If you’ve followed my blog over the last several years, you might remember that I occasionally create challenges for myself to explore, learn, and share what I discover. Last December, I challenged myself to explore 24 Days of Teaching and Learning Resources.
My challenge for April is to explore something new each day and share what I discover. Hopefully, I won't let you or myself down! (April Challenge Update Doc)
Thanks to a Tweet by Tony Vincent, I discovered Auto Classmate. Tony shared the "Activation and Engagement Activity Generator". Which is pretty amazing. I also discovered two additional AI Tools for teachers on the site. Today I am exploring all three tools.
These educational tools assist educators create more interactive, thoughtful, and meaningful learning opportunities for students. By fusing Artificial Intelligence and human creativity, Auto Classmate seeks to help educators become leaders in the ethical implementation of technology in the classroom.
There are currently three free tools and two that are coming soon. None of these tools require a login, but you are given the option to subscribe to a newsletter.
- Would You Rather Question Generator - This AI tool will instantly add excitement to your classroom by providing grade and content specific 'would you rather' style questions.
- Activation and Engagement Activity Generator - This AI-powered tool will produce three engagement activities designed to add a dynamic flare to any lesson plan for any class.
- Lesson Plan and Activity Forecast Tool - This tool will make you feel like you can see the future by predicting outcomes of any activity within your lesson plan so you can preview class before class.
- AI-Powered Lesson Plan Generator (Coming Soon) - Create a personalized and dynamic Lesson Plan for your classroom with the Auto Classmate AI-Powered Lesson Plan Generator.
- AI-Powered Instructional Coach - Powered by a fine-tuned version of Chat-GPT, our Instructional AI Coach will help you become a better educator everyday.
Before going into more detail, I also wanted to share to the opportunity to Support Auto Classmate.
Auto Classmate is attempting to build the future of education one tool and one resource at a time. The development of these tools and resources takes time, money, and energy. Your support through a membership subscription or a one time contribution will help support the educators that maintain this site. Your support will also support educators around the world.
Activation and Engagement Activity Generator
If you are looking for ideas to engage students in active learning this might be worth exploring.
- Select a grade level.
- Add an objective or topic and click on "Generate AI Responses"
- After a few moments, the AI with generate 3 different activity descriptors. These can be downloaded as a pdf or if none of the activities fit your goals, you can try the "Reload Tool" to add additional details and start again.
I am currently studying climate with my students and it is helped me brainstorm some new activities. I also explored some professional development topics. If you are curious to see what this looks like before trying, here is a pdf with some activities connected to artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence Activities
Would You Rather Question Generator
- Select a grade level.
- Add a topic and choose the tone.
- Click on "Generate AI Responses"
- After a few moments, the AI with generate 10 would your rather questions. These can be downloaded as a pdf or if none of the activities fit your goals, you can try the "Reload Tool" to add additional details and start again.
2. Would you rather have a chalkboard eraser thrown at your head once a day or have a student fall asleep and snore loudly every class?1. Would you rather teach a class full of toddlers or a class full of drunk adults?4. Would you rather have your students rate your teaching based on how funny you are or how insightful you are?3. Would you rather teach a class that only wants to talk about memes or a class that only speaks in Shakespearean English?6. Would you rather have to dress up as a famous historical figure for every class or have a random cartoon character interrupt your lectures?5. Would you rather teach a class on quantum mechanics or a class on how to use a rotary phone?8. Would you rather have your students constantly ask you for extra credit or constantly ask you for extensions on assignments?7. Would you rather teach a class where everyone has to wear hats made out of fruit or a class where everyone has to wear socks and sandals?10. Would you rather have your students tell terrible puns every class or have them constantly ask you if there will be a pop quiz?9. Would you rather teach a class of chatty students or a class of students who refuse to speak?
Lesson Plan and Activity Forecast Tool
This is a tool that I will need to spend some more time exploring.
This tool will help you predict potential outcomes of any given activity within your lesson plan. It will generate two possible positive outcomes and two potential negative outcomes for that given activity. This will give you a way to find strengths and weaknesses within your lesson plan so that you can adapt and prepare for all possible scenarios. Additionally, this tool will offer recommendations on how to avoid negative outcomes. This tool will make you feel like you can predict and change the future every single day!
I pasted the objectives and goals for a vocabulary activity connected to the weather. The generator created two potential positive outcomes and suggested some ways to encourage the positive outcomes. It also provides some "negative outcomes" and some ideas on how to mediate these. I think this will be a great tool to reflect on lessons.
- Formative AI - AI-Generated Hints & AI-Generated Questions.
- gotFeedback - AI-generated feedback for writing responses
- QuestionWell - AI-generated questions connected to a text set
- Curipod - AI-generated interactive lesson creation
- Scribble Diffusion - AI image generator
- TinyWow - AI generator for images, videos, text, and more
- Exploring AI for Education - Collection of posts and resources to learn more.
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