Think of AI as your new 24/7 test subject. You can now try out every exam question and every writing prompt, to see how an average student might respond. You might try to 2-3 times, to get a variety of responses.

Give all of these responses a C (maybe a C-). However much you love or hate ChatGPT’s answers, they are, by design, somewhat average.

Now REVISE your prompts, using these average answers, to encourage A work. You are now more likely to identify what is missing from the BEST answer.

Your job is to be that better coach. Your charges, may have had good coaches in high school, but you need to get them to the next level. In absolute terms, the difference between a good high school score and a good college score, might be slight (in the 100m dash it might be moving from 10.5 to 10.2 seconds), but great coaches focus on fractions of a second.

Great coaches also recognize that a good score is constantly changing. What got you a scholarship in 2000, won’t in 2023. All those tricks that got your dashers from 10.8 to 10.5, might not work when all of your new students arrive with 10.5 and you need to get them 10.2 to compete.

ChapGPT may have shrunk the distance between a C grade and an A grade in absolute terms, but it has made articulating that distance between them more important. The bar has been raised, ad we need to teach to the new higher human standard.  

AI can actually help you articulate that edge that you want your students to have.

The world has always been an open book test. Employers responded to the internet by asking for employees who could do more than just Google an answer and now they will want to hire graduates who can also do more than just ask ChatGPT.  

AI can be a tool to help teachers create better prompts and test questions that will move students to provide better answers that AI can’t.