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:

Join the Brisk revolution and empower your teaching experience with this groundbreaking Chrome extension."

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:


Step 2: Bias Concerns (50 minutes)

Read/watch these resources:


Step 3: Syllabus and Policy Statements (20 minutes)

Read/review these resources:


Step 4: Citing Guides (10 minutes)

Review these resources:


Step 5: Prompt Generation (40 minutes)

Read these resources:

Retrieved from https://wmich.edu/x/instructors/resources/ai-quick-start-guide#top 

CITING AI

NoodleTools now allows for citing information gathered using AI. Check out this webpage on how it's all evolving.


The MLA Style Center shows how to cite generative 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

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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

schoolai

ChatGPT for your classroom.

Designed for K12 students with built-in monitoring & controls for teachers.

Curipod is an interactive presentation tool for making lessons. One can create their own lessons or use the AI generator to create engaging and interactive lessons and activities (e. g., polls, word clouds, and drawings).

THE ABCS OF AI - ERIC CURTS' RESOURCES

Below is a continuously updated list of AI resources for teachers to use in the classroom.

AI FOR ELA, SOCIAL STUDIES, & HEALTH TEACHERS

GrammarlyGO is an on-demand AI tool that provides the ability to quickly compose, rewrite, ideate, and reply. It's contextually aware and accounts for personal voice, offering relevant and personalized suggestions that respect user agency and authenticity.

Twee is an AI-powered tool specifically designed for English teachers. It provides aid in creating and planning lessons and offers a diverse range of features.

Twee can also create a list of open-ended questions, multiple choice questions, or true/false statements for a YouTube video. 

QuillBot's suite of tools employs cutting-edge AI technology in order to make writing painless. Founded on the belief that learning and applying knowledge is more important than the mechanical aspects of writing, QuillBot seeks to automate these necessary tasks intending to augment your language.

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.

DebateAI.org focuses on helping people build persuasive arguments and learn to make well-informed decisions.

Debate AI can be used to help students learn about different perspectives on a topic and to develop their critical thinking skills.

Providing feedback is easy in gotLearning. Written text, annotations, audio or video are available options. You can even use gotLearning AI to provide suggestions and manage your custom prompts!

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

Socratic is a learning app from Google that helps high school and university students understand their school work. It uses Google's artificial intelligence (AI) and search technologies to connect students to helpful educational resources from the web and sites such as YouTube.

Both Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language APIs enable AI systems to generate a wide variety of high-quality plots, graphics, maps, infographics and interactive visualizations.

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

Glossika is an AI-powered language learning platform that focuses on contextual language training. The program emphasizes fluency development through extensive repetition of sentences in various contexts. It offers a large library of sentences recorded by native speakers.

For an in-depth exploration of how ChatGPT can enhance the language learning experience, check out this article "7 Ways to Use ChatGPT to Learn a Language." The article looks into specific strategies and techniques to maximize study sessions using this AI-powered tool.

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. 

Pimsleur is a language learning method that emphasizes audio-based instruction. The program focuses on conversational skills and practical language usage. With Pimsleur, users can engage in interactive conversations to practice speaking and listening skills. 



This blog post has a wealth of resources for you to explore.

AI FOR ART TEACHERS

Adobe Firefly offers new ways to ideate, create, and communicate while significantly improving creative workflows using generative AI.

Stand out from the crowd.

Turn your font dreams into reality. With generative AI text effects and over 25,000 fonts in Adobe Express, you can easily make stunning social posts, videos, flyers, and more.

AutoDraw is a new kind of drawing tool. It pairs machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help everyone create anything visual, fast. There's nothing to download. Nothing to pay for.

Magic Media: Canva's AI image generator powered by Stable Diffusion lets you choose image variations based on a preferred look and composition. Generate up to 50 images on a Free subscription, or upgrade to Canva Pro for 500 uses per user per month.

AI FOR DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION

goblin.tools is a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult.

QuillBot is an online writing platform with a bunch of tools aimed at elevating and perfecting your writing. QuillBot paraphrases, summarizes, checks for grammar and plagiarism, translates, outlines, creates citations, and sets you up for success in school, work, and your personal life.

Grammarly's generative AI is available in beta and pairs with our Free and Grammarly for Education product offerings to provide contextually aware, personalized AI assistance to help write drafts, rewrite for tone and length, brainstorm to unlock creativity, and compose email replies.

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.

Teachers use Diffit to create “just right” instructional materials, saving time and helping all students access grade-level content.

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:


Tone:


Apply Format:


Exercise Expansions:


Utilize Analysis:


AI and Soft Skills


Skill:

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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!

Acceptable Use Letter for AI in ELA Class.pdf