cycle for a class of high school seniors studying AP biology. List the activity, the objective, any relevant educational, standard, and potential future reflections or assignments on the topic.

Sample result

🍿 AI-generated biology lesson