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Facilitator: Lori Gracey
Session Description
Session Description
The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing and will soon be coming to education. Let's take a look at the possibilities (and concerns) and what we should be doing to prepare.
The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing and will soon be coming to education. Let's take a look at the possibilities (and concerns) and what we should be doing to prepare.
- Understand what AI is and what it isn't.
- Sample some current AI tools to see what the possibilities are.
- Discuss potential problems with the use of AI in education now and in the future.
Understanding Artificial Intelligence
Understanding Artificial Intelligence
What AI is: Algorithms (such as ChatGPT) that can be used to create new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos
What AI is: Algorithms (such as ChatGPT) that can be used to create new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos
What AI isn’t: It’s not smart by itself; it mimics human intelligence and learns from our resources.
What AI isn’t: It’s not smart by itself; it mimics human intelligence and learns from our resources.
AI is constantly learning and will continue to evolve.
AI is constantly learning and will continue to evolve.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are used to “train” AI tools with data sets from the web. Their known limitations include incorrect facts, negative/toxic output, and bias (implicit, deliberate, and/or inherent).
Large Language Models (LLMs) are used to “train” AI tools with data sets from the web. Their known limitations include incorrect facts, negative/toxic output, and bias (implicit, deliberate, and/or inherent).
A Smattering of AI Tools to Try
A Smattering of AI Tools to Try
GPT Tools
GPT Tools
ChatGPT - ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with the chatbot. Currently, it is limited to things that happened by the end of 2021. The language model can answer questions and assist you with tasks like composing emails, essays, and code. Free or more robust for $20/month. (Others that are similar include Google Bard, Microsoft Bing, Jasper, FastGPT, and more.) Check out this PDF with educational prompts to test out ChatGPT.
GPTGO - A free tool that combines Google search results and displays more answers by free ChatGPT. To see its real power, try this search: "What is the best instructional strategy to use with ESL students?”
GPTionary – Free thesaurus with ChatGPT. This is a good tool to use with students for vocabulary development.
GPTZero - This free site lets you check text to see if it was created by a human or AI. Please note that it is not always reliable.
Creation Tools (Art, Video, and Presentations)
Creation Tools (Art, Video, and Presentations)
Freepik AI Image Generator - Free tool that takes your words and creates an image from them. Requires registration.
Scribble Diffusion - Turn your sketch into a refined image using AI with this free (and fun!) tool. Good for check-in's with students, main idea concepts, and vocabulary development.
Animated Drawings - This cool site takes a child's (or adult's) drawing and animates the character in it. It can then be uploaded to social media or downloaded. The tool requires no registration and is free.
Starry AI - Transform your description into a variety of art pieces with this free tool.
Zoo - See what your prompt looks like in several different image creators at the same time.
Tome - Tome is a website that uses AI to generate presentations. It is a combination of ChatGPT and DALL-E 2, as it draws text from the former and images from the latter. Free (limited number of tomes allowed) or $8/month.
Synthesia - AI video creation platform. Have ChatGPT create a script with three actors and paste that into Synthesia. $30/month for personal plan.
Canva has also now added AI tools for editing your creations. You can read about the new features here.
Tools for Learning
Tools for Learning
Librarian AI - Discover your next favorite book effortlessly with the help of AI. Simply choose your three favourite books and let AI suggest personalized recommendations tailored to your reading preferences. No login or registration is required; free.
Parlay and Parlay Genie - Parlay allows teachers to set up virtual round table discussions with students; it's very powerful. Parlay Genie is an AI-powered discussion prompt generator. Both of these offer a free version that contains pretty much everything you would need and they provide Google Classroom Integration, Google Sign On, and Microsoft Sign On. Learn more about it in this blog.
Conker - Need a quick formative or summative assessment? Use Conker to make fast quizzes that can be differentiated by question type, grade level, and more. Also, it has the ability to create reading comprehension questions. And it’s free. Teacher registration is required.
Curipod - This tool uses AI to create interactive lessons filled with creativity, reflection, and critical thinking using polls, word cloud creation, open questions, drawings, and Q&As to capture student voices. Teacher registration is required. The free plan offers five private Curipods with unlimited participants; Premium provides unlimited pods at $7.50/month.
Lesson Plans AI - This site will create complete lesson plans for you. While it does not include state standards at this time, those are supposed to be added later. There is a free trial available; after that, it is $19/year for up to 100 plans.
QuestionWell - This amazing and free tool has you input a reading passage, and the AI will write Essential Questions, Learning Objectives, and aligned multiple choice questions. Then it can be exported to Google Forms, Canvas, Kahoot!, and more.
Would You Rather Question Generator - Complete a form with your grade level of choice, topic, and preferred question type and then you can see the generated questions from the prompt. You can download the questions for your use.
SchoolAI - Save hours of time you normally spend on emails, marking homework, lesson plans, ideas, creating quizzes, brainstorms, reports, and more with the help of this tool. It has a limited free program, but is $120/year for unlimited access.
Quiz Wizard - Personalized quiz and flashcard content for educators. The tool is free, but is best used with secondary students.
Wisdolia - This free Chrome extension creates auto-generated flashcards from any YouTube video, web page, or PDF.
Trivvi - This site will take content you share with it and create three or five questions from the content. Students can then play a game to answer online. The Basic version is free, with more features in the paid Pro version for $5/month. Check out this example I created on the Battle of the Alamo.
Tools for Personal Use
Tools for Personal Use
TryItOn - Professional headshots from your existing photos. $17/for approximately 100 photos.
Elicit - Free AI research assistant.
Dad-J: Modern Calorie Tracker - This free iOS app blends real-time human and AI coaching to help you meet your nutrition goals. Track your food, fitness, and mindfulness habits so you can learn from them, change them, and achieve your health goals. The basic plan is free; additional features are available for $19.99/year.
BarGPT - Give it your ingredients and this tool will help you mix up a delicious cocktail.
Futurepedia - Stay current with new AI tools with this free and searchable site.
Things to Consider when Using AI
Things to Consider when Using AI
Are there ways that teachers can use AI to save time and make their jobs easier, freeing them up to spend more time with students? If so, what are those ways and tools?
Are there ways that teachers can use AI to save time and make their jobs easier, freeing them up to spend more time with students? If so, what are those ways and tools?
What are the implications for academic honesty? Should there be disclosures for AI-created content? What will the human impact be of not knowing whether a human or AI created content?
What are the implications for academic honesty? Should there be disclosures for AI-created content? What will the human impact be of not knowing whether a human or AI created content?
What will the implications be for some staffing when staff roles become more oversight of AI than of humans?
What will the implications be for some staffing when staff roles become more oversight of AI than of humans?
When should organizations develop their own AI instances, fed with controlled datasets? When should organizations use home-grown AI versus general AI?
When should organizations develop their own AI instances, fed with controlled datasets? When should organizations use home-grown AI versus general AI?
AI now has what we'd call "general intelligence," the ability to "understand" across multiple fields and integrate them. What happens when AI develops what we call wisdom? For example, what will the implications be for boards and senior leadership, when AI can make decisions as good as human decisions, and, eventually, better-informed?
AI now has what we'd call "general intelligence," the ability to "understand" across multiple fields and integrate them. What happens when AI develops what we call wisdom? For example, what will the implications be for boards and senior leadership, when AI can make decisions as good as human decisions, and, eventually, better-informed?
Key Takeaways
Key Takeaways
AI will change everything we do.
AI will change everything we do.
New tools are emerging every day.
New tools are emerging every day.
As educational leaders, AI will allow us to do much more than we ever imagined.
As educational leaders, AI will allow us to do much more than we ever imagined.
Our jobs are not going away tomorrow, but they are already changing, and we need to change and adapt to it.
Our jobs are not going away tomorrow, but they are already changing, and we need to change and adapt to it.
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
To continue exploring the role of artificial intelligence in education, consider attending TCEA’s virtual AI for Educators Conference July 27, 2023. Sessions for this event can be seen here.
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