In today’s rapidly developing field of artificial intelligence technology, DeepSeek is currently the most popular AI large language model, serving as a powerful assistant for teachers to enhance teaching quality and innovate classroom instruction. Today, let’s share three common scenarios and usage examples that teachers often use. Let’s learn together!
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Quick Overview of DeepSeek
DeepSeek is an open-source artificial intelligence tool focused on providing efficient and user-friendly AI model training and inference capabilities. It combines natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning technologies, allowing it to understand and generate natural language, helping users quickly obtain accurate information from vast amounts of data. It is widely applicable in learning, work, and various aspects of life.
Teachers can enter https://chat.deepseek.com in their browser to access the intelligent interaction interface or search for “DeepSeek” in mobile app stores to download and use it.
Web version
Mobile version DeepSeek currently mainly includes the standard (DeepSeek-V3) model, deep thought (R1), online search, and attachment upload features.
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Standard (DeepSeek-V3) Model
The latest standard model of DeepSeek can meet daily needs and can be used without turning on other switches.
Deep Thought (R1)
DeepSeek’s advanced reasoning model mimics human brain processes to enumerate specific thinking processes, suitable for solving complex problems.
Enabling this feature is like giving DeepSeek a “brain” for deep thinking. When you consult it on lesson preparation issues, it will organize its thoughts like an experienced teacher, providing not only answers but also showing the thought process. Coupled with the powerful ability to retrieve external knowledge bases in real-time, the accuracy and professionalism of the answers are significantly enhanced, making it very practical for analyzing complex subject knowledge and discussing teaching methods. It is strongly recommended to enable it during lesson preparation.
Online Search
This feature can connect to the internet in real-time to obtain the latest educational information, cutting-edge teaching cases, and authoritative academic research results. For example, if you want to understand the latest course standards in detail or find innovative teaching cases closely related to textbook content, it can quickly help you find them, injecting fresh ideas into your lesson preparation. Currently, due to certain reasons, DeepSeek’s online search service is intermittent.
Attachment Upload:
You can upload local files (supporting various documents and images) to provide references for DeepSeek’s answers or for analysis.
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DeepSeek’s Application in Education
1. Lesson Preparation
Lesson preparation is one of the core tasks of teachers, but it is also the most time-consuming part. DeepSeek can help you:
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Automatically generate lesson plans: Input the course topic and teaching objectives, and DeepSeek will generate a complete lesson plan framework based on your needs, including teaching objectives, teaching steps, classroom activities, and assessment methods.
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Resource recommendations: Based on your course content, DeepSeek will automatically recommend relevant teaching resources, such as presentations, videos, and exercises, saving you search time.
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Personalized adjustments: You can have DeepSeek personalize the lesson plan according to class characteristics, such as adding interactive segments or simplifying complex concepts.
Note: When writing prompts, following the pattern of “clearly define the role + refine the task + specify requirements” will help DeepSeek accurately understand your needs.
Example ⇩
Prompt: Assume you are a senior middle school mathematics teacher with 20 years of experience, preparing a lesson on the Pythagorean theorem for the eighth-grade curriculum. Please help me collect materials that include interesting introductory cases, detailed demonstrations of various proof methods, and after-class extension exercises, with difficulty suitable for average-level students, and organize the materials into a clear document format with distinct labels for each section.
2. Classroom Teaching
DeepSeek is not only your lesson preparation assistant but also your classroom management tool:
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Real-time interaction: In class, you can use DeepSeek to generate quizzes to assess students’ understanding in real-time.
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Data tracking: DeepSeek will record students’ classroom performance, including participation, focus, and accuracy, helping you adjust teaching strategies in a timely manner.
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Engaging teaching: Use DeepSeek’s creative features, such as generating interesting stories or knowledge quizzes, to make the class more lively and engaging.
Example ⇩
Prompt: For chemistry teachers, oxidation-reduction is an important teaching content. Please design some interesting stories or knowledge quizzes to help students easily grasp the knowledge and make the class more lively and engaging.
3. Assignment Distribution and Grading
Make good use of DeepSeek in assignment distribution, grading, and feedback to lighten teachers’ workloads.
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Supports various question types: Whether it is multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, or short answer questions, DeepSeek can quickly distribute and grade assignments, providing detailed scoring reports.
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Error analysis: DeepSeek will automatically analyze students’ mistakes, generate a collection of errors, and provide targeted learning suggestions.
Example ⇩
Assignment Distribution Stage
Teachers input knowledge points (e.g., “Applications of Trigonometric Function Formulas”), difficulty levels (middle/high school), and question type requirements, and DeepSeek will automatically generate corresponding practice questions.
Prompt: Please help me generate (basic questions + extension questions) assignments based on the chapter on trigonometric functions for middle school, with basic questions assessing students’ mastery of fundamental knowledge, and extension questions being slightly more challenging, referencing the middle school exam questions on trigonometric functions from Guizhou Province.
Assignment Grading Stage
Large-scale assignment grading can be done using tablets, allowing students to submit multiple-choice answers via a questionnaire. Teachers can export the student submission Excel answer sheet (including student ID, multiple-choice answers) and import it into DeepSeek, which can complete grading for thousands of students within a minute, automatically generating a correctness heatmap.
Prompt: Please help me quickly grade the student assignments in the Excel document data I submitted, with one row per student’s answers, and quickly grade and analyze mistakes, using the mistake statistics to draw a correctness heatmap using HTML.
In addition to the three common teaching applications above,
DeepSeek can also assist teachers in
answering questions, reflecting on teaching, and integrating resources.
However, it is important to note that
AI-generated content may contain inaccuracies.
Teachers should make judgments and adjustments based on their own experience when using it,
and should not rely solely on it.
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Precautions for Using DeepSeek in Lesson Preparation
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Three No-Principles
Incorrect Practices:
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Directly copying the teaching designs of specific top-level teachers.
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Copying original questions from certain publishers’ workbooks.
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Using unauthorized online images/videos.
Correct Practices: The generated content needs to be reprocessed, incorporating your own teaching cases and replacing copyrighted content with open-source materials. AI-generated quiz questions must have ambiguous options manually excluded and include open-ended questions to assess higher-order thinking.
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Data Security Precautions
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Never input student information (to avoid uploading sensitive information such as student names, grades, etc.)
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Do not upload internal school documents.
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Do not probe sensitive topics.
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How Teachers Can Use DeepSeek for Learning
1. Professional Learning and Resource Integration
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Knowledge Gap Filling
Quickly query subject frontier dynamics, educational theories, or teaching difficulties to fill knowledge gaps; systematically organize subject frameworks (e.g., mathematical formula derivations, literary genre contexts) through AI-generated knowledge maps.
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Access Quality Teaching Resources
Generate personalized teaching materials (e.g., cases, exercises, experimental designs) to save lesson preparation time; analyze textbook content to obtain interdisciplinary correlation suggestions, enriching classroom dimensions.
2. Classroom Management and Teaching Reflection
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Simulating Classroom Scenarios
Use AI to simulate student questions or unexpected situations, practicing response strategies in advance (e.g., discipline management, questioning techniques).
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Teaching Effectiveness Evaluation
Upload classroom recordings or transcripts, and AI analyzes teacher language, interaction frequency, and student participation, providing improvement suggestions; regularly generate teaching reflection reports to track personal growth trajectories.
3. Educational Research and Innovation
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Research Support
Assist in writing papers or project reports, providing literature reviews and data analysis method suggestions; generate survey questionnaires and experimental design templates to improve research efficiency.
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Cross-Disciplinary Inspiration
Input teaching themes to obtain interdisciplinary integration cases such as STEAM, expanding innovative ideas.
4. Career Development and Lifelong Learning
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Personalized Learning Plans
Based on teachers’ career goals (e.g., title evaluation, skill enhancement), recommend learning paths and resources; use AI to formulate daily learning plans and track completion progress.
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Educational Community Interaction
Use AI to filter quality educational communities, online seminars, or industry dynamics, expanding professional networks.
Finally, the editor reminds that while DeepSeek is useful,
teachers should use it according to the “70-30 Rule”, delegating 70% of basic tasks to AI while retaining 30% for core thinking.
Let AI be a second brain, not a replacement brain.
We hope to help teachers better understand and use DeepSeek.
If you have more usage insights,
feel free to share them with us!
Source: Guizhou Education Release
Editor: Wang Yuling
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