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From this letter, you will learn how to use AI to foster your students’ writing skills, discover a ‘magic’ tool made free exclusively for teachers, find ideas to apply AI against bullying, get a set of first-aid AI tools for your classroom, and more.

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WEEKLY INSIGHTS

What’s behind AI grading?

If you are considering introducing AI in the grading process, here is a helpful prompt by KaidenAi.

First, this is how it works. Fast, objective, and humanized AI grading is a two-ingredient mixture of technologies: Machine Learning, which enables accurate evaluation based on the previously graded materials, and Natural Language Processing, which provides meaningful human-like feedback.

Second, you need to know about the pros and cons. AI grading is a practical time-saver that provides instant feedback and follows a standard. But, grading complex answers and keeping data safe might be challenging.

Go here to find out more.

ChatGPT, inside-out

AI chatbots are an excellent tool to let students develop their writing style. Sarah Levine, an assistant professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, believes ChatGPT might be a starting spot to perfect writing as it is ‘voiceless.’ It’s not a pure assumption but a result of research conducted at a high school in San Francisco. In the study, students were given ChatGPT to contrast their writing with the generic one, and, as a result, they could find their style.

Go here for further reading.

AI to fight against bullying

Kevin P. Chavous, the head of Stride, Inc., draws attention to AI's outstanding role in decreasing school bullying. He believes we can effectively detect hazardous content by using AI algorithms for scanning images, videos, and text on social networks, together with NLP tools that analyze the context. What’s more, AI chatbots can assist struggling students instantly.

Read more here.

CASE STUDIES

Meet a private school that uses AI and “doesn’t have teachers”

After the co-founder of Alpha, an Austin private school, told the local news station they do not have teachers in their school, it was a big surprise that needed some explanations. Of course, they do have adults working with kids, but the school tends to call them tutors rather than teachers. And that is why. Here, AI apps are responsible for teaching students the core subjects. The system controls progress and moves only after mastering the course material. What about humans? Coaches are responsible for training life skills.

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Relax while your class learns to read

At first, kids learn sounds and then acquire reading skills. That is how Buhrer Dual Language Academy, Ohio, students are now learning to read using an AI assistant. The program listens to them reading aloud in English and Spanish and provides feedback and all the needed support. No surprise, teachers love it, saying that AI works as a personal tutor for each kid.

Learn more here.

AI shortlist for your classroom

Numerous traditional teaching activities have become more accessible thanks to AI tools. However, a lot of teachers still have concerns. Illinois educators recently shared their worries about introducing AI daily and told about the classroom activities they enriched using AI. Some of them are:

• Brainstorming,

• Presentations,

• Drafts for letters,

• Templates.

Go here to read more.

Find more ideas on discussing AI with your class here.

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

What about using AI for assessment? Here is a prompt we chose for this newsletter. Inspired by “AI for education”:

Input:

You are an expert educator skilled at writing thoughtful and creative assessments.
Design an assessment to evaluate what my 5th-grade ESL students have learned in our unit on Indirect speech.

Output:

Part 1: Transforming Direct Speech to Indirect Speech (20 points) 
Instructions: Read the following sentences in direct speech. 
Rewrite each sentence in indirect speech while maintaining the meaning. 
“I will go to the park,” she said. 
“My birthday is on the 10th of June,” he announced…

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TOP TOOLS

These are 5 AI tools to enhance your teaching routine in minutes. Try today’s EduSummary first-aid AI set:

Almanack AI generates worksheets, helps you with lesson planning and curriculum integration, and more. Good news. It’s free to use for individual teachers.

Amira Learning provides dyslexia risk detection and reading assistance to sharpen students’ abilities to read aloud correctly. A 30-day free trial is available. A monthly subscription starts at $6.

AudioPen transforms your voice notes into coherent text to assist you with lesson plans, emails, and even books—it all depends on the writing style chosen. To test it for free, you can record up to three minutes. A yearly pass costs $75.

Education CoPilot is used to tailor lesson plans and classroom activities, create drafts of teaching materials, and track learning progress. You can use it for free during a 30-day trial period. The monthly cost for individual teachers is $9.

PowerPoint Speaker Coach helps teachers create more successful English-speaking presentations. It analyzes your pace, tone, and word use and provides a report with improvement suggestions. You can access this tool within the PowerPoint web app. It’s available for a free preview.

NEWS

Parents about AI: Strange, but not odd

Most parents in the US lack knowledge about educational AI, but still, two-thirds expect that it won’t be a disaster for K-12 education. These are the results of an October survey by The National Parent Union. They questioned over 1.5K parents of public school students across the US.

Do you want to know how many parents care only about the AI drawbacks? Click here.

This party’s only for teachers

A little bit of magic won’t harm you, especially if this happens in your classroom. Meet AI’ Classroom Magic’ by Canva. This service announced free tools for educators to help you plan, edit, and check your lessons’ text and visual content. You must prove you are a teacher to benefit from the free version. Use your professional email address or upload a certificate.

Find more here.

AI to prevent gunshots in school

An AI gun detection system in Leon High, Florida, proved 100% accurate. Data was provided by LCS Chief of Safety and Security Jimmy Williams. A new soft is called Zero Eyes. This system can spot brandished guns. Once it detects a weapon, police and school officials receive the image of an object in seconds. Now, it works in 5 LCS high schools.

Read more here.

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