Control Alt Achieve: EdTech Cool Tool

This post is Day 4 of my "Cool Tools 2023" series where we are exploring some of the year's best tools for teaching and learning.

This year we are focusing on artificial intelligence tools and how they can be used in schools.

You can access all of the cool tools in the series as they come out at bit.ly/cool-tools-23 and in this Google Slideshow.

For this entry in the series we are taking a look at: School AI

See below for details, directions, uses, and links for this artificial intelligence resource. If you have used this tool, please consider sharing your experiences, how you have used it, tips, tricks, and more.

▶️ Video Demo (12 minutes)

🏫 SchoolAI

schoolai.com

School AI is a free tool that allows your students to have safe, monitored interactions with AI learning activities.

In short, here is how School AI works:

As a teacher you set up a free account for yourself.
Next you select a premade AI experience or create one of your own.
You then share the invite link with the students so they can participate in the AI activity.
Note: Students do not sign in or get an account.
While the students engage in the activity, you can monitor their interactions.
At the end of the activity the AI summarizes the students' interactions so you can identify learning, needs, interests, and more.

Some of the AI experiences include...

Historic Figures

Choose from a wide range of historic figures for your students to chat with.
Or create your own chatbot with a historical figure of your choice.
The chatbot will proactively share interesting facts about the person, while also inviting students to ask their own questions.
You have access to all chat sessions, allowing you to monitor student activity.

Book Explorer

In this interactive activity, students will dive into the world of the book of your choosing.
Or create your own chatbot with a book of your choice.
They will use AI to discuss themes of the book, learn about the author, and engage in knowledgeable discussions.

Career Exploration

Choose a career you want your students to explore.
Or create your own chatbot with a career of your choice.
The chatbot will proactively share interesting facts about the career, while also inviting students to ask their own questions.
You have access to all chat sessions, allowing you to monitor student activity.

Bell Ringer

Welcome students to class by introducing the topic of today’s lesson and inviting them to share how they are feeling.
You can instruct the AI to ask a specific question if desired.
Student sentiment will be captured and displayed to you.

Exit Ticket

Invite students to show what they learned today and how they’re feeling about it.
You can instruct the AI to review specific learning outcomes.
Student sentiment and confidence will be displayed to you.

Topic Explorer

Simply enter the topic you want your students to explore, or choose from one of the many pre-made topic experiences.
The chatbot will proactively share interesting facts about the topic, while also inviting students to ask their own questions.
You have access to all chat sessions, allowing you to monitor student activity.

Tutoring Session

Simply enter a topic to create a chat-based tutoring session for your students.
The chatbot will proactively assess what a student needs help with and create an agenda accordingly.
You have access to all chat sessions, allowing you to monitor student activity.

Sidekick

For a completely custom experience, you can create a Sidekick.
Give your students managed access to their very own AI assistant.
Students can take advantage of AI’s powerful capabilities to explore various topics, answer questions, quiz themselves, and more.
You have full access to all chat sessions, allowing you to monitor student activity.

Launching an AI Experience

After you select or create an AI experience, you will have your students join it.
School AI will give you a link that you can give to your students to click on.
School AI will also generate a QR Code that can simply be scanned to join.
When the students join they will type in their name so you know who they are, but they will not be creating an account or actually logging in.

Student Experience

Once the student joins the AI experience, they will be able to chat with the AI.
The student can type in their responses.
Or if it is easier, the student cam click the microphone button to speak their responses.
The AI will display its response for the student.
If needed the student can click on the "Speak" link to have the AI's response spoken aloud.

Teacher Insights

While the students are interacting with the AI, the teacher will be able to monitor their progress.
The teacher can click on any student to read their full conversation.
The AI will also provide summaries of the highlights and insights from the students' interactions with the AI.
When the teacher ends the session, the AI will generate a final summary of insights from the entire class.

Other Tools

In addition to the AI experiences for the students, School AI also offers a collection of AI tools to assist the teacher.
These include tools to generate lesson plans, course outlines, worksheets, multiple choice quizzes, jokes, IEPs, BIPs, newsletters, word problems, leveled text, and more.

💰 Pricing

School AI offers both a free plan and a paid plan. Full details are available at app.schoolai.com/pricing

The free plan includes:

Basic teacher tools
Basic Coteacher
Basic Spaces
Up to 50 students sessions per day and up to 150 student participants

The paid version is listed as $14.99 per month and includes:

Pro teacher tools
Pro Coteacher
Pro Spaces
500 students sessions per day

🧰 Resources

School AI website - https://schoolai.com/
School AI Twitter - https://twitter.com/GetSchoolAI

Be sure to check out the other blog posts in the "Cool Tools 2023" series at bit.ly/cool-tools-23 and in the Google Slideshow.

For additional AI videos, resource documents, blog posts, and more, be sure to check out my main AI resource page at:

www.controlaltachieve.com/ai

And if you are looking for AI professional development, please consider bringing me to your school, organization, or conference. I have a wide range of AI-related training sessions which you can see in my PD catalog here:

bit.ly/curts-pd

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