I think having students create their own Chatbots as method of demonstrating their knowledge, on a particular topic, would be very engaging especially in the form of a summative assessment. I find many teachers, including myself, have difficulties identifying effective open-ended tasks that allow students to demonstrate learning. Often times, especially at the elementary level, summative assessments are often exhibited in the form of presentations that are either video recorded or accompanied by Slide presentations. I was suprised with the ease that a Chatbot could be created. This could allow students to not only to program in preassigned questions, provided by the teacher, but they could also program their own questions. Other students could then ask these Chatbots questions in order to allow the sharing of knowledge.
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Hey Adam,
For some reason I can't reply directly to your post, but I wholeheartedly agree that exposing students to creating their own ChatBots would be a very engaging and immersive project, at many grade levels. They could pick what specifically the ChatBot would be targeted toward addressing, then research and program it themselves through to production. They could even have a feedback session after other students have trialed their ChatBot to make any upgrades or add additional programming, if needed. This is a prime example of a process- and product-oriented learning experience that the students largely control all aspects of. What a fantastic idea. Thanks for sharing!
-Reg