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I plan on taking the same approach – start small by getting more confident using 1 or 2 ai tools myself as a teacher to help my planning and teaching and gradually explore other resources.
Throughout this course, I have discovered so many AI tools that will be amazing to use during the school year to help with my planning, lesson resources and will not only make things a bit easier for me but also make my lessons a bit more interesting, creative and interactive. As I work in SET, a number of different resources stood out for me. Kahn academy is a tool that will work well in the support room as I will be using it with small groups so can make sure each child is working at their own level and monitor their progress. I also found Magic school a fabulous resource with endless options for me. Knowing I can create behaviour plans, IEP’s, social stories and refine and modify them will definitely be a time saving tool. I also enjoyed learning about the other AI resources, especially Diffit – differentiation at your fingertips! Being a complete newby to AI, discovering and exploring the possibities of Gemini, Co-Pilot and ChatGPT was great and I can definitely see myself using these to help with my teaching and assessment going forward.
Introducing 3D Shapes to Sen Inf.
Learning Outcome
Students will be able to identify, name and describe 3D shapes (cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder) and demonstrate understanding through a scavenger hunt activity.Introduction :
Begin with a short video or image slideshow showcasing various 3D shapes found in the world.
Ask students questions such as, “What shapes can you see around us?” to engage their curiosity.
Introduce the lesson’s goal: to explore and find 3D shapes in the classroom.Lesson : Discuss each shape:
Cube: 6 square faces, equal edges.
Cuboid: 6 rectangular faces, opposite faces are equal.
Sphere: No edges or vertices, perfectly round.
Cylinder: 2 circular bases and a curved surface.
Use hands-on models to demonstrate each shape.Group Work
Have students work in pairs to sort a collection of shape models into 3D and non-3D categories.
Ask guiding questions:
“How many faces does a cube have?”
“Can we roll a sphere? Why or why not?”
Monitor student discussions and provide support as needed.Independent work
Assign students to complete a worksheet (created using Diffit) where they draw and label each of the 3D shapes they find during the scavenger hunt.
Ipads to use Khan academy to explore 3d shapes and reinforce their learning from the lesson
Conclusion:
Interactive quiz created using AI for the interactive board on 3d shapes as an assessment tool for teacher.
Extension
For students who finish early, provide additional modeling clay to create their own 3D shapes, encouraging creativity and exploration.
I really like your idea of using the senior pupils as a buddy system to the younger children. Even in a Junior School where I teach, this would be very helpful to the class teacher in Junior Infants when they are trying to keep approx 20 4 year olds on task and navigating ipads/chrome books and apps they are not yet familiar with as well as the younger children learning from their older peers.
I really like Khan Academy kids and know this is an app that I will be using this coming school year as an SET. I work with children who are mostly on a differentiated curriculum and I really like that this is a personalised and tailored learning experience for children. Children will develop independent learning skills and it will also allow me to track their progress while using the app. It will also be a very useful tool for parents to use at home and having a QR code will make this seamless for parents. I associated Khan Academy with maths but was pleasantly surprised to too the many literacy resources available. I also liked that there were games/videos to target logic, working memory and emotional functioning. I’d imagine I will have to introduce this app on the Ipads to children that I work with in a small group over a number of weeks initially until they are comfortable and confident. A teacher that I work with also sends home little explanation videos on dojo or on a QR code for any new activities and this might be a way to communicate with parents if using this as a homework tool also.
I love your idea of using Co-pilot image generator with your class novels and stories. The kids will enjoying bringing their ideas and characters to life and will engage them in the lessons more I’d imagine. This is definitely something I plan to try with some of my more reluctant writers.
I spent a bit of time exploring MagicSchool Ai and feel it is going to be a valuable too going forward for me. I especially liked tools to write an IEP or a behaviour support plan and modifying it with additional information/details to tailor it to our needs. This is going to be a time saver for us in school, especially when something like a behaviour plan is modified frequently over a number of weeks. Diffit is also going to be a huge time saver and invaluable tool for teachers, helping us to create differentiated activities/reading materials and also follow up activities, worksheets and options for assessment also. This is going to be a game changer when trying to cater for a number of different ability levels in class. Having resources such as these and also others like twee and Gamma are going to be so useful for me as an SET and also for class teachers.
I agree that there is a place for AI tools and technology in our classrooms, but it needs to be balanced with personal, engaging, hands-on lessons and interactions between teachers and the children. It’s worrying to see how far technology has taken hold in education in China after looking at the video in the last slide.
As an SET, I liked seeing the possibilities of Immersive Reader, particularly for struggling readers. It is easy to use and allows teachers to modify what text is assigned to the child, which can make it more interesting to them, encouraging them to read. Often parents ask how to support their child at home and this would be a very useful and practical tool to use at home also.
I’m very new to AI so seeing the maths lesson plan being generated so quickly and accurately by Gemini, Co-Pilot and ChatGPT was very interesting. I can see how this will be a useful resource for planning lessons and also for assessing the lessons – there was a follow up prompt on Co-Pilot asking if something needed to be explained in more detail or if a warm up activity was needed, which shows their endless possibilities.
I particularly liked the Minecraft Education platform and could see this being an engaging tool in classrooms, once they are equipped with enough devices and proper Wi-Fi, something that is still an ongoing issue in a lot of schools.The possibility of creating worksheets in real time will be a valuable tool to have. Sometimes the planned worksheets might not be suitable so having a quick resource to modify/differentiate a lesson follow up activity is great.
As mentioned by many of the other participants, my fear of AI was more down to lack of knowledge of its uses, benefits and potential for us as teachers and for the children that we teach. The TED video was the eye opener for me in this module as it turned the narrative that AI can be a very useful tool in education when looking at it as a form of tutor, which can clearly and concisely break down instructions or explain mistakes to children to address their specific needs. I also explored the different links in the Generative AI in Education slide and discovered a wealth of possibilities for teachers to become more efficient and creative in their lesson planning, assessment and differentiation where tiered worksheets/lessons/activities can be generated to cater for all abilities in the classroom. Children are growing up in a technological world and embracing AI in the classroom seems the next logical step for teachers.