ChatGPT Deep Research Tutorial for High School Students

ChatGPT Deep Research

ChatGPT is changing the world of education, and I hope to be able to help make the process more usable for students specifically in the High School settings.

A new feature is available in the new versions of ChatGPT known as “Deep Research”. Basically, it makes ChatGPT spend lots of time looking through every source of information available to give you the best answer for you to do research on your topic.

Using this process requires that you are subscribed to ChatGPT Pro.

Step 1: Use the Deep Research button on the chat box in ChatGPT

Click on the plus sign on the chat box in ChatGPT.

Then scroll to the Deep research with the telescope icon and click on the button.

ChatGPT Deep Research Icon Screen

Step 2: Ask your question

The next step is to type out your question. In this case, I chose to ask about the Roman army under the first Roman Emperor, Augustus. It would be wise to make sure you clarify specifics.

ChatGPT Deep Research History Questions

ChatGPT will ask you what you to focus on. Choose a topic that is relevant to your research.

Step 3: Focus your research

I selected Recruitment and Training and the chatbot begins its research on various sources.

ChatGPT Deep Research Sources Screen

This process takes time and will take about 5 to 7 minutes depending on the topic. ChatGPT will show you what sources it using to conduct its research while the process is undergoing here.

Step 4: Check the results

ChatGPT will save you time. It will summarize many websites into a single response which will have hyperlink bubble located next to the regular text. Clicking these links will take to the websites so you can expand upon your research.

ChatGPT Deep Research Sources and reports

This tool will greatly help in research here.

Step 5: Integrate your research with original ideas

This is probably the hardest aspect of using ChatGPT here. Many students simply want to complete the homework without effort. This has been covered in publications multiple times. However, it is clear that the tool is here and its time to use to help reinvigorate an often-stale teaching profession. Students need to enhance their thinking and not let a machine replace it.

How Gemini Nano Banana Pro creates Historical images of the Carolingian Empire.

Google Gemini Carolingian Empire Shoes

ChatGPT is getting better at making images efficiently. However, Gemini is still better at making photorealistic images, but the gap is not as big as it once was.

Gemini’s ability to recreate reality will be very important when it comes to history education. The ability to create photorealistic depictions of pre-photographic eras is going to change the teaching profession here. We will now be able to go beyond looking at photographs on Google or Bing Image search.

People on the internet have been quite lazy in recent years, and human created content needs people to go outside and actually photograph things and also make drawings. However, we are not seeing that, so Gemini is giving us the next best thing here.

The image above shows us the power of Google Gemini here. Images can now give us the ability to recreate social relations and see clothes and architecture across the ages.

The days of Dalle-3 making mistakes are now in the past.

Considering it was only really a couple years ago, and we now have photorealistic images of historical ages.

Instead of using static textbooks, we now breathe life into these textbooks with AI.

Many establishment people may not like having this happen. These institutions have ossified and are unwilling to change.

Education now has another chance to change. This change will make history education more accessible but also increase thinking about other cultures and history of social class in other eras.

People should try to embrace it rather than being so defensive about it. In my experience, High School was a real bore with teachers in front of the smartboard but not using it. Students have not been trained by parents and their community to truly care about their education beyond the grades. With LLMs we now have the ability to change that here.

Education can now truly become interactive and intriguing to students.

ChatGPT image creation (ChatGPT 5.2) has gotten a upgrade.

Carolingian Scene in 800 AD under Charlemagne.

ChatGPT is now at version 5.2, and the image creation is much better now. The previous versions took much longer here. Previously, it was taking minutes and it was starting to look rather primitive in comparison to Gemini Nano Banana Pro.

The results are truly amazing and realism and different art styles are very unique in here. What you see above is an impression of a Carolingian noble family looking at a water wheel near the imperial city of Aachen in 800 AD.

The ability to create these images is more engaging and interesting than even spending time watching movies and tv shows.

The prompt that I used was: Create image of a Carolingian nobleman with his wife and daughter and some of his peasant dependents who are looking at a water wheel near Aachen in 800 AD era.

In comparison to images created with DALLE-3 (which was already amazing but primitive), these are incredible.

Another aspect of this chatbot is the ability to make an RPG out of these paintings.

The same people can move to different situations, and this was something that was very tough on the older models.

The prompt that I used for this image was: Create image of the nobleman with his daughter giving her silk from Byzantine Empire here.

What it’s able to create here is a true sense of humanity and warmth which was missing in the old models.

People underestimate the power of AI, especially when ChatGPT when it comes to creating images. The ability to render images of past ages will, in my opinion, help to reinvigorate education of history to students.