Post and discuss your response to the final reflection question - What did you achieve in this PL? What do you still want to learn? What are the next steps for you along this journey?
I’m excited to keep trying AI! There’s a lot more to learn here, but I’d like to keep using it to help me plan lessons and brainstorm ideas. Not sure if I’m ready for much more than that right now.
Originally, I had written that I hope to learn more about AI so I can be more informed when it comes to opportunities to use it and the different types of programs that exist to use in the education field. I feel as though i achieved this goal. I was able to explore programs like ChatGPT, Diffit, and MagicSchoolAI. I want to continue to learn how I can structure activities for students to use AI within stations or lessons in the classroom. In order to accomplish this, since I’m currently serving as a learning strategist and I’m not in the classroom, I might work on creating opportunities for teachers to utilize AI in professional learning sessions that I conduct. I also want to work on improving my prompting skills and create specific prompts that request the AI serve a certain role and interact with the user as they enter information into the system.
My goal was to learn what resources were available for my students and how to teach about those resources in the classroom. I believe this was achieved. I know at least six new websites that look useful in some way, shape, or form. My chief concern is, despite teaching appropriate use, students will misuse the resources. I know some cheating is inevitable–cheating is much older than AI–but I’d like to minimize it so kids go out into the world prepared. Next steps are to try to incorporate some of these new resources into my classroom.
What I listed as my goal was this: “My goals for this course would be to find new ways to implement the use of AI in my classroom to allow students to use it but within parameters, and also to maybe figure out ways how to get students to be more ethical with its use.” I actually achieved both my goals within these 5 units of this course. Both were highlighted; I was given some great ideas about new ways to use generative AI in my classroom, but I was also made aware in ethical ways to use AI, especially when it comes to bias and how it happens. My next steps are to give it a try and use it to generate content for class. You can’t learn without attempting it.
I achieved my first goal of learning how AI works. My second goal was to learn how to use AI in my teaching so that I can be more effiecient and I think I did get ideas on how to use AI in my teaching. My last goal was to learn how to teach AI to my elementary students and to show them ethical ways to use it. I think that I also met this goal because I was able to see ways I can teach my students ethical use of AI and a few ways to teach students how AI works. I really liked the AI for Oceans lesson that teachings the concept of AI in a ways that elementary students can understand. I think there is always more to learn and I would love to learn more ways to integrate AI in elementary school. The next steps for me are to use AI more when I’m planning lessons and activities as well as plan for ways my students can use AI.
I believe that I did achieve my overall goals. I had wanted to see how to use AI to benefit my own role as a teacher, and, like I said in the last question, I feel I definitely did this. I can see how to use AI to help write emails to parents, write lesson plans, assist in writing IEPs if necessary, write comprehension questions to texts…the uses are really substantial. Beyond that, I wanted to learn how to teach my students to use AI responsibly, and I think I got a lot of strategies to do that, as well. I think I still want to learn other ways I can use AI to assist with my teaching responsibilities. I know there have to be more out there! Finally, I think the next steps for me are going to be to really dive into what our district’s policies about AI are, and, more importantly, my school site. I honestly don’t know what our policies are, so I need to look into that before moving forward with any of these applications.
I feel like I met my goals that I set for this course. I wanted to learn more about how I can have AI help me with my teacher responsibilities. I now use Magic School AI to assist me with my newsletters, emails, lesson plans, rubrics and assessments. I use Magic School AI to assist in making my art lessons Culturally Responsive and with attention to Universal Design. Using this tools gives me ideas to what I can offer my students and helps me to be more creative in my lessons. I know this might sound crazy but I feel more in control of my classroom now. I feel supported. These tools have given me energy and I am really excited to find more ways that I can use these tools to help my students learn.