Plan Smarter, Not Harder with AI

After you have gone through the reflection cycle, and as you are going through the planning cycle, save time planning by using artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

Last month’s #eMINTS #TipCards series was all about using the instructional planning process to help you plan effectively. Now, we are sharing tips to save you time as you begin planning for your upcoming school year. This month, we delve into five different AI tech tools that can help you do just that: Plan smarter, not harder. The ever-growing number of AI tools create obstacles to learning, but they also create unique learning opportunities for ourselves and our students. And, as Ditch That Textbook author Matt Miller writes, “Students will have to learn how to navigate life with AI” (Miller, 2022).

ChatGPT

First up: ChatGPT! Since its release in November of 2022, @OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been the fastest-growing Internet application ever (Milmo, 2023). While some may reject its educational uses and avoid integrating it into the learning environment, ChatGPT has the capability to save valuable time. Here’s how:

1. Sign Up or Log In. (Save even MORE time using your @Google account.) https://chat.openai.com/?
2. Give it a prompt or ask it a question. (Exa. “Write a PBL for 5th-grade math.”)
3. Watch it work its magic.
4. Optional: Add more prompts to the same chat to generate further responses and content.
5. Optional: Return to saved chats in the future (to refresh your memory or to add more to the conversation) by logging back into your account.

Check out this instructional video (by Ted Pickett ) to learn more and watch how to do this process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viLLY1EyAx0.

Canva Magic

?#DidYouKnow: Canva for Education is free for educators? Check out the Canva Magic and other AI tools (Magic Design?, Magic Presentation?, Magic Draw?, Magic Write?, Canva Assistant?, Magic Translate?, Magic Text to Image?, Magic Edit?, Magic Video?, Magic Animation?, Magic Beat Sync?), all embedded within Canva for quick generation and editing of teaching and learning materials. Here’s how:

1. Sign in to your Canva for Education account.
2. Create a new design.
3. Click the “Magic” tool you wish to use.
4. Describe your lesson, and be as specific as possible. (Exa. Select Magic Design?, and tell it to “Create a presentation about cells to teach 10th-grade Biology students.”)
5. Watch the tool work its magic.

Check out this instructional video to learn more and watch how to do this process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy3SC1CfEcI.?

Conker

Next up in our AI tools to help save you time when planning for the upcoming school year: Conker. Without even logging in, choose a topic, and generate multiple-choice quizzes in seconds. Or you can customize the type of quiz (multiple choice, read-and-respond, fill-in-the-blank, mixed), grade level (K-Higher Ed), output language, and number of questions (5-10) you want to assign learners. Put in your desired topic or customizations, and watch Conker work its magic! You can even assign the quiz directly to your LMS or export it to 谷歌 Forms when you are signed in.

Example: Enter a topic → “The Day the Crayons Quit”, Hit “Generate” OR “Customize”, and create a quiz in minutes!

Formative

Continuing our #emintsTips about AI tools to help save you time when planning for the upcoming school year. Our next AI Tech Tool is Formative . Here’s how you can use its AI tool, in addition to the other free tools!

1. Sign up, or log in to https://app.formative.com/login.
2. Create a New Formative.
3. Select “Auto-Generate,” and enter a prompt and your criteria.
4. Let Formative do the rest!

Example: Short Answer, World War II, 8th Grade History, at Medium Difficulty

Parlay

And last, but certainly not least, Parlay Ideas. Parlay is an AI-powered instructional tool to help generate discussion prompts to promote collaboration in your learning environment. Here’s how:

1. Sign up, or log in. Go to the Parlay Genie.
2. Write a custom topic or share a URL.
3. Select # of questions and grade level.
4. Generate a custom discussion prompt.?
5. Run your discussion for free on Parlay.
6. Optional: Share your discussion to your LMS, like 谷歌 Classroom.

Example: Select “Custom Topic,” 3 questions about, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 11-12th grade

Discover more AI Tools in author Matt Miller's Ditch That Textbook article “30 AI Tools for the Classroom” here: https://ditchthattextbook.com/ai-tools.

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Thank you to our?#eMINTS?Staff members who collaborated on this article content:?Haylee Anderson?&?Chelsea Peters.