To engage students in the global aspect of the Global Citizenship topic, a task was set for them to examine a range of global challenges as their characters and to propose the way the community could support solutions and initiatives to address it. This culminated in a groups decisions to hold a fundraising event for a selected charity and a couple of weeks later we held a bake sale to raise funds.  
Overall, the decision to integration ChatGPT into lesson creation was a fun and interesting exercise, it engaged students well in the subject and topic, and helped foster stronger relationships between the students and myself.
I ensured that I was very open with the students about what I was doing in experimenting with AI, why I was doing it and what possible challenges we might encounter. At any time I was prepared to go back to my usual way of teaching if there were any issues. We discussed the ethics of using AI and the limitations. While I really enjoyed using ChatGPT for creating a scenario for learning, It would still be reluctant to rely on it for content creation where reliable, well-researched content is key.
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As part of the Global Citizenship topic for Elective Geography, students explore the roles and responsibilities of Australian citizens, connections between Australian citizens and the world, and differences between national and global citizens. While the topic has a definite focus on global issues and citizenship, we began by exploring issues local to the simulated town to help set the scene and get the students comfortable with the scenario before delving into more complex global issues. We engaged in activities to enhance collaborative decision-making and critical thinking and included lots of whole class discussions, group discussions and mock council meetings. Students were provided with a profile of how their character demonstrates citizenship in the daily life. Below is an example, and the full list is in the downloadable file below. 
Each character had their own interests and opinions about particular issues in the community, and were assigned to community groups. The three community groups established were: - Economic Growth and Advocacy Group - Friends of Thneedville Park - Housing Affordability Action Group Students needed to examine a series of documents that were specific for their group, and identify a range of issues affecting them and their community and possible solutions. These were then brought back to the a mock council meeting for presentation, discussion and decision making. Each of the documents provided to the student were created using ChatGPT. Screenshots of sections of the documents provided to the students are provided below. Economic Advocacy Group  Friends of Thneedville Park  Housing Affordability Action Group  Chat GPT was very effective at creating these mock supporting documents to create a simulation for the class. I was able to rapidly respond to discussions and events in the class and create new resources for the next class. Students were engaged and felt like they were "playing" while they were learning. These simulation lessons were interspersed with more standard content-based lessons to ensure the syllabus was being addressed properly.
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