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Artificial intelligence has exploded since Open AI introduced ChatGPT in November 2022. Educators are trying to find ways to expose students to ethical and educational ways that they can use this technology. Educators are also at an exciting opportunity to use AI in a multitude of ways to enhance their lessons as well as stream line their daily workflow. This page is a collection of teaching tools as well as professional tools to help educators navigate this emerging technology.
NotebookLM is a tool that allows you to upload up to 50 artifacts into the notebook and then gives you the opportunity to interact with some or all of the material to search for evidence, generate testable questions, create a key vocabulary list, and much more.
Note: Student work should not be uploaded into the list of documents or materials in NotebookLM to retain student data privacy.
SchoolAI - Make custom chatbots for students to interact with.
SchoolAI has a lot of tools for teachers to use and integrate into their
This free Chrome Extension integrates with YouTube, automatically transcribing video dialogues with timestamps. You can search these transcripts using keywords to quickly locate specific sections relevant to your lesson. With a single click, the entire transcript can be sent to ChatGPT, which then generates comprehension questions that you can customize or use as a basis for your lessons. Additionally, if you're using Google Classroom's feature of inserting questions into an assigned YouTube video, the timestamps assist in pinpointing exact video segments for question assignment.
Tool to help detect AI use from students
Draftback, a free Chrome Extension, does not use AI but is highly effective for teachers to determine if a student may have used AI to complete an assignment. Once enabled, it adds a Draftback button to the top of every Google Doc that you can access the version history. Clicking this button produces a screencast showing how the document was created. Suspicions might arise from seeing large text or image pastes, or if the document shows constant typing of well-formed sentences without the typical backspacing for corrections, which could suggest the student is retyping AI-generated content to avoid detection through large copy-pastes.
What is Artificial Intelligence? Lesson for 6-12
This slide deck gives a summary and explanation of what AI is and how it was created. It also gives lesson ideas and activities that teachers can do with students to guide them through some ethical ways to use AI productively. It also looks at AI's shortcomings including hallucinations and pitfalls of relying too much on it.
Artificial Intelligence In Education. Tool or Trouble?
This slide deck is a great starting point for staff and older students about AI. It is geared toward an older audience. It has been featured on the Vermont Computer Science Teacher's Association website. It discusses many of the same points that are covered in the 6-12 Lesson but also looks at AI hallucinations and possible ways of detecting when students are cheating by using AI.
How AI can teach kids to write - not just cheat.
This article discusses a pilot study of a teacher that allowed students to use Generative AI to write whatever they wanted to.
While the study is ongoing, the early findings revealed something surprising: Kids weren’t excited about ChatGPT’s writing. “They thought it was ‘too perfect.’ Or ‘like a robot,’” Levine said. “One team that was writing said, ‘We asked ChatGPT to edit our work, and it took out all of our jokes so we put them back.’”
Eric Curts - The AI Toolbox: Best Tools for Schools
Eric Curts is a Tech Integration Specialist and YouTuber who specializes in Education Integration and presents all over the country.
He curates and constantly edits this document which is packed with resources and new information that any teacher can use to learn how to use AI in the classroom and as well as get a better understanding of how AI works.
The webinar below is titled "ABCs of AI: What Educators Need to Know"
Image Generators
Text-to-image generators allow you to make an image of just about anything you can imagine in seconds. This could be used for images for a slide deck or a cover photo for a student's narrative story. If it is hard to find a photo or image that illustrates a concept that you want to show then you can create it specifically for you.
(v4o Paid version only)
All of the images to the right were created from text-to-image.
Prompt Writing Practice for Students
This is an activity students can do in the classroom that helps them to build specific prompts in an attempt to recreate a image that is selected at random.
It gives the student feedback so they can refine their prompt with key descriptors which will help to make better and better prompts.
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