Hello, my friends. Mark, I'm so glad to see you. Hi, everybody. Hi, Sherry. Hello, friends. Welcome. Welcome.

It is our first sandbox of March, and I've got my my rider dies that are here all the time. Hi, friends. Hi, Ann Marie.

So glad to see you.

I'm just gonna give people a chance to come on in. If you wanna say where you're from in the chat, you guys kinda know the drill. Hi, everybody.

Welcome.

Hello. Hello. Welcome, Michelle.

I'm glad to see you. You're still in your classroom, my friend. Oh my goodness.

That's okay. That's okay.

I please head into the chat, everybody, and let us know where you're from, what's happening.

Lately, our intro chats have been, how cold it is because we are all over it.

So and, but I'm glad to see everybody here. Gonna give my standard three to four minutes, to give everybody time to jump in.

We're hitting upon, spring break time. There's some districts who are on spring break. Hi, everybody.

So I hope that we have some attendees today, who are excited to learn. Welcome. Welcome. Jump into the chat, everybody, and, let us know where you're from. We would love to hear where you're from, what's happening.

Heat wave of fifty degrees. Oh, boy.

Fifty?

Oh, man. And then I'm sure it's lovely in California, Teresa.

Oh, more California.

So, so nice.

Here in Utah, it is lovely. It is sunny. The sun came out, and I was like, oh, wait. I'm okay. Everything's gonna be fine.

Everything is gonna be okay. I thought everything was not okay, but then the sun came out, and I remembered I should probably go outside more.

So, yeah, we got a some park days.

But, yeah, I am it's, I'm so excited that everyone's here. We're gonna be diving in in about two minutes about AI literacy, and, which is something that I think we are all really excited about and something that I think a lot of districts are ready for. There was this initial, like, panic over AI. What is it?

What is it? What is it? And now we're like, okay. Now we know what it is.

Let's really be strategic about how we use it.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Hi, Cassie.

Okay. It's seven AM. I was like, what time is it?

I'm so glad it's not some crazy time. I'm so glad. I need to be better at my, time zones.

But we're so so glad you're here. Good morning. Good morning.

Welcome. Welcome.

We got about one minute, and I hope that everyone had a great day at school, wherever you were. Hope your students were kind.

Hope everything is going well.

And, we are going to have about a half hour to forty five minute session with some, q and a at the end. We'll see where it goes.

I hope everybody is able to log in to SchoolAI.

But the first thing I wanna know from my friends here in this webinar, where is, everybody at with SchoolAI specifically? Has anyone in here a brand new newbie to SchoolAI? Is anybody someone who has not logged in before?

You know, I can do my classic teacher one, two, three, or four. A one, never logged into SchoolAI before. A four, I am an expert. I've been in a lot. I am ready.

I see a couple of very familiar faces, so I know where you guys are at. I know where you guys are at. But I'd love to hear if there's any newbies.

Michelle, awesome. So excited, using it. Cassie's just getting started. I know Mark uses it a lot every day.

Denise is just getting started. That is so exciting. Well, I feel like this is the perfect webinar for you to start with SchoolAI.

And so we're gonna be diving into AI literacy and how you can build it in your practice and how you can also build it with your students and how you can help and support your students with this new AI technology.

So I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen.

And here we go. I would love to get a quick thumbs up just to make sure everybody can see my screen. We're good.

Alright. Well, here we go.

So just, for those of you who have heard my voice and come to my things many a times, I'm so glad you're still here after having to listen to me for so long. But my name is Casey Chambers. I'm a community and success manager here at SchoolAI, but I also want you to know that I was an educator for twelve years. I was a digital coach, instructional coach.

I was a fifth grade teacher for ten of those years. So fifth grade, you guys are my people. But then I went into k twelve, with coaching, and it was so much fun. And I did AI and school AI for a whole entire year in classrooms, and it was so, so, so much fun.

That that's why I came over to school AI to coach everybody everywhere.

So we're gonna dive into what is AI literacy, and I would really love to hear discussion. I would really love to hear from you guys. So have that chat open.

I'd love to hear what you guys think. We're gonna talk about what is AI literacy.

We're then gonna dive into the school AI literacy framework, which is the four c's. If you're a tech person, there's another four c's with technology, but we've got a four c's for AI literacy.

And then we have teachers using the four c's and students using the four c's.

And by the end, I will be able to give you a a PDF that you could print this out, use it whenever you want, and so you'll have something to leave with. So my first question, what is AI literacy? What is it?

I did what any responsible citizen would do.

I know what I think it is, but, of course, I Googled it. I wanted to see what would happen. I wanted to see. AI would probably give me an essay about it. So I Googled it and looked at images. And, obviously, we've got this, image, this image. Look at I I've never even seen this.

What what graphic organizer is that? We've got lots of towers, pyramids.

Obviously, we've got a school I see a school AI one right here.

There are so many AI literacy frameworks. There's answers. There's different ways you can think about it. I'm sure everybody in this call, your districts also have some sort of AI literacy framework situation for you.

So, what is AI literacy? I feel like we can discuss really what it here's some here's some points I wanted to bring up. I don't really have a full on definition other than being able to use AI effectively. Right?

Being able to use it and understand it effectively.

But I have three things I wanted to talk about. Number one, AI literacy is not some sort of formula or checklist that you can do. You you can never really be like, well, I'm AI literate, then I've got the badge. I'm ready to go.

I feel like it's being able to say, like, I I am AI literate.

Can we go to someone and say, I I can do the Internet?

What does that even mean? What does that even mean? The Internet is so expansive and crazy and huge.

AI is so expansive and crazy and huge. We're never done learning, and there's no, like, quick answer for it, which makes it very overwhelming to teach kids. Us teachers are like, hi. I need a checklist.

Hello. But I think there's some things we can do to simplify.

The second thing, I also wanted to point out too in the chat here, Anna Marie said using it responsibly, effectively, and efficiently. I think those are some really good words there. Mark said, it's a huge amount of knowledge that can be used as a tool for learning. This is it's just big. It's expansive. The second one, AI literacy goes hand in hand with digital and media literacy.

So we've got the digital skills of using technology.

We've got the media literacy skills of when you read something, do you comprehend it, and is it true?

There are so many skills that are kind of overlapping with this AI literacy. It's kind of throwing this new, this new, what is the word I'm looking for? It's throwing in a new a wrench is not the word. It's just kind of throwing in a new flavor into how we're teaching students how to use technology.

Again, please share your thoughts. I would love to hear, what you're thinking about, if if going hand in hand with digital media literacy.

And then the third one is AI literacy is something that schools and, frankly, for me, all adults need to model and teach.

I'm gonna tell on myself a little bit. I am a millennial, and I went to school when the Internet was coming out.

And, I was in those chat rooms. I was just kinda all over the Internet. Like, I was all over Myspace. There was really no we it was kind of we were kinda free range, us millennials, kinda on the Internet.

You know? And, there was because our our my parents didn't really know. My parents didn't really know or, they they did kinda learn as as time went on. We were I was also the first, to have a cell phone, and my parents were like, I don't know, like, to hear.

The the learning and the technical savvy of adults is getting so much better.

Yeah. I was gonna say and I was doing trig without a calculator. Yeah. We were I don't know. Like, I had my graphing calculator, but the Internet but then I would go home and be on AOL chat rooms. Like, what? That probably wasn't the best idea.

But now I feel like we're kind of learning and understanding that this isn't something that we could just say, hey. Teach that at home. You know?

We we'll deal with it at home.

AI is something just like the Internet where it is everywhere and a huge part of our lives. And so when something is so pervasive throughout every part of our lives, it then needs to become part of our schools. It then needs to become part of our classrooms.

It needs to be, something that we model and we talk about.

AI is like that now. Some parents just don't know exactly.

And so it I one of the things that inspires me so much about working at SchoolAI, is that teachers are like, help me. Teach me. The five or six people that are on this call who are like, I'm just getting started, that makes my heart just explode. Hi, Cam.

I'm so glad to see you, Cam. It just makes my heart explode because us teachers are like, I see something that is coming that I need to help my kids and their families. We are here to help communities. Educators are here to help communities and help the world be a better place.

I'm just gonna get on my soapbox for a quick second here, y'all. Educators are here to help communities. Educators are here to help families. And when AI came and started coming, guess who were some of the first group of people that was like, I wanna learn more?

Educators. Educators.

And so that is one of my favorite things about this job is that I get to help and we get to talk about this.

And so we've got some things here in the chat. If we don't use it, we are depriving students of their future, and they will grow up using it, and they may not use it. They may use it in the wrong way. It's that pink elephant theory where if I look at a kid and say, don't think about a pink elephant. You cannot think about pink elephants.

Of course, they're gonna be like, what is a pink elephant? And then they're gonna go find out what a pink elephant is. You know?

And so we have to talk about it. We have to talk about it. We have to use it.

And so, yeah, it is something even even kindergartners, we can talk about it and and and envelope it. So that all to be said, the AI literacy framework, that we have here at SchoolAI. Again, there are so many.

Talk to your district tech leaders. Talk to your, to your principals. Talk to your state leaders. I'm sure that they've got a ton that are already in the works.

So this is not to trump all of the things, but this is something that I have worked with, a bunch of educators to create. It is the four c's of AI literacy, and this is not only for kids. It is for educators. It is for everyone using AI.

So I wanted to kind of dive into those four. The first c is to be conscientious.

Understand what it is, how we use it, and what it is capable of, but also what it is not capable of. We just need to go in with eyes wide open. What is AI?

And to talk about school AI, I would love to hear in the chat how many of you have provided your students with a school AI space and you see light bulbs coming on in their head. You see, like, oh, my mom was talking about AI, and this is AI? This is what AI is?

And they immediately are like, oh, this isn't like a magician. This isn't, like, gonna, like, do they think like, the kids, obviously, because they're kids and they're hilarious. They're like, oh, wait. I thought that this is, like, some crazy magic incredible whatever thing that was gonna be the answer to all of our problems.

But they're like, wait. This is kind of cool, but it's they're they're getting a reality check.

I'm seeing a lot of typing, so I'm so excited.

Heidi had a great question. We're gonna take a quick pause. We're gonna pause. She said, what's a school AI space? Hello.

I'm so excited to show you what a space is.

We're gonna pause my slides. We're gonna go into SchoolAI. Just some quick background here. SchoolAI is our platform.

We have three things that you can do in SchoolAI. Number one, you can generate, different things.

You can generate things as a teacher, lesson plans, build your own. This is all just for teachers, this side. We also have assistance where you can go in and have a chat and say, hey. What do you well, help me with this with this data.

Help me create hands on fraction activities for my students.

So the tools and assistance are for teachers. But what I mentioned, Heidi, was school AI spaces where you can launch an AI activity to your kids, to your students, or to your adults. I've done a lot of PD with spaces, and I know Cam has too.

You can launch a space. Right here, the one that I was looking at earlier is a career project assistant where this teacher created a career project in their classroom, but they created an AI that the students could talk back and forth and help them plan their project.

We have a ton of different ideas. This one is a is a game where the students are shopping and reviewing their decimals.

This is, one where let me scroll to another one where you could, do vocabulary practice, a math adventure with fractions. There's a lot of math examples right now.

But there's an expansive library that you can send out.

I hope someone who is a who is a pro, you tell me in the chat if I explained that okay, or if there's any ideas. But I Anna Marie had a great comment down here. She said, I changed how my students do ponder assessments each week with a space. I created a slide for an exit ticket and sent them into a space that helps them remember what they learned and discuss it.

You're exactly right, Anna Marie, that it is like a a a conversation back and forth, and that is what takes their learning to the next level. At first, the kids were hesitant, but now they love using it, and it's easy to ponder and talk. Mark said, in using a space, student engagement becomes really, really high. Teresa, I've created a space to help students in the library to search for a good fit read.

Incredible. So now she doesn't have to, like, answer all of these other questions. She can help her students find the books. We're hearing a lot about light bulb moments.

But, yeah, that exactly ties back into our conscientious.

If you're thinking how in the world am I supposed to teach my kids about AI when number one, it just happened? It AI just happened. How am I supposed to teach them?

One of the really a really cool thing about school AI, it is the perfect place for teachers and students to kind of learn in a safe AI environment. School AI is completely data safe, and so students and teachers can have data safe and teacher, conversations that are completely targeted for students and teachers. So it really helps them see the limits. It helps them, have really good conversations about ethical, ethical situations.

If anyone would like to raise their hand and share maybe, a conversation that they've had with students about, hey. Is having AI write your paper a good idea? No? Is, having Google is having the student next to you write your paper a good idea?

No? So the same thing applies with AI.

If anyone has any ethical, conversations there. But that's the first step. Let's talk about what it is and how we can use it. And giving them an AI space is the perfect way to give them a light bulb moment.

They're all on Snapchat AI. They're all on chat GBT on their phones. So let's give them a really great learning experience with AI.

The next one, collaborative.

So now that we know what it is, let's consider it, a learning partner.

A lot of students come to us with a lot of misconceptions about AI that they think it's just gonna do everything for us. A lot of teachers also feel like AI is just gonna do everything for us, but we need to think about AI in a collaborative way.

One of my favorite articles, and I wish I had pulled it up. If someone wants to be a a runner for me and go find this article, but there's an article about how doctors are using AI to diagnose cancer, which is so cool. But one of the things in the article is it talks about that it needs a doctor to interpret and to put in the right information. So the AI couldn't do that without the doctor's input. And so a doctor is, is still essential, just like, a teacher is still essential. I tell teachers every day, I'm gonna get back on a teacher soapbox here, y'all.

AI is nothing without an educator. AI is absolutely nothing without a oh, there's Theresa, my girl. Thank you.

AI is absolutely nothing without a teacher. And without the skill that you bring, without the connection that you bring with your students, it will not help in the way that it that it could.

And so I want you to remember that I'm not sitting here preaching that AI is gonna be the answer to all of our problems. You teachers are the answer.

AI is a tool to help us. Right?

I wanted to point out too, Cam said, I ran through some PD this afternoon with one of my elementary staffs and and worked with assistants. So many light bulb moments for teachers working through different ways to create awesome learning for students. The cam, this totally embodies collaborative.

We can use AI to be a collaborative worker with us as teachers.

I know I've sat through some really rough PLC meetings, y'all. I've sat through some real struggle PLCs. And how cool would it be to use AI to collaborate, to talk about AI, to talk about data?

And so, yeah, if anyone wants to see that article, Teresa has a great put the link in there. That would be a great conversation to have with your students.

The next one, very essential. We know what it is. We know that it's a partner for us to help us learn. We know it's a tool. Now we need to be critical.

This and I've said it now three times. AI is not this magic wand that will do whatever we need it to do. We need to be critical of it. Even and let's start with educators.

We need to be critical about what comes out. Is that what my students need? Is that what I need? Is that what would be appropriate?

Is that something that my students could use?

Is that even right? Is that did that come from wherever? If we we know the AI models are trained on data and the data is behind.

I asked it something a couple of weeks ago, and it it said that it was the wrong speaker of the house. It said it oh, the wrong, you know, it I was asking for representatives, and it gave me the wrong ones because it's trained on data, that is older. So not very, very old, but it's still older. And so we need to be critical.

And, you know, guys, our students' favorite thing is to be critical. Like, how about let's put some things in front of them and be like, let's tear it apart. And the kids will be like, sign me up. Sign me up.

I wanna see how everything is wrong. Like, what a fun lesson it would be to be like, hey. Instead of telling me that I'm wrong, how about let's tell the AI? How fun is that?

So, being critical and practicing safe and responsible AI interaction. And I think something that's really great about SchoolAI, especially the spaces, is it helps teachers provide an AI space for students that we know will be safe, we know will be appropriate, we know that we'll provide the best information possible.

And so we don't have to be doing a ton of back end work to create an AI experience for students.

SchoolAI has done that for you.

So we've got a cool comment for Anna Marie. I teach responsive web design class, which, is nothing more than teaching HTML and CSS code. As a quick side note for any millennials, did anyone else learn how to code by making Myspace backgrounds? Anyone else?

Because that it was me. I, I went on Myspace and learned how to HTML code to make my Myspace queue. So, I I won't hear anyone in the comments that did the same. I created a course tutor and put it into the course library for students to use whenever they needed help.

And I've received feedback from the students that they are grateful for the just in time help. These online students who work all hours of the day and night. So Anna Maria is doing a really great example of providing a personalized learning experience. So, I wanted that takes us right into the next one. We're critical, and now we have all of the skills to be creative.

Sometimes I feel like we think that AI is just, kind of this very technical math kind of, like, oh, it'll help us make a worksheet. Oh, it'll help us, it'll help answer this or it'll help edit my paper, which all of that is true. But now we can be innovative. We can be persistent in creating our desired outcome. We can think about how am I formulating my words.

How am I, how am I prompting correctly? We're getting kids to write some really cool things because they are determined to prompt correctly.

How many cool things are we're creating images.

One of our staff, we have a two point o. School AI two point o was coming out in June. One of the things in School AI two point o is that you can create images, that students will be able to create images, and that's also coming as a part of, our later products. But, our our staff member, created a, a, an image for his for his little daughter, and he cut it up into a puzzle. And his daughter was to was able to create this, puzzle at his house, using an AI image of something that she really, really likes. And I thought that was such a cool and clever and creative way to connect with his daughter, but think about it in terms of a teacher. Like, I could create a really cool image for a student in my class and and do different things like that.

We've got a ton and and another thing that's coming out in, two point o is slide generation and things like that too, where we can be more yeah. And where he goes, woo woo. Yeah. Slide generation coming to SchoolAI. Woo woo.

But we can be more creative as educators.

Another thing that, I would love to talk about too is that AI kind of opens up space for me to think about doing activities that I would have never had time to do before. So I wanted to share a story about an educator who I went to her class and she said, I would love to I've always wanted to create an activity where my students visit a planet and they interview the they interview the the native population there, and they do science stuff, and they do social studies stuff. And and I've I've, like, created the cards and but can AI help me with that? And I was like, oh my goodness.

We can put them in a space where they go and they interview the native populations and they go find plants and they go do all of these things, and AI will do it for you. You don't have to make all of the cards and put them all over the room and and find all of the pictures and and all of these things that we would have had to do as a teacher before AI. Now you can put them in a space, and you can be extremely creative that way.

SchoolAI, I would love to dive into that, Heidi, if you would love to. Is it is it, education law two d compliant? The things that School AI is compliant with is SOC two, SOC one, FERPA, and COPPA compliant.

So it is fully, fully safe there, but I'd love to dive into that.

So the first step into teaching with AI is to use AI in your practice. So if anyone is in this call who would love to share things in the chat, my challenge right now, I love to be collaborative.

I would love to hear ways that you are using AI in your teaching. How, we we talk about using ethics. How and when is it appropriate to use AI when we're teaching?

Is it you know, these are just questions that we would love to discuss.

What can AI do? AI just saving me time.

But I would like to talk about this one right here. AI helps me to meet the needs of my students.

So I can get data from my students. I can get reading data, quiz data. I can get all of these things, and it can help me plan for each individual student. It can create a tutor for each individual student.

Whereas before, I was I would have my thirty five kids in front of me. I would struggle to meet the needs of all of them because I'm only one human. But now I can leverage AI to meet the needs of each student. If anyone has a a story about meeting the needs of their individual students, I would love to hear it because with SchoolAI, what you can do, and I'm gonna get out of my slides and go over to SchoolAI here.

You can provide exit tickets to understand where they're at. You can give them, writing feedback, and it can help them one on one talk about their paper and help them edit. I know for me, I gave my ten year olds, my my fifth graders, the the essay back, and they would be like, I don't even remember what this was about, miss Chambers.

I don't how am I supposed to edit my writing?

So AI can do a ton of these things, to meet the needs of our individual students.

Also, AI can help me learn. AI can help me, learn new subjects, can help me differentiate better for my students, can help me grow my teaching and learning.

But I wanted to dive into and, again, I appreciate all of you. If you've been to a sandbox before, it varies from different we have been creating things together. This is more of a, a thinking one that I would love to hear from you and and, think about how we can dive in. But school AI, we want to empower students to learn about AI, to learn with AI, and to use AI as a tool. It's a tool to help us.

And so with conscientious, we can you teach students what AI is, be open with students about AI use. So hey. Hey, friends. I used AI to make this. How cool is that? Hey. I used AI to email your parents the newsletter.

I wanna hear I'm seeing some really cool things in the chat. Chris says we used AI spaces school AI spaces, to take on the persona of the main character from a short story about immigration, and the students interview that main character, about the push and pull factors around that person's immigration experience.

Chris, if you wanna unmute and share how your students, interacted with that, what that helped them do. I don't I don't know what that would have looked like without AI, but how cool is it that they could interview? Chris, did you wanna share anything else about that, or or how your students, interacted with that?

Yeah. Sure.

Yeah. We just we loaded in the PDF of the story as as an attachment, and then we, we also had the chatbot, or we told the chatbot not to just, of course, provide the exact like, the the answers to the kids' questions to, sort of ask them to get or get the kids to ask leading questions.

And, and and it was very interesting because, of course, there was a little bit of empathy towards this chatbot because the kids almost thought that they were speaking with that character who was I think it was a, it was a story of a girl who was, from a war torn country in Africa. So they there was almost a little bit of empathy towards even just the chatbot just because the interactions were so authentic. So it was it went really well.

Yeah. Were you able to have conversations with them too about, like, the you know, this is AI. We're using AI to have these conversations?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, we we we did say that this was, you know, generated, and it was it was pulling from from the large language model.

And so it was it was wasn't just the story, but it was probably pulling from other content areas or or sources of content.

So yeah. I love I love thank you so much for sharing, Chris. I love that you pointed out that the kids were able to have a ton of empathy.

Something I've heard a ton of teachers talk about and me as a teacher as well talk about that I would have my kids read about something or do a task card about something or even watching a video, and the kids kinda seem disconnected. But how cool is it that your students were able to have a conversation, even I'll be at an an AI conversation, but they're able to ask the questions and and form that empathy. I think that is so, so cool. I think that ties into all of these things. Like, they're conscientious about that it's AI, but they're having this critical this creative conversation, and you were able to be very creative with with your teaching as well.

Sherry said one of our middle school literature teachers wanted to do lit circles.

I'm already, like, triggered doing doing literacy lit circles with my fifth graders and trying to organize that and there's, like, five groups of kids. Oh my goodness. She created a space for her kids to learn about their book options for their literature circle so that they could decide their first, second, and third choice for books. And she loved how it got all of them to have individual conversations about the books, get their eyes open to the books they may not have considered, more than she could have ever done as one teacher.

That is my favorite statement that anyone's ever said. It is more than we could have done by ourselves. However, it would have never happened if she didn't prompt it the right way. And to go back to Chris's example, he uploaded the PDF and all of these things.

They curated this experience to be what their students needed.

Some really, really good examples there. Let's dive into collaborative, having students use it to collaborate and to learn.

One of my favorite stories, I've said it nine hundred times, so I apologize if anyone's heard it, But I gave a space to a group of second graders. And the first thing in the space, it said, are you ready? Are you ready to dive in? It was like a pirate adventure.

And the kids, it was like, are you ready to go? And one of the second graders raised their hand and were like, what do I do? What do I do? And it made me think.

I was like, they're used to getting, like, a worksheet or a thing that they know exactly what to do step by step, But this was kind of like a very open ended situation. They're like, what do I do? And I looked at it, and I was like, well, are you ready? And they were like, yeah.

And I was like, okay. Well, tell it. Tell it that you're ready to go. And so they were like, oh, okay.

So they were very active participants in their learning, and that's another thing that these AI spaces can do is really teach kids to collaborate and be active participants in their learning, and, and to really reflect and think about what they're doing.

And so AI can really help the students and help it be personalized. We hear tons of examples every single day about kids going in and getting tutors and getting personal support. One teacher shared with us that there's a student in her class that is obsessed with the Titanic, not the movie, but the actual Titanic. And I know that there's many of you who went through that phase. I know I did.

I did.

But, this teacher created a space where the student could go in and ask whatever questions they want about the Titanic, and it will be fully student appropriate, all of these things.

But it's his reward. He whenever he gets all of his things done, he gets to go and be collaborative and learn with the AI.

So I thought that that was just such a fun and cool way to think about using AI as a thought partner.

And we're just gonna keep going on to the next one, being critical. We've talked about media literacy, digital literacy, and that AI is a tool.

Our our CEO, he says all the time, AI is not the thing. AI is the thing that gets us to the thing.

AI is the tool that will get us to the thing that we want. We I'm gonna go back to that doctor, the cancer AI, the cancer diagnosis AI.

AI is not the cool thing that we're excited about. The cancer diagnosis is.

The the the thing that it's getting us, it's solving these problems. It's helping us to get to these cool things, and and being critical about that and, and knowing that this isn't just the thing that we're done learning, we're done growing. It's the tool that will help us get further.

Any I would love to hear any thoughts on that or if anyone there's a hand raise button down at the bottom. If anyone wants to raise their hand to share, or or there's the chat as well. And like I said, the creative part is my favorite. AI isn't the thing. It's the thing that gets us to the thing.

Getting our students to think and grow and learn, that is my favorite.

I I'm gonna go into a couple other comments here. Anna Marie says, my students were studying AI bias in our computer science class, and they had to read an article and develop a ten word summary of the article that shows their thoughts. They have always struggled with that simple assignment. I how many times do we hear that? They're struggling with easy assignments.

I created a space that knows the article and leads them through creating their own ten word summary without doing it for them.

Now no one struggles with that assignment, and they breeze through it. And, Anna Marie, I I I guarantee that is such a cool experience because every kid is getting help. And, Anna Marie, how it looks like you are unmuted.

Where were you as a teacher? Were you struggling to help everybody, or where how did how did using a space help you know what to do as a teacher?

Well, I teach online, so I never meet my kids. I never see them. I never meet them. And that's a struggle right there because you never really know what they really need until they turn in an assignment. And then you're like, oh my goodness. You really didn't understand this.

Some kids don't like to go back. You know, they do an assignment, turn it in, go to the next one. They don't wanna go back and redo. And so it's been a struggle to get them to correctly work through these assignments in a way that will help them learn the material.

Yes. So spaces have really have have really helped me with that. The more these kids use the spaces, they more the more they seem to like them. They they really like them because it's like they have a partner that's right there with them right now when they need it. They don't have to message me. They don't have to email me and wait for a response. They don't have to call me, which they hate to do because they're intimidated.

Spaces are not intimidated. Hate making a phone call. I hate making a phone call, so I hear that.

So so for my online students, these spaces are just phenomenal because they can get the help they need at their level for what they're doing right now, and they can get the assignments done the way they should be done and not have to go back to it later.

That is so true. This has been so helpful.

That is is so true. And I would just love to build off of what Anna Marie said. If they're getting help with they need, when they need it, how they need it. They can spell words wrong.

They can say it however they want. They don't have to feel dumb. Also, in spaces, you it will be in the language that they need it, in some incredible supports there. We also launched a, a dyslexic font, an easy read font.

So there's also that help capability. It will read it out loud to them. And, like, kinda like Anna Marie was saying, she knows who needs help, and they want to help themselves. But I also wanna talk about what it looks like in a classroom as well.

I know who needs my help the most.

I know that, like, I can look at all of these thirty five kids, and I know who needs the help the most.

I'm seeing Mark, mentioned the teacher dashboard where you can see, we've got some of our newbies still here.

We can see the session, and we can see who and what the students are saying. So this is kinda what Anna Marie was talking about.

I can go in and be like, okay. Look at here are all of the answers. This is these are adults, by the way, so no stress there.

But we you know, I we were doing a genre study, and I can go in and I can see each one. And Mark mentioned the sentiments like, hey. Looks like Dwight right here is having a Dwight, I only like Battlestar Galactica.

Anyone any office fans out there?

So this I clearly, I should probably go talk to this student and help them out a little bit more.

Chris said, teachers in our career ed courses use spaces for creating mock interviews.

They set it up so Sidekick first asks the job being applied for, and then they get the chatbot to ask both specific and general questions.

The ability to use the speech to text option allows students to orally respond to questions.

Hi. As a quick side note, last thing couple last things we're gonna talk about. Has anyone tried the new speech to text feature?

Raise your hand if you have tried it. I'm gonna share it because literally tears cried out of my eyeballs with how good this is.

I there are no end of the praise that I have for our engineers.

So, right here, we're talking about you can speak. It will read it out loud. We've got our easy read mode, which will change it to an easy read mode for students who struggle with dyslexia and other things.

But if you press the space bar, it will record and do a really good job recording.

And it's right there, and you could just send it and just space bar. That's it, and it is so, so good. I wonder what it's gonna say. We're here to dive into the world of books. Like, hello. What did you even say?

And so we've got some really good also, right here, I wanted to point out chat can make mistakes. Check important information.

So, yeah, we have got really cool ways that we can be creative as teachers and with students.

But I wanted to yeah. School AI enables students and teachers to effectively learn how to use AI as a tool for learning, growth, and creativity.

We are, the the insane examples in this chat of how you guys are using it, how, how we are using it for our our learning, for our, practice as educators, but how we're giving it to students, how we're saying, I'm just one person, but how can I give my students an incredible experience?

I wanted to point out something that we all know and remember, the Oregon Trail game.

We have so many, teachers who have created Oregon Trail. Like, think about how how cool would it be if I could send them on the Oregon Trail or have someone be on Zoom where they could interview a pioneer. Look at all these cool life on the Oregon Trail or journey on the Oregon Trail.

You know, second graders doing Oregon Trail, but there's also tons of cool like, you could have your your twelfth eight twelfth grade AP students doing Oregon Trail. This is a really cool example of we can be creative, have students going on adventures, and learning about different things.

So the last thing I wanted to share is I'm actually I should have had it pulled up, and I'm going to send it to you guys right now. This is our SchoolAI essentials folder, and I've shared it with a lot of people. But I'm gonna send this link right here in the chat for everybody, so that you can have this poster.

This is our, school AI, AI literacy framework, for you to have.

And the other one I wanted to share with you guys, is the space that I have created that has, the four c's, and here it is right here, the AI literacy framework, the four c's overview that you can send to your students and have them begin to think about the four c's.

The more open and clear and honest and, you know, excited we are about the possibilities of AI, I feel like the less students will use it in the wrong way.

If if we're gonna get, you know, upset and stressed about students using Snapchat AI and chat GPT to do our assignments, let's have the conversation with our kids. Let's have the conversation with our students. Let's have the conversation with our parents.

Let's send out the four c's literacy framework. Share this framework with your principals and say, hey. Let's talk about this as a school.

Let's embed this and even if there's math teachers on here, social studies teachers. I know Anna Maria is a is a computers.

You've you've mentioned a ton of course. I Anna Maria, I actually know all the courses you you seem to teach a lot of courses.

But that technology teacher, it all of us can be teaching AI literacy all the way down to kindergarten, all the way to AP philosophy, all of the things, any anywhere in between. I think we can all be teaching AI literacy and being open about, hey, how AI is in our practice, how AI is for students, bringing in articles about AI in the world, how it's being affecting their world, how, AI is affecting different careers.

The last fact that I wanna leave with everybody, is that the I believe I I wish I had the number in my head again. I should have been more prepared.

It is sixty percent of the jobs that our students are gonna have are not even invented yet.

And that blows my mind. Oh my goodness. We like, we need to be doing everything we can, to even just plant these seeds of what our students could be capable of and could be doing, in ten, fifteen, twenty years. Mark is one that I know in the community. He talks about all the time. We have to prepare our kids and and and we have to be showing them how AI can be a part of all of their learning.

Another one is that AI and, personalized tutors have improved college retention rates by thirty percent.

So think about all those babies in your classrooms that you're worried about that were like, oh, man. I don't know if they're gonna be able to handle the the the next level of learning, whether that's college or or or whatever, all of those trade schools, all of those things. It's it's helping with retention. It's helping our students be successful in ways that they wouldn't have been able to be.

And so I'm just so inspired and excited by AI because of educators like you, and I hope that everyone is able to take that.

And I know that this session was a little less collaborative today, but I wanted you to leave with something. So take the AI literacy framework and put it into practice.

Reflect on it. Even if it's just for you, reflect on it for you and your students. Reflect on it for, with you and your PLC, reflect on it with your district.

But that is the last thing that I had prepared, but, that is the end of our session. If you would like to stay and chat and share ideas, the newbies that are in here, take some time to dive into SchoolAI and use the tools, use the assistance, and come back in two weeks, and we'll be talking about creating spaces, and creating them for your students. But take some time and learn about the AI literacy framework, and we'll be diving in more, to to how to create those in your, for your students and for your practice. So thank you so much for attending. I am so thrilled.

Thank you for listening to my soapbox about teachers, but you guys are incredible. Educators are incredible. It's why I'm here at SchoolAI, and it's, it's it's the the best job in the world. So thank you for doing everything, that you do for your kids and for being willing to learn willing to learn. So thanks, everybody.

Please, come back in two weeks. We'll see you in the community. I'm so glad to see all my friends.

But if you have a question, feel free to send it in the chat. I'll be hanging out for the next ten ish minutes.

But if you're if you need to go Michelle, girl, you need to go home. You need to go home. She's still in her classroom. Look at that.

But I'm so glad you guys are here. I'm so glad you're already seeing too. Heidi, see you, thank you so much. But, who has questions for me? Feel free to raise your hand, and I'll answer, or you can just feel free to unmute who has things that they would like to chat about.

Just like Michelle.

Yeah. For this is Michelle.

If I'm gonna wanna set up, like, a space for my students, like, next week for an assignment, like, where would you suggest I start?

Oh, I am so glad you asked that question, and I bet ten bucks there's a couple people who know exactly where I'm gonna send you. So here on this launchpad, I have the perfect place for you to start. This learning activity collection is the perfect thing, not just because I made them. I know I'm a little biased, but, all of these are are, teaching strategies that we all use in the classroom already. So KWL, vocabulary. Michelle, what do you teach?

I teach, eighth grade and sixth grade science.

Ugh. I love the sixth graders. I love the sixth graders. They're smelly and mean, and I love it.

So these are all some really great ones that you could just launch right away. Like, you don't even have to prompt them.

So I'll pull one up. Like, let let's say you're gonna do some vocabulary with your science kids. Right?

How this space works is you could launch it to your kids, and I'll show you how to do that in a second.

But, obviously, my Internet is gonna be a little slow. Welcome to your vocabulary practice. First, tell me your grade level so it will help me. So you don't even have to prompt it.

So they would obviously say sixth grade, blah blah blah. Wow. That's not sixth grade. Hello.

Sixth grade.

Eighth grade. Great. Eighth grade. Whatever.

Let's dive into vocabulary for one word at a time. Do you have a vocabulary word in mind, or would you like me to suggest one? So you would give your students a vocabulary list. Okay. My first vocabulary word is photosynthesis.

I know eighth grade science. Right?

And it would go through a vocabulary foursquare activity with them. Them. But you could also remix it and add your vocabulary list on there.

So whenever you're ready, you could just launch it, and it will then open up the session for you. You could send it into your Google Classroom, but you could just give your students this this, link. Or if they're iPads, they could go to join, school a I dot com slash join and type in that code. But you would just give this to them, and you would see all of the chats and everything like that. So that was a long, winded answer, or I think these are a great place for you to start. I'll send you the link right now in the chat so you don't have to go search for it.

Thank you.

Hi, miss Lee. I'm so sorry.

Yeah. Five five mountain, but I have the recording. I'm gonna have it in the community. So, Michelle, did that kinda answer your question?

Yeah. Okay. Great. Yes. Hi. I'm gonna show where this is gonna be posted.

So if you go into the community, so you can click community right here, and this is how we got to the recording or to the to the session. If you go to digital events and then click past, you'll be able to click on, this one will be up at the top, but we're going this one is the one happening right now. The recording is gonna gonna be right here. Oh, and Mark posted a comment right here.

I love that, Mark. Thank you. I will also be posting the recording in the show and tell. So Michelle or miss Lee, you can go in and see the recording there, and it will be we'll have all of these ideas and things, for you.

So great.

Any other questions? Any other thoughts from anyone in, in the group? You can go ahead and just unmute or, raise your hand or send it in the chat, whichever.

Any other thoughts?

Good question.

If I may, this is Yeah.

Go ahead. Thank you so much for taking my questions.

This is really exciting. I'm a Spanish teacher, and while you're talking, I'm, like, on the Spanish looking at all of the, spaces for Spanish. So I'm, like, super excited for that. But I'm just wondering how did you get to just a a moment ago to those premade things that you did?

Yes. Okay. So that is such a great question. The first place that you can find premade spaces, is I have created and curated three collections.

And those are just on the launchpad right when you log in.

So I'm missing in all of your free time you did this.

Exactly.

Yeah. Just, you know, just In the job description, so I love it. I love it. But we've got spaces for March, which are so, so fun.

I loved looking up all of the things that happened in March, like, so many people's birthdays and, like, all sorts of things. I should have done way more.

National Cereal Day is in March. I don't know, guys. So so fun.

But here, these are all pre created, you know, give me liberty or give me death, Patrick Henry. The Iditarod happens in March. You guys, so many fun things.

But there's also women's history month and then the learning activity spaces. The new ones that I launched this month are think AI pair share. Are you kidding me right now? If I was in a if I was in a classroom, you could not stop me from doing this. So the students think they talk to the AI, and then they talk to their partner, and then we share out with the class. That was kind of the idea there.

Primary source document analysis, it will walk them through the what do you teach, Heidi? I should have asked that first.

What do you teach?

Oh, I teach Spanish.

Oh, you said that. Duh. Spanish. Okay.

So it's well You're you're all Casey.

I'm on my second glass of wine, so we're doing good.

And I hope you're wearing your comfy clothes. Hello. But, yeah, vocabulary. The one thing I wanted to point out to you too is the discover page.

So if you click discover, you can search for any of the things that you're teaching. You can search by standard. Yes. I did that.

Oh, good. Okay.

So you get an o Alleluia for having world language modern world language standards for New York state with the new standards.

Because that's so hard to find.

We try our best, but you guys, it turns out standards aren't standard. So, we try our best. So if you see that if something isn't in there, but, yeah, you could search for, like, I don't know, Spanish. I'm just even gonna search for Spanish, and I know that that probably shows my whatever. But, like, well, look, all of these, show up ER verbs a ton.

The other thing I wanted to point out to you is that, you can change the language.

And so, when any any of these spaces so if you're talking about, like, oh, I don't know.

One of my topics right now is human rights.

Yeah. Human rights.

You could find a human rights space and then just change the language to Spanish so that they are getting it in Spanish Come on.

And and that connects. So just wanted to point that out as well. Cam, I wanted to look in the we had a lot of luck with the space designer assistant.

Heidi, did that answer your question? Do you feel like that kind of, helped you find the things that you needed?

That is super. During this whole thing, I was, like, texting one of my co teachers like, oh my god. Look at this.

We found a thing. We found a thing. I wanted to point out yes, I wanted to point out something that Cam just said. And, Cam, MVP, hi.

I'm so glad you're here. The space designer is a a chat that can help you create a space. So I know we've got just a couple of people, but, Heidi, you're a newbie. I wanted to show you that space designer that's there.

So, yeah, any other questions, any other thoughts for for anyone else that's here?

Looks like I'm going down another rabbit hole with this.

We love it. We love it. We love it. Thanks. Okay. Well, thank you, team. Mark, I'm so glad you're here.

You guys stayed with me to the bitter end. Cam, did you have anything you wanted to share? You just you're just here. You're just my ride or die here helping me out.

Alright. Alright. Hey. Well, you guys, you guys are incredible. Mark, any I'm I just wanted to say, hey. Thanks for coming. Thanks for for seeing it to the end.

Yeah. I wanted to know where the powerful servers are located at the power of the system.

Yeah. So, that is a very good question. We have, I would love to get more specific answers, but my AI we have two AI engineers and a big, like, pile of other engineers. I'm sure they would know, but there was a huge, dip, right around eleven fifteen, like you said.

And they went in and fixed it and turned it right around. And so, but I will I'm gonna dive into that, and I'm gonna let you know where exact which exact servers. And I know we use a ton of other of lots of other things, to kinda bring it in.

But That's okay.

I'm gonna I'm yeah.

The kids are just thinking, man, the servers the the processors must really be strong in this system to give us all this information and different conversations.

Yeah. I that is so smart of them to point out because there are engineers pulling. There are so many much more smarter people, like our engineers and things like that, that that they there are a lot of AI things. There is a space that I may talk to an AI engineer, based on one of our engineers, Tyler.

So maybe you should have your kids. It's, it's in there. I'm gonna search for it right now, that maybe your kids would love. Talk to, AI.

I'm gonna wear the AI engineer.

You guys. Are you kidding? There he is. Right here. Chat with an AI engineer. It's based on a real AI engineer at Skoll AI named Tyler.

And so I think maybe your kids would love that, Mark. But, Cam, I love that you're rocking a kid to sleep. You are a rock star.

But that is the end. My two friends, thank you for staying with me to the end. I'm gonna go ahead and end it, but I'll see you both in the community. You're amazing, and we'll chat so soon.

Thanks, guys. We'll I'll see you later. Thank you.