AI Tools for Teachers
Prerequisites
- Recommended, but not required, is our course, AI in Education
- Basic-level understanding of navigating the Internet.
- Ability to take a screenshot and paste into a Document.
- Basic-level file management (naming, placing, saving files)
Materials
- Access to the Internet
- Screenshot/ Snipping tool
- Word Processor such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs
Professional Learning Objectives
- Use course text summaries, personal experience and the provided template to reflect on what you know and would like to know about using AI in your profession with 100% completion.
- Use course text and link tables to explore, apply and evaluate four different administrative assistant AI tools.
- Use course text and link tables to explore, apply and evaluate four different research-based AI tools.
- Use course text and link tables to explore, apply and evaluate four different creative-based AI tools.
- Use course materials, AI tools tables and a current lesson plan to evaluate and update an existing lesson plan to add rigor using at least 3 AI tools previously explored.
- Use course materials and experiences to complete a self-assessment on what they learned from this course.
Common Core Standards
2.1.a Set Professional Goals
Educators set professional learning goals to apply teaching practices made possible by technology, explore promising innovations, and reflect on their effectiveness.
2.1.b Participate in PLNs
Educators pursue professional interests by creating and actively participating in local and global learning networks.
2.1.c Keep Current on Research
Educators stay current with research that supports improved student learning outcomes, including findings from the learning sciences.
2.2 Leader
Educators seek opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning.
2.2.c Model Digital Tool Use
Educators model for colleagues the identification, exploration, evaluation, curation and adoption of new digital resources and tools for learning.
2.3.c Model Safe, Legal, Ethical Practices
Educators mentor students in safe, legal, and ethical practices with digital tools and content.
2.4.c Use Collaborative Tools
Educators use collaborative tools to expand students’ authentic, real-world learning experiences by engaging virtually with experts, teams and students, locally and globally.
2.5.a Accommodate Learner Differences
Educators use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.
2.7.a Offer Alternative Assessments
Educators provide alternative ways for students to demonstrate competency and reflect on their learning using technology.
2.7.b Use Tech to Create Assessments
Educators use technology to design and implement a variety of formative and summative assessments that accommodate learner needs, provide timely feedback to students and inform instruction.
2.7.c Use Data to Guide Progress
Educators use assessment data to guide progress, personalize learning, and communicate feedback to education stakeholders in support of students reaching their learning goals.