🗄️Organise GPT Chats with Projects

Hey human,

Here’s what’s been happening in education / AI this week:

📚 AI+education news

• Back to ‘learning how to learn’? > A phrase that strikes fear into teachers who have been teaching since the late 2000s, but this is the key skill that Google’s DeepMind CEO says people will need to have in an AI future to really set them apart. What are your thoughts?

🌍 Wider AI updates

• ChatGPT Projects > A staple for Pro users for sometime, Projects are smart ‘workspaces’ that keep all related information in one place. You can add files, give instructions and move chats between projects. All chats in a project can be accessed by the memory function, meaning that all further chats can refer to previous chats. This should be a great way to organise that long list of chats.

• Changing nature of AI use > Those that use ChatGPT broadly fall into the following categories,Practical Guidance, Seeking Information, and Writing, according to new research by OpenAI. By percentage, ‘tutoring or teaching’ is the third largest use case.

• Personalisation page updates > Opening the settings page and navigating to personalisation now provides an updated user interface where you can now edit the personality configuration, custom instructions and memories all from one tab. It is rolling out slowly, so do not be alarmed if it does not look like this just yet.

🎯Prompt

• DO NOW!

You are a curriculum writer designing a short retrieval activity for [Year 9] students on the topic of spotting errors in [topic] within [subject].

Goal:
Create 4 silent "Do Now" starter questions to be completed in 5 minutes, aimed at reinforcing students' ability to identify and explain errors in [topic]-related scenarios.

Context:
These questions will be used at the start of a lesson to activate prior knowledge and develop critical thinking in [subject]-specific skills.

Task:

Write 4 short scenarios or statements related to common [subject] activities or concepts.

Each scenario should contain a deliberate error (e.g., misuse of grammar, incorrect historical interpretation, flawed mathematical reasoning).

Ensure the questions increase in complexity (e.g., from basic errors to more abstract or conceptual mistakes).

Provide the correct identification of the error and a brief explanation for each.

Format the output as a numbered list, with each question followed by its answer.

Output format example (varied subjects):

Spot the error (English Grammar): The student wrote, “She don’t like apples.”
→ Error: Incorrect verb agreement. It should be “She doesn’t like apples.”

Spot the error (Math): A student calculates that 3 × (2 + 4) = 18.
→ Error: Misuse of order of operations. Correct answer is 3 × 6 = 18, which is correct—but if they wrote 3 × 2 + 4 = 10, that would be incorrect.

Spot the error (History): The student claims that World War II ended in 1944.
→ Error: Incorrect date. World War II ended in 1945.

Spot the error (Geography): A student says the capital of Brazil is Rio de Janeiro.
→ Error: Incorrect capital. The capital of Brazil is Brasília.

Example output

🔍 Spot the Error: Water Cycle Edition

1. Spot the error:
   “Evaporation happens when water freezes and turns into gas.”
   → Error: Incorrect process description.
   → Explanation: Evaporation occurs when liquid water is heated and turns into water vapour, not when it freezes.

2. Spot the error:
   “Condensation is when water vapour turns into ice in the clouds.”
   → Error: Misunderstanding of condensation.
   → Explanation: Condensation is when water vapour cools and becomes liquid water, forming clouds—not ice.

3. Spot the error:
   “Precipitation only happens in the form of rain.”
   → Error: Oversimplification of precipitation types.
   → Explanation: Precipitation includes rain, snow, sleet, and hail—not just rain.

4. Spot the error:
   “Transpiration is the process where water evaporates from oceans.”
   → Error: Confusion between transpiration and evaporation.
   → Explanation: Transpiration is the release of water vapour from plants, while evaporation from oceans is a separate process.

Till next week.

Mr A 🦾