Jeonju North Jeolla’s meeting on April 5th brought us a full house and a request to watch our presenters Aaron Snowberger and Eve Kim, remotely, so Facebook live was used to broadcast to the world.
Aaron’s presentation: Smarter, Faster, Better: ChatGPT For Fun and Profit was probably the best I have ever seen on this topic. When most people present on technology, they use a lot of terms and buzz words that make me want to crawl under my desk. Aaron explained that AI is a statistical model that predicts the next word. Now that feels reasonable to me. It’s revolutionary because it can double your productivity. It generates natural language because it has studied a large language model. On the free model you can ask 10 questions every 4 hours.
You have to determine what you want it to do, use precise, concise language and what format you want it in. After you need to check it because it is not 100 percent accurate. There are other things you need to do but I am summing up the presentation, not writing a self help book. But with a little help I tried it and it really helped with a style of writing I am not fluent in – legalese – and it was a terrific and immediate help. A quick edit and I was done, rather than editing and rewriting for hours. Thank you Aaron, ChatGPT and Lisa. But could we have an easier name?
Eve Kim came to Jeonju from Gwangju to help us by “Keeping Your Lesson on Track: Managing Behavior for Smooth & Effective Teaching. She instructed us on how to manage a classroom by staying on track with the lesson while keeping order in the classroom. Her secret is to organize the lesson into 10 minute pieces to make the class effective and keep moving along. She also showed us how to smooth over and fix discipline issues that can frequently occur in most classes. One point I really liked was encouraging students to say “I don’t know” and that they should feel free to ask questions. I rarely get my students to ask questions other than permission to go to the washroom.
Please join us for our upcoming meeting at 2:45 on June 7th at Jeonbuk National University; building 6-1, room 315 where we'll hear about teaching English through cooking and art and how to use Praat software for language research.
https://koreatesol.org/content/jeonju-north-jeolla-june-2025-workshop
