THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday Student Written AI Policy | This week's tip comes from Aldeya Ninety-eight students from all fifty states spent a summer weekend in a replica Senate chamber in Boston drafting AI policy for K-12 schools. And wouldn't you know it... what they wrote is pretty strict! More so than many adult-written policies I've reviewed. No AI on graded tests No AI for writing Editing, brainstorming, and studying allowed after...
14 days ago • 5 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday Artificial Intelligence Guidance | This week's tip comes from the Chalkbeat and ISBE Illinois released AI guidance for schools this month. The state framed the central question as not whether AI can do a task, but whether using it supports the purposes of schooling. Lots of frameworks, guidance, and recommendations are popping up lately (and I think that's a good thing!) but you should always use your own...
21 days ago • 4 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday What School and District Leaders Need to Know Before They Invest in AI | This week's tip comes from an op-ed by Stephen Aguilar in The 74 Purchasing season runs through the spring and summer, and most of us find out what we are using in August. Friends, Warner Brothers District leaders want the best available for their students and many are concerned (or pressed into concern) about their students falling behind...
28 days ago • 4 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday Claude for Teachers Security Check List | This week's tip comes from Aldeya Anthropic just introduced Claude for Teachers. Verified teachers get Pro-level access, the $20-a-month plan, free until June 2027. That means the higher usage limits and the strongest models rather than the capped free tier, plus a set of tools built for the job. You get skills for lesson planning and differentiation, a live connection...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday K-12 Community: Create School Event Visuals | This week's tip comes from OpenAI Academy I recently discovered OpenAI Academy's Communities feature. Users can join communities like their K-12 group to join events and learn new schools that apply directly to their work. The K-12 community page has lots of great tips including this week's tip "Create School Event Visuals". Visuals were always a tough one for me......
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday 5-Week Series on Prompting for Students | This week's tip comes from AI for Education Week 5: Break down goals into objectives Welcome to the final week of this 5-week series on prompting for students! Three issues ago we discussed teaching students how to create and iterate on SMART goals using AI. This week we’ll be taking student SMART goals and turning them into clear objectives for success. GIF by NAB...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday 5-Week Series on Prompting for Students | This week's tip comes from AI for Education Week 4: Explain it to me like… Welcome to week 4 of this 5-week series on prompting for students! I’ll be honest… I use this one all of the time. One day while reading a higher level article on AI politics I became frustrated and quickly asked Gemini “why do AI models need chips?” and then immediately after it responded I...
2 months ago • 5 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday 5-Week Series on Prompting for Students | This week's tip comes from AI for Education Week 3: Create Flashcard Content Welcome to week 3 of this 5-week series on prompting for students! This week we're talking flashcards. AI is a great tool for helping us take a first pass at work or for getting tedious tasks done quickly. However, when it comes to study materials I don't think AI alone is going to do the...
3 months ago • 4 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday 5-Week Series on Prompting | This week's tip comes from AI for Education Week 2: SMART Goal Generation Welcome to week 2 of our 5-week series on prompting for students! Today we're talking SMART Goals. While this particular tip from AI for Education is geared toward writing your own SMART goals as a teacher, it can be easily reframed for sharing the same skill with your students. Introducing students to the...
3 months ago • 4 min read