Getting Started with SchoolAI

Summary

SchoolAI is a groundbreaking platform that integrates artificial intelligence into the educational sphere, providing a secure environment where students can interact with customized chatbots to aid their learning. It offers various tools to enhance efficiency and productivity for teachers, including custom bots for lesson planning, syllabus creation, and more. A standout feature is 'spaces,' which allows teachers to create safe, tailored chatbots for specific educational tasks, fostering interactive and personalized learning experiences. Teachers can monitor student engagements and conversations for improved learning outcomes.

Highlights

• SchoolAI offers a safe, AI-powered platform for student learning and teacher productivity. 🌟
• Teachers can create custom chatbots for students, focusing on various educational aspects. 🤩
• The platform includes tools for lesson planning, quizzes, and vocabulary list creations. 📝
• Students can interact with historical figures via chatbots, enhancing learning through conversation. 🕰️
• Teachers can monitor and adjust the chat interactions to tailor the learning experience. 👩‍🎓

Key Takeaways

• SchoolAI integrates AI into education, offering customized chatbots for student learning. 🚀
• It provides tools for teachers to streamline tasks like lesson planning and syllabus creation. 📚
• The 'spaces' feature allows for creating educational chatbots, enhancing personalized learning. 🤖
• Teachers can monitor and guide students' interactions with the bots to ensure effective learning. 👨‍🏫
• Safe and secure environment for students to explore educational content interactively. 🔒

Overview

Welcome to SchoolAI, a revolutionary platform designed to blend artificial intelligence with education! This unique platform offers teachers the ability to provide their students with customized AI-powered chatbots, ensuring a secure and interactive learning environment. SchoolAI is not just about chatbots; it presents a suite of tools aimed at enhancing productivity and streamlining tasks for educators, making teaching more efficient and effective.

One of the standout features of SchoolAI is its innovative 'spaces' functionality. This feature enables teachers to craft chatbots focused on specific educational topics or tasks. The chatbots, or 'spaces,' are tailored to engage students interactively, allowing for a hands-on learning experience. From historical figures to geological wonders, these spaces provide a safe playground for curious minds, helping them explore, learn, and understand through guided conversation.

Teachers retain full control over the chatbot interactions, with the ability to monitor, guide, and even intervene if necessary. This ensures that students are not only engaged but also learning effectively. By fostering an individualized pace and understanding, SchoolAI empowers educators to create personalized learning journeys, enhancing educational outcomes in a secure and supportive setting.

Getting Started with SchoolAI Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 let's take a look at school AI a revolutionary platform that brings artificial intelligence to your students it's a safe secure environment in which you can provide students with customized chat Bots to support their learning there are also a myriad of other tools to help make your work more efficient and productive the first thing I did here was launch my browser because school AI is fully web- based and I visited the website school ai.com
• 00:30 - 01:00 here on the landing page you can look around to learn more about the product itself and when you're ready you can tap on the black free for teachers button to get started you're going to be prompted to create a new account which you can do with your Google login or any work or personal email address I'm going to go ahead and log in once you're logged in you'll be brought to a quick questionnaire which asks about what great you teach what
• 01:00 - 01:30 topics and what district you work in once you fill that out you'll be brought to your school AI dashboard which looks like this here you can launch a couple of quick activities but we're not going to do that now we're going to dig into some of the tools a bit I'll begin up in the navigation bar by clicking on the tools link now this is the most basic functionality of school AI it provides a variety of different custom bots that will support you in any number of your
• 01:30 - 02:00 day-to-day tasks as a teacher these include lesson planning syllabus creation IEP goals quizzes and vocabulary list worksheets and more simply type in a prompt and the AI will generate content for you of course it's all conversational so you can ask it to tweak and adjust and edit your content as you go this is a tremendous Time Saver and can help create efficiencies for teachers so they can focus on the more important task of teach teaching
• 02:00 - 02:30 and learning where School AI really stands out however is in its spaces feature what is a space well you as a teacher with this platform can create customized chat Bots that your students can use in a totally safe and secure environment around a particular task the best way to understand this is to see one in action so I'm going to jump over to the Discover tab where I can see spaces that have been built by either School AI or other their teachers and you can use for
• 02:30 - 03:00 yourself with your students for example if I scroll down and choose history comes to life I see a whole bunch of spaces that allow you to chat and interact with different notable figures from history so let's say we're studying the civil rights movement and we want to have a conversation with Dr Martin Luther King I can tap on this space and here I can preview what this bot will look like if I'm interested in sharing it with students students all I need to
• 03:00 - 03:30 do is tap on launch and share this link and this code with my classes they can even scan the QR code to access it let's take a look at what this bot will look like for students when students enter that link or scan that QR code they'll see this page which asks them to put in their name it doesn't even have to be their real name I'm going to go ahead and put in a name and you'll see by clicking on the
• 03:30 - 04:00 link the code is already provided I'm going to tap on join to join this space and here we are I'm in my custom bot where I can interact with Dr Martin Luther King I can ask all sorts of questions and get appropriate relevant answers in fact in the creation of a space you can control how much the bot helps the students whether it gives them answers directly or poses questions back to them to help them think through a
• 04:00 - 04:30 challenge I'm going to head back over to my school AI page and you'll notice that in my dashboard as a teacher I can see that I had one participant with this chatbot I can see the name that they entered and I have the ability to see anything that they added to the chat conversation if I click on them a window slides out that shows the entire conversation so I can see the exact questions and prompts that were posted by the student additionally I can copy
• 04:30 - 05:00 the link to this student's chat I can view it directly and I can even pause this chat if there's something inappropriate or off task going on of course if you were doing this with a whole class you would see each of your students in this list and could monitor all of their chat conversations now this was using a pre-made School AI space but what if I want to create my own well I just tap on Create and then I could build my own custom School AI space I'm going to
• 05:00 - 05:30 click on the blue create button and we'll give it a title let's say we're learning all about Ignus rocks now this is the key part The Prompt this is where you're going to give the bot specific instructions on how they should interact with students so I'm going to say something about what I want this bot to do okay so here's the AI prompt that I
• 05:30 - 06:00 entered answer questions that students pose about ous rocks volcanoes and plate tectonics be supportive and patient do not provide direct answers rather help students to understand the content by asking scaffolded questions focus on ous rock formation and the characteristics of ous rocks that help in identification so that prompt essentially does what I want the bot to do the more details you give here the better you can even enter details about
• 06:00 - 06:30 the tone of voice or the language that's being used by the AI prompt if I scroll down I have the opportunity to add additional Fields And if I want to do this quickly I can have ai generate all of these fields including the description for teachers and students the subtitle and even the artwork I'm going to go ahead and do that now and then if I need to I can edit it after the fact let's give it a moment okay you can see that AI has generated my cover image this nice art
• 06:30 - 07:00 showing a volcano as well as a relevant subtitle a description for teachers and for students now our bot is essentially completed I can preview it here over on the right hand side by asking some simple questions and seeing what the answers are like if I'm happy with it I just tap save and launch and that code comes up again so let's open this chatbot and take a look okay so I have joined my Ignus rocks chatbot and you
• 07:00 - 07:30 can see that the bot is saying welcome let's explore the fascinating world of ous rocks and the forces that shape our Earth Etc so I'm going to go ahead and ask a question how do ous rocks form you can see the AI responded Ignus rocks form from cooled magma or lava which is correct when thinking about magma what's the difference between magma and lava so you can see as I
• 07:30 - 08:00 prompted it the bot is posing questions back to the student it's providing some information but treating it as more of a conversation and again that all comes from the prompt the more specific you are when you're writing the prompt for your space the more responsive the bot will be so let me go ahead and write a response to this magma is underground
• 08:00 - 08:30 exactly magma is molten rock beneath the surface when it erupts from a volcano and reaches the surface it's called lava how do you think the location where magma cools could affect the type of rock that forms so let me give a typical Student Response I don't know and you'll see that the bot supportively responds that's okay think about the environment below the Earth's surface compared to the open air there it's very hot and there's a lot of pressure right so magma cools slowly
• 08:30 - 09:00 what might happen and so you can see that students can go back and forth and have a scaffolded conversation with this bot they can move at their own pace and collect the knowledge that they need as they go and this will ultimately create a more enduring understanding for students I'm going to go back to my dashboard and what I'll see if I refresh my page is that my students chat is right here and then if I click on it I can see all of the details of the
• 09:00 - 09:30 conversation so this allows me to intercede in this student's work if I feel like it's off track or if the questions aren't uh effective or moving in the correct direction and of course as I mentioned you will see all of your participants here and whenever you like you can pause or end this session so that students can no longer engage with this particular space this is a really powerful use of artificial intelligence in the classroom it really allows the
• 09:30 - 10:00 teachers to have control and monitoring over student work while allowing them to engaged at their own pace in a personalized learning environment