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I would incorporate AI into the classroom using the following strategies
AI Projects: Introduce simple AI projects such as creating chatbots using platforms like Scratch or MIT App Inventor. These projects can teach basic coding and logical thinking to my 4th class children.
Storytelling with AI: Use AI tools like Storybird or tools that generate story ideas to help students create their own stories, fostering creativity and literacy.AI-Assisted Reading Comprehension Exercises
Tools Needed: AI reading comprehension tool such as Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams or AI-powered educational apps like Epic! or ReadTheory.
Steps:
Introduction to AI: Explain how AI can help improve reading skills by providing personalized feedback and suggestions.
Reading Assignment: Select a grade-appropriate story or article from an AI-powered reading platform.
Guided Reading: Have the students read the story on their tablets or computers. The AI tool will track their progress and highlight difficult words.
Comprehension Questions: After reading, the AI tool will generate comprehension questions tailored to each student’s reading level. Students will answer these questions individually.
Instant Feedback: The AI tool provides instant feedback on their answers, explaining why their answers were correct or incorrect.
Discussion: Bring the class together to discuss the story and the questions. Highlight how the AI helped them understand the story better.
Extension Activity: Ask students to write a summary of the story or a continuation using AI writing assistance to help them with structure and grammar.
Learning Outcomes:Students improve their reading comprehension skills through personalized AI feedback.
They become familiar with how AI can support their learning process.
The activity encourages critical thinking and discussion based on their reading.
By integrating these AI tools and activities, you can make literacy learning more interactive, personalized, and engaging for 10-year-olds, while also introducing them to the practical applications of AI in education.Consider one of the AI application examples highlighted and explain how you would introduce this to your pupils.
One of the applications I would like to explore more is Khan Academy but for this assignment I am going to focus on the analysis of bias mentioned in the module.
This use of AI to produce a newspaper article depicting the views of the 1916 Rising in Ireland from both An Phoblacht and The London Times. Getting the children to analyse the text for areas of bias and even at a basic level to identify which paper wrote which articles. I would like to do the same with my class on the Aboriginals. In September we study the Aboriginals in Australia. There are many options for inputting prompts here from their thoughts on the English and Irish settlers coming to their territory to live or their thoughts on national landmarks in Australia such as Ayers Rock which they considered sacred. On the other hand input what the views of the English/Irish many who were shunned from their native countries arriving in Australia. Also the Eng/Irish views on the national landmarks would be very different. I think this really consolidates the views of all parties in the children’s minds and they would learn so much from the experience.
I think putting in the prompt with the children and getting the output is good but the reverse I feel is even more powerful for their critical thinking development. Looking at an article/output from AI and trying to figure out in as much detail as possible what the input was is a great lesson and pointed out the areas of bias that would lead you to think of whose point of view the article is written from.
I will definitely use this in my class next year.
Give two examples of how you can use some of the tools identified in this module to improve your own teaching, learning and assessment.
This module was hugely beneficial there are some amazing tools here that will change and enhance my teaching in the future. The co pilot image creator used in the module to create the cover for Charlotte’s Web is so clever. Its use in helping the children visually see that the more descriptive and detailed their prompt is the clearer the image that is created. The reverse of that was even more beneficial to have the children create the prompt that would give the images previously created. This is such an effective way of teaching the descriptive writing process.
Diffit for teachers is also a great tool to allow for differentiation for the different learning needs for the students. I also loved Gamma for generating powerpoints or documents for any topic.
Reflect on the potential classroom use of these examples and the other AI tools covered in Module 3 and how this can impact on future teaching, learning and assessment.
This module has so many applications that will benefit my teaching in the future
As well as the Magic school Maths story word problems is a brilliant way for teaching/revision or assessment of topics such as long multiplication or long division, fractions etc.
I also loved the use of the Microsoft Learning Accelerators namely
Reading Coach : Which gives real time feedback on reading pronunciation, fluency etc,
Search Coach teaches children how to compose efficient search queries and evaluate their results. It also teaches them the importance of effective search strategies.
Speaker Coach which gives real time feedback and guidance on presentation if a speaker is being overly wordy or using culturally sensitive terms. It allows the speaker to practice in private and get suggestions for improvements.
Next year will be an opportunity to try out these and see what ones work best that I will continue to use long term.
The immersive reader would also benefit me in my class as this year I too had a number of students diagnosed with dyslexia. The immersive reader would make reading so much easier by reading texts out loud. The fact that you can use the microsoft tools to change backgrounds and text is fantastic. This all helps with accessibility. The choice of voice is also very helpful.
I have used AI last year to generate a specific Christmas Play. I wanted it based on a winter theme and requested certain/additional roles which worked really well. I have also used google forms for assessment and google quizzes. This is very useful as it autocorrects. We would use this on a regular basis in the school. I have also used IXL which gathers information on children for English and Maths for all levels.
I will definitely use it more in the coming year for lesson planning to enhance my teaching. I would like to try and use Flipgrid for discussions with the children as we have a scheduled computer slot where we could all use this as a class.
Looking at AI in China. As a teacher you could see the benefits where everyone works to their full potential and discipline issuers are greatly reduced. It does seem very pressurised for children at a young age to be subjected to such rigidity and been made to focus. On the other hand it instills a very good foundation for future study, self discipline and accountability. Discipline issues in the classroom do not impinge on anyone else’s learning.
As a society, crime and societal issues are also probably reduced with face recognition and accountability. I think we are far off implementing a system such as this. The main issues I see with AI here are agreement as to what and how much to implement. There are misconceptions that AI does not belong in education. I think these type of courses are required for everyone especially principals where they can see the potential. There are implications for the Acceptable Policy to specify exactly what AI is being used and how much detail you need to include. If you were to use an application to personalise learning for the students you would need consent amongst parents that they agree to the collection of data on their child even if it is for the greater good. Parents may may not want data collected on their child.
<span style=”color: #163c42; font-family: ‘Hind Madurai’, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;”>The use of AI tools in the classroom can significantly impact future teaching, learning, and assessment. </span>
I agree fully with this statement.
AI can help in the planning process suggesting activities or content to cover under a particular topic. It can also help in the creation of digital resources such as specific images which we saw in module 1 or in the creation of personalised videos using Vidnoz or equivalent in supporting teachers.
AI can also support the learner through a tutoring service where the student can ask questions (prompt engineering) and target particular areas of a topic that they may need help on.
It can also assist in assessments through analysis of the data inputted by a student and offer suggestions and/or areas for improvement.
The fact that there are EU Ethical guidelines on AI is a great comfort as schools embrace this relatively new concept to prevent misuse, bias or data breach.
These guidelines also help to address the misconceptions about the use of AI i.e. that it is too difficult to use…has no role in education and that it is not inclusive.
