Artificial Intelligence--AI--can greatly assist many mundane education tasks. Tools like Siri, Alexa, ChatGPT, and a plethora of apps seem perfect for handling the repetitive and time-consuming aspects of education that take teachers
away from the core of most lessons that require critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving. Done right, this sort of collaboration between AI and teacher results in a better outcome for everyone. One task identified by many teachers as well suited to AI assistance is generating quiz content, Our Ask A Tech Teacher crew came up with five great options for using AI in quiz creation and then reasons to pick one of
them: - QuizGecko
- Quizlet
- Qzzr
- Riddle
- Playbuzz
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It sounds easy, but to a five or six year old, holding the mouse, clicking that left button, dragging and dropping while holding a finger down is darn difficult. Here's a list: Click here for list I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I'm going
to take time this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I've found, are well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, offering inclusive solutions to the issue of tech tools--taking into account the perspectives of stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to ensure learning is organic
and granular. Today: K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum It's easy to confuse 'using technology' with digital tools. Your school passed iPads out to all classes. Some of your colleagues think having students read in this tablet format means they're integrating technology into their curriculum. Kudos for a good start, but they need to use the
tablets to differentiate for student learning styles, enrich learning materials, and turn students into life-long learners. That's harder than it sounds. Technology hasn't been around long enough to beget standards that work for everyone (not withstanding ISTE's herculean efforts), the set-in-stone of settled science. Truth, that will never happen. Technology tools populate like bacteria in a culture. Every time you turn around, there's another favorite tool some teacher
swears has turned her students into geniuses and her class into a model of efficiency. After fifteen years of teaching technology, chatting with colleagues, and experimenting, I can assure you there is no magic wand. What there is is a teacher not afraid to try new ways, test them out in a classroom environment, toss what doesn't work and share the rest. Her/his success doesn't come without lots of failure and mistakes, widgets that sounded good but were too complicated or non-intuitive for a
21st century classroom. Which of these nine mistakes do you make? Then, see how to fix them: Click for more |
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