English
Use LLM AI Like ChatGPT and Bard to Write Better Essays -- Ongoing Course
This ongoing course will show learners how to use ChatGPT to write better essays. #writing #ai
Roman Sturgis's Writing Workshop
31 total reviews for this teacher
9 reviews for this class
Completed by 29 learners
11-16
year old learners
6th-9th
US Grade Level
1-8
learners per class
$21
Charged weekly
Meets 1x per week
Runs week after week
50 minutes per class
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Available times
Pacific
Description
Class Experience
This class will use the ChatGPT engine to explore ways to bootstrap learning using AI generated prose as a model. Everybody now knows that you can have a computer write your papers for you. Now what? I think it’s an exciting time to be a writer! Look at all these powerful tools we have at our disposal. What gifts! But how does AI fit into that toolkit now? I’ll show your learner a systematic process for deconstructing AI generated material. We will then use those pieces to reconstruct a...
Students will learn a research-based and systematic approach to developing their essay writing. In addition, we will use ChatGPT to create drafts of our work to learn from. By the end of the course students will be able to confidently write expository, argumentative, persuasive, and narrative essays.
I have been a writer for 25+ years and a teacher since 2004. The approach that I teach is informed by my work as a graduate student at Boston University, a technical writer and editor at Clemson University, and many professional development courses and workshops, most notably the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College and the EmPower Method from Architects for Learning. As far as ChatGPT goes, I am a novice user.
HW as needed, as wanted.
A couple pencils, an eraser, a notebook, and the standard Outschool tools. Headsets are preferred but not required. Students are encouraged to write their work by hand, but accommodations can be made for those who feel strongly about typing.
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Learners will be given formative feedback from the teacher throughout the writing process.
50 minutes per week in class, and an estimated 0 - 1 hours per week outside of class.
The teacher will be "driving" when we use ChatGPT and the learner will only receive text cut and pasted from ChatGPT by the teacher. Your learner will obviously be exposed to AI generated text, but it will go through a human filter. The scope of our conversations with ChatGPT will be limited to generating prose in response to our writing prompts. Students do NOT need a ChatGPT account for this class. In addition, the class format involves regular cold-calling to support engagement and retention. If your learner is neuro-divergent and requires accommodation, please reach out before class starts to discuss back-channeling options.
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Roman Sturgis's Writing WorkshopEnglish and Writing Teacher
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34 completed classes
About Me
I am a writing teacher with 15+ years of teaching and writing experience K-college. I start by teaching students how to write strong paragraphs and we build from there. Having sought out a variety of professional development opportunities in...
