Blog Journal 4 (Online)

     When I first started doing the blog posts for this class, I was unsure of how I felt about it since it kind of felt like talking to a wall. From what I have seen in the past, blogs are typically published to the public and read by many people however, there is only one person reading mine but then I had a realization; I can have fun with it. I do not have to worry about being in the public eye and I can answer each prompt truthfully and hopefully without judgement. In the process I have learned how to write more casually since in theory, these would be a casual read and not a peer-reviewed research paper and I have really enjoyed the process. 

    A web 2.0 tool that I might use while teaching are video sharing websites such as FlipGrid and Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/) . For a topic such as history, it can be repetitive hearing from the same person yapping about some event in time and can cause students to lose focus. When I implement the use of youtube, there are many different things I can do with it. I can provide videos which I deem to be appropriate and related to course material such as virtual professors and crash course videos so the students have a change in speed for what they are learning. I can also have them publish videos on there for presentations, they can do entirely animated and virtual videos or just videos of themselves talking about a certain topic. This gives a lot of space for creativity which I hope to encourage in my classroom. 

    I have used generative AI a few times in the form of Chat GPT. I have used it in a philosophy class to explain a concept to me, I remembered being frustrated after trying to train it to be correct for a while but once I finally had an understanding of how to use the resource, it went smoothly and I was able to come to a correct answer. Through this I learned that you have to train the AI and cannot just use its first response as a factual answer. I have also used Chat GPT in non-academic ways. For example, I asked it to create me a monthly budget based off my paychecks and spending and this has been very helpful once I got one that actually works for me. I believe AI can be very helpful when it is used in the correct way and not abused for cheating and plagiarism.

    I think as a teacher, generative AI can be very helpful if used in the correct way. You could use it to create a basis for a lesson plan. I asked AI to 'create a lesson plan for the American Revolution circa 1780' and the plan it generated was very basic and not detailed at all. However, when I asked it to 'create a lesson plan for AP U.S. History students learning about the American Revolution from 1780 to 1783' it was much more detailed. It included a day-by-day breakdown, a list of materials, ways for assessments, and many other valuable components of a lesson plan. I can defintely see ethical concerns for the use of AI in the classroom and to address this, I would use the generative lesson plan as an outline and craft my own based on the needs of my specific class, I would also let it be known that I use this resource loosely and ask parents how they feel about it. 

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