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Today’s Agenda

Introductions
Overview of the PapyrusAI Pilot Project
What is the difference between ChatGPT and PapyrusAI?
Demonstration: How PapyrusAI works
Tinkering with PapyrusAI
Resources
Questions

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Introducing Ourselves

What do you know about Generative AI?
In what ways have you used Generative AI?
How can you imagine using Generative AI in your classroom?

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Mark Warschauer

Tamara Tate

Daniel Ritchie

Dana Saito-Stehberger

UCI Team

K-12 Lead

Curriculum /

Teacher Support

Kristi Werry

Software Engineer

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 23152984.

Gerardo Jr. Lopez

Research Assistant

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Aims of the PapyrusAI Project

To learn how Generative AI can be used to help students
To learn how tools can be designed to support teachers and students in the classroom

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Using Papyrus AI

You will develop a better understanding of what Generative AI is and how to interact with it.
You will be among the first teachers to integrate AI into your teaching and instructional strategies.
Your students will be given the opportunity to interact purposefully with Generative AI.
Your feedback will help us to continue to develop this tool to benefit teachers and students in the classroom.

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What is a large language model (LLM)?

ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) are a type of artificial intelligence that are trained to generate text similar to human-generated text through text prediction. They cannot think or reason. They are called “large” because they are typically trained on a corpus of text data ranging from millions to billions of words.

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Data Input

Some Tasks

Text summarization

Text generation

Sentiment analysis

Content creation

Virtual assistants

Speech Recognition

Image annotation

Text-to-speech

Spell correction

Translation

Adapted from https://research.aimultiple.com/large-language-models/

Training

Adaptation

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What is the difference between ChatGPT and PapyrusAI?

PapyrusAI

LMS + ChatGPT 4o

Gives teachers control of how students interact with AI
Provides scaffolding and support as students develop their writing skills and process

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How has PapyrusAI been used in middle school classrooms?

As a thinking partner as students wrote narrative and argumentative essays

Brainstorming ideas
Guidance in the writing process
Feedback on writing
Encouragement

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The Prompt

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How has PapyrusAI been used in middle school classrooms?

Students learned more about the historical background of the Holocaust as they read Number the Stars. The teacher said,

“It was really cool because it was just last minute. We usually do a reading and then they answer questions and learn a little bit about the Holocaust. I was like, why not have them just ask stuff about it? . . . Especially, in honors class, there's very different levels of what kids might know about World War II or the Holocaust. You always have your very history-wiz kids that know more than I do. Then, there will be some kids that have vaguely heard about it but don't know much. I think it was really good to do it that way because it was adaptive to how much they knew. It would ask them back like, "Have you heard of this?" If they said no, it would explain it, and if they said yes, it would go more into detail, more in depth. I really do think they enjoyed it.”

Example Student Instruction Sheet

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What is generative AI good at?

Brainstorming/thinking partner
Writing text
Feedback on text
Style of text

Start with the easy ones!

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What is generative AI good at?

Brainstorming/thinking partner

Topics
Counter arguments
Evidence
Perspectives
Rubber duck debugging

Think first!

Often part of planning, pre writing

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What is generative AI good at?

Writing text

if truth doesn’t matter or
you know enough to gauge accuracy AND
writing the text is not part of the learning objective

Hallucinations

Learning objectives

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Writing text

Where does “truth” not matter?
Where are students experts or have access to the source material so they can corroborate the accuracy?

Summarizing a source
Creating a quiz on content (textbook, instructor slides) the student needs to know, for help reviewing
Summarizing the student’s writing

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What is generative AI good at?

Feedback on text

On its own or
In conjunction with peer review

Hallucinations

Learning objectives

Opportunity to motivate student revision

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Large Language Models:

Therefore,

LLMs should be used when:

Users should remember:

Are built on prediction & language.
Don’t think.
Have no core beliefs.
Fabricate things rather than say “I don’t know”.
Were trained on a specific set of texts & by humans, so very real biases.

Truth doesn’t matter.
You know enough to gauge accuracy.

That AI doesn’t think or understand. It does not have opinions and cannot make value judgements. It’s just predicting the next bit of text given what you told it and what it has been trained on.
NOT to put sensitive personal information or confidential information into any AI tool.
AI hallucinates and has bias: Users are responsible for the accuracy and appropriateness of anything you use or incorporate into your own text.

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Getting started with PapyrusAI

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Creating your account

Resource: PapyrusAI Guide

Any issues with login or access?

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Joining a course

How will you manage the process of students setting up account & joining course?

Code to join the class:

sandboxfun

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PapyrusAI.org

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Try ‘Planning’ for 5 minutes.
Title ‘Planning_YourFirstName’

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Try ‘Revising’ for 5 minutes.
Title ‘Revising_YourFirstName’

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Try ‘Writing a Story’ for 5 minutes.
Title ‘Story_YourFirstName’

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Create a course

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Downloading a Conversation

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“Deleting” conversations

Delete

Note: This only hides the conversation from your view. The instructor of the course can still access deleted conversation.

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Edit a course & create module(s)

You can duplicate courses too!

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Selecting prompts

Pinned prompts were created and tested by research team
You can create your own folder

And your own prompts
Or edited versions of our prompts

ONLY the prompts you select will be available to your students

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Create your own folder

Folder

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Create your own prompt

From the folder you want it in

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Additional features

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PapyrusAI prompts

We have grouped the embedded prompts into the following categories:

Planning
Drafting
Revising
Presenting
Instruction
Miscellany
Retired Prompts

Searchable spreadsheet:

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Tags:

Recommended = Researcher created and tested

Expand for view of full text of prompt

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Important points to keep telling students

AI can’t think
AI makes stuff up, you have to check it
The best way to keep stuff private is to not put it into the AI
You are the author, you decide what to implement
You are the author, you have to make sure your work is accurate
What bias or limitations might be impacting the AI output?

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“Getting Started” Lesson Plan

www.genaied.org/resources.html

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Resources to Support You

www.genaied.org/resources.html

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Thank you!

Daniel Ritchie and Dana Saito-Stehberger

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 23152984.

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