Congrats, Monika! 🎉

Hehe. The way you wrote that is the way I picture talking to the app I'm working on (not a sale, promise). We need reminders!

Teachers can say things like, "Remind me to get marshmallows tonight for the science experiment tomorrow. Oh, and can you draft reminders to parents about the poetry slam?"

Here is new life in Australia this morning. 😊

I didn't realize that the EDU version of Gemini was so limited. I wonder if that will change with ChatGPT for EDU now out.

Thanks for sharing!

Some really good ones there. I’ve been reading up on chatbots.

Did you find anything worth reading? I'd be very interested.

Thanks for sleuthing this. Good lesson!

I’ll be interested to see the voice uptake of the new digital natives. Will their speech come out as text-speak?

My prediction is that there will be many new words entering both vernacular and dictionaries.

Since then, I've seen decisions about tools come before the other, very important questions.

I see the same with AI adoption.

...and the same people who are worried about these devices may very likely buy their children AI-powere toys for Christmas.

I assure you that will have consequences too.

During staff meetings, teachers used experience to inform guidelines:
- we were NOT going to let students use devices during indoor recesses
- students would not take devices home until both the parent and student had attended a workshop to co-create their own HOME guidelines

...and far more

"Each one teach one". Data was collected on what we could do that we could never do before – students choosing new ways to present their work. They were thinking critically about how audio and visuals affected message, mood and memory.

A classroom set of Macbooks stayed in one clasroom for a month, starting with the teacher in the year level with the greatest vision of what it could do to enhance student learning.

Then the cart moved to another classroom. The teacher and students from the first month's usage mentored the second.

I was part of a pilot of an Apple 1:1 Macbook program in 2004. The rollout I remember from my days in that International School is not something I've seen repeated in other places, with or without AI.

The first year was about answering the question, "What problems will these Macbooks solve?"

I also think of the ones who don't look forward to holidays at all. During the school year they have breakfast. lunch. routine.

The uncertainty at home, especially this time of year is a true source of worry for many students.

My pet peeve was spending a week on haiku or diamante – the lessons seemed more like tick-n-flick exercises than real teaching.

Then, I had a teaching partner who began with stories, then broke them down into targeted, colourful words and phrases. The word choice lessons were hugely valuable.

Use the prompts to start a conversation – the first stuff out of AI is NEVER good enough. Until it is inspiring.

Use YOUR expertise to customize for your students. You're the expert. AI is your assistant.

I’m new here and having trouble finding the education conversations too.

As our educational discourse vacillates between AI and Science of Learning and Inquiry, let's step back and remember what education is about. Agency and structure isn't an either/or.