 Hello everybody, first video of 2023, happy new year. I want to share with you something that has emerged across the education sector over the last month that's going to blow your minds, something I've been playing with for over a year actually that I discovered through my doctoral research and it poses many questions about ethics in society as a whole but if we focus in on education, the ethics of assessment, coursework exams submitting assignments, students developing knowledge and so on and so forth we're into some unknown territory that I don't think some of us are well I don't think we're ready for so I'm just going to show you this portal here called chat GPT and it's an open source piece of software one of the founders is Elon Musk, I'm sure you've heard of so openai.com Now I've been playing with a kind of big brother version of this software for a long time and this is the kind of new version that's free and many teachers have been playing around with and ultimately what it is is an artificial platform that generates text-based content enabling an individual like you, me, student, whoever to pose a question, a statement, write an exam, write a lesson plan and then it responds and at times it responds at great length and if you learn how to use it more sophisticated to a more sophisticated level so entering a mark scheme for example it starts to respond over time and as we know with artificial intelligence it becomes more sophisticated the more times it's used by the majority not just the individual so when I first played with this kind of simpler version of the software I was asking questions to begin with is teaching an art or a science is progressive or a traditional teaching methods work better than the other do off-study inspections and prove outcomes and so on and so forth but I've also been playing around with things at a more deeper level so I'm going to just show you and for about 10 or 15 minutes a variety of scenarios where you might use chat GPT and then I'm going to show you the big brother version to finish and I'm going to show you how it might change the way that you work now I have a confession I've been using artificial intelligence for 15 years a lot of people in the early days used to always critique me as teacher toolkit how does Ross hold down a full-time school leadership job and managed to write so much material and it's because I was using this little fella a microphone and a piece of software called Dragon Dictate and this was inspired by a teacher I used to work with who was paralyzed from the neck down and they used to or he used to and he still does today use that software that learns from your voice your grammatical language and becomes more sophisticated for time so I stole the technology I was inspired based ideas got a microphone and I started to speak into my device 15 years ago and that's now software that's available to us on all our mobile phone devices and here we are 15 years later many many AI bits of software have been evolving and being immersed through the things that we all use so automated emails a chat box that I've got on my website and we'll all see on kind of large organizations that we pay for for services for example our gas or electricity bills and we don't have the capacity as an individual to reply to these chat boxes I guess as an organization it's good for efficiency to engage customers but we get frustrated that we don't talk to a human dare I say maybe in the future we'll have individual chat boxes and features that we can use to reply to these robots but anyway that I digress there'll be lots of questions that will come from this so let me just fiddle with the software you can leave comments in the chat box if you're watching on Twitter, YouTube or my personal LinkedIn page you can watch this back recorded obviously at any time on this link but you can leave a comment to say hello and I'll put your comment or question on the screen if you've got anything that you want to ask me so I'm going to play with the kind of baby version of the software that most people are familiar with and I'm going to work through 10 scenarios I'm going to show you what it can do so let's just pretend I work because I'm going to name a school that I used to work at I want the software to write a letter of application let me just write a letter of application to Alexandra Park School once topped the PISA League tables I do say a great school in North London you have to forgive me trying to do two things at once here my work in memory limited write a letter of application to Alexandra Park School to become a full time classroom teacher now obviously I can add much more detail the more detail the better the answer that you get back so if I just show you how this works give me 10 seconds or so or a little bit longer and this is what I get back so obviously the dear hire manager I would obviously research the school put the headteachers name the specifics about the job role some keywords that are used in the schools marketing materials and there you go someone's put in a comment here from Victoria I use this here to fake a cover lesson did a good job so if I was on the front line teaching I'd be doing this too and you can see my software is still going but you think about workloads so my 5 minute lesson plan it's redundant now I can do one in 30 seconds the 30 second lesson plan schemes of work that's another scenario so I've got 10 scenarios for you here and Victoria's left a comment here about faking a lesson plan for a cover lesson so that's a great example so we'll do that one next so I'm going to start a new chat so you can see on the left hand side here on the screen it's automatically saved I've got my own login here so I can revisit these and at some point I suspect this will be free so start playing with it and creating resources while you can so here we go I'm going to write the detail lesson plan I'm going to try and be a bit more sophisticated here in the conscious of my spellings as a type but the detail lesson plan for a year 7 design and technology lesson the objective in 60 minutes is to learn more about hardwoods and softwoods and I would like the software to tabulate it so I want it to be put in a table and copy paste it over and maybe divide the lesson into chunks divide the lesson I'll do the spelling mistakes after into time periods and tabulate the information so bit of thinking time press the button and here we go so let me hear your thoughts on this one so it took me a minute or so to think software kicks it off duration 60 minutes year 7 students with the objective it then lists the materials I might need it then outlines the lesson so you might be working with a 5 minutes their entry part to the classroom 10 minute starter activity 2 20 minute chunks and a 10 minute plenary then pack away and pull this into the start of your kind of AI kind of generation and let it respond now the problem with this software and I'm sure one or two teachers starting to see this is that you you get what you're giving back and then you can ask for another response or you refine your response when I show you the big brother version of this software you'll see that it's a much more sophisticated piece of software than the one for about a year so another question here from Lauren let me just put this one up on the screen how do you download the software it's free to use currently you don't need to download anything you just need to go to chat.openai.com and when you log into the kind of playground software you just need to press chat GPT so when I come to the brother version of the website I see it through here but I'm sure if you can go to an openai.com search you can find that quite quickly so let's just revisit this generation so I'm just going to pop over here so you can see so 16 minutes we've got a 10 minute introduction to hardwood softwoods so let's assume it's their first lesson this material we've got a video animation of a tree grown but we have to obviously go and find that so there's still a workload commitment on our part to do that but in terms of writing the text right in the plan gone is the 5 minute lesson plan it's finally gone we've now got a 30 second lesson plan and we've also got a comment here over on LinkedIn from Palette because it's new open source software the amount of people using it the server capacity gets limited so people get locked out quite easily so I logged in quickly just before I started this little session but there is a lesson plan 30 seconds a minute or so of thinking time I add more detail I can ask for another response here regenerates response let's press that see if we get a different version and off it will go and again it saves it in top right hand corner for a top left hand corner and I can build up a little database of ideas download it reuse them I guess if the software then starts to charge or it limits what you can do probably build up a collection of ideas quickly before things change so you can see there's a different layout here I have added the tabulate part specifically in brackets so you can see here it's kind of listing them and I always prefer numerical bullet points rather than the kind of black dot bullet points I'm sure it's got a technical name so it's easier to find but it's not really tabulated it I would like so I would have to I think I can go in here and I can edit so divide the lesson into time periods and divide let's try a different response the information into a table format let's try that so save and submit I want it as a table there's another one I tried another time and actually created a little grid so it was easier to follow but obviously I'm doing something wrong here and it's not the end of the world I'm just showing you its potential and maybe also its limitations so I'm going to stop that one and move on to another demonstration so next one I'm going to do I'm going to open a new chat and I want to design a multiple-choice quiz for year 7 people I'll edit their spellings in a second design a multiple-choice quiz for year 7 people on their developing knowledge of softwoods and hardwoods all for during a live stream performance let's do some quick hacks with some spelling what we can all do today isn't it we used to have to write these things with a pen remember those days design a multiple-choice quiz apologies this is the reality this is how long it's going to take you to do it for year 7 people on their developing knowledge of softwoods and hardwoods now I'm going to be more specific here design a five-question multiple-choice quiz so let me just do a simple quiz let's see what we get back so there you go what I need to do and this is a good question ethically as a teacher you know I think many years ago before I started to get into knowledge and curriculum and schema and memory my first response will say well this isn't acquiring student knowledge I guess when we get a student that plagiarizes content submits it and we can kind of gauge as a teacher when we know them really well this isn't Ross's piece of work we can start to expose what knowledge is learned or what knowledge is not looking at this my life as a design technology teacher I should be able to skim this and know if the AI software gives me back accurate information so that knowledge you need to I guess have a degree of knowledge to be able to use this software to be able to understand what's being written otherwise dare I say you've got students just regurgitating software submitting it back to the teacher and there and therefore and then what we have already emerging is lots of plagiarism software we're now having to develop this to look at how AI software can check this kind of content so lots of ethics but I want to not get bogged down in that I just want to do some demonstrations let me respond to some of the questions so I've got Catherine here saying so I think on the Big Brother version I think I pay for some credits and I'll check that as we go into that so I'm going to do that in about five minutes so it might be the phone one you might want to try the desktop one version that I'm also using and Stuart says you know the market AI generated software it also does that and I do believe the it can start to pick it up but again it's a new territory for us all so something to be considered but I've seen a lot of teachers experiment with the marketing software for adding a mark scheme to this so I might want to add a mark scheme now to this example on the screen and I'll enter students assignments and ask it to Mark Khaled nice to hear from you and thanks for watching that's what's this Microsoft have purchased 49% of the company so yeah that's interesting so over time it'll be a lot more acceptable and then Paulette's given me a quill bot I've not heard a quill bot let me write that down and I'm sure there's others I've never really explored plagiarism software and but thanks for that and right let's go and so I'm going to I'm just going to sign I'm going to bring something over on my other screen so I hope you can see this let me just check here yes you can so about a week or so ago I did these 10 things so I've done the first three here write a job application write a lesson plan I also did these write a letter to an angry parent complaining about the school's lack of homework and underneath the thread here on Twitter and you've got all the different responses so just screenshot them rather than video them write a school report end of your report about Ross's class I describe what Ross's characteristics are and it responds really good for reducing my workload answer this question so is the life on Mars or whatever it might be and write a detailed teaching and learning policy I spent two years doing that in my last school and email my immediate team and motivational end of term email it gives me an idea I use it as a framework I then tweak it and send it out this almost contentious with people on Twitter writing a university application as a student getting into Cambridge University so that's right at the bottom here we go here the quality wasn't so good but obviously it's the detail you put into the chat box first and then my life as an author I've spoken my content online and it's annotated it in text format as I've spoken so that's allowed me to work much smarter than most and I have on the 3000 blog posts and teacher talk it one blog is probably 50% AI content software because I was experimenting with this about a year ago and so it raises lots of questions whether it's positive or negative again I'm not going to get down in the details and here but there's an example I suppose and let me do one more and I'm going to show you the big brother software that some of you may not yet have tried so I'll go to a new chat on chat actually I am going to so I'm looking at two screens here I'm going at the wrong screen write a detailed end of year not the end of year report for Ross who is a year 7 people working really hard in all his subjects and skill simple let's see what we get back so the amount of time it takes teachers to write reports let's see what we can get back here so think about all those copy and paste paragraphs those bits of software and I suspect a lot of companies out there that do school reports this is new territory for them too and it'd be interesting to see what software they can integrate into their current platforms also help teachers manage workload ultimately what we're wanting is accuracy efficiency and reduction in our workload and ultimately the receiver is the student and parent we want them to get accurate information at least in this context with school reports that celebrates all the amazing achievements they've done in the year but also identify some targets and ultimately want to see an impact from that report so there you go I've got six or seven paragraphs it's came it's churned it all back to me in a minute go back to the top here so you've not seen it before just a reminder I can press this button edit and I actually want please add please ask a add a particular reference to let's say something very specific hockey so the sport hockey achievements let's just see if we get a reference to hockey I've done this a few times now and we always get a reference to math and science I suppose it's a safe bet but there you go Ross has excelled in hockey making significant contributions to the school teams throughout the season now I can't play hockey but it's neither here or there I'm showing you the software so any questions about this before so chat.openai.com forward slash chat let me just open a new chat box for you chat GPD I always get the team to pee the wrong way around where's the link there the language models linguistic bit of technology here we've got a reference here the pro version the most advanced AI chat box I've not even looked at any YouTubes there's an enormous amount of press stories and there's a huge army of people on Twitter, particularly teachers looking at this to change the way they work and think so I'm going to show you what I have and I'm going to also let me dig it out I'm going to show you a blog which is partly AI generated the first one here if I just put this on the screen the first one was when I wrote for the New Year education this blog here if you've not read it yet the future of education I've put in the demonstrations, the videos the experiments, all the links you've not had a look at that, all the ethics, the risks and actually an academic paper from Ethan Molek looking at the AI chat box from an academic perspective so that's worth to read if you're working in the field of teaching and so that's that one and I have, there's a paragraph in here, let me just identify it for you there, it's me again now, so this content above was AI generated in my blog the only time, there's one other blog and it was a blog on coaching I'm going to dig it out so 3,000 blog posts, you'd be pleased to know 2,998 of them were all me but there is I think it's this one, a coaching strategy there was half me, half an AI chat box and I was actually using the more sophisticated version of the software and I was bringing all my coaching work together and what the AI chat box did was generate lots of these questions very quickly for me and I published it and I remember receiving lots of positive responses from people in the field of coaching so again interesting this is the software I'm using, I don't know what it's called, all I know is the word playground which is there and I don't yet understand all the technicalities and maybe someone watching will but on the right hand side you can see here and I think I pay for something obviously I know what I'm paying in terms of money but I don't know what it's called, whether I'm paying for nuggets or responses or word count, those types of things but we've got over here in terms of the chat software there's something called text, Da Vinci, Curie, Babbage and other and they all have different capabilities so I think I'm on the one with the highest but there's different ones I suppose for different purposes I suppose without my expertise academic or kind of informal writing and you've got all these different frequencies and again I've not really played with these and you can look at the code but what I love about this is the following, so I'm going to try and be conscious that you're watching live but I'm just going to kind of zone out for a minute and just type something so let me think about something that you can do easily, what makes a great teacher but think about the software, now the interesting thing I've learned I'm just going to move my video quickly my face, the side in the bottom left hand corner I've got the word submit and I can regenerate things or switch it back but I think what I've learned is it's important I can't leave a gap or a new paragraph because it stops the software reading the text you have to immediately stop straight after, that's just something that's just worth pointing out, I then press submit and I get an AI response so the highlighted text allows me to see what has been inputted by the artificial intelligence here I can then edit, delete, change and this is what makes I think this a bit more sophisticated than the version that everyone else is playing with and whether you want to and I think Ethan Mollack in his academic research and what I first discovered about a year or two ago was that the matter of work I have, the matter of text I have to write from the books, from the blogs, from the doctor research using technology to reduce work loads whether we call that working more efficiently or cheating I guess that's the ethical stuff but if we are reading and using our knowledge editing responding, refining I add in reference to his checkerware accuracy surely I suppose it's our point so it's an open bit of software and so let's just say for example a great teacher, someone who is patient and caring, I'm going to delete the word patient just leave it as someone who is caring now I'd like to think of my teacher I was a little patient but at times I know I wasn't I've just taken that away, just an example that you can edit the software and then you've got to see the green and the rest became unhighlighted I don't yet know what that means I've not played with this a lot but what is a lot maybe 50 times or something over the last year so I'm then going to just start to look what I might be writing as a paragraph we've got what makes a great teacher an example of a teacher I used to work with at a secondary school so I'm not writing anything academic, I'm just doing a simple demo but I don't know the next bit I might want to say Ross is the great example an example of a teacher I used to work with at secondary school let's just see if it replies we've got Mrs Smith she was enthusiastic, passionate about our subject so you can see here how I'm now developing an AI response through the chat box feature I guess you get a limited output whereas I'm getting more of a fluid kind of Q&A response so there you go so there's an example I can go on and on write a blog, write a book talk about my doctoral research let's just put in what is teacher autonomy what does the research say what does the research say on teacher autonomy across English education because let's face it it is slowly being eroded what does the research say about teacher autonomy across English education remember the cursor straight after the last letter let's see what we've got and there's my Alexa now at the moment sometimes it gives you a academic reference and this is where you need your knowledge and your chair accuracy let's just see a research reference includes I'm going to stop there and see if you can see what I'm trying to show you here oh and it's not it's crash typical a research reference includes I'm going to put the ester because I know that's true let's see if I get a response so the the GER is this first name 2010 so that is accurate now I need to dig into the details here in terms of the reference at the end 22 bracket 1, 33 to 46 so you can see so that's playground I'm going to just turn to some comments and show you some links so on the screen you've got a coaching strategy which I would admit probably a quarter of this was AI generated and I published this back in May 2022 and then the other blog that I wrote to suggest that we've got something to consider as educators is this blog artificial intelligence I published it on New Year's Day you can find it on my blog, you need to log in it's a free login to read it but you can see the thing, the experiments my video demonstrations it's got the link here to the Twitter with all the 10 different experiments in greater detail it poses some ethical things we have to consider and I sure have not covered everything plagiarism et cetera and there's a nice little academic paper here from Ethan Moeller talking about the kind of risks and a little bit more so that's there and what else, what else, so you've got the chat box the chat GPT and then the playground software which I've been showing you so I'm just going to look at your comments just to finish so let's just work through I can see my good friend Ian is here so Ian's got an Instagram link here so I just put it on the screen obviously you can't click on this, you might have typed this in there's a good example of the danger and the tools to help check, thank you Ian two more examples here clicks away, watch one on a couple on Instagram so thanks for that Jeanette, thanks for watching I hope I've just gone through a little couple of things to let you see how you can access all the resources thanks for tuning in James, any public information that you use a couple of bases that give you the source of course we need to start teaching our kids and I think I showed the software to a group of 200 teachers in Wales on Monday and it blew their mind and there was lots of ethical thoughts to be imposed in the room so something to consider for us all Shia, thank you for your watching and commenting I use this to look up a few days ago and it's unbelievable we need to learn AI in order to keep ourselves digitally literate, absolutely at the playground I think you go to the software, create your login I'm sure you get a personal or a professional profile and I need to revisit what I'm doing actually because I've only played with it a few times and I've been using it for about a year so thank you everybody so I'm just going to do that, thanks absolutely positive, great, thank you James I can now see it okay that's good to see Jeanette a question from Mary Joe, anyone use this with students as yet, there's a good question and then that's pretty much it, I was just working through all your comments, obviously it's the plagiarism, the ethics I've got another one here from Paulette Paulette, are you a plagiarism at WES here because you've given me two sources to check, so I'm going to write I've got a quill bot written down and now I've got outright I suppose it's I don't need to really check plagiarism because I'm not marking students work however, when I submit my doctorate in the future I should consider if I'm going to use AI to help generate some content the ethics the you know not the legalities the wrong word but you know what I mean it's going to be my work and I need to make sure that it's not copied from elsewhere that's it, it's 9 o'clock have a lovely evening, first video of the academic year, I'll try and do these regularly, I always say this every year I normally do these on a Monday evening but if I'm traveling to schools it's impossible other than that thank you very much, that's the future of education, that's something we've all got to consider you can watch this back on YouTube, it'll be on the LinkedIn personal page and it's on my Twitter stream, I'm going to pin this, it's already on my YouTube so share this with people, I'm going to embed this video in that blog anyway, look after yourself thanks for watching and I'll see you again soon, bye for now