September 9, 2025

1. Sign in, stowe your other devices, and log into a Chromebook. Complete the While You Are Waiting (WYAW) activities (including attendance!)
   
   
2. 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.
   
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".
  
  LLMs terms of service generally don't allow users under 13.
  
  
  
4. Flippity Assignment: Requirement to use AI to create a lesson plan "starter"......
   
   • 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
     
     
5. Today, we will focus on these tools:
   • 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
     
     
6. Your turn.... Choose from the AI tools above and use them to create material for your current classroom as a TEACHER TOOL.
   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
     
     
7. AI Portfolio - Part A:
• From the options offered, choose an educational strategy/topic for which you will create a podcast
  
  
  
• Open up the informational text tool in KhanMigo (https://www.khanacademy.org/teacher/khanmigo-tools) and create a professional 100 word/1ish minute Podcast on your topic. End your Podcast with an example for the classroom (your idea not AI's) This is the prompt for "Project-Based Learning" Use these same fields EXCEPT replace the topic with the one you chose.
  
  
  
  
8. Here are some additional tools to try or at least to be aware of as some are being used in NC classrooms:
   • DeepFake https://deepfake.civai.org/ 
   • Story AI: https://storyai.cc/ (you don't need to pay, take a screenshot of the brainstormed idea  -yellow box)
   • Quiz Gecko: https://quizgecko.com/ 
   • Suno.ai https://suno.com/ 
   • Pictory https://app.pictory.ai/home 
   • Adobe Firefly (images and more) https://firefly.adobe.com/ 
     

STUDIO TIME:

Work on your podcast or other artifacts in your AI Portfolio (see Canvas).

EXAMPLE:

AI is a reality in our lives and our students' lives. Here's an example of a classic animated cartoon and two AI spin offs.

The Classic Cartoon

Adobe Firefly (images and more) https://firefly.adobe.com/

PROMPT: Create a cartoon image of a singing frog in a top hat with a cane.

Suno.ai https://suno.com/https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1053236842

RESOURCES:

A very comprehensive, thought-provoking, and informative presentation on AI from Vera Cubero at NCDPI https://www.canva.com/design/DAGFm6FMxsM/TcJdbQrf4qJ5vJXk2EVKpw/edit

A spreadsheet of resources from NCDPI on AI including Webinars and Presentations
https://www.dpi.nc.gov/districts-schools/districts-schools-support/digital-teaching-and-learning/ai-resources