Scenario-Based Learning (ScBL) has been used by humans during their entire existence (at least since the development of spoken language). It simply asks a person what they would do IF they encountered a certain situation or problem. For a hunter, how would you attack the deer if you only have two arrows left? For a 1st grader, if you missed the bus, what could you do to get home?
Today, it’s in use in most classrooms and in every family, but in business and industry, it has a more formal role. Using interactive technology, companies can develop interactive training activities for onboarding, safety, regulatory compliance, and skill development. This is an active area of instructional design, creating interactive training activities for business and industry. The examples below focus on K-12 ScBL activities which are usually individual but sometimes small group activities.
ScBL activities that must be easily graded typically have right and wrong (or best and other) answers, but that never really helps students or employees learn, and it’s rarely interesting or fun. Conversational AI systems like ChatGPT can both create and deliver thoughtful, personalized interactive ScBL experiences. The secret is to have AI create the prompt to generate the whole interactive scenario. Below is an example of the “prompt to create the prompt” to copy and paste into ChatGPT or other conversational AI system. This will generate a long prompt to copy and paste into ChatGPT to run the ScBL activity, in this case a job interview. The activity will give the student in introduction to the job and will then ask a question and pause while the student enters the answer. Based on the students’s answer, ChatGPT will comment and generate the next question, and so on. At the end, ChatGPT will provide feedback to the student about their job interview performance.
I want to you to build a prompt that creates an interactive scenario to train high school students for their first job interview. The prompt will set up the scenario process.
The scenario will begin with a description of the job by the interviewer. The interviewer then asks student why they want this job? The student then responds with a typed or verbal answer. Judging the student's response, the interviewer asks a follow-up question about why the student thinks they would like this job. The student responds. The interviewer then asks what qualifications the student that would make them successful at this job. The interview considers this response and asks a follow-question. The interview continues in this manner for two more rounds of question and response.
At the end of the interview ask the student what they have learned from the experience. What insights did they gain to help them prepare for an interview? What questions would they have for the interview next time? No student response is needed for this final question. Finally, analyze the student responses ang give feedback on what the student did well and how they can improve in their next interview.
Display a photo of "the interviewer" during the interviewer's first appearance. Here’s a link for the photo: https://img.myloview.com/stickers/web-cam-head-shot-indian-woman-applicant-pass-job-interview-remotely-by-video-call-student-participates-in-educational-webinar-seated-alone-in-library-virtual-event-meeting-profile-picture-concept-700-266149317.jpg
Please use your judgement to create the best scenario, including creating a company, a specific job description, and the specific interviewer questions. If you can do this, then create the prompt that you would need to control the whole interactive scenario.
The above example does not need to be separated into paragraphs, the paragraphs are for your readability. The example can be easily customized to interview a historical figure like Abraham Lincoln on his difficult decision to declare war on the Confederacy. Or how about an interview with Albert Einstein to discuss relativity or Newton to discuss how gravity creates planetary motion. For younger children or those with motor or vision difficulties, the interview can be conducted with oral speech instead of typing. Similarly, ChatGPT can be instructed to create the ScBL experience at a 2nd grade reading and comprehension level. Images can be incorporated at any point in the activity, the above example uses the URL of an image from Google Images.
Give the above example a try, and then customize it for your specific interest or need~