Learn SchoolAI in Under 15 minutes

Summary

In this video, Holly Clark introduces viewers to School AI, a revolutionary platform that enhances both the teaching and learning experiences in classrooms. School AI is designed with a focus on student engagement through safe, customized AI experiences. Unlike traditional AI platforms that simply provide answers, School AI interacts with students through questioning and critical thinking activities, promoting deeper understanding. The platform offers various tools for teachers, including lesson planning and student activity monitoring, ensuring an interactive and informative learning environment. Clark highlights the importance of data safety and personalized feedback, making School AI an invaluable tool for modern education.

Highlights

• School AI fosters a safe environment for students, avoiding distractions and irrelevant answers. 🛡️
• Encourages deeper student engagement through critical thinking activities. 🧩
• It provides valuable tools for teachers to create instructional materials and monitor student progress. 🧑‍🏫
• Students and teachers can access both free and paid versions, with the latter offering enhanced features. 🚀
• Allows interaction with historical characters and themed educational spaces for a dynamic learning experience. 👩‍🏫
• Teachers can develop personalized spaces or utilize existing collections for educational activities. 💼

Key Takeaways

• School AI provides a safe, interactive learning platform for students with robust guardrails 🎒.
• It encourages critical thinking by engaging students with interactive questioning instead of just giving answers. 🧠
• Teachers have tools for creating lesson plans, worksheets, and monitoring student activities. 📚
• The platform offers a free version with additional safety and privacy features for educators. 🔐
• Students can engage in various activities, like opinion writing and historical figure interactions, to enhance learning. ✍️
• Teachers can create custom spaces or use existing templates to tailor learning experiences. 🎨

Overview

Holly Clark is excited to share School AI, her go-to platform for modern, engaging classroom experiences. School AI stands out by providing an interactive student-facing platform with strong safety measures. When students use School AI, they're not just handed answers—they're guided through questioning that promotes critical thinking and learning.

One of the key features of School AI is its dual benefit to both students and teachers. Teachers can make use of specific tools aimed at creating lesson plans and managing classroom tasks efficiently. Meanwhile, students can explore various educational spaces, such as opinion writing rooms or historical conversations, offering them opportunities to improve their skills with personalized feedback and tasks.

School AI also values data safety, which is a significant concern for educators in today’s digital age. Whether using the platform's free or premium options, educators can rest assured that the experience is both enriching and secure. The mix of safety features, interactive educational opportunities, and customization make School AI an invaluable asset for any modern classroom.

Learn SchoolAI in Under 15 minutes Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 hi and welcome to this video on getting started with school AI School AI has become my absolute favorite platform for students in the classroom and I've been using AI with students for almost 2 years and this has risen to the top so let's go and look around at school AI once you sign in you're going to be ask some questions and then you're you're going to get to this dashboard a lot of people don't know what to do when they first get to this dashboard so I want to give you some help so first we have
• 00:30 - 01:00 these three boxes this is where you are going to concentrate most of your effort when you're in school Ai and this is the student facing side of school AI which provides AI experiences for kids that are safe that are customized and that have important guard rails on them so that students don't go off task or have the AI just give them answers much different than other experiences that I'm seeing on other AI platforms where
• 01:00 - 01:30 students are simply getting answers back so before we move on to these three boxes I do want to point out that school AI also has tools for teachers like creating a lesson plan or worksheet you can click around in here also chat Bots to help with common core or whatever tis whatever your standards are and then you can come down here to become an Insider and if you do that you're going to get access to the paid for version of School
• 01:30 - 02:00 AI for free so if you really like this tool you can start there and the paid for version gives you more interactions but it also has a layer of safety and data safety that is really important that we want to use so here we are at the dashboard and we have these three experiences that we are going to focus in on the first one I have teachers do is to go in and find a space here you will see that you could create a bell ringer activity an exit ticket activ
• 02:00 - 02:30 Activity video Explorer you can give kids access to tutors when they need them but down here is where I find the most value there are featured collections which we'll get to in a moment and there's also spaces created by teachers so I want to see all these spaces when I go to these spaces I can kind of get an idea of how other teachers are using this tool I'm going to head back up here actually and I'm
• 02:30 - 03:00 going to go to opinion and I'm going to see if there's anything that would help kids do their opinion writing essay so I don't know exactly what these are going to do so I want to open one up and when I do that it's going to say this interactive space is designed to assist fifth graders in refining their informational writing abilities through personalized feedback students will learn to evaluate and prove their composition based on clear rubric all of these things that looks
• 03:00 - 03:30 good so the first thing as a teacher I want to do before I send this out to students is I want to start a preview I want to see what it asks me and it says hello I'm excited to help you improve your opinion writing could you please share what your what you've currently written now if kids are at that stage in the writing process this is going to help give them feedback to create those clear essays but I haven't started yet so I'm going to tell the AI I have not started yet and see if it will help me
• 03:30 - 04:00 dig into coming up with an opinion uh writing idea says no problem let's get started together what's the topic or opinion you'd like to write about once you have that we can outline ideas I want to write about Taylor Swift and it's going to come back and say oh great choice then what's your main opinion about Taylor Swift why do you feel this way can you provide specific examples let's begin with your
• 04:00 - 04:30 main opinion what do you think about Taylor's whip so it's not coming back and saying oh you could write about her era tour you could write about her lyrics you could write about her as a woman a powerful woman it doesn't give answers it asks the students to dig deeper into this experience well based on this I think I like it so what I'm going to do is I'm going to launch this for my students and to launch it I click this blue button and it's going to give me a link link that I can add to Google
• 04:30 - 05:00 classroom or I can just use this space code and it gives me this link that I can put into schooly or canvas whatever I want so now I'm going to put this uh link into my LMS and students are going to interact with it when they do this is what's going to happen I'm going to take you to another space where people have interacted with opinion writing so you can see what that looks like so here we are in an opinion writing AI space that was created for students these are
• 05:00 - 05:30 actual teachers coming in and trying this out but I want you to see what it looks like on the teacher side now that I've invited students in they're interacting in the space and I begin to get a summary of what students are interacting and what's happening so it says right here with Shay student Express the importance of creating positive environment for friends by ensuring everyone feels that they belong allowing them to choose activities and if I keep going down I'm going to see that Faith this student highlighted the
• 05:30 - 06:00 importance of having the 22 hat worn by Taylor Swift good good for her um and I can start to see all the interactions the students are having with these little summary statements it helps keep me kind of in the know about what these students are asking I can see here there's a brain uh emoji and most of these emojis will indicate where the students are in the process this says student recognizes that engaging in Reading Sports and healthy eating on extra's day off can boost brain power so
• 06:00 - 06:30 I can go over to her and say so you're into boosting brain power can you tell me more and I can now help her with this opinion piece I can also if there's a case where a student might be doing something I don't want them to do I can go to these three dots and I can view that chat I can see what they're asking the AI and what the AI has responded so that's really nice I feel very good about that because if a student goes
• 06:30 - 07:00 home and uses something like gemini or chat gbt I have no idea about that experience or the conversation that they're having so this is really strong I want to go back to the spaces and I want to go back to discover and talk about how I might launch a space so let's say I want to have the kids interact with George Washington again I'm going to take you through this I'm going to start the preview see what happens and see what George Washington
• 07:00 - 07:30 asks so it says greetings I'm George Washington the first president of the United States did you know I I never actually lived in the White House it was built uh it wasn't built until after my presidency curious what do you already know about me well I know and so the student is having a conversation at this point with George Washington not just getting answers which most AI models do right now they just provide answers they might talk about George Washington but there's no interaction happening with
• 07:30 - 08:00 the student and this is where I have fallen in love with school AI because it let students start to think about content through the questioning activities that it promotes not just by getting answers so let's go back and and it's taking a minute to respond by the way I want to talk about that it's taking a minute to respond it's doing that because it's checking the data it's providing before giving students an answer it's looking at the
• 08:00 - 08:30 data through five factors and making sure that it is in fact correct and that it's not giving the students any misinformation which I have found it not to do I have found other apps do give misinformation and and it's been so bad that I've had to stop using some other student facing AI so it says certainly I was married to Martha Curtis she was a widow with two children when she when we married and 1759 what do you think makes
• 08:30 - 09:00 a good partnership in marriage or friendship and now it's asking questions they're going to go back and forth as they unpack some information about George Washington they're going to get to know him on a deeper level really inspiring critical thinking activities happening here okay so as I stated before we're going to go back and look at those spaces so we were in discover we found a space we launched it with students but what if I want to create my own space well I have two options I can do a quick sidekick or I can come over
• 09:00 - 09:30 here to create a space so I open this create a space it takes a second to load but then it's going to give me an opportunity to call my space something so I'm going to go with opinion writing and um I'm just going to do an intro activity so I'm going to put that to remind myself and then I'm going to say help students uh help students come up with an idea for their opinion writing keep them on task and make sure
• 09:30 - 10:00 not to write any part of that for them so I could start there I'm probably going to get want to get more in depth but one of the things that I can do is I can go to the standards so maybe I'm doing this for fifth grade I'm doing it for California there are lots of other states that I can go to and I can find the standard for fifth grade that I'm trying to address so here I'm trying to address these two I can add that
• 10:00 - 10:30 to the training that the bot is thinking about as it's answering questions I can then come down here and generate a cover image and then I while this is optional I can put a description for myself for later and then also a description for the students to let them know what this thought part partner experience is going to be like back here we're still with these three boxes we've now done this discover a space and found some we've
• 10:30 - 11:00 done create a space and the sidekick really is just a place where I can create one really quick maybe my students are having trouble understanding something so I'm going to go to a sidekick and when I do that all I have to fill out is the prompt part I don't have to give it a title I don't have to give it standards none of those things so I would just put in here what the The Prompt that I want the AI to use and I can get that quickly out to my
• 11:00 - 11:30 students I'm only doing that if it's something quick I want to get out one last thing when we come in to find a space and I'm going to come down here to Moren I love her spaces that she's created she does a really good job I'm going to find one that I like here and just see how she did this I'm going to look for uh parts of an Adam and if I want to know how she did her prompt all I have to do is go to these Three Dots and remix it when I Remix it I can see
• 11:30 - 12:00 exactly what she put in for her prompt this I can either cut and paste well now that I'm remixing it it's become mine and I can change some of this but I can look what she has and I can add to it maybe I want something else and now I can save and launch this new space that I've added to but most importantly I can see how she prompts her space so I start to learn how people are prompting and I can do that again I'm going to go back
• 12:00 - 12:30 and just show you by finding a space I went to morine I'm going to do it again with a different one with order of operations I open it up and I go to these three dots and when I do that when I go to remix this I can see exactly how she did this look at this for order of operations it simply says provide guidance and feedback for students on practice problems for order of operations it's a seventh grade class avoid giving the correct answer instead
• 12:30 - 13:00 give guidance and suggestions that's all she did it's not this big long thing to create this space so this is school AI focus on these three boxes find a space that you like launch it with students and watch as the summary statements come in on your side you can have these available for students who might need a thought partner for certain parts of a lesson
• 13:00 - 13:30 cycle this is not meant to replace the teacher this is meant to be a yes and situation because it is safe there are guard rails and it helps students get the help they need when they need it so I hope you'll love school AI as much as I do