Ep85 – MagicSchool vs ChatGPT (Black History Month 5E Lesson Plan)

Handouts are available below.

Big Idea

What happens when we ask both MagicSchool AI and ChatGPT to create a 5E science lesson while incorporating Black History Month into a science lesson? Which AI program does it better? I decided to find out.

 

Episode Notes

A few observations while I was using ChatGPT or MagicSchool:

  1. Prompts matter. When using ChatGPT, provide more detail for your search.
  2. Similarly, with MagicSchool, click on “exemplar” to see how you might structure a search.
  3. Both ChatGPT and MagicSchool produce solid lesson plans in a short amount of time. 
  4. However, don’t expect a huge amount of detail in the lesson plans.
  5. ChatGPT has the ability to ask more and more questions during a chat. Use it. This is an invaluable way to generate rubrics and additional activities for a specific lesson.
  6. If you’re running on the free version of MagicSchool, then you will not have the ability to ask follow up queries in your chat. This is the downside to using MagicSchool.

 

Resources

Handout(s): Ep85 Handouts – MagicSchool vs ChatGPT (Black History Month 5E Lesson Plan)

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Posted on February 6, 2024 in Videos

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