How do you use AI to make your professional time more productive? - Uppercase
How do you use AI to make your professional time more productive?
Beth Schmidt: I’m also curious what AI tools specifically you all are using in your classrooms! Do your districts support AI tools yet?
Amanda Jessee: Beth, I don’t think my district currently has a policy other than those that guide use of any technology use. I have really gotten a lot out of magicschool.ai! I have been able to take different texts and modify their readability level to suit my 5th graders while maintaining the content. I have used it to create choice boards that cater to different learning styles and levels of Bloom’s, just by giving it a state standard or topic of study. I’ve also created “choose your own adventure”-style stories that guide students through a historical event, such as the development of the Jamestown colony. I am finding it really useful as a way to create new activities for my students.
Clark Graham: Most recently, I have used it to generate text for practice and formative assessments — for example, I had it generate a story that featured certain story elements and content relevant to what we had been studying. I’ve also used it to create small practice exercises for grammar and punctuation.
Amanda Jessee: Here’s a great article… https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/ed-tech-tools-2024/
Noraa Ransey: In the elementary setting, we have had a couple of trainings and I have implemented it to save time and creative planning. We have created decodable readers, generated letters to parents and then personalized them, it has been a lesson planning tool and used to complement lesson plans. Chat GPT is a good tool to learn and try AI for the classroom setting.
Gina Pepin, Ed.D.: Nora - the graduate class I teach at Northern Michigan University that focuses on trends in teaching ELA includes some discussion and sharing of resources for ChatGPT. I have read some articles on Storyq and am wondering if anyone has any experience with this?