Education’s digital infrastructure is officially considered critical infrastructure, and just as we
work to provide physical infrastructure that is safe, healthy, and supportive for all students, we
need to align resources to create digital infrastructure that is safe, accessible, resilient, sustainable, and future-proof.
America has made incredible progress in closing the digital access divide,2 providing an evergreater proportion of students with access to broadband connectivity, devices, and digital
resources. At the same time, we must acknowledge the last frontiers of connectivity can also present the most wicked problems of closing that divide. T
As we recover from the pandemic, educators are increasingly leveraging the breadth of active and innovative
learning opportunities made possible through technology. In addition, schools are accelerating the
implementation of whole learner approaches with technology, including connections to social and emotional supports, parent-educator engagement opportunities, tele-health and tele-mental health, and basic needs services. For such opportunities to become equitably and sustainably available at scale, we must do more to ensure all learners, families/caregivers, and communities have access to technology and the opportunities that it unlocks.
A helpful way to start thinking about using ChatGPT for practical purposes is to genuinely approach it as if it was a messaging app that connected you to a very smart, somewhat naive, slightly alien, well-educated gig worker.
We’re sharing a few stories of how educators are using ChatGPT to accelerate student learning and some prompts to help educators get started with the tool.
Here is the chatlog if you want to see the whole thing:
Prompts: create an interactive simulator with text descriptions that teaches people the central limit theorem. you should give me a zip file with html, javascript, and css. explain at a level that non-specialists understand. make the explanation interactive. once you have produced the code, confirm that the explanation is good and the code will work. everything needs to work. make it visually interesting
