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5 Current Tools in Higher Ed: For Your Consideration

Let’s Play!:  ChatGPT Exploration

The best way to understand the capabilities of ChatGPT is to use it.  This series of activities is intended to create low-stakes learning opportunities that require little prior knowledge.

Log in to ChatGPT by using the URL https://openai.com/

Ask ChatGPT a question.

Mine was “What is the best way to learn to use ChatGPT?”

Within one minute I received this response:

The power of using a tool like ChatGPT comes in the way that prompts are written.  Consider changing words in a prompt.  Consider asking a question about the results that you are given.

I told it to “Add examples.”

Within one minute I received this response. (the expanded response with examples is at the bottom of the transcript)

 

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