Generative AI for Educators Course

Completed the Google Generative AI for Educators Course. It was good to go over all the types of AI systems and the history behind AI. Then moving onto how  AI can be a unique teaching assistant for educators

It covered the instructional strategies prompts using the acronim PARTS- Persona-role, Aim-objective, Recipients-audience, Theme-style tone Structure-formate of output.

We also unpacked the Limitations unfair bias, Hallucinations and unreliable info, academic integrity cheating and privacy and security. 

It also introduced adapting output and how to incorporate shots and request chain-of-thought outputs.

They shared a good PDF glossary, responsibility check list, and prompt library. 

It was great to explore with AI and learn about the types and how to utilise them as an educator.

These are some other great resources they shared.

• Google for Education’s AI for Education site details the benefits of AI for educators and provides information about using AI responsibly and ethically.

• Visit ai.google.com to explore more about AI development, its applications in various fields, and open access to research and tools.

And here are some additional resources to get you started with AI in your practice:

• The Day of AI website, dayofai.org, promotes a global initiative empowering educators and students to navigate AI through curriculum packages and professional development opportunities. Use this resource to help your students be productive and responsible users of AI.

• Experience AI, experience-ai.org/en, offers free resources and challenges to introduce AI and ML concepts to students ages 11-14 in an engaging and interactive way.

Highlights and workspace and AI...Oh My!

I attended a great online webinar from Hapara showing how to use AI tools in workspace and Highlights. Linda Hockenbary from intechgratedpd.org She talked about the pace at which AI is changing and developing and how we can intergrate it into the teaching and learning. In the states AI Literacy is part of the education curriculum and they have to teach it. AI literacy is Knowledge and skills that enable humans to critically understand, use, and evaluate AI systems and tools to safely and ethically participate in an increasingly digital world. Digital Promise AI Literacy Framework She talked about the latest updates for AI in March 2024 OpenAI’s Sora Figure + OpenAI = Figure 01 humanoid robot Neuralink EU AI Act AI regulation mentioned in U.S. State of the Union Claude beat GPT Rumors of GPT 5 release She talked about the What and How? The example she gave in a literacy workspace was good to see bit.ly/4cK4ioK it showed the power and how you can use AI to guide and support student learning not do it for them. She also talked about how to use focus and guide browsing to control and guide the students to AI tools. You can limit the time and access. These where some AI tools she recomended SchoolAI: Spaces Magic School’s Magic Student: Tools Chat for Schools: Tutors GuardRailz It was a great introduction and literacy example. I could see a toolkit being designed out of this.

Google Kupu

I put together a poster on the Te reo Māori Google apps names and some commands. As I felt this is something teachers can put on the classroom walls and support the jorney our Te Hiku teachers are on. Thanks to the great resources shared by our old Te Reo facilitator Mak. This is also good to practice my Te reo in the classroom during the cybsmart lessons.