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AI Uses

in the Classroom

Adam Fragale

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Adam Fragale

PD & Curriculum Specialist

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Agenda

What is AI?
AI Tools to highlight
Examples of AI tools in use

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AI…What is it?

Technology that was created to

allow machines to act like

humans

Learn
Sense
Understand

Analyze data
Communicate
Create
Make recommendations

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AI is:

Online and in-store shopping
Robotic tractors, precision agriculture
Warehouse Fulfillment
Credit Card Fraud Protection
Insurance Rates
NASA images from space
Text to Speech
Foreign Language Translation
Mapping and Navigation

It is in all of our lives and industries.

AI is NOT:

Alive
Smarter than us
Killer robots
Only for geniuses
Only for people in tech cities
Always physical. It is inside our computer software and phone apps.

And it is not going away.

“You’re already using AI! Here are some examples. Have you noticed that your phone’s camera is much better than the old point and shoots? That’s because AI helps you autofocus and adjust to low light or motion. Have you received a fraud alert from your credit card? That is an AI algorithm that noticed a different pattern to your spending and sent you a warning. Have you spoken to your phone and had it write a text? Text to speech is AI - it can understand people from different languages and translate as well. If you’ve ever made a map on your phone and had it warn you of traffic or give you a different route if you’re walking instead of driving, that’s AI doing the route planning and real time data updates to make sure you arrive quickly. It’s in our industries, and it’s part of our communities, like when your insurance rates are calculated or Amazon gets your package delivered within hours. It’s NOT sci-fi movies or only for people living in tech-heavy cities. It will definitely be a part of our students’ future work life. That is why we need to teach with and about AI. Just like computers or the internet, it is not going away.”

AI is not magic!

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Generative AI: Tools that create text, images, code, and sound based on vast datasets.

Generative AI tools such as Gemini, Bing, and ChatGPT, are trained on massive amounts of data to recognize patterns and relationships between words, images, sounds and code. They use that understanding to generate brand-new, original, often creative outputs customized to the prompts users provide.

“Generative AI professional example for a slide deck presentation” prompt. Bing Chat, Microsoft, 3 Oct. 2023

Generative AI

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Education with AI is:

Education with AI is NOT:

Personalized learning: More practice problems for struggling students, more advanced concepts for students who are ahead
Differentiation in seconds
Increased student persistence
Handwriting conversion to digital
Text to speech, speech to text
Language Translation

Replacing teachers
Going to solve every problem
One more thing that needs to take a lot of time for busy educators
Another subject that must be separate from other subjects

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AI Tools to Highlight

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10 Ways to Incorporate ChatGPT in Your Classroom

Language Learning
Provide additional math equations
Generate question set for EdPuzzle
Simplify language/reading levels
Create writing prompts for students

6. Peer review practice

7. Chat GPT dictionary/encyclopedia

8. Code examples

9. Brainstorm

10. Share image descriptions

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Potential Risks

Potential Benefits

Potential Benefits & Risks of Using AI in Education

Content

development and differentiation

Assessment design and timely, effective feedback

Tutoring and personalized

learning assistance

Aiding creativity and collaboration

Operational and administrative efficiency

Misinformation, errors, and academic dishonesty

Overreliance and loss of critical thinking

Compromised student privacy and unauthorized data collection

Diminished student and teacher agency and accountability

Societal bias and lack of cultural sensitivity

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Prompting