Part 5: Bringing AI to the classroom

0:07Hi. Welcome to session five of the AI 101 Teachers Professional Learning series. Now that we have made it to the end of this series, you may be wondering, So now what? How can I bring what I have learned into my classroom? In this session we will explore resources that you can use in your classroom.

0:26Tomorrow. We will also discuss topics for evaluating new AI tools, resources and curricula. Let's get started. As we start thinking about bringing AI to the classroom, it is essential to distinguish between teaching with AI and teaching about AI. When we teach with AI, we're using AI as a tool to enhance teaching and learning.

0:54When we teach with A.I., we are often also teaching students how to use A.I. as a tool. When we teach about AI, we teach students what AI is and how it works. As with any technology, we want students to move beyond simply consuming the technology. We want students to have the knowledge they need to be creators and critical evaluators of the technology.

1:16You might be thinking, If I want to teach about AI, how do I know what I should be teaching? What do my students really need to know? We are in the early stages of AI in education. Although comprehensive high quality curricula may not be plentiful at the moment, it is available now and new curriculum will become more widely available over time.

1:39These are some things to consider when selecting the curricula you will use with your students. Does the curriculum provide teacher supports like lesson plans and student activities? Is there a focus on what AI is and how it works? Will students have the opportunity to think critically about the societal impacts of AI and a field often surrounded by hype and misinformation?

2:03The curriculum should strive to dispel common misconceptions about AI, clarifying its limitations and demystifying the fears around it. Always remember that teaching AI is not solely about the technology itself, but also about cultivating critical thinking and informed judgment and students regarding its applications and implications.

2:24Let's take a look at an example of curriculum designed to teach students about AI. Hi, my name is Anita Devi Laban. I taught artificial intelligence and machine learning to high school students for the last two years. From the How A.I. Works page, you notice a series of videos that Code.org has put together to clearly explain different components of artificial intelligence.

2:48Though these could be standalone videos, each is supported with a comprehensive lesson plan with various components designed to make the learning process streamlined and efficient. These elements are organized to provide both educators in students with a cohesive and engaging learning experience.

3:07Let's take a look at the first lesson as you slowly scroll through the lesson plan, Take note that each lesson comes fully equipped with a complete set of resources to aid and teach it, including slides, inactivity guides, clearly stated object gives warmup activities, and guided nos accompany each lesson.

3:27In addition to high quality videos, you also find helpful teaching tools to enhance your delivery and a list of additional resources for further exploration. All of these elements articles lead designed to provide a rich, well-rounded educational experience Take time to become familiar with the mature as you navigate through the lesson.

3:49As we dive deeper into the course material, it's important to highlight that some lessons come with interactive and engaging widgets. These aren't just eye catching elements. Their desire would a pedagogical focus to help simplify complex aid concepts and make them more accessible to students.

4:08To give you hands on experience, let's jump into our first activity. Recognizing Fish. This exercise is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of machine learning, which is a subset of AI. Here will be trained in a bot, distinguish between images of fish and those that are not fish.

4:27Allow me to demonstrate. As you can see, I'm providing input data to the bot by categorizing their images. So how does the A.I. bot use this data? Essentially, it takes the information we provided, whether an image represent a fish or not, and look for patterns that it can use to identify the fish over time and with enough data, the bot becomes increasingly accurate at identifying fish, thereby giving us a simplified but impactful glimpse into how machine learning algorithms work based on the training provided.

5:04The next step is to test the A.I. to see how well it has learned to identify fish. This will involve presenting the bot with new unseen images and evaluating its ability to correctly categorize them as fish or not fish. Your students will be able to analyze the results of the training and have the opportunity to continue training the bot to increase the accuracy.

5:29The second part of the lesson is a more open ended as students explore their own ideals and feelings about the implications of labeling data. Let's check out another interactive lesson on how neural networks work. Just as our brains have neurons connected by synapses, neural networks have layers of mathematical neurons that process information and adapt based on patterns they find, allowing them to make decisions or predictions.

5:55In this lesson, students watch a video introducing neural networks and then experience a Gidget simulating a video recommender system that makes recommendations based on certain input. Once they understand how the widget works, they have the opportunity to customize a widget in this recommendation, similar to how a neural network can customize its recommendations on popular media sites, they also examine how the recommendations they see are limited by the data that the network uses, leading to a discussion on how they can gather more data to make sure diverse opinions are represented.

6:35Let's take out another Engage a lesson that uses an unplugged activity in the computer vision lesson. Students start by observing and evaluating optical illusions at the watch in a video that explains how computer vision works and how computer processed visual information they design and test the algorithm that uses a network to decide what number is shown on a seventh segment display.

7:00We recognize that not every educational setting allows for extended pairs of instructions for those who are pressed for time. We offer a optimize alternative how A.I. Works in a Day. This is a condensed version of a course specifically tailored for educators who are who who only have a single day or precisely 65 minutes to dedicate to teaching II.

7:24This compact lesson ensures that the essential topics are covered efficiently without sacrificing educational impact. Throughout this Professional learning series, we have learned a lot about teaching with A.I.. Artificial Intelligence has opened up extraordinary possibilities for revolutionizing education, changing how we approach teaching and learning.

7:50It promises to deliver personalized, adaptive learning experiences for students while providing educators with tools to optimize their teaching strategies and reduce their workload. Like any tool, generative A.I. tools have strengths and weaknesses. One significant consideration for teachers is whether the generative AI tools meet the needs of their classroom.

8:14When considering which A.I. tool you will use, you may want to consider. The following was the tool designed to be used in an educational setting. Does the teacher have visibility into how students are interacting with the A.I. tool? What guardrails are in place to ensure student safety?

8:33Let's take a look at a tool that is designed specifically for use in K-12 education. Greetings, Excellent educators. My name is Michelle with Khan Academy. By now you've seen the tremendous benefits of using artificial intelligence to supplement your teaching in the classroom.

8:49Well, I'm here to introduce you to Conmigo Kahn Academy's AI driven teaching assistant and student here. It's built on the latest cutting edge artificial intelligence. It's supported by all of our trusted and standards aligned content, and it's guided by humans and classroom teachers like me here at Khan Academy.

9:08Conmigo has many exciting features activities. This video will showcase some of the ways that Conmigo can transform into the teaching assistant that you've always wanted. Features like the class snapshot. It's like a thermometer for your students. Progress. Get real time feedback from our reporting tools on where your students might need a little extra help and what they should be celebrated for.

9:30Are you teaching a subject that's new to you or something that may not be in your wheelhouse? The Refresh My Knowledge feature will help you fill in your own gaps so you're ready to teach your students. Lastly, with the Co-creator rubric feature, we can help you customize your rubric to go along with your style of teaching so you can keep your students engaged with goals that interest them.

9:52Conmigo is already being used in classrooms, and school leaders are already seeing the benefit. It's just another teacher assistant that is going to try to help them succeed. And that's what I love about it. It's just a beautiful tool. Again, teaching Assistant tutor.

10:08What more could we want in education? So let's get right to the magic of Conmigo. I'm going to go ahead and select the class snapshot button, and then I'm going to let Conmigo know which class I'd like information on. And with one click of a button, Conmigo is going to give me a high level overview of my students performance the last seven days, highlighting key areas such as recent activity, course, mastery, progress, assignments and skill development.

10:38Conmigo then gives me additional prompts which tell me which students I should celebrate. What students I need to check on Which students are 25% to their mastery goal and Conmigo will also group my students for me based on their recommendations, which is so helpful.

10:54I love to celebrate my students so normally I select this first option right here today. I really think I need to check on which students need additional support. Conmigo gives me a list of students I should check in on and suggest that I view my student skill report and it even provides me this link so it's super accessible.

11:13Thanks for giving me a heads up about Douglas. Could you help me draft a progress report that I can send to his family? Oh, this is great. Oh, wait, I forgot. Douglas Mom speaks Spanish. Could you please translate to Spanish? Oh, this is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

11:33Integrating Kami goes class snapshot into my classroom routine. Definitely helps me support my students by providing me with data that I can use to help drive my instruction. Thanks so much, Conmigo. If you're like me, you've moved around a great or two or maybe you've been asked to sub for a subject that you're not exactly comfortable with.

11:54Maybe this is your first year in the classroom. Let's jump in and ask Conmigo to help us refresh our knowledge. So the first thing I want to do is I'm going to select the refresh my knowledge button and Conmigo needs a little bit more information. So how about Romeo and Juliet?

12:13Ninth grade? Right. Once I've provided that information, it conmigo. It gives me the option of Do I want Conmigo to quiz me on the topic? Or what I like to learn through conversation. Learned through conversation. Please Crea Conmigo gives me a quick overview of five major concepts in the play.

12:38How about a character analysis? So Conmigo is going to ask me a question that I may have to answer for my students. You know what? No, I cannot. That's perfectly okay. Thank you. Conmigo is so understanding. And so conmigo is going to break it down for me. So I'm able to refresh my knowledge on Romeo and Juliet.

13:05Therefore, I'm able to teach my students better. Thanks, Conmigo. Now, with all this, we're going to want to make sure we assess where our students are with what they're being taught. So we'll need some helpful rubrics to figure that out. Good thing that's one of Conmigo Specialties.

13:23Once I select the co-create of rubric feature Conmigo, request the objective for the lesson and wants to know what I'm planning to grade. If I know the standard, I can include that as well. My students are going to be writing a research paper for the science lesson that we just finished.

13:41Conmigo will then ask me a series of questions throughout this process so that we're truly collaborating to co-create the perfect rubric that I want. Once I've answered all of Conmigo questions, a magic begins and Conmigo creates a rubric that is detailed and specific so my students will know exactly what they're being graded on.

14:02This is awesome. Thanks so much for saving me so much time. Conmigo. Pretty cool, right? As you can see, incorporating Conmigo into your classroom is going to be a game changer. Can we go's insights and suggestions will enhance classroom instruction and learning while saving you time and energy so you'll have more time to focus on what's important to our students.

14:25Check out Conmigo for yourself at Khan Academy, Dawg, or in our Khan Academy for teachers, social media groups full of teachers helping teachers just like you. Happy teaching. In addition to serving as a personalized tutor, helping students to learn new concepts or as a teacher's assistant, that creates more time for teachers to engage directly with students.

14:53There is also a lot of promise in AI assisted assessment. Whether you've struggled with towering stacks of papers to grade wanted to provide more nuanced feedback to your high achieving students or felt overwhelmed by the task of collecting classroom data, these tools offer a timely solution.

15:12They offer instant feedback tailored to each student's unique learning journey. More than just a grading aid, these tools serve as a valuable ally in managing classroom data, transforming often tedious tasks into efficient processes. When selecting an AI powered tool to support assessment, consider the following key features Instant feedback Does the tool provide opportunities for timely interventions allowing students to improve their skills based on constructive feedback?

15:45Personalized Learning Does the tool adjust to each student's performance allowing for self-paced skill mastery data driven analytics? Does the tool provide insight into each student's progress? Are you able to identify trends and spot areas of improvement to adjust teaching strategies accordingly?

16:09Promote active Dialog. Does the tool promote active dialog between you and your students? Let's take a look at an example of an AI assisted assessment tool for writing. Hi, I'm Mandy Figueroa, the product owner for the Criterion Interactive prototype, and I'll be giving you a walkthrough of our application.

16:29This product provides examples of how I can help but not replace teachers in the classroom by providing time savings and structure. But it still relies on the teacher for hands on guidance and coaching for their students. The prototype is built around this user flow, but we'll be focusing on the places where I offers teachers and students the most benefit scoring and providing feedback on student writing.

16:52To begin with, the teacher creates the assignment and then the student will work on planning their essay and writing their first draft. The main focus for the first draft is planning and executing on that plan. The focus of the second draft is revising the essay to ensure it closely aligns with the standards of a specific genre.

17:07In this case, persuasive writing teachers will be able to review the AI generated provisional scores and feedback before the students begin revising their essays. The focus of the third draft is editing the essay to improve spelling and grammatical correctness.

17:20Teachers will again be able to review the generated provisional scores and feedback before students began on this phase. Teachers who tested the prototype liked the structure of the app to help them manage writing assignments in their classroom. We'll start our demo with the setup and planning phase, which will guide teachers and students through getting started and creating their first draft.

17:40The first step is for teachers to create assignments for their students in the teacher application. We guide teachers step by step through the creation process. They can choose the genre the student will be writing in the learning objectives. The assignment will focus on, and then they can choose which writing prompts will be available for the student to respond to or switching to the student application now.

18:11Our research shows students often struggle with how to plan their writing, but the more time students spend planning their essay, the more effective they are at writing and the higher quality their writing. So we scaffold them through the planning process. Students brainstorm main ideas, prioritize their main ideas, and generate supporting details related to each main idea using a validated instructional strategy.

18:47After the student has completed the planning phase, they can use that plan to write a first draft. For example, here are the student is writing their first main idea paragraph and has access to the main idea and supporting details that they generated during brainstorming.

19:05After writing each paragraph, students can request a generated feedback from the system. We use air models to do analysis of their paragraph to identify how closely their paragraph aligns with the supporting details that they included in their plan and to identify if the paragraph is too long or too short and if the student is making good transitions between their supporting details.

19:24The students are working on their first draft. Teachers may want to review the system generated feedback with them to help their student incorporate more of their main ideas and supporting details into their essay. After the student has finished writing and adjusting all of their paragraphs, then they can submit their first draft.

19:42At this point, the teacher will be able to review the essay and the generated scoring, which brings us to the revision phase. The next step is for teachers to use the teacher application to read the students essays. If submitted, and then review the generated scores that we have given them.

19:59Based on the rubric, the scoring is built around. Teachers have the opportunity to view the rubric at many points during this process, and a planned future feature would allow teachers to customize the rubric to allow alignment their state standards and classroom scoring policies.

20:18Once the teacher reviews all of the scores and overrides any that they disagree with, then they are able to move on to the next step, which is reviewing the revision tasks that we have generated for the student. These are based on the rubric scores and give the students system generated feedback in the form of appraise a question and a suggestion to help them improve their rubric.

20:51Score. The teacher has the opportunity to prioritize this feedback and they can edit or hide any feedback that they disagree with, as well as creating additional feedback messages. After teachers see how their students are scoring on the persuasive writing rubric, they may decide to teach a lesson about how to identify and address an alternate position in an essay, for example.

21:24But they won't need to individually at that feedback message to each students essay. Who needs it? The program has already done that for them. Once the teacher has finished reviewing the student's first draft, they can send it back to the student to make changes based on the feedback they received.

21:37After the student makes those changes, they'll send the essay back to their teacher and the teacher will go through that same process. Except that instead of looking at the revision tasks to align with the genre, the student student's writing, it, they will be looking at editing tasks which are related to the punctuation, capitalization, usage and spelling of the essay.

21:54Once the teacher is able to see which grammar errors are most common, they may decide to pull aside a small group or individual students for further instruction on specific types of errors. After the teacher has reviewed the second draft of the essay, the student will have the opportunity to work on it again to create their third draft in the student application.

22:13At this point they can read their essay and choose which of the categories they would like to work on. Capitalization, usage, punctuation, or spelling. We show them all of the errors our models have detected. They can choose to make changes to their essay to resolve an error or dismiss any error they disagree with.

22:35Before submitting their essay at every step of the process, teachers can reinforce their students critical thinking skills. They are receiving a generated feedback. But is it accurate? How should the student react if they disagree? One of our middle school teachers summed it up this way The API can only go so far. You're the critical thing for.

22:54I need you to decide. Is that the word you meant? We're like, That's a sentence fragment. Once the student has submitted their final draft of the essay, the teacher will be able to review it one last time in the teacher application. Teachers will be able to see the final generated scores and make any necessary adjustments before the students see their score.

23:18As you can see, there are many steps in this flow where teachers will get the benefit of scoring and feedback generation to help make the review process faster for a whole classroom of students. The Insights report is available to help teachers once the assignment is started.

23:33It will help them track the class progress and begin to see patterns of common problem areas for their students. A middle school teacher who tested our prototype summed it up this way. I mean, it can grade papers in minutes where it takes me 2 to 3 weeks. Right?

23:49This will help free up time for teachers to spend more time coaching their students based on how their students are performing. And that's where Teacher Shine. Thank you. As an educator, ready to delve into the exciting world of artificial intelligence, you're poised to add a valuable layer to your teaching experience.

24:10Learning about. I can initially be intimidating. However, effective education is significantly enhanced by an educators personal enthusiasm and dedication to student success. Joining us for this Professional learning series was a great first step, but your journey does not need to end here.

24:28With his momentum and popularity continuing to increase. More and more information is available online as you seek out professional development opportunities in artificial intelligence. Consider these four components for impactful teaching and learning. Knowledge and skill Development.

24:46A robust AI training program should deepen your understanding of AI and its various aspects, from the fundamentals to more complex topics. It should not only enhance your knowledge, but also equip you with the skills necessary to integrate AI into your teaching.

25:04Understanding capabilities risks and Ethics. The program should help you grasp the potential of AI as well as its limitations and potential risks. It's also crucial to explore ethical considerations in AI, such as privacy and bias. Knowing these aspects will ensure that you can teach your students about the responsible use of AI community Relevant AI solutions.

25:30A.I. has the potential to solve real world problems. A valuable AI program will enable you to identify and explore how I can address issues within your student communities. This approach will make learning more relatable and impactful to your students. Practical engagement in AI creation theory is only half of the battle.

25:51A good training program should offer practical ways for you and your students to engage in AI creation. This could include projects, activities or sandbox environments where you can experiment with building simple AI models. There are increasingly more professional development opportunities available.

26:07Let's learn more about one of these opportunities. Well, at one point I was in the distant future, right? Well, that future is now. Though, as educators. We need to prepare our students to interact with AI in safe, thoughtful, intelligent ways. Most of the time, when people hear artificial intelligence, especially a teacher, you are a little intimidated.

26:33So you're thinking, I can't teach that. I'm not that tech savvy. I don't know that much about artificial intelligence. But after going through the explorations course, I gained way more confidence, even as I was going along the course. So there were some times where there might have been a term or a concept that I was totally unfamiliar with.

26:52But by the end of the lesson, then I knew more. So to become the learner first, that is what really empowered me as an educator. Exploration provides a variety of free opportunities and resources for educators. From our online PD course to the Hands on AI Project.

27:09Guides to our webinar. Series. And our PLN community. A Hands on Guide and the course that I took about artificial intelligence really gave me everything I needed to teach my fifth grade class about artificial intelligence. I'm really inspired by the fact that they're able to grasp on to these concepts, and I've even had some students realize I could be that person to create something using artificial intelligence.

27:34I think learning about A.I. is really fun. AI impacts our lives because you use the Google search. You use robots like Alexa and Siri. Google is all sorts of things. If I did create things in the future with A.I., I would make. A robot. That brings you. Snacks when you can just.

27:56Watch TV and stuff. I really hope that students who experience this program most of all walk away feeling empowered, feeling like artificial intelligence isn't just something that happens to them, but it's something that they can control, something that they can design, something that they can influence, something that they can bring their values to.

28:19That brings us to the end of our journey together. Hopefully this series has provided you with the knowledge and skills you need to start exploring and forming your own opinions about A.I. in education. Visit the AI one one for Teachers website at Code.org. I want everyone to revisit the videos in this series and explore additional resources from code.org.

28:41It's Estee and Academy. Thank you for joining us. I'm excited to see how you will transform the face of education using artificial intelligence.