February 6, 2025
How Will Schools Respond to the A.I. Revolution? |
- Sign in, stowe your other devices, and log into a Chromebook. Complete the While You Are Waiting (WYAW) activities (including attendance!)
- There are as wide a variety of opinions and perpectives on the use of AI as there are on the uses of technology. We will be discussing how to have ethical conversations about AI with peers and your students. With regard to anything you are learning in this or other courses.....you are free not to like it but you still have to learn it.
- SMALL GROUPS: Discussion Roles and Focused Responses
- You will be given a role that you cannot trade - keep the role you are given
- Reflect on the J. Spencer video on AI and Vintage Innovation and read the question
- Talk with your group members about your question (from the video)
- Perform your group role as assigned and talk about your question for 4 minutes.
- Your reporter/spokesperson will have 2 minutes to share the response from the group collaborative discussion
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Facilitator
(leads the discussion)Recorder/Notetaker
(documents key points)Timekeeper
(manages time)Reporter
(shares outcomes)
- NCDPI and AI Guidelines: https://go.ncdpi.gov/AI_Guidelines
- North Carolina has emerged as a leader nationally with regard to AI in the schools. One significant are is in the development of quickly developed suggestions/guidelines. IMPORTANT: Notice they are not called "Policies".
LLMs terms of service generally don't allow users under 13.
- The most well known Generative AI tools are:
- Microsoft Co-Pilot with Data Protection (part of your WCU account, use MS Edge),
- Chat GPT (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/), and
- Gemini (https://gemini.google.com/)
- Magic School (free sign up) https://www.magicschool.ai/
- School AI (free sign up) https://schoolai.com/
- MyLessonPal (does not require signin) https://mylessonpal.com/
- Khanmigo (free teacher sign up and WCU IT approved) https://www.khanacademy.org/teacher/khanmigo-tools
Directions example: Web #1 Directions (original) // Web #1 Directions (AI)
- Diffit (for differentiated passages) https://web.diffit.me/
The Great Migration: Original // 8th grade // 6th grade // 4th grade // Kindergarten
8th grade Khanmigo - KhanMigo for real world math ideas using the Real World Context generator
- Diffit for activities and handouts for an ELA lesson on a poem for your students
- KhanMigo for Lesson Hooks to engage thinking prior to direct instruction on your subject
But there are better tools for teachers using more friendly interfaces called "wrappers". NOTE: Remember that you are not required to use any of these tools and the WCU endorsed AI tool is Co-Pilot with Commercial Data Protection (see link above). These are being shown to you to help you be informed as a current and future teacher. AI, it's a thing.
Flippity Assignment: Requirement to use AI to create a lesson plan "starter"......
We will focus on:
Your turn.... Choose from the AI tools above and use them to create material for your current classroom.
SUGGESTIONS: