Three Steps for Developing Your Personal AI Professional Learning Plan AVID Open Access

Three Steps for Developing Your Personal AI Professional Learning Plan

In today’s episode, we’ll explore three ways to level up your understanding and use of artificial intelligence.

Paul Beckermann

PreK–12 Digital Learning Specialist

Podcast Host

Use it:
- Plan something (e.g., a lesson, a travel itinerary, or a menu).
- Create something (e.g., an email response, a letter of recommendation, or a rubric).
- Explain something (e.g., a historical event, how something works, or steps in a process).

AI 101 for Teachers
- From Code.org, ETS, ISTE, and Khan Academy
- Videos with companion guides:
  - Fireside Chat with Sal Khan and Hadi Partovi (31 min.)
  - Demystifying AI for Educators (31 min.)
  - Transforming Learning with AI (24 min.)
  - Ensuring a Responsible Approach to AI (38 min.)
  - Bringing AI to the Classroom (30 min.)
  - How AI Works (8 min.)
- A slideshow about using large language model (LLM) chatbots:
  - Starter prompts
  - Beginner tools
  - Intermediate tools
  - Advanced tools
Creative and Critical Engagement With AI in Education
- From the AI Pedagogy Project by the metaLAB (at) Harvard
  - Part I: AI Starter (What Is AI?, The Basics of Generative AI: Large Language Models, Incorporating AI Into Your Teaching, Glossary)
  - Part 2: LLM Tutorial (an interactive, guided demonstration of ChatGPT that allows you to apply concepts as they are introduced)
  - Part 3: LLM Comparison (compare results from using two different LLMs)
  - Part 4: Resources (a hyperlinked list of resources related to AI)
Generative AI for Educators
- From Google and MIT RAISE
- The outcomes focus on using generative AI tools to save time on everyday teaching tasks, personalize instruction for different learning styles, and creatively enhance lessons.
AI Basics for K–12 Teachers
- From Common Sense Education
- It includes three modules:
  - What Is AI and How Does It Work?
  - Ethical and Responsible Use of AI in School
  - How Will Generative AI Impact Education?

SchoolAI or MagicSchool: These two tools are similar in that they both offer teacher productivity tools as well as student-facing custom chatbots. The teacher tools can help you plan lessons and assessments, craft communication, develop rubrics, and so much more. The student-facing custom chatbots are really powerful and can help foster personalized feedback for students. This is where much of the real transformative potential is.
Snorkl: This is an AI tool that can provide custom feedback to students. Students record themselves solving a problem—perhaps a math equation on a digital whiteboard—and then the AI provides detailed feedback. It’ll correct the work and help the student understand how they can improve. Teachers receive AI-generated insights about student performance.
Brisk Teaching: This tool functions as an AI-powered Google Chrome extension, which can be used to streamline your teacher workflow by integrating directly into platforms like Google Docs, Google Slides, PDFs, and YouTube. It offers over 30 tools to assist with content creation, feedback, and differentiation.
NotebookLM: With this note-taking and research tool from Google, you can upload content and then ask questions about it. It’s like having a study partner to help break down information that you’ve gathered. It also lets you generate a custom podcast version of the content that you’ve collected.

Check out the following AVID Open Access article collection: AI in the K–12 Classroom.
Listen to Unpacking Education and Tech Talk For Teachers podcast episodes.

For more information about artificial intelligence, explore the following AVID Open Access article collection: AI in the K–12 Classroom.

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