How to Create Custom AI Chatbots That Enrich Your Classroom
My favorite part of this article is all the examples of prompts used to design custom AI chatbots. It takes a very well-written prompt to coax an AI chatbot into doing what you want it to do (pedagogically), so examples of successful prompts are very useful.
Over the course of the following spring semester, we developed 10 chatbots with different purposes. The results varied widely, but we learned as much from the failures as from the successes, and this hands-on experimentation allowed us to begin identifying some patterns that could inform and inspire future experiments.
These four chatbot examples represent a first attempt at capturing what we’ve learned so far. We think these delineations make it easier to see how chatbots can align with specific aspects of the learning process, even if they might have more than one role at a time (such as with the Stuckbot, acting as both an assignment tutor and reflective guide, for example).
We hope they will provide you with a starting point as you imagine roles for AI that reflect your particular contexts and purposes, and we look forward to learning from what you discover in the process.