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My name is Opeyemi Akindotuni and I am currently a supply teacher. I am qualified to teach General Science and Biology at the intermediate and Senior level and last year I taught Grade 10 & 11 Religious studies and World Religions, Grade 7 & 8 Math and Science.

I use AI in teaching to organize my lesson plan for time management, enhance instructional materials to be more engaging and cater for diverse learning styles. For my learning, I use AI to help break down concepts that are abstract to me, to enhance my understanding during my independent study.

I would like to know more about grading essays using AI. I am kind of skeptical about using it to grade essays due to its' inaccuracies.

I would like to introduce students to how AI can be helpful during independent study. I like the GenAI tools because I can brainstorm ideas I have in my head with it. I like the quiz AI tools also. I do not like generating images with AI, I find them a bit awkward, because I tend to gravitate towards realistic images. Maybe, I don't understand how to use the visual AI tools to create realistic images yet.

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1. Emma Holmes, I am currently working as a supply teacher for primary and junior aged students while I finish this degree and hope to start LTOs and my full-time teaching journey next year.

2. I would say the current extent to my use of AI in teaching and learning is using things like assistive technology tools, google classrooms, spell checking, Padlet, kahoots, etc. Very general tools, and I do not engage with ChatGPT or encourage the students to use this at all. As discussed in one of our readings, I think I am still within the mindset that AI can be useful, however just because there are tools out there does not mean they have to be used. I think students are losing the ability to think critically, focus attention and do things on their own; which is only made worse by the excess exposure to technology (AI, video games, social media, etc.).

3. I would like to learn more about how to use AI effectively in the classroom, to ensure that the technology is adding to the lesson and not doing things for them or taking over the main focus. I enjoyed some of the suggestions for how AI can be useful for learning in theGonzalez (2024) reading. I will likely use some of these in my future classroom and teaching methods.

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1) My name is Jesse Cunningham, and I work as an Emergency Management educator for the Canadian federal government. In this role, I provide training to adult learners, including government personnel focusing on crisis response, disaster preparedness, and interagency coordination. My teaching context involves a mix of in-person workshops, online training modules, and scenario-based exercises to prepare learners for real-world emergency situations.

2) My team and I have been exploring AI in our work, particularly in the context of simulations and support in writing course content, such as image generation and language translation. As the team is small, these tools have the potential to increase our production and provide more engaging content. A reservation that we have is the ability to accurately create images and effectively translate our work. Even with it’s use, we rely on humans to review and approve anything AI produced.

3) I am interested in exploring how AI can be used to create and respond to in scenario-based learning, creating more adaptive and dynamic learning experiences. Could AI generate realistic, evolving disaster response scenarios, adjusting based on student input?

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Using AI to design powerpoint presentations

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Using AI to design powerpoint presentations

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1. Conner Hurd. I am part-time educational faculty for Sunnybrook Center for Prehospital medicine. I help design and teach curricula for new skills and medical directives to Primary Care Paramedics in Ontario.

2. I like using AI to generate pictures for google slides presentations. This makes sourcing and citing images easier, since I don’t have to worry about potentially implicating my employer in litigation over unintended copyright violation.

3. I enjoy giving powerpoint presentations, but designing them can be very time-consuming. I would like to learn more about AI that can help me design and format presentations. My students would benefit from this, as I could spend more time focusing on improving delivery and content of my presentations, rather than design. I think Canva might have AI that does this, but I haven’t tried it yet, since I think you have to pay for it.

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1. My name is Julia Balke and I am a Primary Core French teacher in a CAIS certified Independent school. Since my students are young and have little access to technology, I use AI to help teach and learn myself, but not with my students. Considering the age of my students and their developmental stage, a good place for us to start is to teach students how to communicate properly. This will facilitate their use of AI later in middle school. My colleagues in middle school are introducing AI and having discussions around what is real and fake.

2. Currently in my own practice I am playing with Notebook LLM which is an AI that will only use the documents you upload as the reference points and will complete the tasks you ask based solely on these documents. Since there is no curriculum document that suits our specific needs in Primary Core French, I am uploading documents to have Notebook help me create a curriculum document for our context, along with a scope and sequence.

3. In the future I would like to learn more about AI that can act as a conversation partner for my students. If they can have a conversation with AI and have it help them correct any mistakes, it would greatly help assessment and learning. Finding conversation partners that speak French in our area is difficult and students rarely get the chance outside of the classroom.

Also, I would love to learn more about AI that can quickly create resources that I need to match my unit plans.

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1) Name & Teaching Context:
My name is Shayla and I teach Grade 7 in Vancouver, Canada. My subject area focus is Math and Science.

2) Use of AI in Teaching & Learning:
I currently am taking an AI course and am part of my schools “ Technology Integration Team” where we are currently coming up with policies for AI in our school. I currently find it very fascinating to explore all of the different AI sites. I use AI to support differentiated instruction/readings, to create broken-down check lists, to use for subject area check-ins, tutoring for students and sometimes to come up with ideas when responding to that tough email. I find it fascinating to see what some of these tools can do.

3) What I Want to Learn & AI’s Potential in My Context:
I am particularly interested in how AI can support my students who have diverse learning needs or are in need of executive function coaching/support.

Additionally, I’d love to learn more about how one would introduce students to AI literacy, where we help them understand how AI works, how to use it responsibly, and how it might shape their future learning and careers.

I would also like to explore the various AI tools and resources that educators are already using successfully in their classrooms. I love learning from other teachers and seeing what AL-driven strategies they are finding beneficial for their students and seeing if they would work for mine.

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1. Julia Katz. I currently work as a special education teacher in the resource room of an elementary school in grade 5-6 literacy and writing. I also help other teachers in the resource differentiate their material for their students.

2. I use AI mainly in differentiating material. I find it really helps pick out vocabulary and write definitions at various levels, change the reading levels of texts, and create graphic organizers. However, I do think you need to be careful, look over what it produces and change it to suit your needs as it rarely creates something in the exact way that you need it.

3. I would like to learn more about grading using AI. Particularly, feedback on my students writing. How well does it work? Does it correctly evaluate writing? Is the feedback it gives useful? What apps are best at giving feedback?

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1. My name is Karen Racioppo. I am currently teaching Grade 2, but this week found out that I will be transitioning into an Early Reading Facilitator position for my school board.

2. I find I am using a lot of technology in the primary grades, but not necessarily AI. This is not because I have huge reservations for it, but moreso because until I did some of the readings this week, I was still quite unaware of the benefits it can bring to the primary grades. I know I just need the gift of time to further develop my own comfort and learning with AI before I bring it into the classroom. Personally, I have used AI to help write grants that would benefit our school, tailor some very tricky learning skills into well-worded comments for report cards and add to lesson plans for my students.

3. I would really like to learn more about using AI for students on the spectrum and to benefit students who are Language Impaired. There is a lot of training for Autism, but less for students who struggle with receptive lanugage and I think AI could build a bridge for educators and their students. When reading Gonzalez's work, I appreciated her statement that those who embrace these changes earlier do have an advantage. I was also very intrigued to learn more about how AI can assess reading skills through Amira Learning and Readlee. This could have a huge impact for primary students and their teachers.

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Hi everyone! My name is Jordan Samping, and I am an aspiring elementary school teacher. I am currently in the process of applying to different school boards to join the occasional supply list. My goal is to gain diverse classroom experience while working toward a full-time teaching position.

Throughout my teaching and learning journey, I have used AI in my teaching and learning to generate ideas, provide examples, and deepen my understanding. For example, during teachers’ college, we had to create numerous lesson plans for specific subjects. A tool that many of my classmates and I relied on was Magic School AI, which is featured in The Teacher’s Guide to Tech by Gonzalez (2024). This AI tool helped us develop curriculum-based activities, presentations, and rubrics, making our heavy workload more manageable.

In my teaching, I have used AI to support student learning by generating a range of assignment examples, from strong to weak. My students and I analyze these examples together, critiquing them based on the assignment criteria to better understand expectations.

For my own learning, AI has been a useful tool in clarifying complex concepts and theories. When I struggle to grasp an idea from a reading, I first try researching it on my own. If I’m still having difficulty, I turn to AI for further explanation, which I find especially helpful for breaking down challenging material.

Looking ahead, I would like to learn more about how AI can support students with disabilities and assist with assessment. Since AI is becoming an integral part of education, I also want to introduce my students to how they can use it appropriately and effectively in their learning.

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1. My name is Camille Legris, and I am a nursing clinical instructor. I teach third-year nursing students enrolled in university programs and second-year nursing students enrolled in college programs.

2. In my teaching, I encourage my students to use AI for basic research. However, I emphasize the importance of using this information cautiously. Additionally, I highlight the necessity of applying critical thinking when interpreting the information obtained. Personally, I use AI to gather supplementary information when I encounter difficulties understanding a specific subject or to correct my grammar.

3. I would like to learn more about AI platform that are proficient in french. Because I teach nursing students in french, I find most AI platform to be inefficient when creating french study materials. This highlights how the use of AI can create digital inequities and disadvantage my students.

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My name is Marcus Braithwaite-Selman. I am a full-time Adult Education teacher at a vocational school. My workload is split between teaching exceptional adults and providing resource for the school's academic sector.

Last year, I used AI a few times to help generate brief, multiple-choice assessments for my students. However, after one of the student aides intensely critiqued two minor typos, I stopped using ChatGPT. I also felt that using the technology made me feel like a lazy teacher, and whatever I could generate on a bad day would still be better than what ChatGPT could prescribe.

I have not used ChatGPT this year in my teaching, and when I need to find supplemental resources, I would instead use reliable sites such as Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) as teachers review and rate the materials posted there. As Langreo (2024) mentioned, AI can help expedite teaching content creation, but I do not trust the authenticity or accuracy of what is produced because it cannot think for itself (p. 4).

I would be interested in learning more AI that can help with organization because that is an area that I need to improve in. I have heard through the grapevine about AI applications that could help organize notes and build calendars. I do not know if I would introduce AI to students because I think students need to develop critical thinking skills before bringing technological tools into the fold. I am pretty reserved on the matter and would like to know the full ramifications on student development before introducing AI to students.

References:

Lauraine Langreo (August 07, 2024). Don’t Buy the AI Hype, Learning Expert Warns. Education Week.