Post and discuss your response to the reflection question - What’s one way that you can use AI to support learning for all students in your classroom?
AI can help me modify lessons for all learners. I think it might be helpful in making some “take it further” type tasks for my students who already have mastered the core lesson topics for the day.
One way I can use AI to support learning for all students in the classroom is by creating differentiated activities for students on the same standard. These activities could vary in complexity, but could also vary in the type of product that is created to show their mastery of learning. AI could further assist me by creating scoring rubrics to grade the various activities that are generated. These rubrics can be shared with students for clarity in how they will be assessed as they complete the different tasks.
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I like the idea of using AI as part of the writing process. For example, my multimedia students struggle with AP-style, and there are better things for them to spend their time memorizing. AI such as Murrow allows them to enter their writing and ask it to be edited for AP-style. It doesn’t write anything for them, but it does help them format their work. This lets them spend more time improving the content. Also, because Murrow is designed by journalism instructors just for journalism students, it will not give them more help than appropriate. With a standard English essay, AI can help with MLA formatting, grammar, and word choice. Helping with diction can be especially helpful for ELL students, giving them a safe place to share their writing, as the bot won’t judge, and helping them increase their English vocabulary. If students draft first by hand and then run their writing through AI and then peer review, they are getting balanced feedback and differentiated levels of help.
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I want to use AI to help differentiate learning paths for students. It would be so valuable to be able to do this in my classroom where I currently don’t have the time to do it on my own. If I can use AI to assist, it would save me time and benefit my students. I also want to use AI to provide student exemplars moving forward. I don’t always have the ability to provide exemplars, so being able to use AI for this is a valuable tool, for sure. Finally, I want to use AI to assist with writing emails so that I can make sure I’m writing appropriately–especially to parents.
I was literally able to ask Chat GPT for a lesson plan on the history of Greek Theatre, then ask for it to incorporate UDL and CRT elements. It added all sorts of suggestions to help students at all levels understand the content, including methods of delivery, clarifying questions, and even ideas how students can collaborate. I can use this to find out ways to implement UDL and CRT into any lesson I’ve entered into chat gpt, and have a bunch of different methods to aid students in class at all different levels.
I have autism classes that I teach as well as my gen ed classes. I struggle adapting my lessons for my students with autism because they have such varying levels and many are nonverbal as well. I could use AI to help me modify/adapt my lessons to better meet their needs.
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I can use AI to support learning for all students in my classrooms by having it created UDL and CRT lessons that students find relatable. I can recreate current lesson plans to include these two elements to help my students feel like they are included and understand that I see them and want them to feel included.
I used ChatGPT to emphasize my starting point for UDL and CRT on robotics task cards. ChatGPT gave me ideas for creating differentiated self-monitoring checklists, role cards for sharing robots and duties in teams, and culturally inclusive spooky characters from home cultures that students can select for the task. I normally make my task cards sequential from easiest to hardest, but this activity will allow for more creativity and cultural inclusion. I got some great ideas from the generative AI to make the task cards align to UDL principles too!
I can use AI in my classroom to support learning for all of my students to create materials that are at individual students’ learning levels and in their native language.
I used ChatGPT and it generated a reading at a higher level for my accelerated students. I can also do the same thing for my students who read at a lower level.
I use a variety of tools to help my students understand the future of web design & development from generative ai to ai used in website creation tools. I actually allow students to work in groups so they can examine, critique & develop their websites or projects to a higher level.
I asked ChatGPT to create a lesson using UDL for unplugged coding. It had some good ideas to encourage diverse engagement. It included different methods of representation and gave me specific ideas, like creating an anchor chart with visual direction cues on it. I also like how it offered the kids a choice in how they wanted to create their unplugged lesson. This is something that I would definitely use.
I am struggling with the students in one of the courses I am teaching this year. I am covering concepts that they have already seen in multiple courses prior to mine, but they still have not mastered the concept (mostly by their choosing and lack of practice). I am looking forward to showing them how they can utilize AI as a tutor to help them figure out where their confusion is coming from. Maybe AI will say it differently than me or their teachers in the past.
It is important to me that every student feels valued and supported, so I am looking forward to using AI tools to provide accessible learning materials for students. I will teach students to use AI accessibility tools such as text-to-speech and speech-to-text to self-advocate and support their own needs. I will use translation tools to make learning materials more accessible and encourage students to use translation tools in their assignments and during discussions. This will help to create an environment where all cultures are honored, making learning more engaging and meaningful for every student.
I can use AI to help differentiate assignments. I can have it lower reading levels on text. I can also have it create extension and more challenging assignments for students who finish early.
A lesson plan that I updated was a coding lesson. The kids were asked to code a jack-o-lantern. Kids create simple events in the Sprite lab in Code.org. I added sugar skulls as an option for The Day of the Dead. My school is 60 percent Hispanic. The kids seemed much more eager to code because it related to their lives.
The lesson plan it made based on UDL and CRT about photosynthesis really looked good on the surface but when I asked it to flush out the details it fell short. It suggested a video on various plants around the world that showed how they do photos differently it was not able to suggest one. When I asked what questions it would ask the students during the small group activity they were all DOK 1 and very simple with one-word answers. It kinda reminds me of when we fill out our evaluations and we have these grand plans that when reality strikes release we can’t get it all done or done to what our imaginations wanted. The plan is nice but execution still needs work. So at this point, I guess it’s a good place to go for ideas.
I can use AI to understand what misconceptions my students might have before I teach the lesson so I can try to prevent those misconceptions from happening. I usually plan for it anyways, but this will help if I missed a misconception and it will free up time that I can use to create scaffolds and/or visuals to address the misconceptions. I can also use AI to help create a list of activities that I could integrate as extra practice for home or for those to work on while I am pulling small groups. Finally, I would love to use AI to help create differentiation and scaffolds to support all my learners. Differentiation is huge in my classroom and this will allow me to see if there are better scaffolds I could be using or if I missed one that might reach a learner who is struggling.
AI can be used to differentiate a lesson to support learning for all students in the classroom. For instance, a lesson can be adjusted to include a portion that allows for the activity to be modified for students who are excelling/need to be challenged, are at grade level, and those who need additional support. AI can also be used to help create stations written into the lesson to meet the needs of the diverse learners in the classroom.