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Is the AI Admin Assistant for Teachers Just Around the Corner?

Waiting for Copilot.

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Neil Almond
September 26, 2023

Hey human, this week we’ve got some news about how many teachers are using AI and Microsoft’s latest attempts at making AI more ubiquitous in education and enterprise markets.

Knowledge builders 📚

  • OpenAI → OpenAI is the company behind many AI tools, including Dall-E and ChatGPT. Many other companies that offer AI tools, use an Application Programming Interface (API) provided by OpenAI to make their tools work by talking to ChatGPT or Dall-E.

  • Generative AI → Generative AI refers to all types of AI tools that generate content, usually based on a prompt by a user. The output usually takes the form of a text or image. Other types of AI are available!

Industry updates 🤖

  • Quizlet’s State of AI in Education → Global Quizzing app Quizlet recently polled 500 teachers and 1,000 students in the US with regards to their feelings about AI in education. One interesting tidbit is that teachers are using AI technologies more than students.

  • Microsoft’s Copilot is coming to Microsoft 365 soon → The era of the teacher admin assistant may be nearing as Microsoft have announced that their AI technology, Copilot, is coming to Microsoft 365. Microsoft Chat365 will be able to utilise the 365 ecosystem to provide time-saving workflows from multiple data points.

    Will Copilot be the AI admin assistant that teachers need?

Fresh prompts ✨

  1. Foundation level: Put it in a table → Did you know that ChatGPT can put items in a table? Simply use ‘Create a table’ [what you want a table of]. Use in ChatGPT. 

Create a table of the things I would find in a forest.

  1. Expert level: Multiple examples of text a similar style → Need another example to bring out the deep structures of a writer’s linguistic style? Try the ‘Genre, writer, example of work, your detail ’ prompt to generate multiple examples of text that uses a writer’s distinct style, but on a subject you decide. The deep structure of the prompt looks like this: Write a [genre] in the style of [author] [example of work] but it’s [your detail]. Use in ChatGPT. 

Write a script in the style of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot but it's two teenagers waiting for a bus.

Here is a snippet of the output:

Title: "Waiting for the Bus"

[The stage is set with a desolate bus stop. A bench sits in the center of the stage, with two teenagers, MAX and EMMA, sitting on it. They are both dressed in worn-out clothes and have backpacks beside them. MAX is flipping a coin and catching it repeatedly. EMMA is staring off into the distance.]

MAX: (Catching the coin and looking at it) Heads again.

EMMA: (Not looking at MAX) Lucky you.

[There is a long pause as they both sit in silence, occasionally glancing at the empty road.]

MAX: (Tossing the coin aside) You ever wonder if the bus will ever come?

EMMA: (Sighs) Every day, Max. Every single day.

MAX: (Staring at the road) It's like it's playing tricks on us. One day it's early, the next it's late, and sometimes it doesn't show up at all.

EMMA: (Nods) Just like life, huh? Unpredictable and unreliable.

MAX: (Chuckles) Yeah, just like life.

[Another long pause.]

EMMA: (Looking at MAX) You know, we could walk home. It's not that far.

MAX: (Shrugs) Yeah, we could. But what if the bus comes right after we leave? We'd miss it.

EMMA: (Rolls her eyes) Max, we've been sitting here for hours. I doubt it's coming today.

MAX: (Defensive) You never know, Emma. Miracles happen.

This is our second Teacher Prompts email. If you have a moment, we’d love your feedback on the content and structure so we can make them as useful as possible going forwards…

Mr A 🦾