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Discover how artificial intelligence can revolutionize your teaching practice and reclaim valuable time.
Discover how artificial intelligence can revolutionize your teaching practice and reclaim valuable time.
Want to save time and boost student engagement? Join us to explore AI tools that make teaching easier. In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to find info fast with AI chatbots, create lesson plans in minutes, design fun activities, make eye-catching visuals, and help all students access your content. Try out tools like Perplexity AI, TeacherServer, and Brisk Teaching. Leave with new skills to use AI in your classroom right away. Make your job easier and your lessons better!
Directions for Today's Session
Directions for Today's Session
- Form groups of 3-4 people (no less than 3)
- Use an AI tool and explore the tools. Sample prompts provided for different grade levels.
Answer these three questions (to get you started):
Answer these three questions (to get you started):
How can this tool streamline my lesson planning process?
What administrative tasks can this tool help automate or simplify?
How does this tool support differentiation and personalization in my teaching?
- Research
AI tools streamline information gathering for lesson preparation. Here are some prompts to get you started. You can also use the TCEA Prompt Guide Educator. To use these sites, you will need to create a free account.
AI tools streamline information gathering for lesson preparation. Here are some prompts to get you started. You can also use the TCEA Prompt Guide Educator. To use these sites, you will need to create a free account.
Perplexity AI: Quick, sourced information for efficient research. See example. (Watch TikTok video)
Poe AI: An easy to use chatbot tool with the ability to create assistants to help you do writing tasks.
Mistral.ai: Advanced AI for complex writing tasks. See example. Generate "mermaid syntax" to make flow charts, diagrams, and more. Then copy-n-paste it into Mermaid.live.
Raina via MagicSchool.ai: A chatbot available via MagicSchool.ai.
2. Lesson Planning
2. Lesson Planning
AI lesson planning tools are big time-savers, giving you a first draft of a lesson plan. Often, these tools can take existing materials and reformat them for you. To use these sites, you may need to create a free account.
AI lesson planning tools are big time-savers, giving you a first draft of a lesson plan. Often, these tools can take existing materials and reformat them for you. To use these sites, you may need to create a free account.
TeacherServer: Easy to use website with premade prompts. Free for use, no account required.
Diffit: Generate instructional materials.
Almanack.ai: A lesson plan, rubric, and educational slides generation tool. Free account, trial period. See slide deck about Almanack.
Monsha.ai: A powerful lesson plan creation tool. View slide deck.
3. Instructional Design
3. Instructional Design
Need help designing a lesson with high-effect size instructional strategies or writing prompts for educational activities?
Need help designing a lesson with high-effect size instructional strategies or writing prompts for educational activities?
Use these Custom GPTs (free ChatGPT account required) to get coaching support and prompt guide design assistance.
Use these Custom GPTs (free ChatGPT account required) to get coaching support and prompt guide design assistance.
TCEA Prompt Guide Educator: Use this to turn one-liner prompts into fully developed prompts you can use in any AI chatbot like ChatGPT, Mistral, or Perplexity.
ALDO Coach GPT: Have a lesson you want to add some instructional zing to? Ask ALDO to spice it up for you using high-effect size instructional strategies.
Coach: Build Better Relationships: Try one of the scenarios here to see how to better handle coach-teacher situations.
Critical Thinking Coach: Get some help with critical thinking approach.
4. Visual Content
4. Visual Content
Use one or more of these tools to create amazing content you can use in your teaching, learning, and leading situation.
Use one or more of these tools to create amazing content you can use in your teaching, learning, and leading situation.
Canva for Education. Requires a free account through your school district.
DrawCharts. Make graphs quickly (no account required).
Gamma. An easy to use presentation creation tool.
Napkin AI. Use this quick sketch-to-design tool for rapid visualization.
Whimsical. Mind mapping tool.
5. Assessment
5. Assessment
Create a rubric then apply it to student work in a chatbot, or use one of the tools below to assess student work, create entry/exit tickets for retrieval practice, and flashcards.
Create a rubric then apply it to student work in a chatbot, or use one of the tools below to assess student work, create entry/exit tickets for retrieval practice, and flashcards.
Brisk Teaching: A Chrome extension you can use to make slides from a YouTube video, give feedback on a student's work, or change the reading level of an article.
TeacherServer: Easy to use website with premade prompts. Free for use, no account required.
GoblinTools: Put in any task you need broken down and this tool will output steps as a checklist to complete the task.
Jungle: Generate flashcards and multiple choice questions in seconds. Great for retrieval practice activities (e.g. entry/exit tickets).
Quizizz AI: Create and enhance quizzes and lessons in seconds, using artificial intelligence to adapt your content to every student and learning style.
6. Fun AI Uses
6. Fun AI Uses
There are many ways AI is being explored for fun applications, whether in learning or in other spaces. Let's take a quick look at some of the other creative spaces AI is having an impact.
There are many ways AI is being explored for fun applications, whether in learning or in other spaces. Let's take a quick look at some of the other creative spaces AI is having an impact.
Google's NotebookLM: Make podcasts to explain any topic or set of resources you add to it.
Image Generation: Create or find images to support teaching and learning. Here are seven AI Art Creator tools to explore. Nightcafe Creator hosts fascinating creations.
Suno AI: Create your own music mixes, or listen to others' creations. Create an account to make a library to store your favorites.
Cat-GPT: A playful AI tool that lets users chat with a virtual cat.
Fake You: Adjust video, images, audio to create stylized versions of the subject.
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