This is the Ten Minute TeacherPodcast with your host, Vicky Davis.Episode 815, project Based learningwith AI and improving friendships.Today’s sponsor is Research Quest fromthe Natural History Museum of Utah.Stay tuned at the end of the showto see how you can bring these free,awesome, inquiry based science lessons to your classroom.Today, we’re talking to my new friend Or Paul Cody.She is from Tel Aviv, Israel, and wemet at itsy director of R D andentrepreneurship teacher and head of entrepreneurship department withShamir High School in Tel Aviv.I was really interested in some of yourprojects that you’re doing, Or Tall, because theseprojects are merging what it means to behuman, but also artificial intelligence.So those are two very different things.What made you think about starting to combineall these different disciplines into one project?Well, I did these projects before artificial intelligence, and it’sactually the kids, it’s on their mind and on theirawareness, and I thought, well, hey, we can’t do anythingbefore we learn to work with this.So we decided to explore the use of artificialintelligence in the same assignment that the kids gotbefore that, before artificial intelligence was here.So we’re going to talk aboutthis very unique set of projects.Now, I do want to mention that Ortal hasgraciously created a full slide deck that gives alot of detail about these two projects, which willbe embedded in the show notes.We are debuting the use ofvideo for this season’s podcast.So we’ve always been putting things on YouTube, but nowyou’re going to get to see us if you wantto listen on YouTube or see slides or see whatever.But still you’ll get the full experience.Still listening to us in audio as well.So this is an experiment.You’ll have to email me. Vicki.Vicki@coolcatteacher.com, let me know what you think.Okay, Orital, so you are going to talk aboutyour first project, which is a project about masks,but it’s not what anybody is going to think.It’s a really unique project.So why don’t you bring up your slide that kindof shows us the timeline of this particular project andtell us about this project called The Duality in Me.This project is built around unit in literature.You can say that it is built in order to teach Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, but I guess it teaches a lot more than that.During the launch, we explain to thestudents what PBL is, and we introducethe driving question of the project.The driving question of the projectis, why do we wear masks?In the first lesson, we analyze it with questions.I tell the students, this is your question.Now ask me more questions that willhelp us answer the first question eventually.And so we start throwing various questions.I’ve done this project several times, and everytime they keep surprising me with amazing questionslike, who says we wear masks?Are the masks our creation or society’s creation?And all sorts of questions, really.It’s mind blowing.Once you get them to start toask questions, the sky’s the limit.Exciting.So you kind of introduce, you talk about it.That’s always a good thing to do, tohave an introduction phase of the project.And so when they get past that, what are you doing?Well, we form groups.The groups are for the duration of the project, and oneof the very first lessons is titled Masks in Art.And basically the students are introducedto classical works of art.Some of them are drawings, some of them are sculptures.And they are asked to analyze what is themask in the work of art that they see?What does it represent?Why is it there?And then they should be able to presenttheir findings to the class this year.What we did with AI is they were asked todo the same analysis, but then they were asked todo that analysis using Chat GPT and compare their analysis,pre Chat GPT, to the analysis that Chat GPT did.The purpose, in my view, was to makethem understand what are the differences between howhuman thinks and how AI thinks.And I was sure that if they’ll see thesedifference, they will better know how to assess anywork that they would do with Chat GPT. Yeah.And plus it’s generating.So they started seeing the differences between their thoughtprocess and what Chat GPT was generating then. Yeah.Fascinating.So you go all the way through andthen you go into a video production stage.What do you do in the video?In the video production, basically what they do iseach group received only one chapter of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hai.There are ten chapters all in all in the book.And each group had to read only their own chapter.This is basically based on making them understand howcharacters and plot are built within a book.They had to take this chapter and afterreading it, write a transcript or script, really,of the chapter plan, how to record themselvesin a video doing this chapter.They had to develop the looks and the feel of the charactersand act out the character, put it in on a video.When they had their one chapter, had theyread the other chapters at all or theywere only allowed to read their chapter?No, only after I got all the videos.We presented all the videos in classas their class version of Dr. Jacqueline, Mr.Hyde, which obviously brought a lot of fluffs.And only then they could read the whole book.You’ve never seen kids so anxious toread a book in your life.I bet they were.And I bet they were curious about whathappened in the other chapters, weren’t they?And also to compare the book with the production.Oh, that’s fantastic.I think you had some examples you wanted to share.I have some examples of the work thatwas submitted to me with the AI.The first one is Leonardo of Men in Red.Chuck basically pointed out that ChachiPiti focused on something else.They said we focused more on the idea, whileChachapiti first talked about the painting and Leonardo DAVinci in general, then suggested two ideas and didn’texpand much on either of them.They were actually disappointed withwhat Chachepti did for them.I think this project, the way you’ve designed it,really pulls out the nuances of what it meansto be human versus what it means to havea rudimentary analysis that’s more typical.Plus, you’re asking them to be creative,and being creative is uniquely human.That’s fascinating.Now, you had one other project which we’lljust have time to highlight briefly that youdid with a different grade level.What was that project and how didyou pull in the different MULTIDISCIPLINES?This was a 9th grade project about friendship.The idea was it’s based on a unit ina textbook and what we wanted to do isuse a different approach to teaching various topics.I teach English as a foreign language, so theyhad to learn new vocabulary, cabbary and grammatical structure.And I also wanted them to. “ WWW.ARMINIC.COM “ Developed some other skills, like being able toresearch in English, to conduct an interview, totranslate interviews, because they conducted their interviews mostlyin Hebrew and had to translate it intoEnglish in order to present it in class.And at the end, they had to producetheir own friendship handbook, how to be goodfriends, how to maintain friendship, et cetera.I had a student this year who was StarStudent first school, and he named me Star Teacher.It’s a competition we have here in theUnited States, and his platform was actually aboutfriendships and about social media in particular.And he wrote a great line in his essay.He said, we need to put down our phones and gopick up a friend and take them out to lunch.So do your students, your9th graders, value friendships?Of course they do.However, I do accept the fact thattoday friendships also spread around phones.There’s nothing we can do about it.It’s part of their social life,it’s part of their daily communication.It is part of who they are, as longas they don’t lose sight with what’s behind them.Of course, I used to ask my personalkids after they met a new friend, didyou notice your new friend’s eye color?So that was a test.So ortal kiviati multidisciplinaryproject based learning.A lot of really cool things here.Neat ideas or Tal that I’m going to be integratingthis year because I love the idea of having aproject, having students do some things, having them compare andcontrast with how AI does those tasks.And that actually, in addition to givingthem insight into the literature that they’restudying, also gives them insight into thecomparing and contrasting human intelligence and artificialintelligence and how we can work together.So this is fascinating.It was amazing to meet you at ISD, andthank you for coming on The Ten Minute Teacher.Are you looking for engaging, NGSS alignedscience lessons designed to improve critical thinkingin your middle school students?Now is the time to sign up for researchquest from the Natural History Museum of Utah.Designed by teachers for teachers, these onlineinvestigations are led by museum scientists anduse the museum’s incredible collections to createengaging learning experiences that are fun foryour students and easy to implement.Check them out now.Go to WW dot coolcatteacher.com researchquest.That’s coolcatteacher.com.Researchquest and sign up today.You’ve been listening to theTen Minute Teacher podcast.If you want more content from 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