Blog #1 - Beginning of the Fall 2024 Semester

 Although my experience with using AI in my own personal work, school work, or field experiences have been minimal, I do have experience with working with AI applications used in these areas. Over the summer, I volunteered to assist doing research, social media advertising, and providing feedback for an AI application that focused on generating optimal report cards, Make Progress AI. Some of the work I did was researching the Do's and Don'ts of different provincial report cards, provide feedback on the presentation of the website, spend extended amounts of time playing and tweaking the tool to improve the quality of the report card comments, and even got to share this application with my colleagues in my second year course for assessment practices. 

In my practicum so far, my mentor teacher has also shared some resources involving AI that he uses to help enhance teaching, such as Magic School AI and Kuta (Pre-Algebra AI). Other technology used in the classroom that I have noticed also is the iPads that every student has in each class, which I have noticed is present in all grades. To sign in each morning at the school, sign-in sheets are in the form of google forms on tablets by the school office. 

As I begin this semester and move forward into my practicum, I want to ask how I can utilize technology in the classroom in a safe way that does not reduce students' learning? Even with the recent cell phone use policy that was enacted recently, technology can and does have a negative impact on children's brains, so when using it in the classroom, I want to be sure it is clear to students the line between using technology for entertainment and for education.

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  1. Kira BerrySeptember 12, 2024 at 12:40 PM

    I admire that you have so much experience using AI already! The more I hear about the benefits and potential, the more curious I become. I have also not worked in a classroom where each student has technology so readily available to them, I would like to know more about what else the students use these tablets for in terms of learning. I also agree that it is all about balance, too much and they are easily distracted from the actual learning outcomes.

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