Today was a Professional Development Day in our district. We had a fantastic keynote from Dr. Jennifer Katz – it was a great way to start off the day.
After that, I ran a session on using AI to support student learning. I was joined by Alex Bleim, a 4 / 5 teacher from one of our local schools.
During the presentation I told the attending teachers that I would share the slide deck with them, but I knew there were also some other teachers that were unable to attend the session who might be interested in what was discussed. So, I figured the easiest thing to do would be to put the presentation here, on my blog. So, here it is, with a few notes to go with some of the slides (click on the picture)…
The first slide has a link to a padlet. Slide 5 shows the three main types of AI, slide 6 refers to the fact that only about 4% of teachers have tried AI.
Slides 9, 10 and 11 are great resources to use when talking about AI use with your students. Slide 13 has a number of helpful links. The first one is a link to a document that shows how to cite generative AI. The second is a link to the IB stance on AI. The third is a link to a number of resources for teachers to use and the 4th is a link to some great units to use to help teach your students about AI.
Slide 15 shows the main teacher-use AI tools that we talked about in the session. Here’s a bit about each one:
Curipod.com – Curipod is kind of like Kahoot meets Pear Deck with a side helping of AI. It is a tool where teachers have an account and students participate through a code. The version I shared today was an exit ticket slide. The question on the exit ticket was “When do you think artificial intelligence was first developed?” Everyone (the students) answer the question. When you (as the teacher) see that all of the students have answered, you click the “feedback” button. AI then scans each students’ answer and gives them feedback, based on how close their answer was the the real answer. Students do not see each other’s feedback, only their own. You, on the other hand, have a record of all of their answers as well as the feedback Curipod gave them.
Goblin Tools requires no sign in and has a small number of tools designed to help with executive functioning. In particular I like the Magic ToDo tool that breaks large tasks down into smaller steps.
Canva Magic is AI that helps with a variety of tasks you might need to do while using Canva, from generating images to writing. Other (better) tools are available for the writing but the image tools are neat to play with. You might have a hard time finding an image of a unicorn riding a unicycle for your lesson on the letter U, but using Magic you can generate the image easily.
Diffit and MagicSchool are the real heavy hitters of this bunch. With these two AI tools in your pocket you can produce lesson and unit plans, generate report card comment and rubrics, change the reading level of texts and translate work into different languages. If you check out any AI tools for helping you in the classroom, give these two a look!
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