Creating Self-Regulated Learners

Viewing GenAI as a co-intelligence tool that can engage in dialogue with the user opens up a new way of thinking about developing students as self-regulated learners. GenAI has the potential to provide understanding through one-on-one interactions with all students that teachers can’t always offer due to time or other limitations.

Scaffolding Historical Thinking

Rather than seeing AI as a threat to historical thinking, these videos reframe AI as a co-intelligent, collaborative, conversational (CCC) tool (Mollick, 2024) that supports students’ ability to analyze, argue, and engage with history in deeper ways. Through these strategies, we move beyond AI as a simple automation tool and reimagine it as an interactive tutor, scaffolding historical inquiry and helping students think historically about democracy.

Playing with Chronology and Causation

Using GenAI to guide students through the complexities of historical causation and chronology, this videos position ChatGPT as a historical mentor, enabling adaptive, personalized feedback that supports students’ ability to analyze, argue, and critique historical sources.