THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday AI Literacy Lessons That Are Actually Fun to Teach and Learn | This week's tip comes from Experience AI Experience AI is a free AI literacy curriculum from the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind. Besides the fact that the lessons themselves are super cool, nothing in Experience AI requires a student login or collects any student data, which I love. I recently watched the webinar linked below...
18 days ago • 5 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday AI in Action Learning Tour | This week's tip comes from Instruction Partners You may have heard of Instruction Partners before. They are a nonprofit that partners with education leaders to develop their "capacity to deliver more effective instructional support for teachers". They just published the fruits of their year-long endeavor observing 20 student-facing AI products across 16 school systems, interviewing...
25 days ago • 3 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday AI-Ready > AI-Proof | This week's tip comes from eSchool News There's a lot of energy right now around making classroom work "AI-proof." Filters, detectors, locked-down browsers. But as educators, we know AI is in our students' pockets (pocket calculator throwback). Designing around it may be less useful than designing with it in mind. That means shifting the question from "how do I prevent AI use?" to "what...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday AI for Education Prompt Library | This week's tip comes from AI for Education Recently, I went exploring a bit in the AI for Education prompt library to see if anything new stood out to me. It occurred to me that I had never reviewed their professional development section. Which is wild because I spent a lot of my former teaching life obsessing over what makes good PD. While perusing, I found one that stood out...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday How to Google in the Age of AI | This week's tip comes from K-12 Dive "I'll just Google it!" Google has really gained our trust over the past couple of decades. However, I'd argue Google AI Overviews have not yet earned that trust. Students are seeing Google AI Overviews when conducting searches in Google whether they intend to use AI or not. AI summaries now land at the top of almost every search, and one...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday The Data Privacy Agreement Check | This week's tip comes from Mark Schneider and Andrew Rice at AEI It's 9pm. You're forty minutes into a stack of paragraph responses, your tea has gone cold twice, and you paste a student's writing into an AI tool so the feedback drafts itself a little faster. At no point does it occur to you that you may have just brushed up against federal privacy law. Why would it? You were...
2 months ago • 4 min read
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...
2 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months ago • 4 min read