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SchoolAI has incredible features that will support you in your classroom, AND will support your students learning. Watch this SchoolAI overview video to get the full tour of all of the features and tools that SchoolAI has to to offer! Look carefully for the latest updates in Assistants and Tools!
Check out these sessions at UCET to learn more about SchoolAI!
The ISTE student standard for February is Computational Thinker: "Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions."
Adobe Education Exchange has a great series of short, self-paced "lightning learning" courses. Here is one on creating Infographics in Adobe Express.
One of the components of Computational Thinker standard is having students "collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making," so having students design infographics and analyze data can help them be more critical thinkers and better communicators!
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This month's DTL theme is Innovative Designer. The Innovative Designer standard requires students to use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
Check out this video from Dr. John Spencer about the LAUNCH cycle, a K12 friendly approach to the design process.
L = Look, Listen, Learn
A = Ask TONS of questions
U = Understanding the process or problems through authentic research
N = Navigate ideas - brainstorm, analyze, and ideate solutions
C = Create a prototype
H = Highlight what's working and fix what's failing
Next time you have your students use the tools in the Adobe Creative Suite, have them go through the LAUNCH cycle to really dive deeper into the world of innovative design.
Discover the transformative power of Canva's Magic Write feature. Streamline writing tasks, from lesson planning to worksheet creation, freeing you to focus on teaching. One standout feature: build on or modify existing text. Have only a slide heading or document section? Use Magic Write to "continue writing" and swiftly draft your body text. Don't miss the detailed teacher guide below. Dive in, explore, and elevate your digital teaching experience.
Copy of Magic Write Teacher Guide by Colby HawkinsArtificial Intelligence tools are becoming a major presence in our world. As teachers begin to use SchoolAI and other tools to support their teaching practice, students will also begin to explore AI and how it fits into their lives. This is a pivotal time where educators need to begin to introduce and discuss this technology to their students. We need to give students guided support and instruction on the impacts of AI. Below is a framework developed by SchoolAI to help support educators and schools as they help students successfully and ethically use AI.
