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...
10 days 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...
17 days 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 Aldeya Week 1: Prompt Writing Peer Review Welcome to our 5-week series on prompting for students! At the end of the 5 weeks you'll have a solid guide for prompting and some handy starter prompts to try in class. We're kicking it off this week with a resource from the Aldeya Resource library - The Prompt Peer Review Rubric. This guide builds off of last...
24 days ago • 4 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday Anatomy of a Strong Prompt | This week's tip comes from Aldeya This week's tool comes straight from the Aldeya Resource library - Anatomy of a Strong Prompt - and builds off of last week's tip where we discussed applying the Bloom's Taxonomy Apply step in the context of strong prompt writing. If students get a vague or unsatisfying answer from AI, the prompt itself may have been vague to begin with. The tricky...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday Evaluate is Back on Top | This week's tip comes from Aldeya The 2001 revision (Anderson & Krathwohl) reordered Bloom's Taxonomy swapping Evaluate (formerly Evaluation) with Create (formerly Synthesize), reasoning that producing something original requires evaluative judgment, making creation the most cognitively complex task. Bloom's Taxonomy (2001) The original Bloom's taxonomy thesis - that original human...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday AI Prompts for Study Skills | This week's tip comes from AI for Education What do you picture when you think of a student using AI? Is it something like "topic in, essay out"? Or maybe "question in, answer out"? Teaching students to use AI as a tool for their own thinking, rather than a replacement for it, can be a challenge, mostly because it requires showing them what that actually looks like in practice. Try...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday AI as a Reading Partner | This week's tip comes from eSchool News Try using AI as a reading partner for your students next week. eSchool News outlines three specific ways students can use AI tools to build literacy skills: Thought partner for ideas: Instead of using AI to write for them, students use it to pressure-test their thinking. They generate arguments, consider counterpoints, and evaluate sources....
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday Create an automated “of the day” suggestion | This week's tip comes from Aldeya Keep a fresh daily touchpoint in your classroom without increasing your daily workload. Instead of spending your prep period coming up with a new question on your own every day, prompt AI to generate a ready-to-use suggestion. Once you're happy with the output, you can set yourself up with suggestions and starting points for the...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
THE PREP PERIOD Quick tips, tools & tricks you can take to the classroom on Monday Avoiding "Companionship Risk" | This week's tip draws from the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the AI for Education webinar on anthropomorphism The language we use around AI shapes the mental models students build about what it actually is. When adults say "ChatGPT thinks," "the AI wants to help," or "he understood what I meant," students get a picture of AI that doesn't match reality. And for younger students...
2 months ago • 3 min read
