People are Talking about AI - Are you?
How is AI impacting teaching and learning - Season 3 Ep. 61.5
Greetings WOL Friends,
In our last episode, we talked with Dr. Patrick Crawford and Dr. Christine Davis about the importance of creating opportunities for students in small and rural communities to have access to the variety and quality of opportunities that their peers in suburban and urban settings have. If you missed it you can listen in on Spotify.
As we prepare for next week’s episode on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in schools - we have a few resources for you to check out.
Dr. Crawfords Blog - Leadership Thoughts
JoltEDU - Microlearning for Busy K-12 Educators
The Learner-Centered Leader by Dr. Butler
As we dive into Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our schools - which is here, now - we want to approach it with reverence and understanding. We don’t want to approach AI implementation or policy without having a conversation that considers how we navigate something that isn’t going away. We want to lead the AI journey in our schools - so that it can have a positive impact on learning and our teachers feel supported.
How is AI Impacting Your School?
Online assessment is one place that you have probably already dealt with. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its myriad of bots that scrub the internet for answers, is a powerful tool. How do we work with students and our communities to learn how to manage such a powerful tool for good, rather than bump up against a tsunami-sized tide of academic dishonesty?
I would say - talk to the students. Engage them in conversations
Edutopia and others have several great articles to start the conversation:
Fostering Students’ Academic Integrity in High School | Edutopia
What do AI chatbots really mean for students and cheating? | Stanford Graduate School of Education
On the flip side - when I posted these articles for our Virtual Learning Specialist to consider as they talk with their students - Emily, one of our German teachers replied, “I feel this… Constant battle... It does make me think a lot about the kinds of tasks we build into our courses, though... it makes me reflect both on course/activity design (what requires a student to make an original response) AND on how to grade assignments so that it will literally never pay off if they cheat.”
Hats off to Emily, for recognizing that there IS something that we can do as educators on a variety of levels to see a new technology and not give up our power, and instead of putting our heads in the sand - find solutions.
What do you think?
I also applaud this awesome Professional Learning that Erin and Melissa, our Virtual Learning Specialist, put together for our folks - to try to understand, embrace, and act, rather than react to a change in paradigm. With four dates and four topics, it should be great to hear the WOL facilitator’s (teacher’s) perspective on AI in the Classroom. Stay tuned! More to come.
AI Focus Group: “The Humans in the Loop"
And you can look for us in your inbox again next week, or on Spotify to hear our first - of I am sure many, conversations about Artificial Intelligence.
As always, if you can’t find a teacher or just want to chat about possibilities reach out!
Best,
Pat