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Reflective Essay
You will write a short reflective essay outlining the efficacy of AI as a productivity tool (i.e., technology assistant) for educators. In this essay, you should think critically about and analyze your experiences with AI. Within the essay, you should:
identify which chatbot(s) you used, explain whether they met your expectations (e.g., Were they any good? Was one better than another?)
discuss what you learned about designing prompts (prompt engineering) to improve the AI's efficacy, and reflect on the accuracy of what the chatbot produced along with how much work you needed to do to assure the accuracy and usability of the finalized draft.
conclude with a summary statement reflecting your conclusions, including ethical concerns, regarding the efficacy of AI chatbot(s) as a productivity tool for educators.
Components of the Essay (in-depth breakdown)
Chatbot(s) Used. Identify the chatbot(s) you used. Choices include ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or some other (free) educational AI tool you know about. If you used more than one chatbot, briefly outline how they compare. Identify what you used the AI Chatbot to create. In your project, what did you decide to work on? Why? State your expectations pre-post AI Chatbot
use. AI chatbots are relatively new and you probably had some expectations about what would happen before your first use of a chatbot (What did you expect?). After use, consider whether and to what extent your expectations were met (better than expected, as expected, or worse than expected?). Also, consider whether there were any surprises along the way.
Prompts - The process of inquiring and refining your inquiry is often referred to as prompt engineering. That is because you are learning how to better communicate with the chatbot and learning how to get the best effort out of the chatbot in order to save both time and effort. As such, what did you discover about creating effective prompts? List and discuss the prompts you used, starting with your initial prompt. Reflect briefly on how you refined your prompt engineering skills the more you worked on it.
Accuracy - Reflect on the accuracy and educational usability of what the AI chatbot(s) generated. NOTE: Keep in mind that educational use of AI is relatively new, and that the underlying language model used by your AI may or may not respond accurately, at least at present. You are the human responsible for knowing whether the materials generated are accurate, appropriate, and usable as instructional/educational materials. How do you know the material is accurate? What, if any, inaccuracies did you need to correct? If you used more than one brand of chatbot, was one more trustworthy than another? If so, provide a brief overview to support your conclusion.
Ethical Consideration - As you bring your paper to a close, consider one or more ethical implications of using AI chatbots in an educational context. For example, you might think about issues of data privacy, bias, and/or concerns about relying on AI rather than human expertise.
Reflection - Summarize the experience by briefly reflecting on whether and to what extent the AI Chatbots (a) met your expectations and whether, when, and/or why you might use or not use them in the future.