Presenters: Ms. Kristen Heusinger, Ms. Chelsea Barger and Ms. Rebecca Crutchfield, TriConference 2024, Mexico City, Mexico

Please note: These live learning blogs are posted on the fly, and I am more concerned with capturing information rather than perfecting my writing/proofreading skills. So yes, there might be mistakes, and no, it’s not the next great American novel. We’ll live!

Canva AI tools

• Magic Switch – translate to another language or convert a document into slides; and you get an edit button after so you can customize and you aren’t stuck with what it spits out
• Magic Media – Make your own image, graphic or video to fit your needs for your presentation
• Magic Write – You can make text more fun, shortened, more formal, etc.
• AI Powered Apps – voiceovers, make their own music, different styles of music to match the mood you want, presenters – you can type in text and the avatars will read for you. Kids can type in their info and Canva can present if they aren’t comfortable presenting.

Perplexity – chatbox-style search engine. Gives sources, summary, images, etc. (perplexity.ai)

It’s all about the prompt! You can use this as a good anchor chart to help kids know how to write a good prompt. Here’s a template:

• Who is this information for?
• What info do I want?
• Add details
• How do I want it? (List, summary, outline, comparison, etc.)

Magic School – supports teachers and students to use AI in a responsible and productive way.

So many cool tools – my favorite is writing feedback. You can assign the tool to students and upload the rubric, and students can put in their writing and AI will give them feedback and apply the rubric (we should use this for personal project [Mer’s idea])!

Diffit – differentiation tool for teachers. Use it for:

• leveled reading passages – you can input text and ask it to create a google quiz for you
• summaries
• images
• keywords
• comprehension quizzes (exported directly to google forms)
• graphic organizers
• google forms, slides, docs

Other tools: Poe, Twee, Read Along, Curipod

Padlet with tons of resources: https://padlet.com/heusingerma/ai-and-tech-tools-2c76gt1oclxzi6ai

Ethical considerations when using AI in the classroom

Some good articles on the padlet

Transparency, privacy, academic integrity, bias, etc.