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Use AI to Make Beautiful Power Point Presentations

When I was a teacher it took a great deal of time to come up with PowerPoint presentations and even more time when I was teaching virtually and trying to limit my lecture time and increase the hands on learning done by my students. Gamma uses AI to create slide decks up to 10 slides (more if you want to pay). Here  is my slide deck and  here  in the corresponding website. You have the option of downloading the ppt. and you can either create your own sign up or use your Google account. My prompt for the webpage was the same as the ppt. but it added in thoughtful questions for teachers to consider so the presentation isn’t one sided: Make me a slide deck that talks about ways for teachers to use AI in the high school classroom. Keep everything that has already been created but add in questions for teachers to make sure they understand the content being discussed For this presentation  I added in to include sites for teachers. You will note that it took out the interact...
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Homework in an AI World

  Homework in an AI World Why are we still having our students wrestle with it? My AI Education Dec 28, 2024 About twenty years ago I started a blog called the  US Government Teachers blog . It was an attempt in the early age of technology to get the government teachers in my K-12 school district to start using online resources to help their teaching. Along the way it morphed into a blog about not just content, but also pedagogy and finally the use of technology in the classroom. It also grew to the  US ,  World  (which is still active) and  Econ  teachers blogs, became viral (up to 60,000 hits a month) and finally into a book on 1:1 education ( Deeper Learning Through Technology ) that is still selling a decade after its publication. But then I took an administrative role leading a virtual school and needed a new skill set. That venture has seen a 450% growth in students and a 110% growth in the number of courses we offer. Then in November 2022 Artifi...

What Does the Internet Look Like?

The internet is really a series of buildings housing data on rows of servers.   If you want to see what it looks like, watch the short video above on the inside of a server farm. 

Duolingo to Learn Languages for Free

I am a big believer that the teacher is important to learning but that doesn't mean that most of the learning can't be done asynchronously.  But it is decidedly hard to do this with world languages.  Enter the free app Duolingo .   I have heard from so many people (including my wife who loves it) that is a great way to learn one's own, or for a student, a supplement to the class.  Above is a very thorough overview of how to use the app. 

How to Teach a Synchronous Class

I have been teaching online students for the past fifteen years and as the leader of an online school I also am in charge of teaching our prospective teachers.   To that end the video above is what I believe are the ways to engage virtual learners.  Honestly it is not much different than teaching in the brick and mortar classroom, especially as more schools are going one on one.  But watch the short video to see how to do that with technology tools.