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1. PLANNING INSTRUCTION With its mighty language processing and gen- eration capabilities, ChatGPT can streamline planning when you're developing the following: • Unit outline: When you align its output with the Common Core State Standards, the AI tool is able to craft a unit outline for any grade level, subject or timeline. • Lesson plans: Ask ChatGPT to write a les- son plan on, say, Westward Expansion. The tool composes assessments, activities, scaf- folding and objectives. Want that in the form of problem-based learning or revised for a flipped classroom? ChatGPT can adjust the lesson plan according to your instructions. • Slide shows: When directed to outline a slide show for any topic and grade level, ChatGPT creates an intuitive organization and adds formative assessment questions if requested. • X-factor instruction: When I asked ChatGPT to devise a "challenging and creative approach to teaching metaphors" to students, the tool described an activity that involved integrating student-created metaphors into original stories conveyed through visual genres (e.g., a comic strip, a stor yboard). • Simplify topics: Having difficulty articulat- ing an advanced concept? Ask ChatGPT to "explain the topic to a first grader." Here's the tool's simplified explanation of chloro- plasts: "Chloroplasts are little green things inside plant leaves that help the plant make its own food. They are like tiny factories that use sunlight, air and water to make the plant's food." • Discussion questions: Use ChatGPT to write engaging, higher-order prompts for a class discussion on any topic. 2. HANDOUTS AND OTHER MATERIALS Perhaps ChatGPT 's biggest time-saving fea- ture is that it can generate text for materials and handouts that target your specific instructional needs. It can: C H A T G P T , an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot trained to understand typed prompts and generate content that sounds human, is the fastest-growing web platform ever. For a couple of months, I've assessed how ChatGPT handles dozens of common teacher tasks. It's not perfect, but the chatbot can reduce the 10 hours and 40 minutes a day (Primary Sources, 2012) that the average teacher works by automating the first drafts of our most time-consuming professional writing. In the paragraphs below, I've divided these tasks into the following categories: planning instruction, handouts and mate- rials, differentiation, correspondence, assessment, and writing instruction and feedback . Welcome to the revolution. Teachers can use the artificial intelligence tool to automate some routine tasks By Todd Finley 6 Ways to Use ChatGPT to Save Time 41 J U N E / J U L Y 2 0 2 3 T T E C H T I P S