The goal is to encourage students to grapple with counterarguments, by using an AI that is primed to push against them and ask for clarification.
By completing this activity, students will practice:
➢ critical thinking
➢ communicating clearly and directly
➢ revising their own viewpoints
➢ questioning their own assumptions
Here are the steps:
- Go into ChatGPT (to do this, you can click here.)
- Copy/paste these words: “I want to open a dialogue with you. Please act a contrarian. I don't want you to enter into explanations or anything like that. I simply want you to push against my claim and ask me to clarify it.”
- Do you see what we did there? We’ve created an AI assistant who will specifically push against you. And it’s really smart. Good luck! 🙂
- Have a chat with ChatGPT until you feel good about the dialogue.
- Hold down “Ctrl” and “P” to print the transcript. Click on “Save as PDF” and save it to your computer. Then, you’re ready to upload it to the course’s LMS.