AI&Human: Creative Collaboration (pt.4) - ELTOC talk recording

To hype you up for our book called "AI Literacy in the Language Classroom" with Zsofi Menyhei that's published soon and for our workshop at IATEFL on April 8, I'm going to run a multi-part series of posts with creative human-AI collaboration ideas. Here's part 4 that includes the recording and the slides to my talk at this year's ELTOC by OUP.

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I was super honored to be invited not only to speak at this year's ELTOC but also to be part of a panel discussion, too. There were more than 3500 participants, which is insane! My talk was about creative collaboration ideas between humans and AI.

1. First step of this collaborative relationship - the human initiates

I think for a successful human-AI workflow (in the ELT world), it's crucial to start with the human. It's the human teacher who has the initial idea of what's needed, what direction the chatbot should go. Even if they have absolutely no idea of what they would like to get, they still their knowledge of the context: who the students are, what their aims are, what they have studied so far.

2. Next up - prompt, reflect, reprompt

This stage is all about a recursive planning and reflection process. While it's super important to keep our prompts to the minimum from an environmental aspect, some adjustments are usually necessary. It can also happen that once you see the generated result to your first prompt, you immediately realize that you actually wanted something completely different. But without that first step, you wouldn't have had that lightbulb moment.

3. Compare and synthesize several chatbot responses

Again, this goes against the sustainability requirements, but I have to mention that every chatbot works slightly differently, they offer different responses and solutions, so it completely makes sense to compare their ideas and merge them into a final version.

4. Use the chatbot as a listening partner

I've got a good colleague and friend who I learned about "listening partnerships" from. As far as I understand, it means that they listen to each other but don't actually interfere in any way. Just the fact that somebody's there to listen to you lets you organize your thoughts and come to (better) conclusions. So, if there's noone to listen to you, you could actually use a chatbot as a listening partner. Just write down what you have in mind as it is, and you might not even have to hit "send." But if you do, ask the chatbot to act as a listening partner and ask guiding questions that are only supposed to nudge your thinking but are not solutions or suggestions.

You can watch the recorded talk here:

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