Homeschooling with Technology

Randi Smith from Peanut Butter Fish Lessons is my guest again and together we came up with 10 ways to use ChatGPT in your homeschool.

This is the third episode in our series about ChatGPT. You can listen to the first one on “What is chatGPT? here and the second one on ChatGPT and the future of education here

Here are our 10 ideas – listen to the episode to hear them explained:

1. Rewrite a fairytale in two new ways – one with an unreliable narrator and one with a new setting. Circle the words and phrases that show the change in the good guy/bad guy and that show the new setting.

2. Paste an article into ChatGPT and ask it to rewrite it for different reading levels.

3. Give a list of vocabulary words. Ask your children to use ChatGPT to define them and generate three sentences. Also have it tell them the prefixes, roots, and suffixes. They must correct any mistakes. Then they need to write one sentence that relates to their own life.

4. Generate an essay on a prompt about a novel and then discuss different ways one could answer the prompt

5. Create a Mind Map on a specific topic by asking chat to create an outline. Then repeat for each of those items to generate topics under those topics. Continue for an assigned number of levels.

6. Use it to grade your children’s essays

7. Have ChatGPT create a science lab for something you are currently studying in science and then determine if it will work. Ask your children questions like these: Do you think the materials and procedure will help you obtain the objective? Are the materials all items that you could obtain easily and would be safe for you to work with? Are there any other materials you think you need that are not listed? Can you follow the procedure safely? If not, are there changes you could make to follow the procedure? Complete the lab if possible. Do your findings agree with the conclusion?

8. Create tests and reading comprehension quizzes

9. Foreign language: Ask ChatGPT to write captions for 10 pictures you took on a field trip, vacation, etc. (You would have to describe the picture eg. write a 50-word caption about the Grand Canyon in Spanish. Tell your children to circle the words that are new to them and then make a list of 10 new words or phrases they learned.

10. Ask for a lesson plan on something you want to teach your children

Bonus idea: Use it to find recipes and make a shopping list

You can find Randi at

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In this episode, we discuss ChatGPT and what the evolution of AI technology means for the future of education. My guest is Randi Smith from Peanut Butter Fish Lessons who was also the guest on the episode Exploring Media Bias.

This is the second episode in a 3-part series on ChatgPT. You can listen to the first one on “What is chatGPT? here.

The questions we discuss in this episode are:

1. Should we be alarmed by ChatGPT?

2. Is this the end of the essay? The end of needing writing skills? What writing skills will students still need?

3. How do you think ChatGPT will change education?

4. What benefits do we see in having students work with ChatGPT?

5. As homeschool parents, how should ChatGPT and other forms of AI factor into how we homeschool?

The websites you can use to check if an essay has been written by AI are GPTZero and Checkforai.

You can find Randi at

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What is CHatGPT? ChatGPT is a type of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that uses deep learning techniques to generate human-like text. It is trained on a massive dataset of text from the internet, allowing it to understand and respond to a wide range of natural language inputs.

Log in at https://chat.openai.com/ It is currently free. Only people over 18 can sign up.

The blog post mentioned can be found here on BusinessesGrow.

Listen to the episode to hear what ChatGPT can and can’t do and how it is such a disruptive technology.

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Katie Hornor, entrepreneur and business coach, is our guest in this episode and she shares 9 techie jobs teens can do to start a business – or they can do these tasks for small businesses.

These are the techie jobs she mentions:

1. Graphic design – tools Humorus.co, Canva

For more ideas listen to the series from Summer 2021 where I interview 8 techie teens.

You can find Katie at theflamingoadvantage.com and KatieHornor.com . She is on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Daily online puzzle games can be a fun way for families to learn new facts together. The ones mentioned in this episode are

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Vicki Tillman is a veteran homeschool mom and a trained counselor and in this episode she shares ideas on teaching children to be kind online.

Topics covered include:

1) Why should we intentionally teach young people to be kind online?

Where you can find Vicki

Vicki Tillman is a fellow podcast host and you can listen to her on The Homeschool Highschool Podcast. Vicki also develops curriculum and is a homeschool coach at 7 Sisters Homeschool.

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In this episode, I talk about why online learning for homeschool moms is important – and I suggest various free resources that make learning easy to do.

The resources I mention are listed below. Listen to the episode to learn more about each one.

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This is a replay of episode 144. You can find the show notes here.

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This is a replay of episode 120. You can find the show notes here

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Listen to the episode for all her very useful tips. The resource page with videos and articles that go into more detail on some aspects can be found here

Where to find Becky Brinkman online:

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