AI presents the opportunity to improve learning outcomes, support teacher instruction and quality of teaching life, and enhance educational equity.
Reckless use of AI can expose teachers and students to privacy violations, inconsistent consequences related to academic integrity, and counterproductive best practices when using AI in the school setting.
AI in WISD
District Improvement Plan Initiative, 2024-2025
Instructional Technology Dept
AI has the potential to streamline administrative processes, personalize learning experiences, fosters interactive environments, and provides valuable data driven insights which contributes to a more efficient, adaptive, and student-centered experience.
To understand the use of AI in WISD, the Instructional Technology department is prioritizing a study of AI and its implications and usage for WISD.
Identify needs and AI technologies
May 2024: Needs assessment, Google Form survey sent to all educators
May 2024: Website updated with current AI considerations for WISD viewing
Determine the strategic objectives of AI transformation
Assure the right culture, talent, and technology are in place
Create environments for AI and human teaching to work together.
AI-Powered Tools for Education
AI-powered tools can improve a teacher's job.
Personalized learning: Educators can provide tailored learning experiences based on AI-driven analytics that provide valuable insights into student performance and learning trends. Using this data, AI can instantly adapt student learning materials. Teachers can then use this information to provide personalized learning experiences, adapting to each student’s strengths, weaknesses, and learning pace.
Productivity and efficiency: Greater efficiency comes with AI as well. Educators are responsible for a variety of clerical tasks, such as communicating with students and their families, grading assessments, and providing feedback. Educators may find they spend more time on these clerical tasks rather than on teaching and working directly with students. The right AI tools can help to automate or streamline these tasks, which allows teachers to have additional time with their students.
Creating and supplementing content: Through AI-powered platforms, teachers can curate a range of educational resources. With generative AI in particular, teachers are able to create lessons, activities, assessments, prompts for discussion, and presentations simply by providing a short prompt with keywords.
AI- Powered Tools
Brisk Teaching is an AI-powered chrome extension that includes 30+ tools to maximize teacher efficiency.
personalizing instruction- lesson plans, assess student writing, adjust reading levels, translate text
increasing efficiency/saving time
Canva's Magic Design is an AI design generator that uses AI to create custom, on-brand, and attention-grabbing designs in seconds. Turn your ideas into images and videos!
student engagement- Canva for Students
presentations, infographics, posters
peer collaboration- study templates, group work templates
increasing efficiency/saving time
content creation
Curipod helps educators created interactive and engaging presentations and it could provide individualized feedback to each of your students.
personalizing instruction
student engagement
content creation
increasing efficiency/saving time
Curipod makes clear that AI is used to support teachers, not replace them.
Eduaide.Ai is a platform that helps educators create lesson plans, teaching resources, and assessments.
personalizing instruction
content creation
increasing efficiency/saving time
Read Along helps students build reading skills on a computer or Android device. An in-app reading buddy named Diya uses Google's advanced text-to-speech and voice recognition technologies to listen and respond to students with real-time feedback and encouragement as they read aloud. Grades 1-5.
personalizing instruction
student tutoring, reading
student engagement
Khanmigo For Teachers is an AI-powered teaching assistant with a variety of tools to help overcome writers' block, develop lesson plans, quiz questions, hooks, and more. Free!!
personalizing instruction
increasing efficiency/saving time
content creation
Magic School AI is a set of tools for developing lesson plans, designing assignments, generating materials, creating newsletters, and much more.
personalizing instruction
increasing efficiency/saving time
content creation
Quizizz generates quizzes and lessons in seconds, adapt your content quickly to support every student and learning style, and has instant data to identify skill gaps and give personalized practice recommendations.
personalizing instruction
increasing efficiency/saving time
content creation
student engagement
assessment and data insights
Generative AI
Generative AI tools can create text, code, new data sets and new ideas. Get help with writing, planning, learning, and more!
Try ChatGPT-4o: https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/
About:
Introducing GPT-4o and more tools to ChatGPT free users, May 13, 2024
Mentoring Responsible use of Generative AI
AI has the immense potential to benefit AI in Education.
It is important that educators take the time to to about artificial intelligence with their students. Educators need to teach content, but also serve as mentors, facilitators of learning and co-learners with their students. Embrace AI with your students! Model, teach, and facilitate how to use AI properly, responsibly, and ethically.
Teach yourself and your students how to write a strong input for their prompt and how to evaluate and use the GenAI output.
Handout: GenAI Tips for Input/Outputs
Input For Your Generative AI PROMPT
Use the acronym PARTS to write a strong prompt.
P Persona
Identify your role. This gives context to your request.
A Aim
State your objective so Gemini can focus on your desired outcome.
R Recipients
Specify the audience. This step gives Gemini the information it needs to tailor language, tone, and content to resonate with recipients.
T Theme
Describe the style, tone, and any related parameters.
S Structure:
Note the desired format of the output: bullet points, in code, even emojis.
By including all of these building blocks in your prompt, you can increase the accuracy and appropriateness of Gemini's output.
Output From Your Generative AI Prompt
Artificial intelligence has its limits. AI can generate your new content, but it does not have human critical thinking skills to evalute the newly created content will be used responsibly and not reinforcing bias or spreading misinformation. A human has to critically evaluate the output and adjust it if necessary.
Educators should teach students how to evaluate an AI-generated content. The AAA framework can help you and your students to critically evaluate the AI content.
A Accurate
Does the response contain factual errors or misinformation?
Can you verify the statements made using reliable sources?
Is the logic and reasoning sound, or do they make unsupported claims?
A Aligned
Does the response directly address the question or prompt you entered?
Is it on-topic and relevant to your task?
Does it move the dialogue forward in a meaningful way?
A Appropriate
Is the response suitable for the educational context?
Does it use language that is professional and aligns with educational norms?
Are the ideas or examples provided context and age-appropriate?
Always check your AI output using the AAA framework before using it for your tasks. Review the output. Refine the output.
Example prompts below.
Acting as a 1st grade teacher, draft a choice board with word work activities for students to use in the form of a poster.
You are an expert student behavior consultant and data specialist, skilled in analyzing data to make informed decisions and improve student and classroom performance. Your task is to review this [CUT AND PASTE ANONYMIZED STUDENT BEHAVIOR DATA] from my 8th grade PE class and then identify common student issues. Based on this information, provide a set of strategies that I can use with this student group to increase engagement in my class.
(source: AI for Education)
You are an expert teacher and curriculum writer, skilled in creating assessments and evaluating student work. Your task is to create a rubric for my 5th grade science class studying engineering. My students are doing a STEM experiment, the “egg drop challenge,” in which they use specific materials to design and build a container to protect the egg from cracking as it is dropped from increasingly higher heights. Format the rubric as a chart and include a 5 point scale.
(source: AI for Education)
You are an expert teacher, skilled in producing detailed student assessments that effectively demonstrate their learning. Your task is to create a 20-question, fill-in-the-blank quiz, based on the following text from the classroom textbook, for my 5th grade social studies students learning about Colonial America. Include key concepts, vocabulary terms, and make sure to cover all parts of the chapter. Provide a word bank for students, and an answer key for the teacher.
(source: AI for Education)
You are an expert teacher, proficient in developing innovative and effective authentic assessments that enable students to develop and exhibit their learning. Your to task is to create 5 authentic summative assessments for my 9th grade English class completing an author study on Maya Angelou. The assessments should measure their understanding of Angelou's history, what impacted her work, and the common themes in her writing. The assessments should emphasize real-world application, complex tasks, varied response formats, and meaningful feedback. Also, include verification that the standard was achieved. The summative assessments should engage students and effectively demonstrate their learning, as well as enhance their skills and understanding of the subject in meaningful ways. Be creative and unique, do not include any essay options.
(source: AI for Education)
Additional Information about AI
Deciding When NOT to use AI in Class, Ditch That Textbook, June 19, 2024
4 AI Tools I Actually Use as an Educator, Tech & Learning, 6.10.24,
Designing AI-Enhanced Assignments for Deeper Learning, Tech & Learning, 6.07.24
My Students are Submitting AI Papers. Here's What I Do., Tech & Learning, 6.07.24
10 Ways to Detect AI Writing Without Technology, Tech & Learning, 5.29.24
