I started this school year with parent permission to use Bing Chat (now Copilot) with my 5th and 6th graders because being under 13 years of age they cannot access tools such at ChatGPT or Quillbot, which can be used with students ages 13 to 18 with parent permission (the then Google Bard, now Google …
Category: Tech Integration
These are blogs I've written about integrating technology into my Science classes.
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Dec 28
AI Detection or AI Proofing?
In a recent post by Larry Ferlazzo, Yet Another Nail-In-The-Coffin of AI Writing Detectors, he offers even more evidence dispelling the myth that AI detection software work. Even if AI detection can sometimes correctly identify whether or not a human wrote a piece of writing, they are so often wrong that they cannot be trusted. …
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Dec 28
I’m Presenting at #NCCE24!
Tammie Schrader, with whom I’ve been co-presenting for many years now, and I submitted four proposals to the upcoming 2024 NCCE Conference, the Northwest USA’s premier educational technology conference and we got three of our proposals accepted! There is still time to register so click the image or link above to secure your spot. Click …
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Dec 28
WEA’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education Workshop Series
The Washington Education Association (WEA) is hosting an AI training for educators starting February 2024! This workshop series is open to anyone and if you are a certified teacher in WA state you will earn 15 STEM clock hours for attending all five two-hour sessions and for completing five hours of exploration of AI tools, …
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Dec 24
More AI Tools for Math Support for Students
I have been looking for tools that my students can use in class if they need help with Math. I’m especially hoping AI tools can help students when I am busy with another student or working with a small group of students and their peers are busy working on different tasks. Sometimes teammates are helpful …
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Dec 24
More AI Tools for Kids Under 13
Since my last post sharing AI tools that teachers of students under 13 years of age can use with their students, I’ve found some more tools that we can use with our students! Once you’ve established a class AI policy then kids are ready to go and begin practicing. After finding out about CodeBreaker’s Byte …
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Dec 24
Sept 11, 2001 Class Book Published
After working on this class book in my Monday/Friday writing class since September 11 of this year, we finally finished it! You can snap a pic or click on the QR code below or click here to read our book online: Students researched their articles after we watched a 9/11 Memorial video to give them …
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Dec 24
AI School Policy to Provide Guidance
Here’s what I’ve been sharing: A summary of AI in Teaching and Learning from the Office of Educational Technology. Ideas on areas to consider when developing an AI policy. AI Principles to Practical Strategies: How Schools Can Apply the National AI Framework Writing school AI policies? Use these 10+ resources How to develop AI policies …
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Nov 19
CodeBreaker’s Byte Helps with Math!
After asking Bing Chat and Wolfram Alpha for help with some pretty basic 5th and 6th grade Math problems I was disappointed with the results. I still have this feeling that I did something wrong but I can’t spot it if I did. So when I got introduced to an AI chatbot for kids, even …
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Nov 19
Great Chatbot for Kids Under 13 – CodeBreakerEdu’s Byte!
This AI Chatbot from Codebreaker Edu is really good! I learned about it after listening to Terry Kearnes talking with Jeff Utecht on a recent Shifting Schools podcast. I reached out on X (formerly known as Twitter) and Terry shared the Byte AI Chatbot that he uses with his elementary students so I ran it …
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