Hope and Assist for Lecturers in a Chilly January 💛

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Hiya Reader,

How is your semester beginning out? I hope it’s superior however typically right here in North America January could be a robust month! And there is the ice! I hope you are staying heat!

Life is not fairly settled with out Dad but and I am working onerous to deliver the routines again together with ensuring I ship you some superior assets from my weblog and a few issues I discovered and shared at FETC in Orlando just some weeks a go together with just a few of my slides from my Getting Previous the Hype of AI preso.

Listed below are some assets for you proper now:

AI/Privateness Literacy Lesson. TikTok Modified Their Privateness Coverage in some very regarding methods. I created a “Privateness Coverage Detective” Google Doc that I used together with a PDF and 4 completely different AI instruments to assist my eighth graders not solely discover ways to add a PDF to AI, however to check AI fashions, and likewise perceive what has occurred with TikTok over this previous weekend.

​Claude for Excel. When you have a paid model of Claude, you should use it inside excel. Sure, inside. It runs in your pc and my understanding is It’s unreal. Observe that they do not suggest it for extremely delicate or regulated information. You can too have it put in at your worksite. I am testing it now. I might positively say that is for a complicated person.

Google Pocket book LM Infographics. I am pulling my transcripts into Google Pocket book LM to generate infographics for every of my reveals. Listed below are among the points:

• The file sizes might be large. I take them into Canva and compress them.
• It’s unattainable to have it do a lot however make an infographic if you wish to add titles of a present or podcast numbers or one thing of that nature, you will have to tug it into an editor of some sort.
• Usually spelling is fairly good.
• I train this to my college students when they’re reviewing new content material.
• I exploit it for brand new content material I share with college students.

Listed below are just a few examples:

Lately, at FETC, I shared a session referred to as “AI: Past the Hype” the place I bought deep into how I train in my classroom. Actually, the R, A, and L have already been there, and the second step, “interact with AI,” was actually simply “interact with Know-how,” however within the days of AI, it has was an energetic use of AI and the way we will successfully use it.

I needed to share just a few of these slides and likewise just a few notes by myself views of what works in my classroom:
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Emotional Intelligence is extra vital than ever.
Final semester, when my college students evaluated the course and gave me suggestions, the 2 most helpful issues they mentioned had been, first, emotional intelligence expertise, and second, immediate stacking. We actively discuss studying physique language, working in groups, and specializing in folks. We dig into our want for human to human contact and why having AI assist you emotionally will not be the very best concept and why people are higher suited to that activity. This has all the time been there however is extra vital than ever.
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2. We Interact with AI
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However AI will not be in all places on a regular basis. It’s a device. We discover ways to use it, whether or not it prompts stacking and utilizing one device to write down the picture technology for one more device, or accumulating a immediate library

I’ve shared among the slides from that part of the preso right here:

​Exemplars-socialmedia.pdf

3. Activating Apply

We all the time use formative evaluation, however I additionally train them to evaluate themselves formatively. Which device do they are saying helps their grades and studying enhance? Google Pocket book LM. I do not simply present them this device; I present them use this device for evaluation. Tips on how to add slides (many simply use it to speak with it), discover further content material, and generate audio and infographics. These are all a part of activating formative self-assessment made attainable by AI, to allow them to study and suppose extra deeply.

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4. Have a look at Proof

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We’re consistently speaking about requirements, notably in my AP class. However I wish to create instruments with the requirements programmed proper in. I’ve made a customGPT for my AP CSP class with the requirements inbuilt and have additionally made a student-facing Google pocket book LM with the content material and requirements for them to make use of. I’m additionally sharing PDFs and customary numbers on my slides to present them the content material they should prepare AI, to allow them to see the proof of how they’re doing.
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Connected are just a few notes on how I interact with AI. Apparently, I used to have AI close to the tip of my coursework, however over the previous two years I’ve needed to transfer it to the beginning of the semester. The youngsters wish to discuss it. They wish to ask questions. And plenty of of them, once they learn the way it truly works, shake their head in disbelief at their improper interested by what it might do for them and their lives.

I would like to inform you life is straightforward, however my Dad was an enormous a part of my life and even at age 82 he was fairly a loving human being. It may be onerous typically to go round my small city as many are nonetheless weeping as a result of they miss him.

Emotional intelligence is extra vital than ever. I work onerous to show it. I work onerous to behave just like the type of one that is revered sufficient to show it.

Some days it’s onerous. So, I have been behind however I needed to get this achieved. I am about to move to the den now to spend time with my husband quite than writing a bunch extra right here than most of you will not get to.

However should you bought this far. Thanks! I hope to attach with you subsequent week.

Joyfully in your service,

Vicki

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