To hype you up for my upcoming talk at this year's ELTOC by Oxford University Press and for our book called "AI Literacy in the Language Classroom" with Zsofi Menyhei that's published soon, I'm going to run a multi-part series of posts with creative human-AI collaboration ideas. Here's part 2 that's about coming up with lesson ideas when you have no time.
I'm pretty sure I'm alone when I say that sometimes I just have absolutely no idea what to do in a lesson. Especially if it's a conversational business class, which basically means that my students are quite communicative, they know just enough to solve various situation in English, and most course books simply bore them.
So what to do in this case? I turned to AI for help. But I didn't want it to do everything for me. And I had my reasons:
I actually asked for a complete lesson plan from sveeral chatbots just to see what I get, and the first results was almost exclusively about the importance of negotiations, while the second was about the future of their professions. I wasn't that impressed...
I wanted to stay in control and only take what I want.
Let's get started! This was actually my first and only prompt:
Give me or generate 5 interesting business cases when something went wrong and had to be solved. Students will have to figure out what should've been the best decision or solution.
I got some pretty good cases and even a suggested lesson plan with discussion questions.
The next thing I did was create a slide deck first with the discussion questions and then added the cases.
I then highlighted the words and expressions which I think my students would not know, and asked the chatbot for short definitions to create a quick matching activity on the final slide.
Finally, I created the table on the slide myself and added the key in the speaker notes (I could've asked for the chatbot to present the result in a table format but I wasn't sure if I could copy-paste it into the slides and keep its format).
And here's the result! :)
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