10 AI Hacks I’ve Used in the Last Year to Make Me a Better Educator

Shem Banbury

Kōwai au? (Who am I?)

• Deputy Principal MMI
• Kiwi Kids News founder
• AI guinea pig
• AI explorer in education����www.shembanbury.blog

My AI journey?

• Use it heavily for Kiwi Kids News - www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz
• Use it heavily for work.
• Canterbury Uni Micro Course.
• Keep up to date with AI newsletters/podcasts etc
• ChatGPT - Personal Paid Version $20 per month. ��

Emails Made Easy

• Using ChatGPT to rewrite, tone-check, and clarify emails to parents and staff.��

Helping My Son – L3 Physics

• Used ChatGPT to simplify content, quiz him, and explain tricky concepts.

Staff PD – DALL·E

• Created engaging teacher disposition posters like Shouty Sharon vs Calm Carla.

Ministry Requirements

• Created a draft school Attendance Management Plan which is a new requirement in the new STEP Attendance Process. ��Downloaded the documents

Fireflies Meeting Notes

• Recorded meetings, generated summaries and actions with Fireflies.
• Assembly Talks
• Use it for my own development

Learning Intentions GPT

• Custom GPT to generate learning intentions, success criteria, and kid-friendly versions.

Summary of Data

• Custom GPT to generate learning intentions, success criteria, and kid-friendly versions.

• Used lots to help with creating or developing ideas

Ideation

Create GPT’s for specific tasks

• Experimental GPT to assess and give feedback on student writing using the e-asTTle rubric.�
• Success Criteria helper for our staff.

AI Tool Stations

• Rotate through stations.
• Try out tools, take notes, and explore.
• Do 5–6 stations that interest you.

STUDENT ACADEMIC SUMMARY

• Create a student academic summary for your class. ��Persona, Task, Context, Format��I’m the teacher of Room 8. Here is the data for year 7's coming into my class at the start of the year. Provide a summary of this child's achievement in Reading, Writing and Maths. Y7 Students At or Above 3A (Easttle) and At 3 (OTJ).���Set my class into mixed ability groups in reading, writing and maths.��Provide an overview of areas that I should work on as a teacher. ����

IMAGE CREATION

• Image Creation for Writing Prompt��Persona, Task, Context, Format�‘I am a year 5 teacher, create an image prompt for my writing lesson where students must write a narrative based on a mysterious being. Make the image have a cartoon feel.’����Create your own prompt for a writing task that would suit your class.

WRITING FEEDBACK

• Get high quality feedback for student writing��Persona, Task, Context, Format�‘You are a teacher of a year 7 class. Provide feedback for this piece of writing. Your feedback should be based on the New Zealand Curriculum Level 4 and be based around the following areas - ideas, punctuation and vocabulary. For each of these areas provide assessment against the curriculum and next steps. ���Get some feedback for this writing. Take an image and input your prompt to get some feedback for students. �

DIFFERENTIATED TEXT

• Get differentiated text around a single topic. ��Persona, Task, Context, Format�You are a NZ teacher. Take this NZ School Journal article around ANZAC buttons. I would like to create 3 different text summaries of this overall piece of writing. One at Level 2 of the NZ Curriculum, one at Level 3 of the NZ Curriculum and the other at Level 4 of the NZ Curriculum. Each piece of text should be at least 400 words.���Try this yourself using the document below. �

EMAIL HELP

• Help with this emails��Persona, Task, Context, Format��Write a reply to this email. I got William to look for his jersey and it was found at lunch today. Good news about reading. We will keep this process going. �I will follow up the bullying with William today and email back. ����Try a quick reply to this email - Take a photo - put it into AI and make a clear prompt.

LANGUAGE HELP

• Use GPT to help with Te Reo Maori ��Try this GPT as a translator. Play around with it and see what benefits and limitations that it has. ��https://chatgpt.com/g/g-cxIEHPOO8-te-reo-maori-translator��
• Use the chat function in ChatGPT to help you with your te reo.

DOCUMENT CREATION

• Create a Management Plan ��Persona, Task, Context, Format��‘Use this information to create a attendance management plan for our school. The plan needs to be based on the STEPS Attendance structure. Use the uploaded images as information and guidelines. ����Use the information provided to create your own STEPS Attendance Plan for your school.

PROBLEM SOLVER

• Get AI to solve an issue for you ����Take one of the issues on the list and explore different ways that AI could solve that problem for you. ��Persona, Task, Context, Format

Creating timetables at the start of the year

Organising class groups based on student needs or behaviour

Making a fair and balanced class duty roster

Designing a term overview aligned with curriculum goals

Breaking down a unit plan into weekly learning chunks

Generating learning intentions and success criteria

Adapting lesson plans quickly for relievers or unexpected changes

Marking student writing and giving constructive, personalised feedback

Generating rubric criteria for assignments or projects

Writing unique and professional report comments

Moderating writing samples or assessments with a second opinion

Summarising student achievement or progress for meetings

PROBLEM SOLVER

• Get AI to solve an issue for you ����Take one of the issues on the list and explore different ways that AI could solve that problem for you. ��Persona, Task, Context, Format

Rewriting school values into language students understand

Creating social stories to support students with behaviour challenges

Writing skits or scripts to explore classroom issues (e.g. bullying)

Designing behaviour expectation posters with AI-generated images

Drafting sensitive or tricky emails to parents

Summarising meeting notes into action steps and follow-ups

Translating school communication into te reo Māori or other languages

Creating weekly newsletters or celebration blurbs

Rewriting reading texts at three different levels for differentiation

Creating quizzes or exit tickets for any subject in seconds

Explaining tricky concepts using metaphors or kid-friendly language

Generating creative writing prompts using text and images

Planning fun, cross-curricular activities with fresh AI-powered ideas

AUDIO SUMMARY

• Create a summary of a quick meeting. ��Persona, Task, Context, Format��Take this audio file and provide the following;�An overall summary of the conversation. �A detailed list of topics covered.�A list of next steps.���In pairs, record a 2 minute conversation between the two of you. Upload the file to AI and ask it to provide a summary. ��