WHY USE AI?
Welcome to our comprehensive resource hub for teachers looking to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their classrooms. AI offers exciting opportunities to enhance teaching and learning experiences, making education more engaging, efficient, and personalized. Explore the resources below to get started on your AI journey in education.
Check out the video to the right to see how AI was used in a 5th-grade classroom and, below, how China is approaching AI in schools.
"How China is Using Artificial Intelligence in Classrooms"
Wall Street Journal
BRISK: AI TEACHING ASSISTANT
"Brisk is an AI-powered Chrome extension that helps busy teachers save time directly within the tools they already use, like Google Docs, Slides, YouTube, and web articles. Quickly create instructional materials, share feedback, evaluate student writing, and adjust or translate texts - all without leaving your current workspace. With Brisk, the days of toggling between apps are over, freeing up more time for what you love: teaching.
We Believe...
Every educator spends countless additional hours working beyond their classroom time. We see you, and we think it's time for a well-deserved change. You should enjoy your weekends and lunch breaks and not spend them on extra work. That's where Brisk comes in. It's a free Chrome extension that works with the tools you already use, automating your tasks without any extra apps or platforms. Because we believe that lightening your workload shouldn't mean adding more to your plate. Add to Chrome for free and experience more time back for you, guaranteed.
1️⃣ Teachers are unparalleled professionals who deserve equally professional tools built around their needs.
2️⃣ Teaching has become 100 jobs in one, and teachers deserve intuitive, professional tools that streamline their wide-ranging workload.
3️⃣ Teaching is irreplaceable, but for the rest of your workload, there’s Brisk.
Features include:
TARGETED FEEDBACK ON ASSIGNMENTS: we provide customized preliminary feedback on student assignments.
AI DETECTION: Identify AI use in Google Docs and Google Classroom assignments. We look at the content, version history, and time spent on these assignments to determine the likelihood of AI-generated text.
CURRICULUM WRITING: Brisk can help create lesson plans, quizzes, and more, so you don’t have to start from scratch.
LEVELED RESOURCES: use Brisk to adjust the reading level of news articles to fit your students' needs.
AND SO MUCH MORE!
Join the Brisk revolution and empower your teaching experience with this groundbreaking Chrome extension."
Brisk Boost for Students
"With Brisk Boost, educators can turn any online resource into an educational, AI-powered activity and then monitor student learning and engagement in real-time.
Brisk Boost creates a safe environment for students to leverage AI in their learning while giving educators valuable insights - bridging the gap between traditional teaching methods and cutting-edge educational technology."
GENERATIVE AI PLATFORMS
"Bing is an AI search engine powered by GPT-4. Bing has taken the power of GPT-4 in partnership with OpenAI and enhanced it with real-time information and citations. And it's free! Unleash the power of GPT-4 in your searches to get straight to your answer instead of scrolling through endless links."
*At this point, you must be 13 years old or older to use it, with parental permission.
*For people 18 and under, parental consent is needed.
"ChatGPT is an app built by OpenAI. Using the GPT language models, it can answer your questions, write copy, draft emails, hold a conversation, explain code in different programming languages, translate natural language to code, and more—or at least try to—all based on the natural language prompts you feed it."
ChatGPT slowly gathers new information, so it's not good for current events, but it's a powerful tool for generating all sorts of content.
*At this point, you must be 13 years old or older to use it, with parental permission.
Gemini is the newest conversational AI chatbot by Google that can help generate different kinds of text, images, and more. Gemini is trained on a massive dataset of text and code to generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.
Collaborate with Gemini to brainstorm ideas, spark creativity, and accelerate productivity.
*At this point, you must be 18 years old or older to use it.
"Claude is an AI chatbot powered by Anthropic's LLM, Claude 2. If you've used ChatGPT or Google Bard, you know what to expect when launching Claude: a powerful, flexible chatbot that collaborates with you, writes for you, and answers your questions."
*At this point, you must be 18 years old or older to use it.
ChatGPT and Beyond: How to Handle AI in Schools
This webpage on the Common Sense Media website discusses what educators can do as all of these technologies evolve. Our district is still working on how to handle student use of AI platforms, so for now, we are only encouraging staff use. Hopefully this will change soon, so stay tuned!
EDUAIDE
An AI-powered educational platform.
Eduaide.Ai is an AI-driven platform that helps educators create lesson plans, teaching resources, and assessments. It was created by two public school teachers who saw large language models as tools to eliminate teacher burnout and democratize access to high-quality teaching resources. To aid us in this mission, we assembled an advisory board that holds our team accountable to our founding principles, best instructional practices, and teachers everywhere.
QUICK START AI GUIDE
The folks at Western Michigan University and WMUx curated artificial intelligence resources for teachers and students. Videos created by professors at Wharton provide in-depth information about what AI is, what Large Language Models (LLMs) are, and how both teachers and (university) students can use these powerful tools in the classroom.
Click on the dropdown arrow to the right. ➡️
"Pressed for time? This guide will prepare you to understand the basics of Generative AI tools such as Bing, Claude 2, and ChatGPT/GPT-4, set your course syllabus statement and policies, understand AI ethics and bias concerns, and practice prompting exercises so you can make informed choices on whether or not to use AI in your classroom.
Step 1: Overview of Generative AI
Watch Drs. Ethan Mollick and Lilach Mollick’s 'Practical AI for Instructors and Students,' Wharton School YouTube Channel:
Part 1: Introduction to AI for Teachers and Students. 31 July 2023.
Part 2: Large Language Models (LLMs). 1 August 2023
Part 3: Prompting AI. 2 August 2023.
Part 4: AI for Teachers. 3 August 2023.
Part 5: AI for Students. 4 August 2023.
Step 2: Bias Concerns (50 minutes)
Read/watch these resources:
D’Agostino, Susan. "How AI Tools Both Help and Hinder Equity." Inside Higher Ed, 5 June 2023.
AI @ WMUx Speaker Series: “AI, Ethics, and Bias: What You Need to Know” a Conversation with Dr. Pierrette Renée Dagg, Director of Technology Impact Research at Merit Network.
Step 3: Syllabus and Policy Statements (20 minutes)
Read/review these resources:
WMUx Article: AI in the Syllabus
WMUx Article: Establishing AI Policies for Your Classroom
Eaton, Lance. “Classroom Policies for AI Generative Tools.” Crowdsourced Google Doc. Last updated 2 August 2023.
Step 4: Citing Guides (10 minutes)
Review these resources:
Step 5: Prompt Generation (40 minutes)
Read these resources:
Cline, Sara. “How ChatGPT Killed My Discussion Boards and Prompted New Prompts.” Times Higher Education, 20 July 2023.
Jacobs, Heidi Hayes, and Michael Fisher. “Prompt Literacy: A Key for AI-Based Learning.” ASCD Website. Last updated 26 June 2023.
Mollick, Ethan. “Assigning AI: Seven Ways of Using AI in Class” One Useful Thing Blog. 12 June 2023."
Retrieved from https://wmich.edu/x/instructors/resources/ai-quick-start-guide#top
CITING AI
EVALUATING AI
Being "AI Literate" does not mean you need to understand the advanced mechanics of AI. It means that you are actively learning about the technologies involved and that you critically approach any texts you read that concern AI, especially news articles.
The ROBOT test is a tool you can use when evaluating information generated by AI applications to help consider the legitimacy of the technology.
ROBOT TEST
Use the ROBOT Test to determine if the information found using artificial intelligence is reliable or not.
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Reliability
Objectivity
Bias
Ownership
Type
Reliability
How reliable is the information available about the AI technology?
If it’s not produced by the party responsible for the AI, what are the author’s credentials?
If it is produced by the party responsible for the AI, how much information are they making available?
Is information only partially available due to trade secrets?
How biased is the information that they produce?
Objectivity
What is the goal or objective of the use of AI?
What is the goal of sharing information about it?
To inform?
To convince?
To find financial support?
Bias
What could create bias in the AI technology?
Are there ethical issues associated with this?
Are bias or ethical issues acknowledged?
By the source of information?
By the party responsible for the AI?
By its users?
Ownership
Who is the owner or developer of the AI technology?
Who is responsible for it?
Is it a private company?
The government?
A think tank or research group?
Who has access to it?
Who can use it?
Type
Which subtype of AI is it?
Is the technology theoretical or applied?
What kind of information system does it rely on?
Does it rely on human intervention?
Hervieux, S. & Wheatley, A. (2020). The ROBOT test [Evaluation tool]. The LibrAIry. https://thelibrairy.wordpress.com/2020/03/11/the-robot-test
AI FOR TEACHERS
AI FOR ELA, SOCIAL STUDIES, & HEALTH TEACHERS
Magic Write is an AI-enabled writing assistant that empowers anyone to effortlessly and quickly create written content. You can use it for social posts, business plans, websites, blogs, poems, journaling, creative writing, and so much more. It can generate sentences, paragraphs, lists, outlines, and more based on the text prompt you enter.
QuestionWell is AI that helps teachers do their homework. It can generate an endless supply of questions so you can work smarter, not harder.
Just input some reading, and the AI will write Essential Questions, Learning Objectives, and aligned multiple-choice questions, which you can then export to your favorite tool.
Personalized, detailed feedback is critical for student writing, however the challenge has always been how long it takes to create. AI tools can generate feedback, but unfortunately it can be impersonal and disconnected from your style.
With EnlightenAI you can train an AI to know how you grade, what is important to you, and what is your style of communicating. The AI can then provide grading and feedback modeled after you, which you can use or build from, saving hours of time.
AI FOR MATH TEACHERS
Microsoft Math Solver is a comprehensive and free app designed to aid learners of all ages and abilities in solving a wide array of mathematical problems. The app offers step-by-step instructions, interactive graphs, similar problems found on the internet, and online video lectures. Its versatility extends from simple arithmetic to advanced algebra and calculus.
AI FOR WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Memrise is an AI-powered language learning app that specializes in helping users memorize vocabulary effectively. The app utilizes spaced repetition algorithms, a technique that optimizes learning by presenting words at specific intervals based on individual progress.
AI FOR ART TEACHERS
AI FOR DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION
Looking for some words of inspiration to kickstart your creative process? Magic Write, powered by OpenAI, is your very own AI text generator to help you get out a first draft, fast. Simply start with a prompt and watch as copy, blog outlines, lists, bio captions, content ideas, brainstorms, and more appear in seconds.
Sorcerer is an AI-powered tool that asks you questions about topics to see what you know and help you learn more. This is a great way for students to assess their understanding and get individualized support with any topic they are learning. For example, this could be very helpful for a student to prepare for an upcoming test.
Stay tuned for more great AI for differentiated instruction!
Stay tuned for more great AI for differentiated instruction!
HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVE PROMPTS
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AI will give you back exactly what you put in…so well-written prompts are essential.
Use “Frames” in your prompts:
Act as a...
Give a suggestion about...
Give me a feedback on...
Pretend your’e an expert in...
Assume you are in location...
Provide me with info from a _____ perspective.
Tone:
In writing style of...
Serious, humorous, professional, creative, narrative
In the writing style of a 3rd grader
….Professor
….Librarian
Be super-nice
Apply Format:
Write…
…an email, poem, tweet, paragraph, list, letter, essay, memo, rubric, grant, newsletter article. thesis statement, research plan etc.
Exercise Expansions:
Give me more examples of...
Dive deeper into...
Develop further...
How does this relate to…
Expand up to point x...
Add culturally responsive language...
Include additional...
Explain the concept of...
Utilize Analysis:
Break down the following idea
Identify the strengths and weaknesses
How would you improve the following
Make this more concise
What points are missing
How to re-write this
AI and Soft Skills
Skill:
Information Evaluation
Information is based on probability, not accuracy
“Believable hallucinations”
AIs can be tricked
Students may see AI as the easy way to get answers, but it is dangerous to trust AI uncritically
Give students a chance to trick AI so they see it’s not entirely trustworthy
Have students compare different AIs (ie. Bard vs. ChatGPT)
Evaluating AI text as part of media literacy (ask a librarian!)
Cues to indicate suspicious information
Does the information line up with known facts?
Are there contradictions with the information?
Do other sources verify the information?
How recent is the information?
Information evaluation is a similar skill to literacy analysis and historical or scientific research
How does this skill reverberate into a student’s future (as a person, a professional, citizen?)
Skill
Revision
After the ChatGPT release, ⅓ of students admitted to using it to complete essays or written assignments
Learning possibilities
Brainstorming with suggesting ideas
Self-discovery through resonating tone
Pitfalls of using AI in writing:
Loss of agency (giving authority to machine, no trust to self, no own voice, no involvement)
Valuing information (ang good grade) over learning
AI as Writiing Companion
Address root cause
Tangible benefits of using AI to write (revisory thinking)
Consider questions
Skills development: close reading, etc.
Skill:
Asking Questions
AI can only respond to the input provided
The desired outcome must be part of the command
Students can learn how to ask questions
Asking questions can be as simple as typing something into Google or as complex as holding a conversation with another person (AI “What is the meaning of life?")
Ask ChatGPT and Bard the same question and see what happens
Question is a knowledge indicator
Asking questions develops empathy and situational awareness
Rephrasing question is an interaction from another perspective
Understanding what you want helps identify priories and purpose
Being specific results in accurate output, yet being flexible is necessary for ease of use
PROMPT LIBRARY
An AI prompt library is a comprehensive collection of pre-written prompts that can be fed to artificial intelligence (AI) models for a variety of educational purposes. This library is designed to provide teachers with a range of customizable prompts that can be used to save teachers countless hours of planning.
ACCEPTABLE USE OF AI POLICY EXAMPLE*
This document was used by a junior English teacher. *At this point, we cannot encourage students to use any AI tool. Until we have a handle on student privacy, these platforms should only be used by teachers and staff. This should change soon, so stay tuned!