Control Alt Achieve: Cyber Assist: Using AI as Your Teaching Assistant

Friday, October 27, 2023

Cyber Assist: Using AI as Your Teaching Assistant

I recently had the opportunity to present a live-stream of my session "Cyber Assist: Using AI as Your Teaching Assistant" for the CuriCon virtual conference.

Curicon was a week-long series of live video sessions exploring artificial intelligence in education, presented by a wide range of amazing educators.

My session explored how we can use a wide range of AI tools to help us with our daily tasks as educators. Here is the session description:

Cyber Assist: Using AI as Your Teaching Assistant
It has been said that with generative AI, every educator now has their own personal 24-hour assistant. Learn how to use tools such as ChatGPT, Google Bard, Curipod, EduaideAI, Conker, MagicSchoolAI, Twee, Diffit and more to help you generate presentations, create lessons, write emails, provide feedback and much more. Save more time so you can spend more time impacting students!

See below to watch the 30-minute recorded video, as well as access all of the resources from the session. And please share your ideas for how you use AI as your daily assistant. I am excited to learn from you!

▶️ Recorded Video (30 minutes)

You can see all the rest of the CuriCon sessions on their YouTube channel and stay connected through their Facebook Community.

🧰 Session Resources

Session Resource Document - bit.ly/curts-aiassist
Session Slideshow - Google Slides link
All of my AI resources - Website link

🤖 Generative AI Chat Tools

ChatGPT - chat.openai.com
Google Bard - bard.google.com (Resources bit.ly/curts-googleai - Video - Blog post)
Bing AI-assisted Search - Resource Link - bing.com
Claude (from Anthropic) - claude.ai

💡 Generative AI Assistant Ideas

Tasks

Assist with writing emails in a variety of styles - Example
Assist with writing lesson plans - Example
Assist with creating assessments - Example
Assist with creating rubrics - Example
Assist with writing spreadsheet formulas - Example

Feedback

Evaluate student writing and provide feedback for how it can be improved - Example - Example
Feedback on your own writing (directions, emails, etc.) - Example

YouTube

Analyze a video transcript and create study guides, summaries, and more - Example
Note: Easily get transcript from youtubetranscript.com

🚀 More Generative AI Assistant Tools

Conker - conker.ai

Conker is a tool from the makers of Mote, which uses AI to generate quizzes.
The quiz can come from a topic, or source material, or quiz bank.
Questions can include multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and read & respond.
Quizzes can be exported to Google Forms.

Formative - formative.com/ai-powered

Formative now includes AI
Generate questions for assessments
Generate hints for questions

Curipod - curipod.com

Create interactive lessons with content and question types including poll, word cloud, drawing, and open question.
Create your own lesson, or use AI to generate individual activities or an entire lesson.

Eduaide - www.eduaide.ai

Over 100 resource types and learning objects to generate including:

Planning
Prior Knowledge and Scaffolding
Engagement Activities
Informational Objects
Elaborated Analogy
Cooperative Learning
Jigsaw Activity
Accessibility
Lexile Decreaser

MagicSchoolAI - www.magicschool.ai

AI tools including:

Text Rewriter Tool
Common Misconception Generator
Text Scaffolder Tool
IEP Suggestion Generator
BIP Suggestion Generator
Accommodation Suggestion Generator

Twee - twee.com

Create questions for YouTube videos
Generate dialogues, stories, letters or articles on any topic and for any level
Create multiple choice questions, open questions, and True/False statements
Brainstorm vocabulary related to the topic and create fill-in-the-gap and open-the-brackets exercises

Diffit - beta.diffit.me

Adapt an existing text, or generate text for a topic, at any reading level.
Adjust the length of the new passage as short, medium, long, or original length.
Generate a summary, key vocabulary words, multiple choice questions, short answer questions, and open-ended prompts.
Translate generated content into any language.
Print, copy, or export any of the content as a Google Doc or Google Form