[hysan]

> It reminds me of a similar application I heard about recently from a friend who teaches language classes using ChatGPT or equivalent to generate dozens of example sentences to teach specific grammar rules.

I'm not surprised that ChatGPT is being used this way. I used to teach ESL via the JET Programme and a lot of my job was about creating games and exercises that allowed students to get varied practice. I created or extended at least a hundred games in my 5 years there. These games weren't all successful, but the ones that were hit a cross section of:

1. repeatability (enabling pattern matching)

2. variation (just different enough to make it not mindless pattern matching)

3. difficulty curve (range of problems)

4. and fun.

As I learned the hobbies and personalities of all my students, I was able to get a higher success rate on 4. Being able to reuse games across multiple years helped me to fine tune 3. But nailing down 1 and 2 were always a challenge because of scale. A lot of times that was solved through instructors jumping in and adding new wrinkles on the spot. That worked well in the small schools I taught at (sometimes 3 of us for 20 students) but I don't think it would have worked as well in larger classrooms. I get the sense that using LLMs in creative ways has the potential to help solve the scaling problem.