Category Archives: pedagogy

Another guru — chatting with Google’s Bard about direct instruction (and Direct Instruction). And a lesson in asking the right question.

I posted recently about my experience with ChatGPT, and how it had helped me to clarify my thinking about the use of the coaching tool “Instruction”. So when I saw that Google had released their own Large Language Model generative AI chatbot, Bard, I went in search of my next guru. Once again, the “conversation” …

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Chatting with ChatGPT — now I know why I am uncomfortable with Instruction as a coaching tool!

ChatGPT, tell me something about “direct instruction”, please. The focus of direct instruction is on the teacher as the primary source of knowledge… ChatGPT And that is what has been worrying me about the application of Instruction as a coaching tool — that focus on the teacher (and on the instruction itself).

My new AI coaching guru. A “conversation” with ChatGPT about coaching pedagogies.

There has recently been some discussion about a new artificial intelligence (AI) system called ChatGPT, and a lot of that talk very negative. How it might enable students to cheat by writing their essays for them, how it might destabilise white collar work, even how it might become a “morally corrupting influence”. For all that, …

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