Diagraming with ChatGPT

This challenge explores how AI-generated visuals can enhance understanding of complex ideas across disciplines.

By using the ChatGPT image generator to create custom diagrams, educators can quickly visualize abstract or layered concepts, making them more accessible to students. This activity highlights AI’s potential to streamline visual resource creation while encouraging critical reflection on accuracy, clarity, and accessibility.

Challenge

The ChatGPT image generator allows users to create custom diagrams from simple text prompts. This is a valuable tool for educators aiming to illustrate concepts that benefit from visual explanation. Whether teaching scientific processes, historical timelines, literary frameworks, or mathematical relationships, a well-crafted diagram can significantly deepen student comprehension.

For this challenge, you’ll use ChatGPT to generate a diagram that illustrates a key concept in your course. After generating the image, you’ll assess its usefulness for teaching and reflect on how it might be improved or customized.

Instructions

1. Choose a Concept
   Pick a topic from your subject area where a diagram would enhance understanding. This could be a process, model, timeline, system, or comparison.
2. Generate a Diagram Using ChatGPT
   Write a clear and specific prompt describing the diagram you want. Example Prompt:
   “Generate a labeled diagram of the water cycle showing evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.” If the result doesn’t meet your expectations, revise and refine your prompt to improve the output.
3. Review and Reflect
   • Accuracy: Does the image represent the concept correctly?
   • Clarity: Is the diagram easy to interpret and visually helpful?
   • Accessibility: Could students with low vision understand it with effective alt text or a description?
   • Customization: How could you modify or annotate the diagram to better support your students or match your teaching goals?

Reflect and Share

What does this challenge reveal about the role of AI in teaching and learning? Try it out and share what you discovered in the comment box below, whether it’s your final product, a reflection, or a surprising insight.