^{Themes: Assessment, Engagement, How I’ve been using AI, Specific AI Tool(s)
Audience & Subject: General (All Grades); Languages, Literacy, Science & Technology, Social Studies, History & Geography, AI}

Introduction

The following activity focuses on introducing the concept of constitutional AI and getting educators to understand how different AI training methodologies can incur different biases. The activities have interactive components, including a chatbot worksheet and survey. The worksheet provides a differentiated learning experience that provides rapid insights into academic performance, while the survey probes respondents for richer and deeper qualitative data responses while providing real-time insight into the emotions of attendees and summaries associated with emotions. Both activities can be accessed at https://app.factors.world/.

Activities

Activity 1: Creating a Conversational Worksheet

Overview

The conversational worksheet is an educator-led chatbot that that focuses on learning objectives (conversation points) that the educator has set.

Description

• Log on to the platform https://app.factors.world/.
• Enter your role and the grade levels they support.
• Once you have completed the information, they can click Find Templates and click Generate from a topic.
• After that, enter a topic of your choice and click generate conversation points.
• Wait a few seconds, and a few conversation points (learning objectives) will be generated.
• The points can be edited, added, removed or deleted, and the AI will only stay as the parameter of these conversation points.
• Publish the project to test the activity or share it with students.
• Once students have completed the conversational worksheet, click Your Projects and view the results.

Key Benefits

• Engage students and provide them with differentiated learning;
• Get rapid feedback on students’ knowledge with no grading and marking; and
• Save time in creating engaging activities.

Possible Challenges

• Students will need a device, and
• The ability to type and read on the laptop.

Activity 2: Creating a Conversational Survey

Overview

This will cover how to create a conversational survey from a custom topic of your choice and will help you understand the emotions of students in real-time.

Description

The conversational survey is an educator-led chatbot focusing on probing students for rich qualitative data responses based on a discussion prompt that you have set and approved.

• First, log on to the platform at https://app.factors.world/.
• Now enter your role and the grade levels they support.
• Once complete, can click Find Templates and click Generate a Pulse Check.
• After that, enter a topic of your choice that you want to collect, and a discussion prompt will be generated.
• The discussion prompt can be edited, added, removed or deleted, and the AI will only stay in the parameter of the discussion prompts and will ask follow-up questions based on the student responses.
• Publish the project to test the activity or share the activity with students.
• Once the students complete the conversational worksheet, click Pulse Check, and as responses come in, the sentiments will continuously be refreshed.
• When you reach the targeted number of responses, click close Pulse Check and a summary of what people loved the most and what they found most challenging will be generated.

Key Benefits

• Real-time insights into students’ emotions
• Richer and deeper data responses through a chatbot
• Save time on analysis and engaging students
• Anonymous responses will make students comfortable to share their emotions

Possible Challenges

• Students will need a device, and
• The ability to type and read on the laptop.

About the author

name: Aman Sahota

website: https://www.factors.world/

Aman Sahota co-founded Factors Education, and they created the first-ever educator-led conversational worksheet and survey. Factors was named the 2021 Canadian Educational Technology Startup of the Year and is working on personalizing learning through AI. Factors is a team led by youth entrepreneurs looking to change the education landscape by saving educators time and providing students with safe, controlled environments to interact with AI.