streamline assessments, personalize learning, boost success!

Facilitator(s): Miguel Guhlin

SessioN Description

Embark on a fascinating exploration of how AI is reshaping the educational landscape. In this webinar, you’ll discover practical ways to integrate AI tools and techniques into your teaching practice.

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Pre-Lunch and Learn: Would You Rather...?

Would You Rather Ice Breaker

A quick icebreaker for today's session. This will start at 11:42 AM, about three minutes before session starts at 11:45 AM.

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Differentiated Learning

Consider how AI can impact the various aspects of Carol Ann Tomlinson’s Differentiated Learning principles. It can impact each of the following areas, enabling educators to serve up more content and activities with less effort with AI under their expert guidance. This allows educators to provide appropriate levels of challenge and support for students with different learning profiles.

Content

Generate translations of text in different languages (Example #1 NF | Ex. #2 F)
Adapt text to varied reading levels for Repeated Reading, Reciprocal Teaching and to use key vocabulary
Generate digital resources and individualize assignments through learning paths for different students via choice boards

Process

Generate entry/exit tickets
Perform quick assessment of student performance and creation of flexible groups
Do item analysis then generate custom activities and strategies to address student learning needs

Product

Generate sample product ideas and rubrics aligned to the SOLO Taxonomy level students are at
Create a model that scaffolds student creation of products (e.g. ACT: Analyze, Create, Test)
Provides actual tools that can create previously impossible results for younger designers

Tools

Click image below for a collection of AI tools you can use for free (in most cases).

More About Flexible, Data-Informed Student Groups

In Flexible Grouping, data informs the composition of student groups. This involves assessing, grouping, and regrouping students based on ongoing assessment data. This results in grouping students not by ability or prior achievement but rather by fresh, new data about the phase of learning they are in. You group students to meet the following needs:

Needs and performance. This ensures lessons are relevant and meet students where they are.
Current understanding and skills. Your informed insight enables you to personalize learning across subjects or topics based on their knowledge.
Include students of different abilities. With data in hand, you can more easily mix students of different abilities and backgrounds together.
Customize activities. Since you can use data to grasp where students are in their groups, you can create more tailored engagement activities.

When you rely on flexible grouping that’s informed via assessment data, you are actually organizing students by the phase of learning they are in. These phases of learning include Surface Learning, Deep Learning, and Transfer Learning. To get a better grasp of where students are at in their learning using assessment data, identify their phase of learning with the SOLO Taxonomy.

Streamlining Assessments

Providing meaningful feedback and tracking student progress can take hours. Use AI tools like Socrative and Quizlet. They can streamline formative assessments. Create engaging activities and monitor student understanding.

Need information retained for a short time? Study it.

Studying over fewer, longer sessions is less effective than its alternative. The alternative is spacing out the intervals of study over a longer period of time. This is called Spaced vs massed practice and enjoys an effect size of .65.

Need long-term retention of information? Use retrieval practice (a.k.a. practice testing).

Testing has a greater impact than repeated study when done over time.
Students do better when they are quizzed versus not quizzed, as much as 13% more.
Testing after reading improves students’ ability to answer questions. That includes questions that are “in the text” and “in the head.”
Testing done once a day after covering material increased retention
Students tested often had increased retention.

Types of Questions

It doesn’t matter what form the questions take. Students gain the benefit of practice testing regardless of question type. All questions were as effective as the others at enhancing the students’ learning.

Question types can include multiple-choice, short-answer, and hybrid questions.
Provide a mix of fact-based and HOTS retrieval
Multiple choice questions are as, or more effective than short answer questions
Writing down works better than concept mapping for retrieval practice

AI Tools

Traditional Digital Tools

Baamboozle . A versatile tool that students can use to create or participate in a wide variety of games. View video .
Mentimeter. Provides student polling and creates open-ended results in word clouds out of responses. View video.
Pear Deck. Perform “on the fly” assessments with social- emotional health check-ins. It works well with a variety of Google and Microsoft Office products. View video.
Plickers. Print coded cards that students can use. The teacher relies on a free app to scan student cards. The direction of the card shows students’ response. View video.
Poll Everywhere. Assess students with a simple poll. View video.
Socrative. Set up multiple choice, true/false, or short answer assessments. View results in real time via a teacher dashboard. View video.
StrawPoll. Create easy-to-embed, mobile-friendly polls students can complete. View video.

AI Tools as Your Thought Partner

You can use AI to ramp up or augment the following components of your lesson design:

Pre-Assessments

Low-stakes assessments generated with AI. Export in markdown format, or CSV then merge into word processor of choice.
Interactive Quizzes with Pear Assessment or Quizizz. Get AI to adapt questions to individual performance.
Quick Polls like Poll Everywhere or Mentimeter to provide real-time insights into student misconceptions.
Game-Based Tools like Kahoot! or Blooket to create assessments that also collect student readiness data.

Instructional Strategies

AI tools analyze pre-assessment data then recommend high-effect size instructional strategies aligned with evidence-based practices.
Differentiated Assignments using Classcraft or Google Classroom can auto-group students based on needs and assign leveled resources.
Matching Strategies like Reciprocal Teaching (0.74) or Jigsaw (0.92) with student readiness levels.
Dynamic Pacing by relying on AI to suggest pacing strategies that adapt to student's individual progress.

Reflective Practices

Encourage metacognition by generating custom journaling prompts based on student performance and behavior data.
Provide feedback to guide deeper reflection based on AI updates.
Automated journaling prompts and feedback loops.

Two tools to assist you include:

Bringing AI into Your Classroom

To get started with AI, consider these steps:

Identify Your Goals:
- Are you looking to save time on feedback?
- Do you want to enhance engagement with differentiated content?
Choose the Right Tools:
- Explore platforms like Padlet, Napkin AI, or Canva AI (free tutorial course) to meet your specific needs.
Pilot and Reflect:
- Begin with a small-scale implementation and gather feedback from students to refine your approach.
Collaborate with Peers:
- Share your experiences and learn from others in your professional learning community.