Quick Thoughts: Saving Teacher Time with AI
How are you using AI to save time as an educator?
Time. I hear it so frequently. Educators say that they need more time. They need time to brainstorm new lessons. They need time to design new experiences. They need time to write new rubrics, give strong feedback, align lessons to goals, deploy better interventions. There are so many things we know that educators are expected to do that they simply need more time to do.
Generative AI has hit hard this year. ChatGPT -- just one example of generative AI -- has been created as of a disruptive moment as many educators can remember. It's a revolution in the way we think about teaching and learning. But how can we use AI to our advantage when it comes to starting a lesson? How can we use generative AI like ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and You.com's YouWrite help save time for educators?
In the coming weeks, I'll post several ways AI can save educators time. I'll break it down into a few major categories: starting or designing lessons, giving feedback to students, wrapping up a lesson, designing for diverse learners, and designing in-class discussions.
And to be absolutely clear: my posts are not AI generated. I also can't say that they are totally generated by me. I'm using AI as a writing assistant - which I think might be the way many of us will end up co-habitating with artificial intelligence. In my specific case, I do a lot of writing in app called Craft Docs. Their AI bot is smartly called the "Assistant."
In short, more posts are coming. Yet since this is on my Substack (a more conversational platform than some of the others I use), I want to start by asking subscribers, what has been your most positive use of AI so far this school year? Has it made you a better designer? Thinker?