Khanmigo for Teachers

Summary

In this engaging video, Michelle, a professional learning specialist at Khan Academy, introduces Khanmigo, an AI-driven companion designed to revolutionize the teaching experience for educators. She shares how Khanmigo can help teachers create course-specific content, design engaging lesson plans, and generate customized lesson hooks that ignite student curiosity. The tool allows for easy modification and customization of lesson plans to meet diverse student needs and includes features like text releveling, content refreshing, and real-world context generation. Additionally, it can create informational text passages, discussion prompts, and even fun summary poems, all tailored to various grade levels. Khanmigo is praised for saving teachers time while enriching the learning experience for students.

Highlights

• Michelle introduces Khanmigo, revolutionizing teaching experiences with its many features. 🚀
• Khanmigo helps create engaging and student-centered lesson plans efficiently. 👩‍🏫
• Easily customize and modify lessons to adapt to student needs. 📊
• Relevel complex texts for better comprehension at different grade levels. 📖
• Use the 'refresh my knowledge' feature to brush up on topics before teaching. 🔄
• Generate real-world context scenarios to boost student engagement. 🌎
• Informational text generator supports cross-curricular integration. 📚
• Ignite curiosity with detailed, thought-provoking discussion prompts. 🤔
• Summarize classes with a creative poem, making learning memorable. 🎶

Key Takeaways

• Meet Khanmigo, your new AI teaching assistant! 🎓
• Create engaging lesson plans with ease and creativity. 📝
• Customize lesson content to meet diverse student needs. 🔄
• Relevel text complexity for better comprehension. 📚
• Refresh your knowledge and prepare for lessons efficiently. 💡
• Generate real-world scenarios and contexts quickly. 🌍
• Craft thought-provoking discussion prompts effortlessly. 💬
• Summarize lessons with fun, creative poems. 🖋️

Overview

Have you ever wished for a teaching assistant that could save you time while enhancing the educational experience for your students? Meet Khanmigo, Khan Academy's AI-driven sidekick that's geared up to revolutionize your classroom. Whether it’s creating unique lesson plans or engaging activities, this tech-savvy tool is poised to make your teaching more efficient and enjoyable.

Khanmigo's features are a game-changer for educators. From crafting captivating lesson hooks that spark curiosity, to re-leveling complex texts for better comprehension, this AI tool makes lesson planning a breeze. It offers an impressive suite of customizable tools that let teachers tailor their lesson plans to their curriculum and student needs, taking into account their learning objectives and interests.

Beyond lesson planning, Khanmigo shines in creating a collaborative learning environment. Its capability to generate real-world contexts, thought-provoking discussion prompts, and even summarize lessons creatively engages students. Not only does it enhance learning, but it also frees up crucial time for teachers, allowing them to focus on what truly matters: their students. Thanks to Khanmigo, educators now have more time to inspire and cultivate knowledge in young minds.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction to Khanmigo This chapter introduces Khanmigo, an AI-driven tool aimed at revolutionizing teaching by providing a more engaging and efficient experience. Presented by Michelle, a professional learning specialist and former classroom teacher, the video outlines the ways Khanmigo supports educators. It highlights its various features that allow teachers to create course-specific content to enhance learning for students. The chapter promises to explore practical applications of Khanmigo in educational settings.
• 00:30 - 01:30: Creating Lesson Plans This section discusses the importance of creating unique and engaging lesson plans and student-centered activities to excite students about learning while saving time for educators. It introduces the K Migo's dashboard, emphasizing its plethora of helpful features aimed at enhancing the teaching experience and saving time. The chapter highlights the 'lesson hook' feature as a tool to ignite a passion for mathematics, which can be challenging but very impactful.
• 01:30 - 03:00: Customizing Lesson Plans This chapter focuses on using Kigo, a tool designed to enhance math lesson plans by creating engaging introductions. Specifically, it describes the process of tailoring lesson hooks for a 7th-grade class on the topic of two-step inequalities. By simply selecting the relevant details, Kigo generates three captivating introductions aimed at sparking students' curiosity and interest in math.
• 03:00 - 04:00: Understanding Complex Texts In 'Understanding Complex Texts,' the focus is on igniting curiosity and using Migo's lesson planning tool. This tool aids in designing a customizable lesson plan tailored to the curriculum and students' needs. After accessing the lesson plan feature, users are prompted to detail their topic of interest. Kigo presents a range of topics from the rich offerings of KH Academy, but also accommodates custom topics not listed. Upon selecting a lesson, Kigo rapidly processes the choice to further assist in lesson planning.
• 04:00 - 05:00: Refreshing Knowledge on Topics The chapter titled 'Refreshing Knowledge on Topics' focuses on generating structured and detailed lesson plans that are tailored to the curriculum and the needs of students. It emphasizes the inclusion of various elements such as learning objectives, warm-up activities, exit ticket questions, direct instruction, and independent practice. Additionally, the chapter highlights the customizable nature of these lesson plans, allowing educators to effortlessly modify elements to better suit their students' requirements, demonstrating flexibility in educational planning.
• 05:00 - 06:00: Real-World Context Generation In the chapter titled 'Real-World Context Generation,' the focus is on utilizing buttons for efficient teaching preparation. The narrator describes using a tool called 'kigo' to make adjustments and try different approaches to a lesson plan. When unsure about changes, the simple command 'try something different' prompts 'conmigo' to create a varied warm-up exercise. This flexibility enables educators to finalize and export their lesson plans effortlessly, either by printing or saving them in a Word document format.
• 06:00 - 07:00: Informational Text Generator The chapter discusses the challenge educators face in balancing the exposure of students to grade-level text and vocabulary with comprehension. The focus is on an upcoming unit about the play 'Julius Caesar,' which often presents challenges due to the complexity of Shakespearean language. Emphasizing Brutus' speech in Act Two is highlighted as a critical component for student understanding. Educators seek tools that save time and help ensure students grasp key concepts, like those offered by a PDF document creator or Google Drive for resource management.
• 07:00 - 08:00: Discussion Prompt Feature In this chapter, the Discussion Prompt Feature is explained. The feature allows users to input the title of a text and provide the original text by copying and pasting it into a designated space. Once the title and text are inputted, users specify the grade level they wish the text to be adjusted to. The example provided is adjusting text to a seventh-grade reading level. This process is facilitated with just one click, making it user-friendly and efficient.
• 08:00 - 09:00: Class Summary Poem The chapter focuses on Brutus' speech and how students can understand it better. It also introduces Kigo, a tool that helps refresh knowledge on previously learned topics, highlighting its utility in preparing for a unit on the First Amendment for a 10th grade history class.
• 09:00 - 10:30: Conclusion and Call to Action In the concluding chapter titled 'Conclusion and Call to Action', the focus is on using Kigo, an educational tool that offers a choice between being quizzed or learning through conversation. When opting for conversational learning, Kigo provides five major concepts at the relevant grade level, aiding in lesson preparation and review. After refreshing memory, the goal is to connect the lesson with real-life scenarios to increase student engagement.

Khanmigo for Teachers Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 hi I'm Michelle a professional learning specialist here at KH Academy and a former classroom teacher just like you meet kigo your AI driven companion who's revolutionizing teaching for more engaging and efficient experience kigo has many exciting features that support teachers and this video will showcase ways that you can use conmigo to create course specific content to enhance the learning experience for all of your students throughout this video we'll explore ways kigo can assist you with
• 00:30 - 01:00 creating unique and engaging lesson plans and student- centered activities that get students excited about learning while saving you time ready to see the teaching assistant you've always wanted let's take a look this is K Migo's dashboard it's filled with a plethora of unique and helpful features designed to enhance your teaching experience and save you time let's begin with the lesson hook feature igniting a passion for mathematics can be challenging but it's profoundly impactful and a definite
• 01:00 - 01:30 Game Changer when accomplished empowered by kigo I'll be able to design captivating math lesson introductions that ignite students curiosity and Spark a thirst for knowledge in math once I select the button I just have to let kigo know the grade level this is for my 7th grade class and I let kigo know the topic we are working on twostep inequalities and with just one click cono will create three engaging lesson hooks that will be sure to capture my students attention with my students
• 01:30 - 02:00 curiosity now ignited it's time to craft my lesson con Migo's lesson plan tool will help me design a customized plan aligning with my curriculum and my students needs once I enter the lesson plan feature kigo asked me to detail the topic I intend to teach it then presents a selection of topics from KH Academy's Rich course offerings if my topic isn't listed kigo allows me to incorporate my own I'm going to select this lesson once I make my ction kigo swiftly
• 02:00 - 02:30 generates a structured detailed lesson plan tailored to my curriculum and my students the plan includes learning objectives warm-up activities exit ticket questions direct instruction independent practice and so so so much more and one of my favorite Parts is that this lesson plan is fully customizable I can effortlessly modify any part to better fit the needs of my students I don't think my students will do well with this warm-up so I'm going to change it again with one click of the
• 02:30 - 03:00 button kigo appears and I can ask conmigo to make changes to it or I can just ask kigo to try something different or I can discuss it with kigo I'm not really sure what I want to change it to so I'm just going to ask kigo to please try something different and again with one click conmigo will create a different warm-up after my lesson plan is complete I'm able to print it or I can export my lesson plan to a word
• 03:00 - 03:30 document a PDF or save it to my Google Drive this has saved me so much time thanks so much kigo as an educator I understand the value of exposing students to grade level text and vocabulary however balancing this with comprehension is crucial my upcoming unit on the play Julia Caesar often presents a comprehension challenge for high school students especially in understanding Shakespearean language grasping brutus' speech in act two is crucial to the play and I want to make sure that my students understand once I
• 03:30 - 04:00 let kigo know the title of the text I just copy and paste the original text in the space provided and let kigo know the grade level that I'd like it leveled to once I let kigo know the title of the text I just copy paste the original text in the space provided and then I just let kigo know the grade level that I'd like the text releveled for I would like this on a seventh grade level please and again with just one click all of my
• 04:00 - 04:30 students will be able to understand brutus' speech thanks again kigo refresh my knowledge is another super cool feature with kigo it's like a friendly nudge to help you review topics that you've learned before but you may be a little bit Rusty on that's why I plan to use it before I begin my unit on the First Amendment first kigo wants to know the topic and what grade level I'd like a refresher on we are about to work on the First Amendment and this is for my 10th grade history class
• 04:30 - 05:00 CL once I provide that information kigo gives me the option of quizzing me on the topic or learning through conversation when I select learning through conversation kigo gives me five major Concepts at this grade level to select from which helps me review and prepare for my lesson now that my memory has been sufficiently refreshed I want to bridge the lesson with real life scenarios to enhance my students engagement with the topic K Migo's real
• 05:00 - 05:30 world context generator will do that for me in a matter of seconds boosting my students interest and investment in the topic I just have to let kigo know the grade level and the topic and with just one click conmigo creates three creative ideas on how I can bring the First Amendment to life for my students everything conmigo creates is completely customizable so I can apply it to topics that interest my students I would like to change this to something about
• 05:30 - 06:00 sports my students are absolutely going to love this thanks kigo the next feature I'm going to explore is the informational text generator this feature will create an informational text passage for the grade level that I want from first grade all the way through the Collegiate level once you input the intended grade level and topic of your choice you're able to select the length of the passage you'd like to create and whether you select 100 words 300 words or 750 words conmigo
• 06:00 - 06:30 will do the rest this is also an excellent feature for integrating cross-curricular content because it provides students with multiple ways to engage with the material as an educator I aim to craft thought-provoking discussion prompts tailored to specific topics for my students my goal is to ignite their curiosity and stimulate intellectual discourse so I'm going to use the discussion prompt feature I let kigo know the grade level and topic
• 06:30 - 07:00 photosynthesis in organisms and in a matter of seconds kigo creates multiple detailed and thought-provoking discussion questions that'll be sure to get my students chatting but in a good way if you're looking for a fun engaging way to learn for your students you have to try our fun class summary poem feature it's a unique rhythmic way to summarize lessons for your students let's give it a try when I select the button conmigo wants me to ask my class what they learned to today today in my peer
• 07:00 - 07:30 counseling class we talked about goal setting and then you want to ask them for a fun word that will inspire your poem they all scream out summer now kigo will do the rest and here's our poem in the heart of Summer under the sun's beaming Ray we set our goals not astray like ice cream melting time will Fleet but our Ambitions the heat can't beat we'll reach our dreams Come What may just like
• 07:30 - 08:00 the Sun at the end of the day I love it it's not just a poem it's a memory booster a creativity enhancer and a super cool learning tool thanks so much kigo as you can see integrating kigo into your classroom routine empowers you to tailor K Migo's ideas and suggestions to your curriculum while factoring in student needs learning objectives and creative resources K Migo's insights not only enrich The Learning Experience for all of your students but it will also
• 08:00 - 08:30 free up your time enabling you to concentrate on what truly matters your students thank you for watching this video and for being part of our teaching and learning community to learn more about how kigo can support you and your students in the classroom follow the links on your screen and to never miss exciting announcements about new free course materials on KH Academy be sure to subscribe