The first school year in the age of generative AI is historic and is raising many big questions. AI Café is where active classroom teachers meet to share what we've learned about managing generative AI in the classroom this week? Grab a cup of coffee with a middle school teacher, a university professor, an early childhood educator-technology specialist, and an education researcher as we meet to share our weekly discoveries. We cover it all from the aha moments to mistakes we’ve made, and the lessons we learned. We cap the meet-up by sharing the AI tools we found most helpful and effective.
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The first school year in the age of generative AI is historic and is raising many big questions. AI Café is where active classroom teachers meet to share what we've learned about managing generative AI in the classroom this week? Grab a cup of coffee with a middle school teacher, a university professor, an early childhood educator-technology specialist, and an education researcher as we meet to share our weekly discoveries. We cover it all from the aha moments to mistakes we’ve made, and the lessons we learned. We cap the meet-up by sharing the AI tools we found most helpful and effective.
How We Prepared to Head Back to School With Generative Artificial Intelligence
AI CAFE
22 minutes
2 years ago
How We Prepared to Head Back to School With Generative Artificial Intelligence
How We Prepared to Head Back to School With Generative Artificial Intelligence
Caroline Fell Kurban, Dan Jones, Juli Ross-Kleinmann, and Thomas Mennella
It’s fascinating; this is the first back-to-school season in the age of generative artificial intelligence — historic. A middle school teacher, a university professor, an early childhood educator-tech coach, and an education researcher met to exchange notes on how they prepared to engage students this term. It’s a highly engaged conversation among colleagues, sharing discoveries, aha moments, mistakes made with generative artificial intelligence, and lessons learned. It ends with a lightning round of AI tools the group found helpful and effective.
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Resources Mentioned: ChatGPT | Bard | Code.org | Google Experiments | Claude | Show Me Diagrams | ElevenLabs | Pictory | Eduaide | Magic School | Twee | Canva | Chatmind | Goblin.tools | Midjourney | Otter | | Caroline Kurban’s YouTube Channel |
Dr. Caroline Fell Kurban is the advisor to the Rector at MEF University. Caroline previously held the position of Director of the Center of Research and Best Practices for Learning and Teaching (CELT) at MEF University. She also teaches on the Faculty of Education. She has taught, trained and managed in schools and universities in her twenty-year career. She holds a BSc in Geology, MSc in TESOL, MA in Technology and Learning Design, and a PhD in Applied Linguistics.
Juli Ross-Kleinmann is an experienced Administrator/ Instructional Specialist who has worked in primary, secondary, and higher education. Skilled in, authentically integrating educational technology. professional development, curriculum planning, instructional design, and organizational leadership. Juli has a Master of Science in Education (Administration & Supervision) focused in Elementary and Middle School Administration/Principalship from Fordham University. She served for three years on the board of ISTE and is an ISTE Certified Educator.
Dr. Thomas Mennella has been an instructor in higher education for over ten years. Starting as a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, and then moving on to an Assistant Professorship at Delaware State University (DSU), Tom is now an Associate Professor at Western New England University in Springfield Massachusetts.
Dan Jones earned a BS in Middle Grades Education from Ashland University and a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from American College of Education. Dan is an FLGI Master Teacher whose professional interests include e-learning and technology, as well as Project-Based Learning.
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The first school year in the age of generative AI is historic and is raising many big questions. AI Café is where active classroom teachers meet to share what we've learned about managing generative AI in the classroom this week? Grab a cup of coffee with a middle school teacher, a university professor, an early childhood educator-technology specialist, and an education researcher as we meet to share our weekly discoveries. We cover it all from the aha moments to mistakes we’ve made, and the lessons we learned. We cap the meet-up by sharing the AI tools we found most helpful and effective.
