Adam Sparks is back to continue our conversation about writing instruction in the age of AI. We’re diving into even more actionable strategies, from using tools like ShortAnswer to embedding more writing across the curriculum to help students recover those lost writing reps. Plus, we tackle big-picture topics like teaching students to use AI effectively, leveraging AI in scoring state-level assessments, and being intentional about making learning relevant. And stick around for updates from Pear Deck, MagicSchool, and Screencastify Submit.

#EduDuctTape Episode 115

• Today's Sponsor
  • Swivl - bit.ly/mirrortalkjake
• SoapBox Moment - “Cholesterol, Cheating, and Heartaches from AI-Detection Tools”
  • President John F. Kennedy’s Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort - jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/historic-speeches/address-at-rice-university-on-the-nations-space-effort (Copyright Status: Public Domain)
• Today’s Guest: Adam Sparks taught for 7 years before recently finishing his Masters in Learning Design and Technology at Stanford. At Stanford, Adam designed a writing  tool called Short Answer that he now builds full time. As a part of his work with Short Answer, Adam leads PD with schools across the country on adjusting writing instruction in the wake of AI.
• Contact Info:   Email: [email protected], Website: myshortanswer.com, Twitter: @mrsparkstweets Bluesky: @adamsparks.bsky.social

• Educational Duct Tape Question: How should educators teach & assess writing in the age of AI?
  • Step 1: Clear classroom policies (see the previous episode)
  • Step 2: Shortform, formative, targeted, in-class writing (starts in the previous episode)
    • Dylan William
    • Short Answer - myshortanswer.com
    • Dylan Wiliam webinar recording: myshortanswer.com/webinar-recording-for-ai-k12-assessment-a-conversation-with-dr-dylan-wiliam
  • Step 3: More writing across the curriculum
    • Making up for lost writing reps
    • The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Clearinghouse - wac.colostate.edu/repository/teaching/intro
  • Step 4: Teach kids to use AI effectively
    • OpenAI blog post - “A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT” - openai.com/chatgpt/use-cases/student-writing-guide
    • Brainstorm, research, debate partner, organize writing…
    • SchoolAI - schoolai.com
  • Step 5: More state level assessments relating to writing instruction
    • More urgency around the “and write” part of literacy is about how “to read and write”
    • Leveraging AI in the scoring of these assessments
    • Computers in education journal - can AI provide useful holistic writing instruction
    • Comparing the quality of human and AI feedback on writing
  • How to de-emphasize the desire to cheat: Be intentional about the relevance of learning
    • Arran Hamilton, Dylan William, & John Hattie article - “The Future of AI in Education: 13 Things We Can Do to Minimize the Damage” - osf.io/preprints/edarxiv/372vr
    • Literacy as a predictor of health & well-being
    • Ability to communicate as important in all walks of life
    • Authenticity of writing
    • Carrie Spector’s article with Denise Pope & Victor Lee - “What do AI chatbots really mean for students and cheating?” - acceleratelearning.stanford.edu/story/what-do-ai-chatbots-really-mean-for-students-and-cheating
  • Short Answer Mailing List - us21.list-manage.com/contact-form?u=4c662a781896ad760601bc399&form_id=43697352749ef4d4954f28529a0593f4
• Edu News I’ve Got My Peepers On:
  • Pear Deck Adds Auto-Graded Questions - youtu.be/G7hpt8vtZHk?si=RRtfJCJEXyMRhfT_&t=83
  • Customize Tools in MagicSchool - youtube.com/watch?v=A13c9rYytUQ
  • New Screencastify Submit Features

Adam Sparks joins the show to convince every educator to ditch AI-detection tools and focus on what really matters: the writing process.  We discuss alternatives to AI-detection like Brisk, Draftback, revision history tracking, and Short Answer and share actionable strategies to teach writing effectively in the age of AI. From fostering transparency with students to leveraging powerful tools for formative assessment, this conversation is packed with insights to elevate your writing instruction. Plus: Instant Pear Decks, Canva Dream Lab, and new Google Forms Settings.

#EduDuctTape Episode 114

• Today's Sponsors
  • VIZOR - vizor.cloud/jake
  • Swivl - MirrorTalk.ai
• SoapBox Moment - “Cholesterol, Cheating, and Heartaches from AI-Detection Tools”
  • “The Basement Tapes” from the Revisionist History podcast by Malcolm Gladwell - pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-basement-tapes
  • Adam Spark’s blog on AI Detection - adamsparks.substack.com/p/ai-detection-doesnt-work-heres-the
• Today’s Guest: Adam Sparks taught for 7 years before recently finishing his Masters in Learning Design and Technology at Stanford. At Stanford, Adam designed a writing  tool called Short Answer that he now builds full time. As a part of his work with Short Answer, Adam leads PD with schools across the country on adjusting writing instruction in the wake of AI.
• Contact Info:   Email: [email protected], Website: myshortanswer.com, Twitter: @mrsparkstweets Bluesky: @adamsparks.bsky.social

• 2 Truths & 1 Lie
  • “Everything works somewhere; nothing works everywhere.” - Dylan William in his book Creating the Schools Our Children Need
• Educational Duct Tape Question: How should educators teach & assess writing in the age of AI? Also, should we use AI-Detection Tools?
  • First, why not use AI Detection tools?
    • NAEP Scores
    • Adam’ blog on AI Detection - adamsparks.substack.com/p/ai-detection-doesnt-work-heres-the
    • Debora Weber-Wulff’s article - arxiv.org/abs/2306.15666
    • U of Maryland study - “Is AI-Generated Content Actually Detectable?” - cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/ai-generated-content-actually-detectable
    • Open AI blog post - help.openai.com/en/articles/8313351-how-can-educators-respond-to-students-presenting-ai-generated-content-as-their-own
  • Free Alternatives
    • Revision History
    • Draftback - chromewebstore.google.com/detail/draftback/nnajoiemfpldioamchanognpjmocgkbg?hl=en-US&pli=1
    • Brisk - briskteaching.com/ai-tools/inspect-writing
  • Clear classroom policies
    • AI Assessment scale webinar with Leon Furze & Mike Perkins: myshortanswer.com/assessing-writing-in-the-age-of-ai-the-case-for-assessment-scales
    • AI use scale (red, yellow, green, for example)
    • “Everything works somewhere; nothing works everywhere.” - Dylan William in his book Creating the Schools Our Children Need
    • Anna Mills on Blue Sky - bsky.app/profile/annamillsoer.bsky.social
    • Academic integrity
  • Shortform, formative, targeted, in-class writing
    • Dylan William
    • Short Answer - myshortanswer.com
    • Dylan Wiliam webinar recording: myshortanswer.com/webinar-recording-for-ai-k12-assessment-a-conversation-with-dr-dylan-wiliam
• Edu News I’ve Got My Peepers On:
  • AI-Generated Lessons in Pear Deck - Stacey Roshan’s tutorial - youtu.be/G7hpt8vtZHk?si=5qdVPI41pofK-LHh&t=42
  • Canva Dream Lab - canva.com/newsroom/news/droptober-education-2024
  • New Google Forms Control Options - workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/12/add-granular-control-to-google-forms.html

This episode features 5 education updates including new features from Canva, Edpuzzle, and Google Classroom, a really cool new edtech tool, and my very favorite article ever written.

#EduDuctTape Episode 113

• Edu News I’ve Got My Peepers On:
  • Canva and Affinity - canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity
  • Edpuzzle adds Teacher Assist - support.edpuzzle.com/hc/en-us/sections/14355696963981-Teacher-Assist
  • Grouper - grouper.school
  • Gemini in Google Classroom - workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/09/gemini-education-tab-in-google-classroom.html?ck_subscriber_id=1727952374
  • Developing "Assessment Capable" Learners - ascd.org/el/articles/developing-assessment-capable-learners

Dan Stitzel joins me to explore ways to turn whole-class review games into engaging formative assessments by using generative AI to build custom question sets for Jeopardy, Quizizz, and beyond. We also dig into the latest AI features in Quizizz and discuss Gimkit, Blooket, and Quizlet. Plus, I share about Blue Sky, Canva Magic Studio, Google Forms’ new star rating, and MagicSchool’s Presentation Generator.

#EduDuctTape Episode 112

• Today's Sponsor - Short Answer - myshortanswer.com, code jakemillerwrites
• SoapBox Moment - “BlueSky is the New Adjacent Possible!”
  • 1) Create your account - https://bsky.app
  • 2) Follow me, @JakeMillerEdu.
  • 3) Fill out the EduSky Form -  tinyurl.com/EduSkyForm
  • 4) Use the StarterPacks - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-5yMDbXCShYEsEGSckmVlo9pHAnMB0_ldn5Joo81sOY/edit?resourcekey=&gid=1348428220#gid=1348428220
  • 5) Check out the list of EduChats - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-5yMDbXCShYEsEGSckmVlo9pHAnMB0_ldn5Joo81sOY/edit?resourcekey=&gid=1429248465#gid=1429248465
  • 6) Post about the podcast on BlueSky with the hashtag #EduDuctTape, and I’ll add you to a dedicated listener list.

• Today’s Guest: Dan Stitzel has worked for the Streetsboro City Schools for 15 years as a classroom teacher, District Technology Coach, and now as the Director of Technology. Through these years, Dan has had the chance to present at the district, local, state, and national level on various tech integration tools and strategies. Dan's current tech obsessions are generative AI and Computer Science!
• Contact Info:  Email - [email protected]
• 2 Truths & 1 Lie
• Educational Duct Tape Question: What tool or strategy would you use to do a whole class review game with formative assessment included? 
  • Ask a generative AI tool to create a gamified set of questions for a specific standard or topic with point or monetary values that reflect the depth or challenge level of the specific question.
  • Use that set of questions for a Jeopardy game, in a Google Form, or in another platform like Quizizz.
  • If you have it organize the questions, answers, and point values correctly, you can easily turn them into a spreadsheet upload for Quizizz or Blooket.
  • Quizizz - use AI features to generate questions from topics, uploaded documents, articles, etc or use the AI feature to change questions to being a “real-world scenario.”
  • Gimkit - gimkit.com
  • Quizlet Live - quizlet.com/live
  • Kahoot - kahoot.com
  • Quizlet - quizlet.com
  • Blooket - blooket.com
  • Save your generative AI prompts so that you can copy and paste them and continue refining them!
• Edu News I’ve Got My Peepers On:
  • Canva Magic Studio - canva.com/newsroom/news/what-happened-at-canva-create-2024
  • Google Forms’ new star rating - workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/10/ask-responders-for-rating-in-google-forms.html
  • MagicSchool’s Presentation Generator - youtu.be/omZx3vVnPig?si=3tmAOe8b0fNYCgsY

Amy Storer joins me to explore creative tools to replace Google Jamboard, including FigJam from Figma and Padlet Sandbox, as well as the more robust Figma for Edu. We also dive into digital calming rooms and I share about Canva’s Magic Media for generating custom visuals and Padlet’s new auto-captioning feature for videos and audio that enhances accessibility for all learners.

#EduDuctTape Episode 111

• Today's Sponsor - VIZOR - vizor.cloud/jake
• SoapBox Moment - “Walking Toddlers, Driving Teenagers, and AI Integrating Teachers”
  • Gayle Smerdon, PhD’s LinkedIn Post - linkedin.com/pulse/effortful-effortless-stages-how-we-learn-gayle-smerdon-phd
  • Jen Sincero - You Are a Badass - a.co/d/01e4NLb
  • Link to the SoapBox Moment on YouTube -

• Today’s Guest: Amy Storer - Amy, a Lead Learning Guide at friEdTech, is a Google & Microsoft Certified Educator and Trainer whom is known for her exceptional teaching skills, meaningful use of tech in education & her love of connected classrooms. She inspires & pushes others to explore avenues outside traditional teaching methods, making learning engaging & “sticky”.
• Contact Info:  @techamys (X, IG, TikTok), [email protected], friedtechnology.com
• 2 Truths & 1 Lie
• Educational Duct Tape Question: What tool or strategy would you use to replace Google Jamboard? 
  • never-ending canvas whiteboard, build sections like frames, mimics one-stop shop
  • Timers, youtube videos, google docs, dice, spinners, connect four, images, links, audio
  • Widgets (we) - Polaroid, Voice Memo
  • and plugins (me)
  • Digital calming room
  • Templates
  • Free for teachers or students, contact figjam team, accounts are required, though there’s a 24-hour version that doesn’t require login, Microsoft or google SSO
  • FigJam (from Figma) - figma.com/figjam
  • Students have access to Figma for Edu - figma.com/education
  • Padlet Sandbox - padlet.com/site/sandbox
• Amy’s sister Dyann Wilson:
  • [email protected], @techcarewilson
  • Wakelet Calming Rooms (click Calming Room on the left) - wakelet.com/@techCAREWilson#5fvPPNPm8C2vdggEXvoMPJ7510cbf0
  • Google Side Digital Calming Room - sites.google.com/willisisd.org/bms-calming-corner
  • FigJam Digital Calming room - figma.com/board/sGdIqFJObOhRs3EnNk6lUa/duplicate
• Edu News I’ve Got My Peepers On:
  • Canva Magic Media - canva.com/ai-image-generator
  • Padlet Captioned Videos - padlet.blog/auto-captions-for-video-uploads

Dan Fitzpatrick, the author of the bestselling book The AI Classroom joins Jake to discuss frontier AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, as well as some special educational AI tools including MagicSchool, SchoolAI, Diffit, Brisk, and Gamma.app. Dan also shares PREPARED Framework for generative AI and Jake shares about the CIA Coaching Model (Control, Influence, Accept & Adapt). Plus, updates from Canva and Padlet.

#EduDuctTape Episode 110

• Today’s Sponsor - VIZOR - vizor.cloud/jake
• SoapBox Moment - Dr. Strange and the CIA
  • The Critically Reflective Practitioner by Sue Thompson, Neil Thompson - a.co/d/gDn997W
• Today’s Guest: Dan Fitzpatrick
  • Bio:  Dan wrote the bestselling book "The AI Classroom." He has helped countless educators worldwide navigate AI. Dan’s purpose is simple: to help keep educational systems relevant, so that all learners are prepared for success in a rapidly changing world. He also writes weekly for Forbes on educational transformation for educators, parents and entrepreneurs.
  • Contact Info:  theaieducator.io, X - @theaieducatorx
  • 2 Truths & 1 Lie
  • Educational Duct Tape Question: What tool or strategy would you use to . . . complete "teacher tasks" more efficiently?
    • “Don’t think of AI as a technical tool.”
    • Start with a “Frontier AI Tool” like ChatGPT
    • 3 Pillars that educators bring to discussions with AI: Knowledge of your subject, knowledge of pedagogy, knowledge of your students
    • Steve Jobs - “Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do.”
    • MagicSchool - magicschool.ai
    • SchoolAI - schoolai.com
    • Diffit - creating differentiated resources - web.diffit.me
    • Brisk - briskteaching.com - works with Google products
    • “Outsource your doing, not your thinking.”
    • Gamma.app - creating presentations
    • Aieducator.tools
    • PREPARED Framework to help focus the generative AI - Propose, Role, Explicit Instructions (general instructions, subject knowledge, pedagogy, knowledge of students), Presentation, Ask, Rate, Emotions, Diversity)
• Edu News that I've got my eye on:
  • Canva's UI Upgrade - canva.com/newsroom/news/what-happened-at-canva-create-2024
  • Canva Courses- canva.com/newsroom/news/what-happened-at-canva-create-2024
  • Padlet - Video Comments - padlet.blog/add-videos-to-comments

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In today's episode of #EduDuctTape, 6 listeners join Jake to share their thoughts on AI and Academic Honesty in the age of AI. We discuss schools prohibiting AI and tools including MagicSchool, TextBlaze, and Google Arts & Culture. Plus, new updates are coming to Canva!

Thanks to today's guests:

• Bryon Carpenter - @BryonCar @FreshAirAtFive
• Isaac Marquez - @iMarquezEDU
• Eric Guise - @guisegotteched @edtechthrowdown
• Nicholas Marohl - @nicholasmarohl (instagram) @mr.marohl (tiktok)
• Cindy
• Vicki Huepel - @33huepel

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Molly Klodor joins the show to talk about encouraging and ensuring academic honesty in an educational ecosystem that includes AI. We’ll talk about MagicSchool, Google Arts & Culture, Google Applied Digital Skills Lessons, aiEDU, Code.org, SchoolAI, Brisk, DraftBack, TurnItIn, AI detectors, and more! And you’re not going to want to miss the strategies for implementation that she suggests for different grade levels.

#EduDuctTape Episode 108

• Today's Sponsor - VIZOR - vizor.cloud/jake
• Share With the Duct Tapers!
  • Padlet - EduDuctTape.com/Padlet
  • SpeakPipe - EduDuctTape.com/SpeakPipe
• SoapBox Moment - “Great Presidents & Lizard Brains”
  • Think Again, by Adam Grant - https://adamgrant.net/book/think-again/
  • Link to the SoapBox Moment on YouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=glRYTwA9tLA
• Today’s Guest: Molly Klodor
  • Bio:  Molly Klodor is the Instructional Technology Coach at Chagrin Falls Exempted Village School District in Ohio. She is a Google Champion, former English teacher, and an advocate for using technology to enhance student learning. You can find her at @MrsKlodor on Instagram, Threads, or LinkedIn.
  • 2 Truths & 1 Lie
  • Educational Duct Tape Question: What tool or strategy would you use to . . . ensure academic honesty in the age of ubiquitous AI? 

• • “Students have cheated and will continue to cheat in different ways as new technologies evolve and emerge. So we don't want to do everything we do just to prevent cheating because then we're going to be stymying our own opportunity to innovate and try new things. We don't want the fact that students will cheat to limit us from educational innovation.”
  • Stanford study (ed.stanford.edu/news/what-do-ai-chatbots-really-mean-students-and-cheating) 
  • Ken Shelton - “Am I sacrificing long term benefits for short term gain?”
  • Root causes of cheating - 
    • Learners are risk averse because of grading
    • Performance vs. mastery orientation
  • Strategies:
  • 1) Design AI resistant assignments
    • Ask AI to create Ask AI for AI-proof assignments
    • MagicSchool - AI resistant assignment suggester (freemium) - magicschool.ai/tools/ai-resistant-assignment-suggestions
  • 2) Have students use Ai in the assignment
    • Google Arts & Culture - artsandculture.google.com
    • Google Quick, Draw - quickdraw.withgoogle.com
    • Google Say What you See - artsandculture.google.com/experiment/say-what-you-see/jwG3m7wQShZngw?hl=en
    • Google Applied Digital Skills Lesson - applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com/c/en/coding
    • aiEDU - aiedu.org
    • Code.org - code.org
    • * Ask your tech coach person to help!
    • Magic School - Magic Student (freemium) - magicschool.ai/magicstudent
    • SchoolAI - freemium - 75 users per day - good for 3rd grade up - schoolai.com
    • Use station rotation model to minimize amount of users
    • ChatGPT 18+, 13+ with parent approval - chatgpt.com
  • AI Detectors - unreliable, disproportionately flag non-native English speakers and neurodivergent learners
    • “GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers” - Cornell, arxiv.org/abs/2304.02819
    • “AI-Detectors Biased Against Non-Native English Writers” - Stanford, hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-detectors-biased-against-non-native-english-writers
  • Be your own AI Detector:
    • Use Google Docs Version History
      • Or use a Google Chrome Extension like Brisk or Draftback
      • briskteaching.com
      • chromewebstore.google.com/detail/draftback/nnajoiemfpldioamchanognpjmocgkbg?hl=en-US
    • Ask yourself, “Does this sound like what this student (or a student) would write?”
    • Look for the words (vocabulary) that you used (or did not use) in class.
    • Have a discussion with the learner!
  • Have language in your syllabus and in assignment directions about how they can or cannot use AI
  • Matt Miller graphic - ditch.link/ai
  • TurnItIn - plagiarizing and ai detecting tool
    • TurnItIn’s White Paper - go.turnitin.com/l/45292/2023-11-21/cl3clv/45292/170057442751hShVzB/TII_AI_HE_AIWritingDetectionModel_Whitepaper_US_0923.pdf
    • The other TurnItIn info Jake referenced - x.com/mrsparkstweets/status/1746970908642668729
• EdTech News that I've got my eye on:
  • Padlet - Automated Moderation with Safety Net - https://x.com/padlet/status/1815526922346254735
  • Padlet - Talk for Me - https://x.com/padlet/status/1816260636663505339
  • Padlet Sandbox - https://x.com/padlet/status/1813610019948302741
  • Padlet Gradebok - https://x.com/padlet/status/1816894401362514208

Today's Sponsor - VIZOR - vizor.cloud/jake

Rory Vaden Article - https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2015/01/23/buffalo-face-lifes-storms/22187351/

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