Mindy and Gina are back with our final championship round of AI Madness. In this episode, Mindy and Gina take a deep dive into Brisk Teaching and School AI. Join them as they put these two AI tools against each other in completing similar tasks and reveal the good, the bad, and the truly amazing about both of these tools. Curious to know which tool wins? Take a listen to find out!
In the spirit of March Madness and how much we love Iowa Women’s basketball on our team, we have taken the idea of bracket play into the AI world. In the last episode, we shared eight tools within the four categories of productivity and communication, lesson planning, scaffolding, and assessment and feedback. In this episode, we narrowed those eight tools down to four to face off in head-to-head competition.
Join us next week for the AI Madness Final!
In the spirit of March Madness and how much we love Iowa Women’s basketball on our team, we have taken this idea of bracket play into the AI world and have come up with four different categories for AI tools. Within those four different categories, we have chosen two tools that we feel fall into that category to match against one another. To compare these two tools, we will share the cost, what integrations the tool has, and usability of the original output.
For the next two weeks, we will advance tools through the bracket and we will share more in-depth analysis of these tools.
Main Course: Elite Eight
Bracket 1: Productivity and Communication:
Bracket 2: Lesson Planning
Bracket 3: Scaffolding
Bracket 4: Assessment and Feedback
News and Updates:
Main Course: National Educational Technology Plan
What it is: This 2024 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) examines how technologies can raise the bar for all elementary and secondary students. It offers examples of schools, districts, classrooms, and states doing the complex work of establishing systemic solutions to inequities of access, design, and use of technology in support of learning.
Why it’s important: It addresses three main components: the digital use divide, the digital design divide, and the digital access divide. It also provides actionable recommendations to advance the use of technology in teaching and learning in these three areas.
Tech Nuggets:
These are a few of our favorite Google Updates:
Gifs and stickers in slides - Insert >> Image >> Gifs and Stickers (Gina)
Customize notification settings in Google Docs - Tools >> Notification Settings
Insert Emoji in Google Docs - Insert >> Emoji
There are a few of our favorite new tools:
GirlJams
Revision History - Extension to see how long you have written for, copy and pastes, deletions, etc.
MyLens.AI - Generate different timelines quickly. Download timeline as a PNG.
You can now export YouTube questions from MagicSchool.ia into Google Forms with the new MagicSchool.ai
GW Corner Booth:
Student Engagement Through Metacognition: A Instructional Coaches Workshop - course #226291
Two Dates:
January 19, 2024 or
February 23, 2024.
AI in Education (Course or two stand alone workshops) - Dates: February 13th and March 5th.
Full Course for recertification #226303
Day one only workshop #226304 - “What is AI?” workshop
Day two only workshop #226305 - “Integration of AI in Teaching and Learning”
Both courses will be held in-person at Grant Wood AEA.
Don’t forget to take care of you:
https://twitter.com/TCEA/status/1733835712003186920?s=20
In this episode, Mindy and Gina interview their new teammate Shalyn Huber.
News:
Kahnmingo is coming to Canvas: Kahnmingo is an AI tutor that was developed by Kahn Academy.
Seesaw - Computer Science Activities and English Language Explorers: Newcomers
Catch up with the team from ITEC: bit.ly/DLGWAEAitec2023
Nuggets:
Text FX with Google: Suite of tools to support figurative language generation.
Twee - AI aid for teachers who use text and much more. Generate reading questions. Generate dialogue around topics.
Searching Tabs in Chrome with @Tabs in Omnibar, search tabs with carrot
Ghostwrite: ChatGPT Email Assistant
We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on X @DLGWAEA or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram! You can always use our #EdtechTO and share your thoughts with us too!
Mindy and Gina explore some Jamboard replacement tools.
Canva Whiteboard
In this episode, we are jumping back into Universal Design for Learning or UDL and brought our resident experts Lynn Kleinmeyer and Bridget Castelluccio in to share more about this topic. We’ve talked about UDL in the past, but it is such an important topic, we wanted to bring it back to the forefront again.
We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on Twitter @DLGWAEA or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram! You can always use our #EdtechTO and share your thoughts with us too!
Welcome back to the Edtech Takeout–this is episode 114. This episode is a fan favorite – News and Nuggets!
A little fun fact: This week we reached our 100,000th download!
News and Updates:
Canva: Magic Draw, Magic Eraser, Magic Write
Newsela: Moving to Newsela Lite, access to four articles at a time with five different reading levels, teacher can access student quiz scorers and writing prompts
Seesaw: Add frames (in drawing template) and student responses snap into the frame so no sizing is necessary, Present to Class
5 Chromebook Updates for Students and Teachers
Voting Chip in Google Docs - watch for this in the coming months!
Tech Nuggets:
Mindy:
How to Differentiate Texts Using ChatGPT
Convert Your Doc in Canva into a Slide Deck in One Click (convert button) Example made from this
The Juice: delivers five articles a day to grades 5-12 students. Followed by vocabulary and comprehension checks, each student is assigned a specific reading level by the teacher. Teacher dashboard that shares data. 30-day free trial
Gina:
#FilterTheNoise - News Literacy Course/Resources - Jonathan Ketchell
Sutori for Playlist
Beth:
Genially - Nice alternative to Thinglink
Teachflix - Teacher currated video repository
Canva - Vertical videos with background removal example
The GWAEA Corner Booth:
Student Engagement Through Classroom Discussion
One-day Workshop for Instructional Coaches
May 5, 2023 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at GWAEA in CR 6th Street
Course number 205152
Tenets of Transformative Classrooms (Online)
Online course for teachers, instructional coaches, administrators
Section 315455: Starts June 19th - Ends October 6th
Section 315456: Starts August 1st - Ends November 30th
GWAEA Professional Learning Institute
June 26 - June 30, 2023
Find more information here.
Iowa AEA’s CS PD Week
June 12 - June 16, 2023
Find more information here.
We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on Twitter @DLGWAEA or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram! You can always use our #EdtechTO and share your thoughts with us too!
Join Mindy, Gina, and Corey for a conversation with AI education expert Charlotte Dungan from AI Edu.
Show Notes:
MarI/O - watch AI learn to play Mario. This is a great example of machine learning.
ChatGPT - Generative AI that creates written content.
Content Detector AI - Detector that used AI to recognize AI-generated content.
Kahnmingo AI Tutor - Kahn Academy AI tutor
AI Edu - Resource for educators interested in teaching more about AI. Includes AI snapshots mentioned by Corey. These are great bell ringers or discussion starters around the topic of AI.
News and Updates:
Include Captions with a Google Meet Recording
Padlet has added a slideshow (Tony Vincent)
Bing AKA Sydney
AI - Chat GPT for positive use in the classroom
Create & Edit a Timeline View - Google Docs Editors Help
Table Templates in Google Docs
Tech Nuggets:
Mindy:
Take the background out of your iPhone pictures (iOS16)
Force captions on in YouTube: Thanks, Amber! ?cc_load_policy=1 (embed code comes after video ‘name’)
The Achievery: Has Learning Units, essential questions, standards, grade level, video clips, and lesson plans. Thanks, Lynn!
Eduprotocols in Google Slides from @MrsGearhart
Gina:
ScreenPal for video feedback in any textbox
Curipod - AI-powered lessons
Iorad - great for creating tutorials
Slides Timer - Chrome extension for a timer in Google Slides
Cloze Reading Assignment with Drop Downs in Google Docs - via Eric Curts
Stacy:
Conker - topic and grade level and will give multiple choice quiz that can go into a Google form or PDF
Checkboxes in docs- can add to tasks
About spaces and group conversations - Google Chat Help
The GWAEA Corner Booth:
Computer Science Pedagogy & Best Practices: Principles 7-12
PreK-12 teachers join us for a six-week virtual course exploring six of twelve pedagogical principles from Hello World's "The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy."
When: March 22 - April 19, 2023, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Virtual via Zoom
GWAEA & CSTA Iowa CS Pedagogy & Best Practices Course 2
Course #204370
Section # 313928
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