001[Music] hello Buckeye Elementary School District friends and families we are super excited to bring you the second video in our series on artificial intelligence cleverly titled The Good the Bad and the AI and this video is going to be focused on not the introduction like our last one if you didn't see it I hope you'll go back and check it out uh but this is using AI to support learning at home so it's all well and good to know the basics that you learned last week but how can you actually use this to help your child um learn the things they need to learn to be successful at school uh or anything that you'd be interested in having them learn so the purpose of this video is going to be to guide you through some
002introductory steps that how could you start that conversation how could you be on the road to using it as a tool uh to support your child um first I want to make sure but I am on record again as saying you never want to share student identifiable information with large language models if you recall last time in our prior video we talked about what a large language model is or llm for short which is basically think of that as a type of AI um that essentially is the chat bot the chat gbts that sort of thing that you have been hearing about so regularly and it's very important to remember that these um systems are using the conversations to train themselves to improve so um we want to make sure that you protect your child
003um make sure you talk to your child about um not sharing personal information um and our next video in video three we're going to Deep dive into safety and ethics around AI but I know we've had a lot of questions about I want to get right into helping my child learn so that's the point of this video and we're super excited um to be doing that so step one is you need to sign up for your free account um at any number of chat Bots there are many available I'm going to primarily focus on the two biggies uh which are chat GPT and Google's Gemini um I I there are other big ones I shouldn't say that uh but because we're a district that uses Google um there may be some comfortable um you know
004some comfortable strategies that that you've become accustomed to with Google uh or M Chad GPT is pretty pretty much everywhere so we're going to focus on those two there's also uh Claude um the Twitter version there's lots out there that you can choose from but let's start by you can go to uh gemini.com and if you have a Google account already you can just follow that process it's super simple if you don't have a Google account you can sign up for one for free uh and then you're automatically into the free version of Google uh Gemini if you haven't signed up for a chat GPT account you simply go to chat gp.com and sign up for the free account um and one of the things we're trying to focus on here as we share information
005with you is free tools things that you can use for free now that doesn't mean that there aren't better versions of these same chatbots available for a few bucks a month um most of these models have something around 19 20 $21 a month that offer significant upgrades in in power um that would be up to you but you can access what we're going to talk about today um absolutely free of charge so um there's also caps and that's important to keep in mind of how much you can use it the free version uh has a a different cap level than paid versions so once you've got your your chatbot ready to go you've signed up for an account it really comes down to one thing uh being successful uh using an llm on anything whether
006you're using it to help you do a household budget like I was doing this week um or plan a trip or you name it put together your fantasy football team um it's good for all those things if you don't know how to talk to it you're going to have a hard time getting what you'd like out of it um now I don't want to make a sound overly complicated um it is not that hard if you can have a conversation you can get there but the quicker you get there the better so there's a term that's used in in this space called prompting and prompting is what you're putting in the chat box uh in that little box down below depending on which ones which tool you're using uh the question that you ask the
007prompt how you're prompting the llm to start engaging with you and the clearer you can be in those prompts the less back and forth you're going to need to have and the higher the odds that the llm will successfully uh meet uh your requirements for Success so we're going to focus on today how do you design a great prompt for learning so you know you'll hear people say garbage in garbage out that's not necessarily true um but it is the quality of the input will will help to influence the quality of the output but anything will get you started I don't want you to think if I don't have the perfect prompt I'm afraid to talk to this thing don't worry about it just start with a Hello I'm going to need your help with
008and just keep it simple that's fine I need your help with a fantasy football team I need your help with it you name it uh whatever it is that you need I need help with a vacation planning I need help with a organization plan just start by talking to it that's great um it'll get you comfortable uh but if you're ready to move on there are some certain types of prompts that you can use and we're going to focus on learning even though I've mentioned personal stuff is great it's great for a lot of things personal um but uh as as an adult uh but for your child and to help your student and and I am working under the assumption here that you're sitting with your child um and engaging with this chatbot supervised
009that is key you're going to want to supervise your student uh while they're engaging with any chatbot um that is an absolute must for safety and security purposes so what are the sorts of things you can do well you can ask it to help me create a study plan for my child in math um help me write an email to my boss asking for vacation time um give me advice for creative ways to save time these are those prompts that would work you know across the spectrum of your life um anything you can think of you can ask the chatbot but what if we want to get a little more specific and dive into something that is uh you know we're really targeting something in particular so think about if I were if someone were
010asking me this prompt what would I need to know to help them you know so if somebody were asking me help me plan a vacation um there's a lot of things I need to know where do you want to go how much do you have to spend blah blah blah blah there's a lot of things that you'd want to ask so um you're going to want to think about how can I do something with more detail right so if you going back to that question about help me create a study plan for my child in math you're going to want to think about well what about math is it fractions is it decimals is it something broader what grade level are they in um what sorts of things have they had a hard time with
011uh do they have do they have a space to study at home I mean anything you can tell the chatbot it's going to help it design a plan that's more meaningful for you so here's how you can really think about this in a structured way you can start with something called a template and essentially the template is really simple and you can get them more complex than this but we're going to start with something pretty basic and that is first of all you're going to tell the llm who it is what it's good at I know that sounds strange but it helps llm to focus in on using the best practices the um the the research the stuff that's aligned with what you're asking it to do so for example if I need help with
012my accounting at home and I need some tax some suggestions for how to save money on taxes so I'm going to tell the LM the first part of my prompt is going to be you are an expert in tax planning or if I'm working with my child and I want some advice you're an expert in child psychology um you're an expert in event planning um that really helps to focus the the llm in on what it needs to do to help you again it might sound strange but believe me it works now a lot of times it will tell you I am not a a professional tax planner make sure yes we know that and it's important that you know that um you're going to hear me say a lot llms make mistakes and even
013if it thinks it's right it's going to sound like it knows what it's talking about so verify verify verify so first of all first part of the template tell the llm who it is or what it's good at then you move into the second part of your prompt and that is tell it what you need so for example for the tax you're a tax expert provide me 10 tips for last minute deductions um you're the expert in child psychology give me five ways to motivate my reluctant learner um you're an event planner we talked about that in the last slide generate a project timeline for a wedding you see how the this prompt is helping the llm zero in on exactly what you're looking for right the number of deductions that you need you know
014exactly what don't just give me general advice on taxes that's that's that's going to be quite a book um you're looking for some specific things so then next part of your of your template is then make sure you think about what detail might be useful to help the llm deliver right so yes I am asking for for tips on how to uh some some ideas on deductions but we all know deductions vary by state and maybe one's going to affect your deductions in it that would affect them in Arizona but wouldn't affect them in Arkansas so telling the llm I'm an Arizona resident is going to help it understand that it needs to look towards Arizona tax code right um when I'm talking about the child psychology and The Reluctant learner knowing how old that
015child is my child's eight years old and he's struggling with what um confidence right maybe it's confidence maybe it's you know he's just not interested whatever you need those details will help the L to hone in on supporting you um also the wedding plan which we know is a monster um the wedding is on March 1st and will include planning travel for 15 relatives from from Nebraska and those are all details that the llm can incorporate right away and you don't have to keep having this conversation back and forth it might give you something if you just say help me with an event uh but then if it didn't know that you have to also coordinate travel planning you might leave all that leave all of that out of the plan right and that's essential
016so being sure that you're providing any details that might help will be super useful for you and that's all you need to get started it's that easy but here's a couple Pro tips for you one of my favorite strategies is to ask the llm the last sentence I'll always put at the end of my prompt is ask me two clarifying questions that will help you with this task and it's so interesting it'll say you know uh It'll ask me something I hadn't even thought of right so ask it to ask you questions um I understand that I'm going to be helping you with accounting on your taxes in the state of Arizona however you know blah blah blah blah what what is the income bracket whatever you know these sorts of things can help it
017and it forces it to think about what do I need to help the user and then another really important Pro tip is tell it the tone the format or the style that you like so for example if you're writing a letter to a business and you're having it write that email for you you're going to want to say the tone needs to be professional maybe it's professional and firm maybe it's professional and friendly uh but if you're writing something to somewhere else maybe it's funny and humorous um you decide what the tone of that letter might be so giving it any of those extra details very very helpful and I mentioned it a second ago but verify verify verify quite often these um responses that you're going to get back from this llm are a
018huge Head Start but you are again the human that's making the request you understand what you're trying to get out of it better than anyone and these chat Bots can generate information that may just not be accurate um it still puts you way far ahead of the game even if you're having to verify information but check your facts um always a good idea because as I've mentioned in the prior video uh llms do something we call well not we but everyone calls hallucinations and hallucinations are where it just make something up and so um that does happen it happens not that frequently but what you don't want to have happen is in a key moment have information that's incorrect so now let's get to the really good stuff let's talk about prompts for learning here's
019some examples for example give me 10 creative ideas for a science faere project about renewable energy uh summarize the main points of the American Revolution uh what are the steps to solve this math problem 2x * + 5 = 11 um these are all examples of generating ideas summarizing information solving problems or other things that you can use a chatbot for if you can think it you can ask it and it may be able to help you um you can see why it's important that you're supervising your child because when you get to the solving problems part for example what you don't want is your student just at home having the chatbot answer question answer homework questions for them for example that are intended to be practice and if we don't want them being robbed
020of the opportunity to learn and you're going to see some prompts here coming up that demonstrate how we really would like to see it being used if it's being used at all at home um and you'll understand why as you see these prompts come up you can also use it for feedback on work efforts review this paragraph that I wrote and provide feedback on grammar and Clarity uh you can do study support for any subject explain the concept of photosynthesis in simpler terms um brainstorming partner I use it for brainstorming partner a lot help me brainstorm ideas for a persuasive essay about the importance of recycling so sitting with your child and asking these sorts of questions is also a great way for them to learn about how to responsibly and ethically use a chatbot
021to support learning not to cheat the learning process so let's go deeper this is the next level stuff so those are questions that you know they're they're kind of obvious but and the more you use them the more they'll become part of your toolbox or your child's toolbox with you present obviously but let's talk about how you can really push the brain harder using AI so review this assignment I love this prompt review this assignment and ask three to five questions that will help me improve it without giving away the answers that is great you're forcing the learner to think a little bit harder and maybe giving some guidance and help them think about Improvement um but without without cheating the process right how about this one I wrote the essay I wrote this essay
022about the causes of the American Revolution can you ask me five questions that will help me think more critically about the events leading up to the war wow I mean if you have a student being asked now five questions from a chatbot the chatbot has now become a tool for deeper learning than would have otherwise been available to them how about this one I'm struggling with this math word problem can you give me some hints or clues that will guide me towards the solution without giving me the answers you see a trend without giving me the answers um I'm working on a a science project about the solar system can you ask me some questions that will help me explore the topic in more depth and come up with new ideas these are all prompts
023and we've talked about prompts for the llm now the llm is using we're using the llm to prompt the child to think more deeply about content and that is incredibly powerful so you can do anything from quiz me on these topics to help me think of deeper ideas or challenge my thinking that's one of my favorite one is favorite ones is to do a devil's advocate scenario you can say here is my paper uh arguing on behalf of the colonists in the American Revolution please play play Devil's Advocate and challenge five of my assertions so then your child would have to think through because they're getting countered right they're getting pushed and so then they have to be the human brain has to do the work of responding to this chat bot and saying those
024are really good points but here's what I mean by that and they may have to go back to the content to learn more wouldn't that be great so it's an example of how moving out of the space of a chatbot as a cheater as a way to cheat homework as a way to skip learning as a way to skip engagement with content and using the chatbot as a way to actually drive human thinking into deeper places one of the great tools here is the fact that quite often parents have said to me over the years I don't know that I'm familiar with the way this has been done in class or I haven't learned this in Forever um using a chatbot now we can use the tool to relieve that stress from you and have
025the child say this is how the teacher explained it or upload the actual notes that they took in class and say this is how the teacher explained it now can you help explain how to work through these five five problems using that strategy um or what's really great is you can even say boy I haven't studied World War II since I was in college and I'm going to ask the chatbot before I sit down with my child to give me a summary uh of the key points that I know I'm going to have to have help my student with um as they're working through their homework and the questions that they might have this is really helpful in mathematics and science that's the question we get the most often from parents is is like primers
026and tips for helping their student learn math and science um but it works in any subject music art PE you name it you can use it so that's the introduction to prompting it's really that simple [Music] one of the things you'll find in the support documents in the description below is a document that you can click and download copy and paste with readymade prompts for you there's 20 there's 10 basic and 10 deeper learning and all you have to do is cut and paste you know take out the part put in the specifics for your context what your child's working on and voila you're off and running so the last part of today's video is to talk about other tools that are available to you and there are a lot of them again I cannot
027stress enough that you should be present and the decision maker when it comes to what tools you may or may not want your child using we've already covered Gemini and and uh chat gbt which are General use chat Bots however there are tools on the internet um that with parent supervision you may find useful that are more specialized um for example there is KH Academy kids you can go to KH Academy Kids check out what they have available um those are kid accounts to help them study so it's a place that they can dive into and explore topics and do learning activities that you may find useful for your child there's also um related to Con Academy Kids is Con Migo which is basically they've taken the chat GPT framework and meshed it with the
028KH Academy tutoring model and this is something that you as a parent can go in and sign up for and that's the the way I would recommend you approach roach it as you sign up for it there are free accounts available and then very lowcost accounts as well it's it's only a handful of dollars um and I know a handful of dollars can sometimes be a stretch so the free account is always available uh but you can see the tools that are available to help you and your child um be successful in learning there's also Quizlet there's dual lingo there's uh Socratic by Google for some of the higher level stuff and older students there are a lot of tools you can explore you can go out and take a look at them these are
029just a few that can get you started but knowing that you always have the llms available to you if you know how to talk to them um as a way to uh push learning forward for your child um and again I just want to say one last time have the conversation with your child and remember yourself that it is not a good idea to um share student identifiable information I would not be putting names age address any of that sort of stuff um into any of these chat bots so every video we have a try list today and I've already mentioned earlier there's the AI prompts for parents available in the uh description below it's in English and in Spanish you can simply download that copy and paste the prompts try them out with your
030child at home so the thing you can try tonight or tomorrow or whenever you please is to pick one of those prompts from the document that align with your child's current schoolwork and use it with an AI tool like gemini or chat GPT so simply pick one um and I would suggest that maybe you sit down with your child and say let's look at these uh what subject would you like to try try this out with would you like to try it in math would you like to try it in fractions would you like to you name it um pick one try it out and then spend the the next two weeks working on that hopefully you'll just take off with it and be off and running by the time the next video hits in
031our series which is AI safety and ethics I want to be clear AI safety and ethics is actually the top priority but we have definitely been hearing from parents that they wanted to get to some of the support on how can I use this to learn um with just some introdu introduction on safety which we talked about in the prior video but we are going to go deeper in the next video in two weeks which is we're going to talk about how do you keep your kids safe how do you teach your students responsible use the reality is all of these tools are available to them right now and you're going to want to know as a parent how can I help to guide them towards ethical and productive use of the tools um if
032I even accept the use of them at at all as a parent and that's what we're going to talk about what are your family's expectations and then what are the how are you communicating those expectations to your child um so that you're all having this common understanding of what does AI use look like in our home if at all right so coming soon I'm very excited to see you next time remember if you have questions send them our way we're always excited to answer them I do foresee that we'll do a video at the very end that I like to think of as think of as kind of a cleanup video where the little bits and pieces of questions that we've heard throughout the series or things that maybe came to light from any of
033the prior videos we can kind of a Roundup and answer those for you and we look forward to continuing to be your partner um as we take a look at artificial intelligence and supporting your learners at home [Music]