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Chat: What is your personal why for students using AI in the classroom?

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Emily Myerson

(she/her)

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Agenda

Why AI in our classrooms?
How to teach our students what AI is?
How do we use AI responsibly?
How to use AI in our classrooms?

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2. What percent of your students will use AI as a college student?

What percent of your students will use AI in their future careers?

3. What percent of your students will use AI in your classroom?

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2. What percent of your students will use AI as a college student?

What percent of your students will use AI in their future careers?

3. What percent of your students will use AI in your classroom?

are already using

Student A

Student B

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Responsible AI use

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Guiding Questions for Responsible Use of AI in the classrooms

Do my students have the digital literacy to use this tool safely?
How will this tool impact my classroom’s culture?
How will this tool impact other teachers in my school?
Do parents and administrators support this tool?
Do I understand my responsibilities around data privacy and minors using each tool?

As you start thinking about using AI in the classroom here's seven questions you should ask yourself

is this going to make my students Better Stronger smarter. if not let's not distract from great teaching this should enhance what you are already doing
Do my students have the digital literacy to understand what this tool is doing and how to use it safely we're going to talk next about some ways you can build that literacy
how will this impact my classroom's culture. I think this is the fear a lot of teachers have of if I show my students how to do this why will they be invested in learning how to write a lab report themselves. I think that's an existential question that we should be asking as educators and we need to remember the lab report in the first place was just a tool to organize and show critical thinking the lab report isn't what's important the thinking behind it is.
in the same note if you roll out a tool in your classroom remember that's going to be a tool that kids now know about in all of their classrooms so if you're the history teacher showing students how to use chat gbt to write an essay make sure you've talked to the ELA teacher and you guys are on the same page
parents and principals are your partners in this AI Journey For Students make sure you're seeing them as resources and communicating with them
You might find as you add Ai and lessons you're going to need to shift the objective to be more rigorous for students
Just like any teacher used to working with English language Learners will have a language objective in addition to a Content objective you might want to have a technology objective with each lesson. you're not trying to teach your students everything about using AI in this one lesson. you might be focusing on identifying hallucinations.

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Teaching about AI

8 Lessons

~20 minutes

Include a videos and discussions

Before using AI with kids you're going to want to talk about what AI is. there are so many resources now on the web about AI lessons and most of them are frankly horrible because someone typed into chat gpt write a lesson about AI and then published it as is so I spent some time curating what I thought was strongest and I tended towards names that we already know in the education field to help you build buy-in from administrators and other teachers who might be a little AI tentative. chances are they've heard of Common Sense education and Trust the work they're already doing around digital literacy these are great shorter lessons that have videos and don't always have kids using AI yet but just understanding what it is.

https://www.commonsense.org/education/collections/ai-literacy-lessons-for-grades-6-12

https://www.aiforeducation.io/curriculum/interview-a-chatbot

https://www.dayofai.org/curriculum password: adalovelace

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1i3GaqNUIIHoSLTptHu-0TQ4vZGFyEbN2-RWxaGZps-c/edit#slide=id.g1265186feb3_0_182

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AI Snapshots by aiEDU

300+ Lessons

~5 minutes

Ready to go!

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AI for Education

4 Lessons

90 minutes

All materials included!

So many webinars and teacher resource beyond this!

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Lessons by age

1 hour lessons

May 13, 2024!

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The Logistics of AI use

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Lesson Design

Just 1 AI Teacher is typing and projecting while engaging students in conversation. *For 13 and under

1 AI: 4 Students - Use group work to limit the amount of computer screens you need to monitor

1 AI: 1 Student - Let students drive! If your school has screen monitoring tools, use them!

Tip: For your first AI-enhanced lesson, keep it short.

As you're thinking about rolling out AI in your classroom just like you do with any other instructional tool make a plan. is it going to be best if there is one AI in the classroom and you are facilitating discourse around the tool. this could entail group brainstorming, taking student volunteers of questions they want to ask the AI and this is going to be the main approach if you're working with younger students because of ai's policies around kids who are under 13.

if you are choosing to let kiddos Drive you may want to have one chat gbt or one laptop per group of students to keep the number of screens you feel like you need to monitor down and to allow students to help each other with the technology. if you're going one to one I highly recommend if your school has a screen monitoring I go Guardian to use it not just to monitor kiddos who are off task but also the Highlight Kids who are doing awesome work.

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Create an AI Classroom Policy

As you're thinking about rolling out AI in your classroom you're going to want to think about what are your norms and rules in the classroom just like you probably have for discussions and computer use already. here are two examples I found a teachers and their anchor charts I really liked how this teacher spelled out that different activities we're going to have different allowability of AI use and I can imagine laminating this poster hanging it up in my room and marking day-to-day Where We Are. I'm also seeing this a lot in my grad school work where if you use AI you have to acknowledge it this pack that we're going to send to you also has some examples of MLA citation

but the most effective AI policy is going to be one that your students generate themselves and agree to together AI for education has two phenomenal lesson plan with all the materials already created about how to do this. And whereas with discussion norms you're not going to change them through the course of the year I think this is a great place to model for our kids are humility and how we learn new technology. you can say that we're going to start with these Norms see how they go and reflect and change as we grow as AI users.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c4RsGfq6XnXTlF4frJb1wAlB07_eRCtM/view

https://www.aiforeducation.io/curriculum/co-creating-ai-policy

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District Policy

We view AI as a tool that can intensify the human element in education. AI can undertake routine tasks, freeing teachers to invest more time in direct, interpersonal interactions with students. Its potential for improving assessments, providing immediate, personalized student feedback, and delivering valuable, implementable data to teachers to improve instructional effectiveness is encouraging.

There's a huge amount of difference from school to school to District to District of policy. so before you get going figure out what your policy is and ask questions. a large number of you will have no policy at all and this is a really important moment for you as teacher leaders and advocates to make sure your voice and experience is helping to craft policy in your District. so make sure as you're using AI you're sharing all of the amazing things your students are doing so that principles and school leaders see that and have that friend of mine as they are crafting these policies.

now let's imagine you're in one of those districts that has a much stricter policy one way to go about that is to ask if you can do a small pilot coming to your administrator with really clear lessons and starting with smaller pieces of AI will help them see that this technology is not scary it's just new.

If you're in one of those places we're going to attach two resources that you can use to model how other schools are actually having huge success with AI. Versus a tool kit that comes from teach AI it has all sorts of resources sample policies student agreements parent letters so your administrator doesn't feel like they have to start from zero. another is just an example of a school districts policy that is very thorough and I particularly like it because I think it very transparently talks about some of the concerns and fears about AI.

https://www.teachai.org/toolkit

https://www.psd401.net/services-and-resources/technology/technology-artificial-intelligence#:~:text=We%20regard%20data%20privacy%20and,inclusivity%20commitment%20extends%20to%20AI

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Principal Approval

“Can I use ChatGPT in my classroom?”

I’d love your feedback on an upcoming lesson where I want to use AI to push critical thinking.

I want to make sure I’m in line with our schools policies. I already have a draft of a parent letter and set of classroom norms I’d love your thoughts on.

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Paying for AI in your classroom

Don’t be afraid to send this email:

“I would love to do a pilot at my school to make the case for including this our technology budget.”

5 years from now I imagine the budget that we are putting in textbooks will all be moved to AI. we are right now at the exciting moment where a lot of these tools and the earlier versions of Chat GPT still free. get in now while they are still free.

And start thinking about using parts of your classroom budget if your school does a lot you one to some of these accounts. for many programs and individual teacher is still free but for some non-education tools you'll start to see quickly that you hit premiums. make sure you think about these before planning out a whole project.

and there's no harm in reaching out and emailing these companies and saying I'm a public school educator at a title one school I don't have the budget for this do you offer it for teachers. alternatively you bring a lot of value to many of the education AI tools so Reach Out when you're free limit is used up and say I love this I want to do a pilot at my school with three teachers would you be able to offer a discount or give us three months free so that we can show the district that this tool is worth investing in.

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10 Examples of AI Use

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Guiding Questions for Effective use of AI in the classroom

Does using this tool allow students to be more/stronger ____ (independent, creative, critical thinkers, etc.)
Does the technology need to change or does the lesson need to change?
What is my AI objective for this lesson?

As you start thinking about using AI in the classroom here's seven questions you should ask yourself

is this going to make my students Better Stronger smarter. if not let's not distract from great teaching this should enhance what you are already doing
Do my students have the digital literacy to understand what this tool is doing and how to use it safely we're going to talk next about some ways you can build that literacy
how will this impact my classroom's culture. I think this is the fear a lot of teachers have of if I show my students how to do this why will they be invested in learning how to write a lab report themselves. I think that's an existential question that we should be asking as educators and we need to remember the lab report in the first place was just a tool to organize and show critical thinking the lab report isn't what's important the thinking behind it is.
in the same note if you roll out a tool in your classroom remember that's going to be a tool that kids now know about in all of their classrooms so if you're the history teacher showing students how to use chat gbt to write an essay make sure you've talked to the ELA teacher and you guys are on the same page
parents and principals are your partners in this AI Journey For Students make sure you're seeing them as resources and communicating with them
You might find as you add Ai and lessons you're going to need to shift the objective to be more rigorous for students
Just like any teacher used to working with English language Learners will have a language objective in addition to a Content objective you might want to have a technology objective with each lesson. you're not trying to teach your students everything about using AI in this one lesson. you might be focusing on identifying hallucinations.

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Interview a famous person on Hello History!

In the chat How would you use this in your classroom?

I had a lot of fun with this. there are scientists politicians historical figures artists. you could use this at the beginning of the unit to generate curiosity. you could assign students to interview different people from the period and then share out what they've learned. or you could use this at the end of a unit as students are generating research questions or reviewing content they've learned. one thing that's going to be really important is to ask kids is this a primary source. we want to make sure kids know that these are not actually the words this famous person said and that the way the language model is working is pulling all of the information they have on this famous person which could include a primary source and remashing it together and the answer of their questions. you might also want to push kids to think about if they would like when they become rich and famous a chatbot that pretended to be them and have students think about the potential problems and limitations of this tool. kid should walk away knowing that this is a tool for fun and learning not for research.

https://www.hellohistory.ai/

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2. Self efficacy and supporting students with special needs with Goblin Tools

https://goblin.tools/

In the chat How would you use this in your classroom?

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3. Do Research with Consensus

In the chat How would you use this in your classroom?

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4. Fun

In the chat How would you use this in your classroom?

I haven't figured out the academic application of this one yet but when I saw it I immediately knew it was something teachers would use so let's think of it more as a joy and culture building AI tool. and an example of some of the many tools that are doing video and image creation. the way this tool works is that your students draw a cartoon figure you upload that image and you are able to animate it into moving. I could think of this as being a huge reward for a student who's done work really well. you could create a class mascot and generally make your lessons more engaging. but being the teacher I was I immediately was like well what if it wasn't a cartoon and what if it was a photo of someone and I was thinking of lots of ways that I could create some joy in my classroom and some laughter. so here is my fiance.

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5. School AI

This chat bot is awesome really easy interface to use and really creative applications across subjects. I particularly liked the questioning that came with literature and how it was engaging students to think critically. I just brown bear brown bear what do you see although they have much higher level books and this spot was really able to engage with my answers while also asking meaningful questions about the book. I would probably use this as a reward for being done with your work early so that kids get to keep exploring.

It also has the feature where the text can be read aloud to you and students can respond by speaking. the tone and the characters for each different AI space reflects the topic in a really fun and engaging way. they also have test prep Bots that you can use for the PSAT and AP tests.

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6. Jigsaws and Student Presentations

The Old Way

Day 1-3 Student research topic through web searches pulling most of their information from Wikipedia

Day 4 Student make outline

Day 5 Students spend all class picking font colors when they are supposed to be making slideshow

Day 6 Student rush to finish slideshow as you have to warn everyone this 20% of their grade

Day 7 Students present

One of the things I hated most as a teacher was when kids had to build PowerPoints. it takes so much time and teenagers build very interesting PowerPoints. I always really wanted kids to have practice with presentations and a tool to help them organize the information but it felt like those key ideas got lost in the stress of having everyone finish their PowerPoints at the same time. one of the things that's clear to me is that creating presentations from scratch is not a career skill that our students will need to have this will be fully automated. so let's focus on the skills of checking whether the AI generated presentation is strong, improving it and public speaking. our students will be able to give stronger presentations with this is a tool behind them and build stronger public speaking.

https://gamma.app/docs/The-Tundra-lv7a6gkqw5ibafz

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In the chat How would you use this in your classroom?

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In the chat How would you use this in your classroom?

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In the chat How would you use this in your classroom?

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6. Jigsaws and Student Presentations

The New Way

Day 1 Students use Gamma to generate core information, outline and 50% presentation then fact check and improve with human eye.

For homework students create video of themselves giving presentation

Day 2 Students watch peers and give feedback to a teammate, students make revisions and deepen knowledge.

Day 3: Student Presentations

One of the things I hated most as a teacher was when kids had to build PowerPoints. it takes so much time and teenagers build very interesting PowerPoints. I always really wanted kids to have practice with presentations and a tool to help them organize the information but it felt like those key ideas got lost in the stress of having everyone finish their PowerPoints at the same time. one of the things that's clear to me is that creating presentations from scratch is not a career skill that our students will need to have this will be fully automated. so let's focus on the skills of checking whether the AI generated presentation is strong, improving it and public speaking. our students will be able to give stronger presentations with this is a tool behind them and build stronger public speaking.

https://gamma.app/docs/The-Tundra-lv7a6gkqw5ibafz

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7. Language Learning!

In the chat How would you use this in your classroom?

Our first couple of examples were all websites and tools that were using language models and like GPT and then packaging them for us but you also might want to be using chatgpt directly. as you know by this point in AI week it's really about your ability to write a prompt that accomplishes what you wanted to do. there is a debate within Educators about whether we should be teaching students prompt engineering because it allows them to access these tools or if prompt engineering is a temporary step in this AI world and within a couple of years AI will have improved so much that prompt engineering will be basically done for us.

for now if you're new to using chat gbt with students I would give students The Prompt and have them copy and paste it into chat gbt. of course we're going to see some students having fun getting it and building their own prompts quickly and you're going to want to make a policy about what students should and shouldn't do.

but let's explore what chat gbt can do we could do a whole nother hour on if you are a foreign language teacher how these language models can work and there are lots of online resources. Here is one example I came up with.

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8. Make learning relevant

Prompt:

Give real world example of Newton's Law of motion at a soccer match

Give real world example of Newton's Law of motion in famous video games

Give real world example of Newton's Law of motion in a shopping mall

Give real world example of Newton's Law of motion cooking

Give real world example of Newton's Law of motion when I am walking my dog named Halloumi

ChatGPT:

A soccer ball placed on the field remains at rest until a player kicks it.

In Mario Kart, when a player releases the gas pedal, their character's kart continues moving forward due to inertia until an opposing force, like braking or a collision with an obstacle, stops it.

When you stir a saucepan filled with a thick sauce, the sauce tends to stay at rest until you apply a force with the spoon.

When a shopper steps onto an escalator, they continue moving at a constant velocity unless acted upon by an external force.

When Halloumi pulls on her leash in the opposite direction or when she pushes off the ground with her paws to move forward, she experiences Newton's third law. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So, when she pulls back on the leash, there's an equal and opposite force pulling her forward.

Students can use their personalized example to create their own study guide or to quiz each other on which law the example is referencing.

In the chat How would you use this in your classroom?

One of the pros of Chat GPT is student's ability to personalize learning to make it more engaging. when I taught I would make sure each math problem on the worksheet was a different student and their interest but Chat GPT allows us to do this for each student. so here imagine you're teaching a lesson about Newton's laws of motion and you give students the opportunity to come up with examples connected to their interests one kid might be asking about soccer or another about cooking and I'm course I'm walking my dog halloumi. give students 5 minutes to read through the examples check if all of the examples are accurate and then you could have a fun game where students shared an example and their peers had to guess which of Newton's Laws it was or you could have them share their favorite example. I love this because now as students are walking around in their daily life every single one of them has been prompted to see what you're learning in class in their world. and you don't need to pretend to be the expert on anime and computer games which I never was.

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9. Study skills!

Prompt: Can you be a friendly tutor. Create a practice quiz with various types of questions to help me learn new vocabulary. My vocabulary words are from Toni Morrison's Beloved. Do NOT give me the answers to the questions. Here are the vocab words: assert, listless, tentative, rout, hearten, rancor, indiscriminate, inaugurate, tonic, disdain, arrogant

Level up student ownership!

Prompt: I am 10th grader about to read chapter 3 of Toni Morrison's Beloved. Will you give me a list of the 6 vocabulary words and their definition that I need to know to understand the chapter.

In the chat How would you use this in your classroom?

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10. In advisory

Prompt: Be an encouraging high school student advisor. Help me set a SMART goal by asking me about each element of the goal. Ask me about one part of the SMART goal at a time. Do not move on until I answered. End the conversation with by writing the SMART goal.

In the chat How would you use this in your classroom?

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11. Anchor Charts

Source: Jen Roberts at www.litandtech.com

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Crowd Source!