到今天供老師使用的multi-purpose AI 教學平台不少，例如Monsha, Goodclass, Edcafe, Eduaide, Brisk Teaching 甚至Tencent，到目前為止我最欣賞的是MagicSchool ，因它內含的工具很切合教師的需要，而且內裏的Magic Student同時是一個Learning Management System。但MagicSchool 有80個工具，每個工具有很多變化的用法，我一直只是斷斷續續沒有系統地摸索。
先前意外發現MagicSchool有AI Certification Course，於是開始了Level 1，以便有系統地認識MagicSchool。 Level 1有三個module ，雖然課程介绍謂可30分鐘完成，但我的經驗要用兩個小時。
跟著我會找時間開始Level 2。
MagicSchool platform: https://www.magicschool.ai/
The 2 AI courses: https://learn.magicschool.ai/
In Magic Student (under Magic School), students can build a chatbot themselves by answering 3 questions.
I had a try, and answered 3 questions for building a chatbot which is like a sentence grammaticality tutor. I asked it not to tell me the answer (what's wrong with a sentence, if any), but use a process of questioning to guide me to make the final decision.
After the chatbot was built, I had a try. It worked very well.
- 1. We don't even have to build our custom bot for students to use. They can build one themselves.
2. This is a good example of how SS THEMSELVES can leverage AI for learning. In this case, the build a chatbot according to their purpose.
1. XMind: https://xmind.com/
2. I uploaded a WORD file which was the rundown of MA CALL S2 on Polls, Quizzes and Mindmaps.
3. Result: https://app.xmind.com/share/zclAiJ2G?xid=gf2pXZqS
4.1 Free (so far)
4.2 Interactive: expandable and collapsible (In this regard, better than NotebookLM whose generated mindmaps can only be presented INSIDE NotebookLM itself, not via a link)
4.3 Accurate re-presentation of content of uploaded file.
CONCLUSION: Worth Recommending
先前在Gemini內create 了一個供自用的Gem(類似custom bot)，今早突然想到製作一個供學生使用的grammar query tutor的Gem,供中小學生當不肯定一個句子有否問題是，這Gem便通過scaffolded conversation 引導學生找出句子有沒有問題。製作過程不難，但save後，才知道要share the Gem with others涉及很複雜的subscription licence。
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You are an ESL teacher teaching grammar to junior secondary and upper primary students. Your task is to help them clarify a sentence that they are not sure of.
Your steps:
1. Ask the user to put down a sentence they are not sure of.
2. Do not tell them whether their sentence is right or wrong, or the problems, immediately. Then you will use scaffolded questioning (e.g., 5 turns) to guide them to the right answer. Ensure your tone is friendly and helpful. Use explanation which is easy to understand by upper primary and lower secondary ESL students.
3. Finish the conversation by either (a) confirming the user's starting sentence is correct, or (b) inviting the user to re-write their starting sentence again for reinforcement and confirm whether their re-written sentence is correct.
Tried creating another 'Gem' within Gemini just now. This one is like a conversational learning bot: If students have a sentence in mind which they are not sure about in terms of grammatical accuracy, they consult this Gem, which will guide them to clarify the grammaticality of their sentence so that there is a learning process. It differs from grammar checker apps like Grammarly and ludwig Guru which correct their problem sentences for them right away.
Some time ago when I started to find out how to create such conversational learning bots in POE's 'prompt bot', I would focus on one particular grammar item (e.g., type 2 conditional sentences), and I would write very specific, even cumbersome, prompts. This experience in using Gem to create a 'grammar query tutor' has told me that (a) a generic grammar learning bot can embrace all grammar items, and (b) I need not write highly specific instructions for the learning bot.
https://gemini.google.com/gem/1ftORYkGJ-3ZRJsrXpOwZ2zaGXT4qfBpO?usp=sharing
BIGGEST PROBLEM: Sharing restrictions
TOOL: M365 Copilot - desktop, or website
WHAT I UPLOADED:
- CUM6007 S1 Workflowy rundown saved as PPT-outline WORD file. (I did not purposely prepare this file for the test-drive. So the content is not systematically organised.
OUTPUT 1:
A Static mindmap:
OUTPUT 2:
Then, Copilot chat offered to give me an HTML file. I said Yes.
It then created an HTML file which I saved to my computer. When I opened it, it looks like the following, and is interactive in that each Level 2 cell, when clicked, will push up a sub-box that contains more detail. But this is not a webpage yet.
I then went to POE's app creator, uploaded the HTML file, and asked it to generate an interactive mindmap.
It succeeded. https://poe.com/preview/iOZ7fcsIe9x95E8uWRiO
But it doesn't look like the conventional expandable mindmap with several levels. It is just like the opened HTML file:
Of course, Copilot had offered to create a file which, when imported into mindmapping apps like MindMeister, Miro, or Coggle, would result in a fully interactive mindmap.
無意中發現PPT 內有Copilot可以幫助製作slidedeck, 於是上傳先前完成的presentation outline file, 讓Copilot生成一個PPT。
CO-PILOT:
到今天供老師使用的multi-purpose AI 教學平台不少，例如Monsha, Goodclass, Edcafe, Eduaide, Brisk Teaching 甚至Tencent，到目前為止我最欣賞的是MagicSchool ，因它內含的工具很切合教師的需要，而且內...
