Artificial Intelligence in Education: In-Service Teachers’ Experiences of Using ChatGPT for Generating Lesson Plans
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https://doi.org/10.46328/ijres.7071Keywords:
Artificial intelligence, In-service teachers, ChatGPT, Lesson plans, EducationAbstract
This study was conducted to explore in-service teachers’ experiences of using Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) for generating lesson plans. Fifteen in-service teachers from an online graduate technology course at a university in the south participated in the study. Participants were required to generate a lesson plan using ChatGPT based on a curriculum standard of their choice. They were also required to compare the Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated lesson plan with the one they had created on their own using the same curricular standard without using AI. To reflect on their experiences participants were required to respond to an open-ended Google questionnaire. Data was analyzed step-by-step starting from assigning codes, categorizing the codes, and developing themes. The themes suggest that comparing the ChatGPT-generated lesson plan with the teacher-generated lesson plan allowed participants to gain a deeper understanding of how to use ChatGPT effectively to generate lesson plans. Findings also focus on some concerns regarding the use of ChatGPT in generating lesson plans.
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