How can ChatGPT help with your freelance ESL or ELT business

[@danielvillarreal6610]

Greetings from an American 🇺🇸 EFL teacher in Taipei, Taiwan 🇹🇼! Thank you for producing such superb content. I just subscribed

[@earnlearnthrive]

Thanks so much, Daniel.

[@gillianflaherty5854]

I've played around with it a bit and got it to create some dialogues. The content definitely improved as I perfected my questions. But, very difficult to give a full enough brief for it to get it absolutely right - I guess that's where years of (human) experience comes in!

[@earnlearnthrive]

At the moment it feels like it would take a lot more effort to shape the answers than to write it yourself, but I don't doubt that will change. I think it's eventually going to mean a complete paradigm change in the same way Google has changed the need for memorising facts.

[@catherinezgouras9799]

Thank for this! It gives peace of mind to know that it still can't take over our jobs. :) The good thing is though that it can help us save time googling facts.

[@earnlearnthrive]

Yes, definitely, though I'd always double check anything I wasn't sure of anyway.

[@nikijoseph2929]

I've just done a lesson on it and I showed students about it. They were horrified and thought it was just for lazy people! But I actually think it has a lot of potential - and as you said, it produces great ideas - that you already know but massively time saving. Spot on with your point about voice - and that's where it isn't there... yet... :)

[@earnlearnthrive]

It's going to change the way student work is assessed, that's for sure.

[@annette6633]

@@earnlearnthrive it might be good for generating vocabulary and collocations around a topic for ss to then use in their own work

[@earnlearnthrive]

@@annette6633 I haven’t tried that.. though as far as I can see it can’t identify level.. though maybe it recognises something other than CEFR. Pearson Teacher Toolkit is good for topic based vocabulary at a particular level BTW

[@Rich_Moon]

I've used it a few times and think it's a great resource but won't put us out of work just yet. Congratulations on the new channel!

[@earnlearnthrive]

Yes, that's pretty much what I think. We have to look for how it can be helpful anyway, rather than worrying about this, because progress isn't going to go away, is it? We'll just adapt.

[@tesolpop]

I use ChatGPT when I'm brainstorming or editing ideas. I have found it helpful in generating alternative ways to word titles for the podcast. I sometimes fall into a habit of writing things in a certain way, so in this sense, ChatGPT helps me to think more creatively.

[@earnlearnthrive]

Great point, I agree it’s great for brainstorming ideas and getting a different angle on something.

[@MyEnglishChannel]

Technology does progress so rapidly 👍however, we should always be cautious about utilizing it, particularly chat GPT 😊 To be honest, I'm new to chat GPT, I mean, I've heard a lot about it but I've just known it a bit after watching your video 😀 Can chat GPT do some translation work like what google usually does for us, language learners? 🙄

[@earnlearnthrive]

Honestly, it can do pretty much anything, but how good a job it does still depends a lot on us- we have to ask it the right questions, and not assume that everything it produces is either correct or suitable for our needs. A useful tool but a bad master.

[@mariamccarthy5291]

chatGPT asks for your mobile number in order to authenticate your existence! don't like that!