ChatGPT and Geography

Updated 14th January 2023

This AI tool has been getting a lot of attention over the Christmas break. I also spoke to the Head of ICT at my school who was aware of it and had been doing his own experimenting.

You can sign up for an account free of charge.

It is also available as an app.

I started collecting a few Tweets that were saying interesting things about its use.

It appears to have a remarkable potential for automating the creation of materials / questions / prompts / translations etc. It can generate multi choice questions, summaries of text or whole new documents if it is fed in the right way with text and prompts. It can also provide these in different languages for those with EAL students, perhaps new arrivals from Ukraine or other countries.

I had a play myself at the start of the holidays and generated some interesting things. 

With a little time and training of the AI, it has potential to produce a great many documents to save time for teachers.

One concern of course is that it will be used by students to produce work that is passed off as their own. How will we able to tell the difference between an AI generated piece of work and one from the students - given that there is often use of web based support, not always properly referenced and accredited of course.

Here are a few Tweets of interest: 

Most people don't realise this about ChatGPT.

🤫 The answers you receive isn't as important as the questions you ask.

In this example 👇 I ask it for a statement of curriculum intent. Explanation on the next tweet.

*Spoiler: Extra benefit at the end* pic.twitter.com/syEYVaeEsb

— Dan Fitzpatrick (@DanFitzTweets) January 6, 2023

Alice Griffiths tried it with some 'A' level Geography stuff to see how it coped in this Tutor2U blog.

 

A thread 🧵on the many applications of ChatGPT (https://t.co/nAsio0yD8Q) in teaching GCSE and A-Level Geography.

Please feel free to reply with how you’ve used it (or just copy and paste your tweet into the thread if you’ve already tweeted about it!)

— Mr PM (@mr_perez5) December 29, 2022

ChatGPT will make you superhuman.

But only if you know how to use it correctly.

Here's a crash course on ChatGPT for beginners:

— Alex Banks (@thealexbanks) January 6, 2023

A presentation to download here which has some interesting ideas

So check out the post I’ve pinned. Thanks to all who have been in touch. I can’t keep up with all the emails and DMs 😳requesting this resource so please feel free to download it at https://t.co/1H6NVVi2tW

— Jamie Barton (@barton_jw) January 7, 2023

And for Primary colleagues too: 

ChatGTP has dominated my feed this week. I've tried out some of its features over the last couple of days and think it's a game-changer. Here're some ways it can be used to help busy primary teachers. https://t.co/MlWM4ZCpvP 🧵 1/7

— Marc Hayes 🇺🇦💙💛 (@mrmarchayes) January 7, 2023

Far more to come on this, but I would be interested to hear of people's experiences in the geography classroom or for geography classrooms. Any top tips or examples?

I'll also add more about tools that have already been made to check whether something has been generated by ChatGPT.

Updates - Jan 2023

Thanks to Ryan Bate for sharing his own experiences and experiments with ChatGPT on his blog. It's good to see that he is trying to blog more regularly to share some of his experiences over in the USA, where he is now teaching. His blog is called 'Warrington to Washington'.

A few more tweets as well, which I'd filed away before:

50 Things you can do with Chat GPT #gpt #ai #artificialintelligence #chatgtp #chatbot #chatgpt3 #machinelearning #microsoft

1. Generate text in a specific style or tone
2. Translate text from one language to another
3. Summarize long texts or documents…https://t.co/x6SDYiGWrf

— Frank Falvey ☁ 🇮🇪 (@frank_falvey) January 7, 2023

Here is a booklet I created on how ChatGPT can assist teachers when planning & delivering lessons. ChatGPT can generate resources, produce lesson plans, differentiate material and saves time on all sorts of tasks. Use it!

Link: https://t.co/ufxQ5nzVso@Gowriggle #edtech pic.twitter.com/kYGcHsMgsK

— Evan Dunne (@EvanDunne) January 9, 2023