As each election day approaches, we have a great opportunity to teach students about how local and national elections work and ask them to reflect on important issues related to elections and voting in their communities and across the country. Below are some ideas about how you have incorporate AI tools into the planning and implementation of your election related lessons!
Use a chatbot to draft a lesson about the importance of local elections.
- Sample prompt: Create a 1-hour lesson plan for my 9th grade civics class about local elections. Include details about which positions they may see listed on a ballot and the types of issues that are administered at the local level.
- Sample output from ChatGPT:
Use a chatbot to design a simulation activity:
- Sample prompt: Design a simulation activity where students role-play as a local election board and their goal is to increase voter turnout in their community.
- Sample output from ChatGPT:
Use Socrat.ai to assign students a debate about an important topic related to voting
- Some sample debate topics could include:
- Should the voting age be lowered to 16?
- Should voting be mandatory?
- Should elections be publicly funded?
- Here’s how you create an assignment on Socrat.ai:
Use a chatbot to help students develop AI literacy skills
- Ask ChatGPT or another chatbot to write a speech as if it was a politician campaigning to be elected. Students can add specifics like: what position the candidate is running for, key issues of the candidates platform, etc, or allow ChatGPT to add those details.
- Then, ask students to analyze the AI-generated speech for errors and biases and reflect on the tone and persuasiveness of the speech.
- Lastly, ask students to reflect on what this exercise helped them learn about both Artificial Intelligence and elections.