The recent exponential growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to have a profound impact on education. In this two-part webinar, we explored the role of AI tools in the Japanese classroom, with a particular focus on ChatGPT.
Workshop Leader: Y.-H. Tohsaku (University of California, San Diego). Facilitator: Yoshiko Saito-Abbott, AATJ Professional Development Director (California State University, Monterey Bay)
Session 1: What is ChatGPT and how does it affect the classroom and education? (October 7, 2023)
In this session, we discussed what ChatGPT is, how it works, and what it can do. We also explored some of the major issues of education incorporating AI, such as hallucination, bias, and creativity. Finally, we discussed significant challenges and limitations that educators must address in order to maintain the fundamental goal of education.
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Session 2: Effective AI strategies to engage your learners and enhance their learning in the Japanese classroom (October 21, 2023)
In this session, we discussed how we can leverage ChatGPT and other AI tools to strengthen our teaching and enhance our students’ learning. We explored specific strategies that can be used in face-to-face and online learning settings as well as effective prompt engineering and assessment strategies in the new AI-infused classroom.
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These sessions provided Japanese language teachers with a comprehensive understanding of AI tools and their potential in the classroom. We also discussed the precautions needed to address associated risks, such as personal information leakages and copyright infringement, and how to integrate generative AI into self-study, tutoring, and classroom and group activities to enhance learning.
A future workshop will provide hands-on practice in using AI to develop teaching materials and develop rules and procedures for using it in the classroom.
