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January 29, 2025

How Will Schools Respond to the A.I. Revolution?
  1. Sign in, stowe your other devices, and log into a Chromebook. Complete the While You Are Waiting (WYAW) activities (including attendance!)

  2. Web 2.0 #1 Assignment:
    • Check Canvas for due dates and if you need an extension it must be requested before the due date/time. It's OK to ask for more time to do a good job!

    • Look at the Canvas directions and the rubric to make sure all required elements are included and to standard.

    • Since it's the first assignment of five you'll do for your website, I'm extending the deadline to tomorrow, Jan 30 at midnight. After that, I'll be grading what you've submitted.

  3. Flippity Lesson Plan in Canvas - ask questions, please! Lots of moving parts.....
    Here is a past example:

  1. 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.
    AI bikes analogy

  2. TABLE GROUPS: Discussion Roles and Focused Responses
    • 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)

  3. 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".
      ai by age NCDPI
      LLMs terms of service generally don't allow users under 13.

  4. The most well known Generative AI tools are:
    1. Microsoft Co-Pilot with Data Protection (part of your WCU account, use MS Edge),
    2. Chat GPT (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/), and
    3. Gemini (https://gemini.google.com/)

    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 (or future) classroom.
    SUGGESTIONS:

    • 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
EASTER EGG: Image for 6th grade Great Migration reading from LOC. Used by fabric artist Bisa Butler
https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/bisa-butler-stitches-together-portraits-of-black-american-life/