Teacher Recommendations

Embracing AI

QUESTIONS

• How does Generative AI align with our districts values?
• What is our responsibility as educators to prepare our students for our evolving world?
• Is it our responsibility as educators to provide access and guidance to tools that some students might not get outside of school?

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FACTS

• AI is already used across a variety of sectors, including by many teachers
• AI will continue to expand
• Blocking AI tools will not prevent their use
• These tools will be prevalent in our students future

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SFUSD AI Guidance

AI generated work should serve as rough draft to get you started. Errors and mistakes will occur. Staff should use their expertise to evaluate and adapt the generated rough drafts for their students/staff needs like any other resource found on the web.

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Remember to NEVER have students sign up for any tool

that is not approved by SFUSD

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Teachers can currently use Adobe Firefly with their SFUSD accounts

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Use a personal account to play around with other tools

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Teacher Recommendations

Enhance your curriculum

• Adapt and provide scaffolds to access grade-level text
• Generate images or pictures for writing prompts
• Generate practice test questions and answer choices

Improve your efficiency by creating first drafts:

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• Newsletters
• Lesson plans
• Meeting Agendas
• Ideas for a paper, project, or assignment

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Use it TO lesson plan

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• Have it create a lesson plan for you on a topic to see what ideas it could give you, get new ideas to present information in a fun way

Try Out: Creating Engaging Lessons with ChatGPT: A Step-by-Step Guide.

• Ask it for ideas to engage students in the topic you are teaching, or find more interesting activities to teach something difficult.
• Ask for help with a particular type of learning style within your content.

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Use it IN a lesson plan

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• Create learning activities where the answers cannot be looked up on the internet (examples - collaborating on ideas, creating something new like a website, video, or podcast, or physical art).
• Spark a PBL project, or creative ideas for a project (example - Creative Writing).
• Debate a topic with ChatGPT, take a stance and ask it to give you opposing viewpoints.

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Use it to save time

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• Draft an email to a parent about a struggling student
• Draft a teacher evaluation to give positive feedback on how they engaged all students
• Draft a summary email based on notes from a meeting

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Recommended Tools to Try

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SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

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Adobe Firefly & Adobe Express

Generative AI Innovation in Adobe Express

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New Generative Fill and Text to Template generative AI features bring more AI-power to help creators to take the guesswork out of design and quickly find the perfect addition to content or get personalized template recommendations that fit unique styles, to create social media posts, videos, posters, flyers and more.

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EMPOWER

students through agency, voice, identify

ACCESS

content in rich, multimodal ways

CLOSE GAPS

in access, achievement, & opportunity

ENGAGE�students in deeper

learning

Check out SFUSD AI Concerns

Ready to Learn more?

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AI in SFUSD One Pager

• AiEdu
• Common Sense Education
• ISTE AI Resources
• CRAFT AI

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OUR GROWING LIBRARY OF RESOURCES

sfusd.edu/ai

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Appendix

Extended Teacher Resources

Teacher Recommendations

Use it TO lesson plan

• Have it create a lesson plan for you on a topic to see what ideas it could give you, get new ideas to present information in a fun way.
• Ask it for ideas to engage students in the topic you are teaching, or find more interesting activities to teach something difficult.
• Use it to learn something new about the topic you are teaching. Stay current.
• Ask for help with a particular type of learning style within your content.

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Teacher Recommendations

Use it IN a lesson plan

• Assign activities with answers that can’t be looked up on the internet (i.e. collaborations, discussions, or debates in class).
• Have students see if they can find errors in ChatGPT with other sites or texts.
• Talk about and practice responsible use
• Non text based projects, podcasts, videos, artwork etc.
• Explore effective prompts in ChatGPT to explore how to ask better questions and phrase things differently.
• Coding examples and excel formulas for when you are stuck.
• Debate a topic with ChatGPT, take a stance and ask it to give you opposing viewpoints.
• Have GenerativeAI to help with research, finding media or podcasts to further your learning of a topic.
• Have students use ChatGPT for feedback on your writing.
• Challenge students to try and stump ChatGPT or to get it to return false information

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Teacher Recommendations

Use it to save time

• Draft an email to a parent about a struggling student
• Draft an email to a colleague regarding changes in the schedule
• Write an outline for an upcoming email
• Generate ideas for topics on current issues in education to discuss at a meeting
• Draft a teacher evaluation to give positive feedback on how they engaged all students
• Draft an email based on notes from a meeting

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Tips for Subject Areas

English Language Arts

• Compare what Chat GPT has to say about the text you are reading to what your peers are saying in class. Form your own opinion.
• Analyze the essay Chat GPT has written against the text you read, look for anything missing, underline/highlight things you didn’t think about, circle ideas you liked, different color for things you already knew.
• Take the summary from Chat GPT and come up with details that support it in class.
• Instead of a written essay, create a podcast or talk show to discuss literary elements during class and collaboratively with peers.
• Ask it for feedback on your writing, share the feedback with a peer to decide what to do with it.

Science, Health, and Math

• Compare the methods that Chat GPT uses to solve problems to what you learned about it in class. Discuss with your partner and take notes.
• Use Chat GPT to find current use cases for the topic you are studying - ie. trigonometry topics. Use it to conduct research on careers that utilize the kind of math you are learning.

Social Studies

• Ask GPT what it thinks about the current topic that you are studying, and come up with opposing viewpoints with details to support it.
• Use GPT to summarize the event you are studying, fill in the details in between.

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