How to Use AI in the Classroom

Summary

In the rapidly evolving world of AI, educators are finding innovative ways to incorporate technology into classrooms, optimizing both teaching and learning experiences. This video explores five fascinating AI tools that simplify lesson planning and student engagement. From Copilot's rapid lesson creation to Murph AI's voice synthesis tools, each application promises to make education more interactive, personalized, and effective. By demonstrating tools like Curepod, Deep Nostalgia, and Synthesia, educators are shown how AI can be seamlessly integrated into their curriculums to enhance both content delivery and student participation.

Highlights

• Discover how AI is transforming educational spaces with easy-to-use tools that improve lesson planning. 📚
• Create dynamic, engaging lessons with minimal effort using AI-driven platforms. 🔧
• Enhance social studies lessons with animated historical figures using Deep Nostalgia. 🗿
• Generate personalized educational videos with Synthesia, perfect for both teachers and administrators. 🎬
• Murph AI's text-to-speech capabilities offer a unique way to present information in the classroom. 🗣️

Key Takeaways

• Copilot simplifies lesson planning by generating comprehensive educational materials in seconds. 🚀
• Curepod offers interactive and customizable slideshows, enriching lessons with creativity and reflection. 🎨
• Deep Nostalgia brings historical figures to life with animated photos, adding a unique twist to social studies classes. 🕰️
• Synthesia creates AI-generated videos from text, ideal for camera-shy educators who want to provide more engaging instructions. 🎥
• Murph AI turns text into speech, offering versatility in language and voice types to enhance classroom interactions. 🎙️

Overview

The landscape of education is evolving with advancements in artificial intelligence, offering teachers powerful tools to enrich their classrooms. The video starts by introducing Copilot, an AI tool that generates full lesson plans in mere seconds. Imagine planning an entire unit on water safety without the usual hassle. With just a few clicks, educators can specify learning standards, topics, and the number of lessons needed, and Copilot handles the rest. It's truly lesson planning redefined!

Next, the video explores Curepod, a platform that creates interactive lessons with an array of creative assets like polls, word clouds, and more, tailored specifically for students at varying educational levels. This tool is perfect for teachers looking to engage students with multimedia-rich content without spending countless hours creating slideshows. Whether it's introducing story elements or revisiting scientific concepts, Curepod provides the flexibility and creativity needed to enhance learning experiences.

Lastly, tools like Deep Nostalgia, Synthesia, and Murph AI offer exciting ways to interact with students beyond traditional methods. Deep Nostalgia animates photographs of historical figures, making history classes more compelling. Synthesia alleviates the burdens of camera shyness by converting text to video, perfect for teachers and administrators managing multiple responsibilities. Meanwhile, Murph AI allows text to be transformed into speech, offering multilingual and multitone options to diversify and enrich educational delivery. These tools pave the way for a more interactive, inclusive classroom environment.

How to Use AI in the Classroom Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 there's been all kinds of changes to AI recently and there's a lot of really cool technology that's coming out with this but how does this translate into the classroom well we picked out five examples that we're going to share with you that you can easily adapt these things to use for different things in your classroom let's check it out so first up we're going to take a look at copilot copilot is used to generate lesson plans and other education materials within seconds now what I'm going to do is I'm going to be making a unit for water safety something that I had a hard time finding materials for
• 00:30 - 01:00 online so I'm going to go over to where it says unit planner and let's get started I'm going to search for water safety and this is obviously a science whoops science topic and then we'll hit next now we can also decide what this unit wants to cover like if there's something even more specific so for example I wanted to have rules about how to be safe in in the water and then we'll also say
• 01:00 - 01:30 ways people can be safe around the water and then I also have specific learning standards that I want to tie into this so I'm going to go ahead and copy that learning standard and I'm just going to paste it right into that final box there and then I'm going to hit the final step the last thing I need to do is decide how many lessons I want this is going to be for one week so I'm going to drop it down to five and then I'm going to hit create unit and let's just sit back and see how long it takes
• 01:30 - 02:00 so there we go it took about 30 seconds for it to generate these five lessons and let's take a look and see how they look so the first one introduction to water safety uh let's see it's gave us some videos there gave us a basic overview now you can always go ahead and you can enter in different information onto these as well like your essential questions so on so forth uh let's see water hazards gave me another video for uh day five another video so you can see that you
• 02:00 - 02:30 can add your content easily right on top here but it just makes this really really quick and simple layout for your whole unit all right let's go and check the next one okay next up we have curapod curepod makes interactive lessons filled with creativity and reflection all within a couple of seconds so let's check this out for here I'm going to be looking for uh story elements which is another standard I have coming up and this is going to be specific for my class so first grade and then I do want to tie in a learning objective and a
• 02:30 - 03:00 standard there so I'm just going to copy my learning objective and Pace it and let's just let this do its magic and see what it comes up with so there we have it it's come up with these slideshows and what's really neat about these slideshows they're fully editable so you can go in and change things out uh you can also add in different types of activities that we have a poll word cloud drawings all kinds of really neat stuff and then you can even actually add your own content right here where it says add slide so all within a couple seconds this was
• 03:00 - 03:30 just created for me now let's go on to the next one so next up we have deep Nostalgia deep Nostalgia is a video reenactment technology tool that uses uh faces and photos and animates them I this is really really cool especially if you're a social studies teacher you're going to want to check this out what we can do is we can upload a photo and then it brings that photo to Life by re moving it around and reenacting some of those different movements from that particular character or individual so uh let's go ahead and let's pick a historical figure
• 03:30 - 04:00 I'm gonna go and drop in a picture of Abraham Lincoln and let's see what that looks like so I'm going to go to my downloads I've got a picture ready for us right here I'm going to upload this photo and let's see what it looks like so there we have it now we have an animated picture of Abraham Lincoln which is pretty crazy if you look at it I mean who would have thought to even come up with something like this I mean now we get a full view of what Abraham Lincoln could have looked like now of course you could do this with any
• 04:00 - 04:30 historical figure uh now it also gives you the ability to download the video uh you can also copy the link now the download video I think is really important because how awesome would it be if you could download this video Drop it into something like a PowerPoint or a canva presentation where you can have your students then voice over and explain some facts about that historical figure or they could even probably drop it into a flip video at some point in time really really cool stuff here let's go and check the next one up so next up we have Synthesia I hope I'm saying that right and Synthesia is an
• 04:30 - 05:00 apple you can take text and it will turn it into an AI created video if you're really camera shy but you want your students to be able to hear the instructions more than once this is for you if you're an administrator that perhaps maybe you've got some training for your staff to do the beginning of the year or maybe at a ped session and you can't be in all places at once this is also for you let's check out how it works the first thing you're going to do is you're going to come over and you're going to edit your video script and I'm going to just teach teachers about our new LMS system and then I'm going to
• 05:00 - 05:30 say continue now it's going to ask you to fill out this information you'll need to fill out this information and then the email will actually take about five minutes and then it'll be emailed to you so let's go ahead and do that now and then I'll come back and show you how it looks so we're back and we have our video and I know this is just a basic template that we've created here but let's see how it came out good morning students here is how to log into our brand new learning management system called canvas now obviously you'd want to go and you
• 05:30 - 06:00 want to edit out all those different elements and things like that but like I said before if you're camera shy this is definitely for you all right let's go on to check out the last one all right last up we have Murph AI Murph allows you to take text and turn it into speech you don't have to do the talking in fact it's going to do all that for you so all you have to do is you drop in some text so I'll say hello students whoops please read all directions
• 06:00 - 06:30 carefully all right we'll just say that and then I'm going to go ahead and press play let's see how it sounds hello students please read all directions carefully pretty cool you can also change the different types of languages or voices I should say rather so for example let's use Hazel here hello students please read all directions carefully very cool so I hope that you can find some of these different types of tools useful in your classroom if you are
• 06:30 - 07:00 please let us know and don't forget like And subscribe to this video and make sure you stay tuned for more thanks guys [Music] thank you