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House of Wisdom English Teachers and Students Discussion Series: Week 2 of the AI Sessions.
image credit: sciencedirect.comWe will spend this week, our 2nd in a workshop of at least 4 weeks, continuing to learn how to write more effective prompts. Dao will also spend some time discussing how to use Grok and some of its features and advantages. Grok is free to use, and is the AI behind Elon Musk’s company called xAI.
We invite everyone who is planning on attending to do some of their own research. Here is a link to a helpful article that we will be discussing and sampling for oral reading practice on Saturday. (Research provided by Dao.) Click on the image above to access the link to the Science Direct article.
We will then go to the Open AI Academy, where users can take courses on how to use ChatGPT more effectively. In particular, we will look at a 9-minute video called “Mastering Prompts: The Key to Getting What You Need from ChatGPT.”
Click on the image above to access the link to the OpenAI Academy.
House of Wisdom English Teachers and Students Discussion Series: The AI Sessions.
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We will spend the next few weeks in a deep dive on how to write more effective prompts so that our AI-generated responses have the lowest probability of error.
We invite everyone who is planning on attending to do some of their own research before we meet on Saturday. Familiarize yourself with the tools AI users apply before accepting the claims of any Generative AI as truth.
Deep Seek with Hùng Chí and Mr Ian
On May 3, 2025 at 22:00 we will explore Deep Seek, the Chinese AI program that is totally free and rivals the best AI programs in the world!
Hùng Chí will help us understand 2 other AI programs that specialize in creating AI voices (ElevenLabs) and AI videos (HeyGen). Chí will also present some features of Deep Seek.
April 26, 2025: AI in 4 steps from online text to picture creation
Image credit: ChatGPT from 4 supplied prompts.We will use AI in 4 steps:
1) Use an online book (we first take turns reading aloud from the selection) and get ChatGPT to take 3 paragraphs from that book, rewrite them using only 8th grade English vocabulary, and then we will again take turns reading aloud from the updated writing provided by ChatGPT.
2) Use ChatGPT to rewrite these paragraphs as lyrics. The class will then take turns reading aloud from this lyric writing.
3) Use Suno AI to write a song using those lyrics and a voice we choose from the Suno AI menu.
4) Get ChatGPT to use these lyrics to compose a picture or a painting. Students will submit their prompts to alter the picture or painting in the chat, and Mr Ian will add that prompt; this process will continue until we are satisfied with the picture or painting that represents all the work from online text to finished picture!
ChatGPT, Suno AI, and Our Efforts to Use Music and ChatGPT together!
We will spend some time with ChatGPT writing stories and building more vocabulary. We will then learn to use Suno AI, a music AI program, and then we will try to get Suno AI to put our writing to music.
This week will be a lot of fun because we will be venturing into a creative area that our House of Wisdom class has never worked with before.
Intercultural Communication Workshop 1
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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
Student with Robot assistant
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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)
ChatGPT fictional AI machine for the House of Wisdom English Teachers and Students Discussion Series.
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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!
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.
Hana will lead a specialist workshop on ChatGPT Essay Writing
Ha Phanthininh is a tour guide assistant in English for English-speaking tourists to Ho Chi Minh City
Reflections on Music Education: Weeks 1 and 2 With Polo Fowler
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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 2: March 1
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Hát chèo—Opera style in the North of Viet Nam
Polo Fowler, a composer from Beijing enrolled in the Teachers College at Columbia University in New York City returns to be our special musical guest.
We welcome Polo back to our class for a second week of her music education presentation on March 1, 2025. Welcome back, Polo!
Musical Guest: Polo Fowler, Week 1: February 22
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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
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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
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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.
Fascinating Winter in Pictures
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The Adventure and Spectacle of Celebrating Tết
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Superstitions in Tết: Identify and analyze one of them
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