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February 6, 2025

1. Sign in, stowe your other devices, and log into a Chromebook. Complete the While You Are Waiting (WYAW) activities (including attendance!)
   
   
2. LAST WORDS ON TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATED LESSON PLAN/ FLIPPITY ASSIGNMENT: See example, ask questions....
   
   
3. Generative AI! What is it and what will it mean for education?
   
   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gvkkyU0ZdNEbwbCcETEsf1Axv7jw4e_t_IG4jasDHKI/edit?usp=sharing
   
   
4. The most well known Generative AI tools are Microsoft Co-Pilot with Data Protection (installation instructions here), Chat GPT (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/), and 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"......
   
   
   1. MyLessonPal (free sign up) https://mylessonpal.com/
   2. Magic School (free sign up) https://www.magicschool.ai/
   3. School AI (free sign up) https://schoolai.com/
      
      
5. A few more thoughts on AI....
   
   
   
   
   
6. Table Groups: At your table, discuss these questions and be prepared to share. Consider the ethical implications of using AI in the classroom....
   • Who should have access and will this happen at school? What are the pros and cons of this?
   • Will it enhance critical thinking in students or reduce it? What are appropriate actions when AI gets it wrong? How do we know? Will we need fact checking and triangulation of information (e.g., comparing more than one source to verify)?
   • Is there a worry about over reliance on these tools?
   • Since it draws from public information on the internet how do we give credit for who did the work and came up with original ideas, art, etc.? (Plagiarism and Intellectual Property)
     
     
7. North Carolina is a leader in AI in education and has responded quickly yet thoughtfully. Let's take a look at our state's AI Guidelines for School Systems, Schools, and Classrooms: https://go.ncdpi.gov/AI_Guidelines
   
   
8. WEB 2.0 ALERT: Works like the Flippity Quiz Show game. It's called Factile https://www.playfactile.com/.
   • Let's test our Digital Literacy: https://www.playfactile.com/digilit17/play
   • But wait, there's more: (Tables vote on which to do, ask for a volunteer to be Game Show Host)
   • Geography (2nd): https://www.playfactile.com/2ndgeography/play
   • Multiplication Tables https://www.playfactile.com/multiply102
   • Vocabulary https://www.playfactile.com/bhseslreview
   • American History https://www.playfactile.com/projectwowhistory
   • Life and Earth Science https://www.playfactile.com/milahn
     
     
9. INTERACTIVES: These are websites that take advantage of the interactivity of an IWB but are not from within the IWB's particular software
   • Mathematics Interactives:
     • http://www.teacherled.com/iresources/numeracybasics/
     • https://www.mathlearningcenter.org/apps
   • Story Starters Interactive: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/index.html
     
   • Teach Time or Angles? See https://www.visnos.com/demos/clock
     
   • Interactives for K-1: https://stormedapps.co.uk/
   • Math Apps:https://illuminations.nctm.org/Search.aspx?view=search&type=ac
     (some free content, most required paid membership to NCTM)
   • Tangrams and other Math activities: https://polypad.amplify.com/
     
     
10. Digital Whiteboards:
    Miro https://miro.com/education-whiteboard/ and
    Whiteboard Fi https://whiteboard.fi/ (formative assessment alert!)
    
    
    • Whiteboard Fi https://whiteboard.fi/ Scroll down to find Join session and wait for your instructor to give you the code to join.
      
      
      
    • Follow your instructor's directions for how to interact with the various Graphic Organizers in the saved board.
      
      
    • Want a quick no sign in Whiteboard to share? Check out the "lite" version of Miro: https://webwhiteboard.com/
      NOTE: This is an "on-the-fly" version of Miro if you don't need to save the board as it expires after 24 hours. To save your boards, sign up for a free account with your class gmail.