Bongiorno_Cameron_Blog post #5: AI

 

This is clipart that portrays an overhead view of the brain filled with computer circuits created to portray AI. Clipart retrieved from medium.com.

Artificial Intelligence

     Hi again! In Module 9 this week, we learned more about Artificial Intelligence (AI). I admit that I am not that familiar or comfortable with AI and have only used it a few times in the past. For example, I have used ChatGPT to help me better understand assignment instructions from previous professors in our program. I copied and pasted the instructions from the syllabus or module and asked ChatGPT to put them in simpler terms and more concrete steps. The few times that I have done this have yielded very helpful results. I was pleasantly surprised.

     Since I have limited experience with generative AI, I wanted to try out one of the exercises presented by Ethan Mollick in the YouTube video for this module (Global Silicon Valley, 2024). After I finished viewing the video, I first visited the website www.moreusefulthings.com that Mollick provided at the end of his lecture. Looking through the many prompts he and his wife, Lilach Mollick, created, I became overwhelmed. I could not grasp what the prompt was about, what it would be used for, and who would use it. I simply did not get it – at all. Due to my frustration at my lack of understanding of these resources, I went back to the video and looked at the examples that Ethan Mollick displayed during his lecture – actual assignments he had given to his students in the undergrad and grad classes he had previously taught.

     I felt that I had a better chance of understanding generative AI and the prompts that he mentioned if I pursued this from a student’s perspective.  I selected the first example, titled “Co-create a Case,” that he displayed and visited the link provided there – https://chat.openai.com/g/g-Gxz8ikI8c-case-co-creator. It took me to a page in ChatGPT that presented this information…

This is a snippet of the screen that appears at the start of the Case Co-Creator ChatGPT created by Ethan Mollick. There is a lightbulb above the title "Case Co-Creator". It then provides the author's name "Ethan R. Mollick" and a description "This helps you co-create a case for class". Below this, there is a text box that states "Let's create a business case. How do we get started?" that functions as a link to begin the chat. Image retrieved from https://chatgpt.com/g/g-Gxz8ikI8c-case-co-creator/c/68799819-81bc-8000-821f- faf2c3e6d1b0.

    After I clicked on the text box above, AI presented me with these instructions (OpenAI, 2025):

     Hi! I'm your Case Co-Creator, and together we're going to build a case that a peer in

     your class could work through. I'll ask you a series of questions to guide us.

     To begin: What is an entrepreneurial issue or problem you'd like to explore? This

     should be a concept or topic you've studied or discussed in class—something like

     founder dynamics, customer discovery, pivoting, psychological safety, etc.

     Let me know what topic you'd like to focus on.

 

I admit that I was a bit clueless about the name of a specific entrepreneurial issue, but I knew that I wanted to focus on customers (library patrons to be exact). With Google’s help, I decided upon “customer acquisition” as the topic I would like to focus on and promptly provided this in the chat.  ChatGPT immediately responded with positive feedback and requested more details about customer acquisition and its specific context. The chat continued with me providing more information to ChatGPT’s output and follow-up questions (Mollick & Mollick, 2023) until Chat GPT offered two possible case scenarios – Option 1 in a real-world context and Option 2 in an alternate universe context. I selected option 1 and was very impressed with the full case that ChatGPT created concerning the entrepreneurial issue of customer acquisition! You can access it at https://chatgpt.com/g/g-Gxz8ikI8c-case-co-creator/c/68799819-81bc-8000-821f-faf2c3e6d1b0 if you would like to read the entire script.

     I was amazed at the details that ChatGPT provided in this full case – the librarian’s name, description of the library and its resources, the trends that occurred in the library, and the activities that the librarian had already tried, as well as the speed in which it was created. Wow!!!  Completing Mollick’s assignment in his Case Co-Creator truly showed me the power of AI! I also recognized the value of treating AI as a teammate, not just a tool, that Professor Jeremy Utley discussed in the YouTube video below (EO, 2025). 



Lastly, I now better understand the prompts that Mollick (2023) discussed in his lecture and provides as resources on his website www.moreusefulthings.com as “a message typed or spoken into an AI tool that tells the tool what to create and how” (Allen, 2023, p.26). It just took a good bit of time, patience, and going down a rabbit hole or two, but I now feel a bit more comfortable with AI and have discovered some great resources to share with teachers. This is a “Win!” in my book!

 

     References

Allen, D. (2023). How to use AI prompts to plan custom lessons fast. The English

     Connection: A Korea TESOL Publication, 27(3), 26-28.

     https://koreatesol.org/sites/default/files/pdf_publications/TECv27-3Autumn2023.pdf - page=26

 

EO. (2025, April 27). How Stanford teaches AI-powered creativity in just 13 minutes:  

     Jeremy Utley [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv779vmyPVY

 

Global Silicon Valley. (2024, April 16). Co-Intelligence: AI in the classroom with Ethan

     Mollick | ASU+GSV 2024 [Video]. YouTube.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FnOkxj0ZuA

 

Mollick, E. & Mollick, L. (2023). Using AI to implement effective teaching strategies in

     classrooms: Five strategies, including prompts. The Wharton School Research

     Paper. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4391243

 

OpenAI. (2025, August 17). ChatGPT (ChatGPT-4) [Large language model].

     https://chatgpt.com/g/g-Gxz8ikI8c-case-co-creator/c/68799819-81bc-8000-821f-      faf2c3e6d1b0

 

 

Comments

  1. Cherish RodriguezJuly 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM

    I found Mollick's video very interesting and also enjoyed learning about the various Chat GPT examples he showed us. My favorite was the "Teach Chat GPT Something" one! As a teacher, one of my favorite teaching methods is reciprocal teaching where students try to teach their peers about something. This helps solidify the information for them as one has to understand content on a deeper level before they can teach it to someone else. So hearing about this example got me excited! I think it would be cool to try this out with my students toward the end of a unit before we take a test. They could interact with Chat GPT and maybe even use a bulleted list of topics from the chapter to guide them. They could pick 1-2 topics off the list and try to teach Chat GPT about it. Doing this before a test could help my students solidify some concepts and strengthen some others! Great post!

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  2. AdamJuly 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM

    I thought that the video was very interesting as well. I like his approach to AI as a tool to be used rather than something to be avoided. Most teachers go down the path of no use at all, but Mollick encouraged its use. I thought that encouraging use and providing ways that it can be used made for a very interesting approach, and one that seems to be effective, based on the way he talks about it during his presentation. I had only used ChatGPT a few times prior to this assignment, since I really didnt know how to get it to do what i wanted. I treated it more like Google, but with a few more bells and whistles. I think now ill try and come up with new ways that I can use it.

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