Tech-Neill-ogy #15 - 3 September 2023

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

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Jeffrey Neill
September 04, 2023

Welcome to newsletter #15!

It has been an eventful week as I returned from India and jumped back into the throes of the work of the semester. Read more here on LinkedIn! I’m also happy to report that this newsletter eclipsed 200 subscribers in August! Thanks so much for the support!

While some of the news reports a fading interest in artificial intelligence, this week presented a new problem for me and this newsletter: there is too much to share! As such, I’m choosing to bump much to next week’s newsletter to keep this week’s relatively succinct! Still, please keep sharing items you encounter with me! Thanks to those who have been doing so!

To get things started, below is an AI-created image by Ideogram, meant to reflect my recent travels… In any case, feel free to drop me an email at [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you!

Enjoy this week’s newsletter!

September Cheatsheet & Checklist

Dive into our month-long college counseling focus, designed to empower high school students for success. From personalized academic planning, college workshops, application assistance to financial aid guidance, our counselors are here to provide a holistic roadmap.

www.jeffreyneill.com/blog/2023/5/28/sept2023cheatsheet

We Used A.I. to Write Essays for Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Here’s How It Went.

A.I. chatbots can do a passable job of generating short essays. Whether their use on college applications is ethical is the subject of fierce debate. Thanks, Cassandra Ford, for sharing!

www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/business/chatbot-essays-harvard-yale-princeton-dartmouth.html

Ban or Embrace? Colleges Wrestle With A.I.-Generated Admissions Essays.

A.I. chatbots could facilitate plagiarism on college applications or democratize student access to writing help. Or maybe both. And thanks to Jennifer Mandel for passing this along!

www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/business/college-admissions-essay-ai-chatbots.html

Writing with ChatGPT

GPT isn’t a fad. It’s a helpful tool that will last. Use it to write from conversation, fix local problems, and enhance your thinking.

writeofpassage.school/2023/08/31/writing-with-chatgpt

Teaching with AI

We’re releasing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom—including suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias.

openai.com/blog/teaching-with-ai

‘A real opportunity’: how ChatGPT could help college applicants

With the end of affirmative action, generative AI could ‘democratize’ admissions by giving students who don’t have tutors or counselors a leg up

www.theguardian.com/education/2023/aug/27/chatgpt-ai-disadvantaged-college-applicants-affirmative-action

EdTools.io | Simplify your everyday teaching life.

Time-saving apps for clever teachers. Support from dozens of apps in the school day, while teaching, on the front screen, managing the class, parent communication and much more.

edtools.io

AI Checklist Generator: Checklist & Process Template Generator

Use the power of ChatGPT to create customized checklist templates.

checklistgenerator.ai

Free Audio Transcription & Video Subtitles: Listen Monster

Transform your audio in text for free. Download results in txt, srt and vtt format. NO watermark 100% free service.

listenmonster.com

GPT for Google Docs, Sheets, Gmail - AI Content Generator for Founders and Content Marketers

GPT for Google Docs, Sheets, Gmail is the perfect AI Writer for founders and marketers. Add an AI Content Assistant to your team today - Create high quality content with docgpt.ai and GPT-4

docgpt.ai

Collaborate in ChatGPT | Team-GPT

Team GPT enables ChatGPT users to collaborate on threads & prompts, get charged only for usage, and publicly share ChatGPT conversations.

team-gpt.com

For this week, I am sharing just a simple prompt using ChatGPT 4.0 with the Visla plug-in enabled: 

Please create a promotional video based upon the following title and description: 

Title: Machines and Matriculation: The AI Revolution in University Applications

Description: Dive into the future as we explore how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the college admissions landscape. Understand the transformative power of AI, its implications, challenges, and the myriad opportunities it presents. This session is a must-attend for high school counselors and university admissions professionals eager to stay ahead in this digital evolution. Equip yourself with the knowledge and insights to navigate the next wave of admissions innovation.

This is a session I am participating in later this month at the regional CIS forum in Bogota, Columbia. Amazingly, check out this link to see the video that was created in just a couple minutes! Seems like this tool possesses infinite applications…

As always, if you’d like to explore some of the other prompts I’ve shared here and elsewhere, check out this link. If you have any great prompts or questions about prompting, send me a note at [email protected].

Thanks for reading. Lots more to share next week that didn’t make it into this week’s newsletter! Please, as always, share this newsletter with others who might benefit from it, and, please, share with me any feedback, ideas, etc.

And, finally, please see this really interesting TedTalk on the weirdness of AI, a video that explains some of the challenges of the software and many of the human misperceptions of it! Enjoy!

Happy counseling,

Jeff