Intercultural Communication Workshop 1

Intercultural Communication Workshop 1

Ian Gardiner
Communication, Discussion, Essay Writing, Intercultural, Vocabulary, Writing

Image credit: Pearson Education, Inc. © 2012

What is intercultural communication?

Definition: Intercultural Communication is when people from different cultures effectively communicate with each other in verbal and non-verbal ways.

Our workshop today will be led by Dao.

Dao will lead some activities to ensure everyone understands the concept of Intercultural Communication. For example, the class will study the image above and make some educated inferences about the people in the image: What might be the background of the people in the image (country of origin, ethnicity, profession, languages spoken, etc).

So please be proactive and engage with us ^-^

April 5, 2025: Student Prompt Writing and ChatGPT Management

April 5, 2025: Student Prompt Writing and ChatGPT Management

Ian Gardiner
Vocabulary, Vocabulary Lists, Writing, Using AI in Essay Writing, ChatGPT

Student with Robot assistant

Image credit: Preparing Students for Learning Alongside AI Systems

The purpose of this week's session is to teach students to focus on prompt writing. A secondary goal will teach students how to use the tools available to check ChatGPT for accuracy.

Dao, Eric, Aries, and myself will supply the theme sentences for each run of ChatGPT; students will supply the prompts.

Students will prompt ChatGPT to write paragraphs using our vocabulary lists at igee2016.com.

Students will refine the answers that ChatGPT produces by writing and refining their prompts.

This process of refinement will continue until the student is satisfied that ChatGPT produced a result that matches the intention of the student given in the prompt.

March 29, 2025: Using ChatGPT live! (Week 2)

March 29, 2025: Using ChatGPT live! (Week 2)

Ian Gardiner
Paragraph writing, ChatGPT, Vocabulary Lists

ChatGPT fictional AI machine for the House of Wisdom English Teachers and Students Discussion Series.

image credit: Microsoft Copilot

For our class on March 29, 2025, everyone will put together 2 things:

1) Write a theme sentence of your choice---any sentence.

I have attached a pdf list of 15 words each for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade English vocabulary. I will also attach this list to the HoW thread and to our Chatbox at the beginning of our March 29 class.

2) Use ChatGPT to write your paragraph

Each student will use their current grade level (or above!) English vocabulary list.

Each student will then add their theme sentence to ChatGPT.

Each student will then instruct ChatGPT by writing a prompt.

ChatGPT will follow the prompt to write a paragraph using your list of English vocabulary words to develop the theme sentence.

Each student will then read their paragraph produced by ChatGPT to the rest of the class.

March 22, 2025: Using ChatGPT live!

March 22, 2025: Using ChatGPT live!

Ian Gardiner
Paragraph writing, ChatGPT, Vocabulary Lists

ChatGPT fictional AI machine for the House of Wisdom English Teachers and Students Discussion Series.

image credit: Microsoft Copilot

For our class on March 22, 2025, everyone will put together 2 things:

1) Write a theme sentence of your choice---any sentence.

I have attached a pdf list of 15 words each for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade English vocabulary. I will also attach this list to the HoW thread and to our Chatbox at the beginning of our March 22 class.

2) Use ChatGPT to write your paragraph

Each student will use their current grade level (or above!) English vocabulary list.

Each student will then add their theme sentence to ChatGPT.

Each student will then instruct ChatGPT by writing a prompt.

ChatGPT will follow the prompt to write a paragraph using your list of English vocabulary words to develop the theme sentence.

Each student will then read their paragraph produced by ChatGPT to the rest of the class.

Reflections on Music Education: Weeks 1 and 2 With Polo Fowler

Reflections on Music Education: Weeks 1 and 2 With Polo Fowler

Ian Gardiner
music education, Essay Writing

Student Composing Music image credit: bestdigitalpianoguides.com

Write an essay of at least 1 paragraph and up to 10 paragraphs on what you learned/what you enjoyed during the past 2 weeks. Polo Fowler gave us her time and talent to show us a little about her life and to let us know some features of her interests in Music Education.

I am looking forward to listening to your essays! In a short version, our assignment is:

Write an essay on what you learned in Polo Fowler’s Music Education classes.

Click on the photo above to find the links to our Music Education Seminar recordings.

Musical Guest: Polo Fowler, Week 1: February 22

Musical Guest: Polo Fowler, Week 1: February 22

Ian Gardiner
music education

Image credit: ArtStation.comArtStation - The Harp

A composer from Beijing enrolled in the music composition program in the Teachers College at Columbia University in New York City will be our special musical guest.

Polo Fowler is an opera singer and a composer in the music education program at Columbia University Teachers College. Polo will be leading a seminar on music appreciation and sharing tips and insights with us. Polo is a specialist who is not only talented but willing to share her knowledge with us in this seminar and hopefully, more seminars in the future!

We extend a heart-warming welcome to Polo and we look forward to learning from a specialist in the universal language of music!

February 15, 2025

February 15, 2025

Ian Gardiner

Image credit: Microsoft CoPilot.

Prompt used for Microsoft CoPilot: A boy in his teens with glasses, sitting at his desk editing a video about his hometown in Viet Nam, working late at night with the only source of light being the light from his laptop screen.

February 8, 2025

February 8, 2025

Ian Gardiner

Image credit: Microsoft CoPilot.

Prompt used for CoPilot: A girl in her teens with glasses and a ponytail, sitting at her desk editing a video about her hometown in Viet Nam, working late at night with the only source of light being the light from her laptop screen.

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