I’m also curious what AI tools specifically you all are using in your classrooms! Do your districts support AI tools yet?
Beth, I don’t think my district currently has a policy other than those that guide use of any technology use. I have really gotten a lot out of magicschool.ai! I have been able to take different texts and modify their readability level to suit my 5th graders while maintaining the content. I have used it to create choice boards that cater to different learning styles and levels of Bloom’s, just by giving it a state standard or topic of study. I’ve also created “choose your own adventure”-style stories that guide students through a historical event m, such as the development of the Jamestown colony. I am finding it really useful as a way to create new activities for my students.
Most recently, I have used it to generate text for practice and formative assessments — for example, I had it generate a story that featured certain story elements and content relevant to what we had been studying. I’ve also used it to create small practice exercises for grammar and punctuation.
In the elementary setting we have had a couple trainings and I have implemented it to save time and creative planning. We have created decodable readers, generated letters to parents and then personalized, it has been a lesson planning tool and used to complement lesson plans. Chat GPT is a good tool to learn and try AI for the classroom setting.
Nora - the graduate class I teach at Northern Michigan University that focuses on trends in teaching ELA includes some discussion and sharing of resources for ChatGPT. I have read some articles on Storyq and am wondering if anyone has any experience with this?
