“I use AI to help create lesson plans, presentations, write emails, and to create checklists. AI is a great resource to use as an initial starting point for a task or to give you ideas.”
-April Edwards, 6th grade social studies teacher in Texas
This article from Education Week discusses on AI helps teachers plan lessons, create rubrics, provide feedback on student assignments, and respond to parent emails.
Will it work for me? What software will I need to master and how long will it take me to do that? Am I better off doing these tasks the way I have for the past fifteen years?
I picked up that I should begin by using platforms I’m already familiar with, which include Google Classroom, Robotel, and PearDeck. The three educators highlighted in the story used Canva for Education to create a 6th grade lesson on dinosaurs suing the AI assistant Magic Write and ChatGPT to measure how difficult a text is for English learners and provide individual feedback on students’ writing essays.
I’m open to learning new software, and perhaps AI jumped language barriers by providing content in French, or for that matter, other world languages. This fall, I hope my district offers professional development on this topic, since I believe this technology will be around forever, and should help make tasks teachers do daily easier and more efficient. At least, in the long term that should happen, though initially it might take time to master the technology.
Jennifer Nelson 
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