Played around with different AI platforms over the last semester in a bid to make my life as a teacher easier. Shared my review tools with the Humanities department, and thought I should document them here for my own future reference! 😌
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AI as a Teaching Buddy
AI as a Teaching Assistant - MagicSchool.ai
MagicSchool has a whole suite of AI features catered to teaching and learning. Some features that I found useful include:
YouTube Video Questions swiftly generates a series of questions (MCQ, FRQ, or true/false) aligned to a specific YouTube video.
All you have to do is (1) select the grade level the questions should be pitched at, (2) the number of questions to be generated, (3) the question type, and (4) paste the video URL.
Though one limitation if you intend to host these questions on SLS is that you'd have to manually copy and paste the each question and answer into your lesson.
Multiple Explanations provides multiple explanations for a single concept, catering to different learning styles and preferences.
Restorative Reflection creates a personalised student reflection assignment based on restorative practices for disciplinary incidents
Getting students to reflect on their actions supports social and emotional learning (SEL) and helps them develop emotional intelligence.
It also fosters responsibility by encouraging students to be accountable for their actions and think about how they can improve moving forward.
Character Chatbot uses engaging characters to interact with students.
This tool stimulates curiosity and exploration by allowing students to interact with knowledgeable characters and ask questions in a conversational manner.
One limitation that I encountered was that I wasn't allowed to chat with Hitler 🫢, (which I thought would have been useful for upper secondary History).
AI as a Teaching Assistant - SLS Short Answer Feedback Assistant
Posted about using the ShortAnsFA to mark Geography structured questions back in February, and the tool has been further enhanced (see below) within the short span of time. 😆
AI as a Teaching Assistant - Remarks Co-Pilot
Used the Remarks Co-Pilot to craft half my form class' Semester 1 HDP remarks, and I am happy to share that it only took 30 minutes for me to do up the remarks for 15 students. 😚
How it works: Input the name, gender and a few adjectives to describe the student, and Remarks Co-Pilot will work its magic.
The quality of the remarks generated is rather consistent, and minimal edits were needed.
Note: Remarks Co-Pilot is a spinoff hackathon project of String from OGP's Hack for Public Good 2023.
AI as a Teaching Assistant - Iorad
What began as an effort to find a quick and easy way to help my department teachers set up 'Team Activity' in their SLS lessons led me to discover Iorad.
This tutorial only took 3 minutes to make, and I would imagine that it would have taken much longer if I took screenshots of every window, circled each button and annotated each step.
Iorad also provides options to embed the tutorial on websites, share via a link, or export in various formats (e.g. PDF, video). >>>
AI as a Learning Buddy - Hypersketch
Hypersketch creates professional sketches rapidly or let AI turn your incomplete doodle into design concepts.
Learned about this application from one of the speakers at the Design Education Summit. His sharing on the synergy of AI and human innovation was really enlightening, pasting my notes from his sharing below:
AI as a Learning Buddy - Imagica AI
Jumped onto the chatbot creation bandwagon and tried my hand at creating chatbots that:
[Chatbot] Answer students' Geography questions with text, images and videos
[Chat with data source] Answer students' questions about the O Level syllabus demands and exam format.
My Takeaways:
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