Fundamentals of AI in Education By Craig Hansen

On Thursday 10 October I was lucky enough to be chosen as one of the few Manaiaklani Facilitators to do the Micro credential course on the Fundamentals of AI in Education by Craig Hansen. We discussed, what are AI tools and LLM. We talked about prompts and he shared models, guides and posters. We went over the ethics and privacy. How to change settings to protect our data. He also talked about change and early adopters. About growth mindsets and teachers anxiety and nervousness to use AI. You need leaders of change and they showcase the good use and role model for others. You could use 5 minutes in each staff meeting for new applications, successes and real life examples. We talked about AI policies and who has them in their schools or workplaces. Craig shared some examples. We covered many different AI platforms and explored some of the great ideas and options available on some of these AI tools Scribe https://scribehow.com/signup Complete the sign up for https://school.summit-ai.app/ - go to the link, use the email address you used for this calendar invite and use hqf37&$ as your password. Set up your Authenticator app on your phone so you can use your phone for a one-time-password / code each time you sign in. Meta.ai (log in or set up with your FB or IG account) https://www.meta.ai/ Napkin Teachers Buddy. Notebook LM Brisk Teaching Chrome Extension Diffit.me ChatGPT EduAide Suno Questionwell Gemini Perplexity It was great to have the opportunity to explore and tail some of the great tools available in some of these AI platforms. We also had the creator, NZ guy Matt Abraham from Teacher Buddy. We had the founder himself show us around the tool and give us the background story behind the creation of it. How it relates to the day to day work of educators. If you are getting reports or feedback on students don’t use the names as it goes into the AI tool. Use pseudonyms. He is also happy to present to schools. matt@teacherbuddy.com. It will be integrated with Canva soon. Driffit- creates lesson plans, and worksheets. ChatGPT- in settings make sure, improve the model for every one is off, security-log out of all devices. Loved the tip- type in the prompt “Give all the above to me in a word document”. Then a highlight blue option is available to click on and it opens in a word doc. It retains the formatting. Brisk- we explored the next steps, the feedback component. The grow and glow option. You can also upload your own rubric as a pdf and it will analyse work to your rubric. It was good feedback and a good starting place which will save a lot of time. Perplexity- gives you the readings that it uses to analyse your prompt. With the option to get videos and images. It is great at summarising your questions, prompts, and documents. Notebook- had options to create a podcast of 2 people talking about your creation in the AI. Also timelines, study guides, and briefing documents. The podcasts where fun. We also had Benny Pan model Snorkl, a multi modal instant feedback platform. Great for student feedback. I was introduced to it at ISTE. Gammi- was great for the presentations they created that were very professional. You could also create web pages and documents. Suno- creating songs was really fun. Summit built with Grot uses 10% of energy used in GPT. Closed box no data goes into AI. Can build data sets and your own multi language model. You do need to check them as there were mistakes and prompts needed more detail. Craig also shared with us his prompts for the E ASSTle writing and policy and academic data. It was a great day, a bit rushed at times. Gave me a good introduction into some other parts of AI tools and some AI tools I have not looked at. I was impressed with how you can use them to analyse data.I now need the time to explore these in more detail. I wish this was at the beginning of the holidays so I had that time.

Auckland Maths Association

Another great AMA Saturday morning of great workshops. We learnt all about the Kalman Prize and other fellowships available for maths teachers. Was great to hear from teachers who had won these and what they did with the money. The first workshop was Stories in Mathematics By Caroline Yoon from Auckalnd university. A very nice look at how parents are not teachers and struggle to understand why our children don't know things. Also how they can course miss conceptions. Her example and story she had created was all about place value and the history behind it and how to teach it with correct materials and language. Then I attended Rob Proffitt-Whites workshops on Routines. He shared some great resources and of course links to his work. It was great to hear the key messages about rich routines-excerise, unfamilar, application and open. Assign competence problem solving recall and reason. Rich Routines- move n prove, groups and pairs to discuss and defend. Formative assessment. 10-12 minutes to solve. problem, extensions and consolidations. Use the know of the curriculum Quick quizzes-revisit what students should know. Formative assesment and good consolidation. Reminded us of the great ARBs that are free. Learners first facebook page. Then I attended Census at schools year 1-3 Looking at purposeful learning. Context that matters to ākonga. Links to literacy learning and vocabulary. Key action or outcome purpose of investigation. Using the new PPDAC posters off the web site. All the resources are on the web site. Talked about investigations that tells a story across time (depends on the action) Our Lost teeth. Book to support Throw your tooth on the roof. Compare and contrust, create graphs, analysis most, frequent, altogether,Summary display. Another great morning of learning and keeping up to date with changes. This is a link to the AMA site.