Anna's Blog

For this mini project, I explored Khan Academy and Duolingo. I had never used either platform before, so it was super fun to play around with them and I learned more than I expected to. I started with Khan Academy and set up an account as a college student, and then I browsed through some different courses that caught my attention. After looking into a few AI and tech related courses, I ended up focusing on a stats course - "statistics and probability". I decided on doing the first lesson, called "identifying individuals, variables and categorical variables in a data set". First, I watched a youtube video - it was shorter than I expected but packed with helpful info that refreshed my memory from the last time I took stats...and then I took a quiz with several questions and ended up getting all the answers right. It felt like a very effective yet simple way to study - the explanations made a lot of sense and the quiz questions were diverse enough to give me a full pi...

After playing around with ChatGPT, one thing that struck me as strange was how convincing and certain it can sound while it gives you false information. I noticed that it frequently cites things incorrectly, "hallucinates" information, and gives made-up or inaccessible sources. Because of this, I had the idea to create a two part "reality check" assignment with GPT.  For the first part, I would give students a simple research assignment: "write a 1-2 page paper about _____" - and I'd give a timely, relevant topic that requires a decent amount of research. The twist is, they can only use ChatGPT to research things on the topic, to write the paper, and to cite their sources (in APA format). This shouldn't take longer than 10 minutes. For the second part, I would have the students act as if they were a teacher, grading their own paper - I'd tell them to proofread it, check it for errors, look at all the sources, etc. From doing some testing, I kno...

 During week 2, I created a beginner-friendly Spanish quiz on Socrative. I included the code to my room in my blog post, but not a link to the page where you enter the code - I'm guessing that's why it's still listed as incomplete on my Elearning! My apologies - I'm republishing it here for easy access. The link is:  https://b.socrative.com/student/#quiz The room code is: LANG2242