What If You Could Have Pre-recorded Lessons?
With the fast pace at which technologies are springing up days in and days out, certain things should not be done the same way they used to be days and years ago. This is not different from your classroom. As a teacher, you can make good use of your minutes in the classroom.
Learners are supposed to be attended to in a differentiated manner since they are of different thinking and levels of ability. As a result, you need that ample time to attend to each of them in your classroom. But with the time allocations on your subjects’ calendar, this can’t be possible. I’m sure that is what you might be thinking of. What if I tell you the otherwise?
In this article, I will take you through how you can always make the best out of your time. Have you thought of how fun it could be when you have your lessons played in the manner you want your students with them while you provide the necessary assistance alongside them? If it is possible, take some time and read through the lines below and make the best of this. This is what I term pre-recorded lessons.
Digital literacy is one of the core competencies of the new curriculum developed for both lower forms and junior high schools. But I want to tell you, this does not mean using technology to source assisted teaching materials, while your learners have no experience of what that is. There are so many technologies out there which you can use for free.
Now let’s get to the current matter at hand.
Pre-recorded lessons means having the lessons you will teach in the classroom recorded in a way you would present in the classroom and have them played. You can design it in such a way that the learners are not left out. Come along with me and you will never miss a step.
Why do you need pre-recoded lessons as a teacher?
Note that teachers are not experts but facilitators and, so you need to play your role as such.
- Teachers can have enough time to attend to each learner to access their level of understanding.
- Raises learners’ curiosity
- You deliver your lessons within time.
To be able to pre-record your lessons, consider the following
- Internet connection
- A laptop, a mobile phone
- AI software.
Now let’s look at how we can have our lessons recorded.
- With your internet connection, and your laptop or smartphone, hop onto any of these AI platforms: You.com, bard from Google, and ChatGPT, just to mention a few. Many people have ChatGPT in mind, but I would advise you to opt for bard, you.com. This will help you deal with issues of plagiarism, but if you don’t have issues with that, stick to ChatGPT. Just sign up with your credentials.
- The next thing to do is to issue out your prompts to the software on a specific subject, lesson objectives and specific points you want to have included in your lessons.
- This is how your prompts should be: generate narration on this [topic] with the following lesson objectives [list objectives]. Design it like how a teacher will deliver his lessons in front of his students. The tone of the lessons should be [Ghanaian, Nigerian, etc.] It is for basic grade or level [1, 2, 3, 8, 12] and the lesson will last for 45 minutes. Make it interactive.
- Once you are done writing up your prompts as shown above, hit send and wait for your 45-minute lesson to be generated for you the way you would have delivered it in your classroom.
Copying, Pasting and Recording Your narration
- Now, copy the generated narration and paste it somewhere, it can be. It edits software such as Microsoft Word, WordPad, WPS, Office 360, etc.
- Go to your browser, type text to speech AI in the search button, select any of them that appear, sign up and paste your narration and convert it to speech/audio. Download the audio, play and listen.
- Alternatively, you can record the entire narration yourself, so your learners will get to have a feel of your tone.
- Finally, print out the narration and use it in your classroom while the audio is being played.
We have come to an end. If you want to learn how to craft your prompts so that the AI will generate your content the way you want it, connect with me using the social links below.
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