Teachers - how do you use GenAI (chatgpt, copilot etc)?

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I've heard teachers say it's changed their life and I want to know how!
Any tips?

Copilot can help you:

• draft emails to parents
• summarise your email threads
• create minutes of meetings in Teams
• create powerpoint presentations with presenter notes on ANY topic for any aged audience focusing on particular curriculum outcomes
• create assessments and grading rubrics in Word
• create self marking homework in forms
• create AI generated images

The list goes on!

I lecture, but I use it to create a bare bones structure for a tutorial that I'll then flesh out, e.g. I'll ask it to create ten sentences given a set of parameters for students to translate.

I get it to write quiz questions and model paragraphs - you have to be very prescriptive but it works well.

It is also good for writing Freyer models for new vocabulary.

I lecture and I use it to create vignettes and case studies that help students apply theory.

I also ask it things, show the students and get them to find out whether it's right or not (usually not but I suspect in the next 5 years it'll get more and more accurate)