Everything you want to know about Bard

 

There has been lots of news of Chat GPT- but maybe you should take a look at Google’s Bard.  Here is a great webinar from Eric Curts ( my go-to expert for everything Google) as well as a resource site. The resource site contains many examples of academic usage.

AI Bias

Matt Miller shared this post about Jean Darnell and her experience with AI and a Black History Month report.  The post also includes a video interview with Jean and she shares some of her resources.

Acceptable Use Meets AI

I’m sure many districts are struggling with how AI (especially Chat GPT) into their acceptable use policy.  Alice Keeler shares her thoughts here for an ELA classroom. I really liked the sample appropriate (and inappropriate) prompts.

Forcing Checkboxes on Google Forms

Ever want to require folks to make at least 2 (or 3 or ?) or more choices when using checkboxes on a Google Form?  See this post from Alice Keeler on how response validation will make it work!

I’m done, what do I do now?

That’s probably my least favorite class question (and as a slower learner, it was always a reminder that I needed to work faster). Matt Miller has the perfect response- a choice board with 40 options for your students.  His blog post is here.

Is your grading equitable?

Here’s a quick read from Alice Keeler with her suggestions for making grading fair and truly an indication of student learning.

Changing the type of assignment

With all the focus on the new AI Chatbots ( Chat GPT being my favorite), people are starting to look at assignments in a different way.  There are no tools that will catch every chatbot-created paper- so I think looking at the assignment type is a better method.  Here’s an article from Education Week that might help you modify your assignments.

Student Engagement Challenges

Alice Keeler shares 8 suggestions for improving student engagement.  While all of them made sense to me, I think I would select one and focus my energies there first.

New Season of the Math Teachers Lounge

While I shared this podcast last year, for all my K-12 math friends,  you might want to revisit the Math Teachers Lounge.  Hosted by Bethany Lockhared Johnson and Dan Meyer- this is all math, all the time.  And this year they have added study guides (available here). You can access the podcast here or in your favorite podcast app. Here is the Spotify link as well as Apple podcasts.

How to engage students

Alice Keeler shares her brief reflection on how we can work to engage our students in the classroom,  You can view it here.