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Pollution and Climate: Week 3: Bill Gates pens a new view on Climate Change

Pollution and Climate: Week 3: Bill Gates pens a new view on Climate Change

Ian Gardiner
Climate Change, Discussion, Environment, Pollution, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Lists
image credit: www.gatesnotes.com

Pollution and Climate: Week 3: Bill Gates pens a new view on Climate Change

This week, we will examine the October 28, 2025 blog post of Bill Gates on his new view on Climate Change. You can access the original post here:
Gates Notes for the UN Climate Conference in November 2025 called COP30

I have this long blog post summarized by CoPilot and have it in 9 smaller parts; each part is what we will use in our next meeting for oral reading practice and to understand the mind of one of the world’s top business and social leaders when it comes to Climate Change and setting Climate Change reduction goals for the planet.

The readings (with photos!) are on a supplementary page linked here:
Climate Change supplementary page November 8, 2025

We are nearing the end of our Autumn Sessions, which will have its final session on November 29, 2025.

We will be spending several sessions after that, starting on December 6, 2025, on Winter Art, Christmas Art, and Dreaming Big for 2026!

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.