Generative AI and ChatGPT for K-12 Educators

Overview

Despite common misconceptions, ChatGPT and other generative AI tools present exciting opportunities for innovative teaching and personalized education. This hands-on specialization is tailored for K-12 educators eager to leverage AI to enhance lesson planning, engage students, and inspire creativity, all without needing any previous experience with AI technologies.

What You’ll Learn:

• Generate engaging lesson plans that resonate with student interests, such as teaching fractions through Pokémon.
• Create interactive games and printable learning materials, like a World Cup-themed math game.
• Design AI-powered class activities, including student-created fictional characters and humorous fill-in-the-blank stories.
• Encourage innovative thinking in students, such as brainstorming ideas to construct a paperclip-and-bottle bridge capable of supporting a person.
• Generate on-demand personalized quizzes, allowing students to explore topics they are passionate about, like BMX racing geometry.

These strategies can be adapted to any subject or student level, making learning more interactive, creative, and enjoyable.

Our students inhabit a world where tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and LLama will become essential in how they learn and work. To truly excel with AI, a new mindset is required—one that enhances critical thinking rather than substitutes it.

Offered by Southern New Hampshire University through Coursera, this course is categorized under Generative AI Courses, ChatGPT Courses, Prompt Engineering Courses, Educational Technology Courses, and AI in Education Courses.

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