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Your weekly EduSummary newsletter is here to share a bunch of AI insights, news, and helpful cases. Learn more about the teaching domains you can enhance using AI; meet an effective fast-learning technique that will help your students feel more confident learners; catch the pace of the AI educational market; and find out how teachers have started regaining confidence in their profession after the post-COVID loss.

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CASE STUDIES

Teacher’s AI tips from New Hampshire

A Southern New Hampshire University faculty member, Lisa Chilcote Bacco, has been researching medical sociology for decades. Recently, she has become an active proponent of introducing AI into school routines to improve the learning process and boost classrooms. These are some of her ideas about the pros of AI for schools:

• Using AI to create “alternative instruction techniques for atypical learning;”

• Working on teaching kids how to “share and sharpen their thoughts;”

• Enabling ESL learning with some precious tools.

Go here to dive into details.

To be ahead of AI: learn FASTER

More efficient and less time-consuming studying is becoming a more and more valuable skill in the face of AI technology that grasps all around. Not to lag, Jim Kwik, an American brain coach, suggests applying an effective learning model. He calls his method FASTER. That means “forget” everything that distracts you, “act” instead of being a passive listener in learning, “state” to remember the new information better by tying a feeling to it, “teach” to learn twice, “enter” learning into your calendar, and “review” using the interval method of remembering the new stuff. Read more here.

Do not replace creativity

Creative writing teachers might have been embarrassed with the AI technologies the most. Still, these educators also explore AI to learn more about its potential. Lori Cornelius, a language and literature instructor at Florida Gulf Coast University, has experience using AI tools like ChatGPT and Grammarly. She says she still seeks the proper AI format in her research studies. The main challenge Cornelius foresees now is not to push forward AI tools that aim to replace the creativity and critical thinking of the students. Read more here.

WEEKLY INSIGHTS

Teach AI literacy now so as not to lose in the world marketplace tomorrow

In the UK, BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, urges educators to teach pupils AI literacy in secondary school from the age of 11. Martyn Landi, PA Technology Correspondent, reports that according to this call, the top tools students must be acquainted with are generative chatbots like ChatGPT. Teaching AI literacy includes knowing the pros and cons of AI, its abilities, and its limitations. But what’s more, in promoting this call, BCS takes care of the part the UK will take in the global AI marketplace. Learn more here.

The best and even better. AI ideas for your classroom

Keep several effective and ethical ways of introducing AI into your classes from the professors and administrators of five major public universities in the US. Here is what they suggest that instructors do about AI right now:

1. Create an AI syllabus with guidelines and expectations for how your students may and may not use generative AI;

2. Develop a plan for using generative AI together with the class;

3. Assign tasks about the ethics of AI use in your discipline.

Click here to learn more.

AI and emerging capabilities

AI chatbots may let you understand both math and your teenage son's jokes, says an expert and Minerva University senior, Irhum Shafkat. After AI tools started proliferating a year ago, learning capabilities jumped to a new level, he believes. In the bi-weekly education podcast featuring Michael Horn and Diane Tavenner, he recalled his learning experience in Minerva and the immense learning outcomes he received thanks to the new format of edtech. Go here to get inspired by this AI optimist in education.

NEWS

Big money is coming

By 2030, the global education market is expected to reach $10 trillion, reports The Mint. The vast potential of ChatGPT will continue to grow and offer new services, says Andrew Mayne, AI consultant, who was previously an OpenAI employee. In particular, he talks about a non-judgemental tutor for students that has been already helping teachers create more engaging learning materials.

AI preferences of British teachers

Faster assessments, producing feedback for students, social media posts, and drafting letters to the students’ families: this is part of a list of activities British teachers have recently marked as those accomplished using the generative AI help. Daily Mail provided this data taken from a government report. Go here for more details.

Teachers start loving their profession anew

According to a recent Houghton Mifflin Harcourt survey, in 2023, teachers’ confidence in education has started recovering. Compared to the previous year, it gained two more points. The total score is now 42 out of 100. This data indicates that teachers have finally started overcoming the post-COVID survival mode and transitioned towards regaining confidence in their profession. 57% of teachers questioned by HMH agreed that generative AI is an inevitable part of the learning process. Also, 58% said they want to get closer to the technology. Go here to read more.

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

Enjoy this time-saving ChatGPT prompt inspired by helloteacherlady.

Input:

I’m creating a reading strategies choice board. 
What choices can I add that will encourage students to be creative while demonstrating their learning?

Output:

Creating a reading strategies choice board is a fantastic way 
to encourage creativity and diverse learning approaches. 
Here are some choices you can add to the board that will inspire students to be creative while demonstrating their understanding of the material.
Illustrated Timeline:
Create a visual timeline of the key events in the story. 
Use drawings, symbols, or images to represent each event.

See the whole story in ChatGPT.

TOP TOOLS

Meet three AI tools EduSummary chose for you this week. Consider using them to bring fresh air of creativity into your lessons, turn your syllabus into an engaging paper, and boost the learning outcomes of individual students in your classroom.

• Quizbot.ai is an AI question generator that empowers teachers and schools to create quizzes, personalized assessments, AI images, and more. It works well for English, math, biology, and chemistry. 15 languages are supported. You can create a 500-question package for $19.

• AI Teaching Assistant Pro by Contact North serves to generate multiple-choice quizzes, essay questions, versatile syllabi, and interactive lessons for free. There is a ChatGPT-powered AI Tutor Pro for your students that provides reviews and open-ended conversations about the learning topics.

• Mirror by Swivl is a portable AI hardware/software gadget with a 180º camera. Teachers can use this device to generate leaving activities and goals for individual students and classes. Go here to learn more.

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