AI and ChatGPT in the Classroom

Using ChatGPT Effectively

Learn what ChatGPT is useful for and how to write effective prompts.

And Verify, VERIFY, VERIFY any answers or sources that ChatGPT provides.

What is ChatGPT good for and not good for?

Remember, you'll always need to verify the information, because ChatGPT will sometimes make things ups (known as "hallucination.")

What is it good for?

• Brainstorming ideas
• Narrowing your topic ideas for a research paper, and keywords for searching in library databases.
  See Generate Topics for Your Research Paper with ChatGPT.
• Explaining information in ways that are easy to understand
• Summarizing and outlining
• Asking questions (be sure to fact check the results) You can ask a million questions without fear of being judged.
• Translating text to different languages (not completely fluent in every language)
• Helping write or debug computing code

What is it not so good for?

• Library research (not yet). For now, it's best to use EasySearch, specific research databases in Database A-Z or Google Scholar. This may change in the future with more specialized search tools based on LLMs. See I can’t find the citations that ChatGPT gave me. What should I do?
• Asking for any information that would have dire consequences if it was incorrect (such as health, financial, legal advice, and so on). This is because of its tendency to sometimes make up answers, but still sound very confident.