AI tools for teaching: Metaverse for Education Newsletter Issue #22

A counter-offensive to banning AI in schools

Jan 12

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📅 Ed3 Events

Web3 curriculum node meeting (Jan 12, 2023, Discord)
Web3 networking event (Jan 15, 2023, Ed3verse)
Weekly coffee chat on web3 in education (every Saturday, Discord)
The global network of learning & earning: Who owns our identity? (Jan 19, 2023, Zoom)
Planning learning events in the metaverse: Why Ed3Con22 outperformed (Jan 25, 2023, Zoom)
Ed3 DAO Town Hall & 1 Year Birthday Celebration (Jan 25, 2023, Zoom & Ed3verse)

Vriti Saraf 🌐 3.0 @VritiSaraf

We didn't realize how perfectly timed this #AI course with @FordhamNYC would be... NYC just banned the use of #chatGPT on school devices. We are empowering students with skills & mindsets to use tech effectively. Thank you for being a futurist, Fordham!

Fordham Professional and Continuing Studies @FordhamPCS

We can’t keep this quiet anymore - the excitement is too much to contain! Fordham PCS is SO proud and elated to announce that we are partnering with the amazing @Ed3DAO based in NYC to launch our first-ever AI boot camp for high school students! https://t.co/HMLoPrDZSK https://t.co/mpaDfrswii

Dear Educators & Friends,

Happy New Year! I hope this year is kicking off strong for you. If you’re an educator, you’re probably getting ready for the second half of a bonkers school year. If your students aren’t already using AI to generate their essays, they might be using Tiktok as their main search engine. With so much tech so easily available, how do we uphold developmentally appropriate and substantive learning experiences?

New York City Education Department has come up with a solution, to block ChatGPT on school devices.

This reminds me of when I began using Google in high school. My teachers mandated research trips to the library as a skill I would use forever. Of course, I used Google anyway.

This also reminds me of when schools banned social media and Sex-Education in schools. The result? Students did more of both.

Unless you want to recreate The Village, we cannot ignore human advancements. Instead of hiding our students from it, perhaps the best solution is to guide students in taking advantage of tech for good and not becoming victim to it.

This month’s issue is a deeper dive into AI in education (following our intro to AI issue). You’ll see explicit examples for using AI, user guides, and a list of tools.

We believe so vehemently that tech should be taught to students that at the wake of NYC’s ban, our non-profit Ed3 DAO is partnering with Fordham University to launch a virtual AI course for high school students during Winter Break. We hope to help students understand when, why, and how AI can be used, and what ethical considerations they should make including analyzing bias, weighing copyright & ownership infringement, the environmental costs of AI engines, accountability for use of AI, and malicious intent. If you know a High School student who might benefit from this program, check out this link.

As for our own learning, this newsletter issue is yours to consume.

Warmly yours,

Vriti Saraf

p.s. FYI, we’re now on Substack, instead of Revue!

Learn about AI

What is ChatGPT & why are schools blocking it?
Is AI the future of test prep?
What could AI mean for college admissions?
📹 How AI can save our humanity (Kai Fu Lee, AI pioneer)
The future of English Literature class
Can AI give feedback on writing?
The end of the high school essay
Eight ways teachers should use AI
Ethical concerns surrounding AI art generation
Seven most common ethical issues with AI
How will ChatGPT impact Education & what teachers should do about it
Why AI isn’t a threat to education
📹 What AI means for higher education
How to check if something was written with AI
The changing role of a learning designer
Incorporate AI in your learning syllabus
🔉 How AI can help teachers (Kai Fu Lee)
AI spinning out of control
Practical use cases for AI productivity
A curated list of the latest AI breakthroughs with videos
🔉 How AI can support personalization
🔉 Power of AI in education
On creating the National AI Research Resource
🔉 Using ChatGPT for teaching

Do Something with AI

A guide to using AI to generate detailed lesson plans
A tool to generate lesson plans
A Plagiarism detector
1000 templated checklists generated by AI
How to use AI to improve your writing
AI tool to help create ppt slides
Use AI to learn language
Create videos with avatars using plain text
A full curriculum on AI & ethics
A lesson plan for art generation using AI
Hands-on AI projects for elementary classrooms
Hands-on AI projects for secondary classrooms
A lesson plan on how AI detects emotions
A lesson on the role of deep fakes in media
A free course for teachers on using AI
A comprehensive list of AI tools by category

📅 Ed3 Events

Web3 curriculum node meeting (Jan 12, 2023, Discord)
Web3 networking event (Jan 15, 2023, Ed3verse)
Weekly coffee chat on web3 in education (every Saturday, Discord)
The global network of learning & earning: Who owns our identity? (Jan 19, 2023, Zoom)
Planning learning events in the metaverse: Why Ed3Con22 outperformed (Jan 25, 2023, Zoom)
Ed3 DAO Town Hall & 1 Year Birthday Celebration (Jan 25, 2023, Zoom & Ed3verse)

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