ChatGPT for feedback and collaboration

Author: godsk

Created: 2024-08-19 05:43pm

Edited: 2024-08-21 07:47pm

Description:

The students were asked to write popular science texts about the historical background for Great Prayer Day for different media platforms and target groups. They were asked to use chatbots to get suggestions for the content and structure of the text.

Intended Learning Outcomes:

  • Translate history knowledge for popular media
  • Translate history knowledge for various target groups
Resources Tasks Supports

Out-of-class (individual preparation)

Short academic text about the history of Great Prayer Day on Danmarkshistorien.dk and text on written communication with historical content


The students read the provided texts

Group

In-class

Media: Børneavisen, Twitter, Facebook, dr.dk, a tabloid article, or a revue sketch

The students are assigned a medium (see Resources to the left) and must conduct a brief analysis of the medium's target audience and the general communication style of the medium.

Educator for Q&A

Brief analysis

The students work in groups to write a first draft of a text about the historical background of Great Prayer Day, based on their chosen medium and with support from ChatGPT (as a "tutor"/co-educator).

Group and ChatGPT:

Guiding questions for prompting:

How can one write an article about Great Prayer Day for children aged 10? What could be a suitable structure for an article about Great Prayer Day? How does one create a good headline about Great Prayer Day? What are the genre conventions for a tabloid article?

First draft and academic texts

The students reflect on the quality of the answers provided by ChatGPT compared to the academic texts they have read out-of-class and their promps.

Group

Example of an article that the educator had written for the Washington Post and explained how she used ChatGPT to overcome writer’s block while writing.

First draft and group reflections on ChatGPT and prompting


The students use ChatGPT (as a "mentor") to provide formative feedback on their first draft text by getting it to answer questions about the content and structure of their draft.

Group and ChatGPT

Educator support to prompting

ChatGPT's feedback

Each group writes a short text reflection on ChatGPT's usefulness and limitations for this type of work.

Group

Text, dialogue with ChatGPT, and reflections

Each group present their final text, process, and their reflections on the feedback provided by ChatGPT to the rest of the class

Presentation guidelines

Peers' presentations

Students listen to and participate in peers' presentations.

Educator moderates the session and asks clarifying questions

Experiences from the tasks

A general discussion of how ChatGPT can be used for other purposes

Educator and students

Additional information

More details on: https://educate.au.dk/en/teaching-cases/feedback-from-chatgpt-on-written-group-products