{"id":1134,"date":"2024-02-15T03:22:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T03:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harwoodben.com\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2024-02-15T03:49:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T03:49:28","slug":"reflections-on-the-2-12-24-webinar-learn-with-ai-10-ways-to-try-ai-in-your-classroom-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harwoodben.com\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on the 2\/12\/24 webinar: Learn With AI: 10 Ways to Try AI in Your Classroom Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended a fantastic webinar this morning at 8:30 AM, Learn With AI: 10 Ways to Try AI in Your Classroom Right now,<\/a>\u00a0 co-hosted by Maha Bali<\/a> at the American University in Cairo and Jon Ippolito<\/a> at the University of Maine. Jon has a comprehensive site, Learn with AI,<\/a> which is pretty impressive and well worth a looksie.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A recording of the webinar will be made available which I’ll try to remember to post if\/when I have the link.\u00a0 Maha is generally excellent at following up on what she promises by making such professional development opportunities available as open education resources. The webinar over Zoom was a 20 minute or so lecture by Jon followed by 20 minutes of a breakout room with educators who got to select an activity from wide-ranging topics. And then, each group submitted their work for further analysis and research by Maha and Jon. Lots of folks on the call so no doubt there were a number of submissions. I selected the Literature breakout room and worked with an education professor (also interested in this topic) from a university in the the Middle East.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After coming up with a plan and following the group activity outlined in the document’s instructions (shared in the above link to the workshop), we worked with prompts to build an assignment for a 10th grade English teacher to introduce Charles Dickens’, A Tale of Two Cities, to students. After the teacher introduces 15-20 minutes of lecture about the novel and its author, students are asked pair up to draft an outline ultimately leading to the creation a 5 slide presentation using two quotes from Dickens’ novel that resonate with them. I won’t paste the lengthy engagement with GPT but here’s the final product we submitted. Jon and Maha will then use the data and share back what they are working on with crowdsourced input from teachers.\u00a0 It’s the first time I’ve used GPT in a live call in a breakout room with another educator whom I don’t know.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nFrom #4 on this most current list we are making together, “Generate Ideas: Brainstorm” and jot down all ideas that come to mind from the activity. Don’t filter yet; the goal is to have a range of ideas to work with, have students find 2 quotes from the text. They prepare 5 slides. last two slides have the quote on each slide. Make a very clear execution plan for students to follow.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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GPT REPLY: For the activity where students are generating ideas and incorporating quotes from “A Tale of Two Cities” into their presentation, here’s a step-by-step breakdown for creating the slides:<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Slide Creation Instructions for Students:<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

1. Brainstorming:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n