Written by Martin Ågren - March 18, 2025
First, read about data security, licensing, terms, and GDPR here.
Basic skill development for all staff.
Choose a concept regarding: Policy, licensing, terms, etc.
Skill development for one or a few teachers interested in AI.
Getting the other teachers on board.
The easiest way is for each teacher to regularly use AI tools to improve their own AI competence (gradually involving students at a later stage).
Guide the students in the responsible and constructive use of AI at school (and at home doing homework).
It is important that both teachers and students have a good understanding of AI hallucinations, what they are, and how to prevent them. Source criticism and information literacy are crucial in this context. Read more about AI hallucinations here.
Preparation of lesson: structure and teaching materials. For example, generating text, table, code, image, audio, video.
Planning of a module or academic year. Tip: Paste the syllabus/curriculum at the start of the chat.
Deep Research: Obtain a detailed report about a specific aspect of teaching (or another area of interest).
Administration and communication
Inform or show the student:
"Never enter personal information in input" (good habit, even if the licensing agreement is perfect)\
"Output can be incorrect sometimes" (AI hallucinations and bias)\
"Source criticism and information evaluation"\
How to use tools responsibly and constructively for long-term learning.\
Instruct students on using custom GPT created by the teacher. Example: Socratic approach by AI and expertise on a specific topic in the course.
Role-playing: AI can assume a role for students to interact with.
Voice Mode: Students can have an oral conversation using Voice Mode occasionally instead of typing with a keyboard. Explain the advantages and disadvantages.
Cheating, according to the Swedish National Agency for Education
"Non-examining homework" - "Impossible to determine if a student has used AI at home"
Fair Grading
In my opinion:
1. In-class exam: Secure test
2. Oral presentation
3. Oral examination
Scan: AI-generated
Unreliable tools - Often give false positives, even if the text was written by the student.
Scan: Plagiarism
Sometimes detectable, but not very useful as AI creates relatively unique content.
High School Project
Oral presentation: Does the student know the subject? - Check student's source references?
App on Mobile - App Store: Install ChatGPT - Avoid the ad at the top of the App Store.
Browser on Computer - Visit the website ChatGPT.com
Subscription - Free, Plus, Team - Pricing - Higher threshold - Early access - Training data
Login - Log in with Google, or click Sign Up - Choose username & password - Log in
Test ChatGPT - Experiment: Write to ChatGPT: Talk about the subject you teach - Try searching the Internet (e.g., news events) - Create an image - Create a bullet list
Paste Subject Plan - Assign role: "You are an expert in the subject [subject name] at high school level. Reply OK now." - Paste the subject plan at the beginning of the chat: Use triple quotation marks - Do not paste course 2 unnecessarily if you want to discuss course 1 - Now you can discuss the subject and curriculum with a subject expert
Custom GPTs - Plus subscription required - Example GPT: Skolverket AI 1 (by Martin Ågren) - Create an AI that is an expert in your course.
Teacher Using AI - How can AI help the teacher? - Plan lesson/module/school year - Create test questions - Brainstorm ideas - Consider GDPR: Names you enter are sent to a server in the USA - If a student asks a tricky question: ask AI and enable browsing.
Student Using AI - How can AI help the student? - Especially useful for dyslexia: Oral discussion (instead of reading/writing) via Voice mode - ChatGPT as a teacher (if needed: Custom GPT: expert in a subject or module) - Listen to podcasts (in English?)
More ideas?... :)