Apologies, the newsletter earlier had the wrong title.

In this edition:

• 🤖 The AI chat that keeps on giving
• 🗣️ The future won't be in your hands
• 🔓 Unlock the power of AI for your classroom
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from Seabadger

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Downloadable example with the guide at the end 

I’m going to explain how you can unlock deeper benefits from ChatGPT, through what I call an Ongoing Pre-trained Chat (OPC).

This type of prompt enables educators to orchestrate a ChatGPT chat that can act as a:

• Teaching Assistant
• Subject expert
• Coach
• Mentor

Learning how to do this will give you an invaluable resource for your professional and personal development.

Unfortunately, most of us who use ChatGPT only ever ask it a question or two and then move on straight away.

We forget that it’s a chatbot

Chat with it.

Crafting a good prompt by using a framework such as PREP (See The AI Classroom book) is a great way to start a conversation with ChatGPT, but it’s only the beginning.

We often fail to unlock the next levels of ChatGPT because of:

• Reason #1: A lack of clear instructions
• Reason #2: Unrealistic expectations (it can’t read our minds)
• Reason #3: Impatience (go beyond the transactional)
• Reason #4: Ambiguous questions

The Ongoing Pre-trained Chat (OPC) isn’t for every ChatGPT use, but for those wanting to scratch the surface for deeper insights then you are going to love it.

My OPC

SJ is my personal OPC that I've used for 3 months. It's a ChatGPT interactive Smart Journal that:

• acts as a mentor, coach and psychologist in one
• asks insightful questions
• embodies an expert in whatever I am writing about
• studies trends in my responses
• offers strategies based on these trends
• provides journal summaries
• abides by my ground rules

It's a journal that listens, journeys with me and provides insights.

When I first started using GPT last year this use case was one of the first I thought of and got excited about.

After using it for three months I love it.

I have refined this prompt over time to suit my own preferences and outlook, based on years of experience with coaching, mentoring and studying psychology.

Here's how I do it:

Step 1: Structure

The structure of the initial prompt is key to training your OPC.

Here's my Smart Journal prompt:

You are essentially creating a character and setting the base knowledge of your OPC with the structure of your initial prompt. This is the mentor, coach or expert you will be chatting to, so you are going to want to work on this. 

Step 2: Experiment

The structure and content of my prompt in Step 1 was not my first draft and it won't be my last. 

As I chat with my OPC I discover its failings or limitations. When I feel these limitations are affecting the overall experience and quality of the outputs, then I iterate on the initial prompt to get it right. 

(BTW this skill is called prompt engineering and is an actual job now!)

Step 3: Diversify

When you create an effective OPC why not repurpose it? If you have created a well-being coach, with some iteration you could repurpose this OPC as a pedagogy coach. 

There are some great examples out there of educators and parents creating learning coaches for their students/children.

👉 Daren's Spanish Coach

👉 Phil's Maths Coach

SJ the Smart Journal

Now it's yours 👇

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One of the inevitable consequences of the current wave of new AI technology is the advancement of personal AI assistants. An AI companion that supports us with life, work and learning. 

Humane's Co-founder Imran Chaudhri demoed a device that could be this assistant, during a TED talk on Thursday, clips of which have been leaking online.

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The ChatGPT Survival Kit is a jam-packed practical course that will allow you to create better lessons and spend more time with your family.

Includes a 24-page supplementary e-booklet.

Amazon review by SeaBadger

Having spent some time reading and digesting this excellent book, I am finding that I regularly refer back to it when having conversations with colleagues who want to know more about how AI is going to impact upon their jobs. The book is written in an accessible and easy to understand format and the reader is left feeling that the authors really want to help educators to get the most out of these transformative tools. As someone who has worked in education technology for twenty years I struggle to think of a book that has has a more profound impact on my understanding of a subject. I would recommend the book to anyone who wants to equip themselves and their colleagues to use AI in their roles in education. It will pay for itself many times over with the time that you will save having read it.

With 380+ pages we've packed this book full of guides, frameworks and strategies:

• Prep and Edit Prompting Framework
• 40+ Prompts for Educators
• 20+ AI Tools to Aid UDL Guidelines
• 30+ AI Tools Educators can use NOW
• Strategies to Save Teachers Time

Amazon.com link

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