AI Unlocked: Day 2 Activities by Jessica Booker

Directions

bookerj3 — 2025-05-14 12:21:46 UTC

After reading the center article, "What is AI Bias?" and one other article from the choice board, leave your thoughts and reflections here.

Possible prompts to get you started:

-What is something new you learned about AI bias and privacy?

-Did anything surprise you?

-How will you take your new knowledge and apply it to your classroom?

Post Your Images Here!

bookerj3 — 2025-05-23 15:11:12 UTC

If you complete the Barbie or GI Joe challenge, please post your images them here!

Good Morning!

bookerj3 — 2025-06-24 21:54:22 UTC

How is your day starting out? Any reflections coming into Day 2? What's on your mind as we start the day?

Reflections & Findings

bookerj3 — 2025-06-24 21:54:51 UTC

What materials did you explore? Any new findings or A-ha moments? What are you able to take back to your classroom?

Looking forward to it!

2025-06-25 12:34:34 UTC

Lots of good AI tools yesterday and I'm looking forward to more!

Day 2

2025-06-25 12:35:14 UTC

The day is starting out just fine, and I am looking forward to class.

I want to maximize what I learned yesterday; and put it to the best use possible - but I know that this is a process, and will require thinking about how to incorporate these resources into my present curriculum.

Tuesday

bookerj3 — 2025-06-25 12:35:39 UTC

I enjoyed our session yesterday and greatly appreciated all of the contributions from everyone and sharing of personal stories and experiences. I took the opportunity to turn our day one slide deck into a podcast via Notebook LLM - along with a study guide - and it amazes me how this can flip instruction. Looking forward to our work today!

My daughter

2025-06-25 12:36:20 UTC

my daughter's duolingo streak is on my mind this morning. my daughter, like other kids, are obsessed about keeping her daily streak going. so much so, she wants to do it first thing in the morning. I am trying to explain why it's not good for her brain to do first thing in the morning. Duolingo uses gamified AI to keep kids using app

How will this apply to Math?

2025-06-25 12:38:22 UTC

I enjoyed exploring the different platforms yesterday and seeing what's out there. Again, the podcast thing, AWESOME!

But I also noticed there are some limitations when applied to Math. It seems most AI platforms are language based, so articles, reading text etc. are what it does best. It is more difficult to apply Math that involves examples and actual doing of work. I imagine the explanations and vocab will be better suited.

My focus will continue to be how to apply this to my students.

-Jason

Looking forward to a great day!

2025-06-25 12:38:40 UTC

I had time to make myself coffee today and got extra hugs from my kids - so it was a good start to the day! I am looking forward to learning about more tools. I was more thoughtful about all the AI I encountered after the class that I hadn't thought of before.

Better traffic today! :)

2025-06-25 13:21:46 UTC

I'm really getting new ideas for next school year, hopefully I'll remember them all. Thank you, both of you are great!

2025-06-25 14:19:45 UTC

No picture, just description. :D

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better version

awinter6 — 2025-06-25 16:07:13 UTC

awinter6 — 2025-06-25 16:14:31 UTC

My air conditioning went in my car, and it barely works in my house... I'm enjoying the temp in this building thoroughly!!

AI Bias

2025-06-25 16:19:57 UTC

I learned the ramifications of bias and the delivery of information to the end user. It drove home that the end users must be aware or at least critical of what is being presented to ascertain that bias can play a part in what they are seeing; and how will they address this. I took this article and copied and pasted into the Magic School App and had it rewritten for fifth grade students; I was curious how the information would be presented, because I believe that young people are definitely susceptible to believing biased information as fact. The rewrite was still above their reading level in some areas, but was definitely more accessible with teacher intervention.

I was surprised that if a person agrees to something as innocuous as photographing medical treatment, it could show up as part of an AI output. This makes me more cognitive of what I am agreeing to, and will make me ask for more clarification on my permission.

Bias in AI article

2025-06-25 16:21:01 UTC

I chose the article in the middle right, with the image of face recognition. It discusses different ways that AI can inherit biases through development and learning. Some examples are through inherent bias from creators, or through data set or test data that only represents a small section of people. They gave an example of a study done with only information from 3 states and asked if that would accurately translate to reflect the populations in other parts of the country.

This made me wonder about test sets or data sets that are being gathered now. Today some people have negative feelings at the thought of using AI, or even technology. So I wonder about how data might be collected. Is it voluntary? If yes, would it misrepresent the whole because those sections of people might not be part of the test data.

-Jason

Moral Machines

2025-06-25 16:28:46 UTC

Something that struck me from the article "6 Ethical Considerations," were the moral concerns of relying on AI too much. I understand and appreciate this point of view - but I also see it as a response to industries asking their work force to do too much. Where is their ethical and moral obligation to ensure workers . . . aren't overworked and asked to do too much. I see my husband that works at Kaplan Education forced into many roles and AI as a tool to help him do his job and not be owned by his job. I see it as a tool to help me write a quick email so I can in turn spend more time with my family.

I was not surprised by the bias. With AI being a reflection of society, which is not in the best place at the moment, I would expect it to show all aspects of the human condition and human bias's. To me it helps illustrate the implicit bias, white privilege, sexualization of women, and bigotry which many try to explain away or don't believe exists.

As my students are younger I will be the one primarily using AI - but will ensure they understand that it is not a perfect tool and has many flaws. I am also sure to and will continue to maintain the privacy of my students when using AI. The privacy and healthcare implications does freak me out! I loved the movie Gattaca - but don't want to live it in real life!

Movie Poster

2025-06-25 16:29:07 UTC

I didn't design a doll or input an image of myself, instead I asked Gemini to create a movie poster. I've run into this as a way to introduce a lesson and students need to study the poster to find clues about what might be coming up and what we'll be studying.

It was a super simple prompt: "create a realistic movie poster of me starring in an action movie called "The Next Step" include the major theme of 8th grade mathematics and minor theme of hockey" It of course said it couldn't do an accurate picture of me because it didn't have my picture, but would instead do a generic action hero.

-Jason

mbaklanova — 2025-06-25 16:29:22 UTC

I read Privacy in AI era and 6 types of AI bias everyone should know. These confirmed my idea that AI can learn bias as quickly as Tay by Microsoft learned how to be discriminatory. It is learning from the data it’s trained on, which means people need to be really careful about what data they input.

Pedagogical Biases in AI-Powered Educational Tools

2025-06-25 16:29:27 UTC

This study was very interesting, although not surprising. The researchers created lessons using three different AI platforms and then examined these lessons through the lenses of student agency and classroom dialogue. They found that very few of the generated lessons incorporated dialogue (interactive and collaborative meaning-making) or student agency (student-generated inquiries). Instead, they found that the lessons primarily reverted to outdated teacher-centric and rote-learning models. I think recognizing this bias when using AI platforms to help plan lessons is crucial for teachers trying to save time by designing lessons.

Amy

awinter6 — 2025-06-25 16:31:00 UTC

I chose AI: The Case of Lesson Plan Generators. I found this relevent as I have been exploring how to use AI in developing lesson plan ideas. I'm interested to see if the plans I find reflect what's said in the article, because I do feel like I get better results.

2025-06-25 16:33:18 UTC

I read Teaching Students How to Use AI Responsibly. I enjoyed the breakdown of questions that students should be able to answer, which would allow me to craft a similar examination using these as a guide. In addition, possible pitfalls and reflections were included, which are extremely helpful.

As my additional selection, I started viewing the activities from Common Sense Media, which are user-friendly. I found the first video and the plagiarism slide deck applicable to my middle school audiences.

2025-06-25 17:11:37 UTC

I read, 6 Ethical Considerations of Artificial Intelligence. If explored a myriad of concerns broken into six clear areas. I appreciated the examples and solution format as many concerns are very timely. Unfortunately, there have been way too many data breaches, lately! I appreciated the sections on bias and deep fake which connect to some of the AI lessons included in the PM Choice board. This article and lesson slides you included before lunch really allowed me to think about how bias plays into how and what is searched and discussed heavily in our eighth-grade civics curriculum.

Choice Board

2025-06-25 17:56:10 UTC

I spent time looking at AI4K12, Common Sense, and Code.org.

The sites were interesting but limited as a resource on a day to day basis. Common Sense though was valuable in that it could direct you to Apps and Websites that can be used in curriculum development within the classroom.

Teaching AI and Digital Citizenship is handled within our Technology Special.

Lots of good stuff again!

2025-06-25 18:22:45 UTC

Love having a chance to look at and practice prompts. I also really enjoyed the chance to read the study about AI bias! Thank you for the opportunity to use what we are learning for our own classrooms.

Plenty of resources

2025-06-25 18:27:29 UTC

I have been using the same Unit with different resources, so I would be able to compare and decide which one would work better for me. I believe most of them have something that I can take. However, I am going to definitely have to spend more time on each one.

2025-06-25 18:30:52 UTC

I enjoyed the deep dive into some of the ethical questions, bias, and deep fakes. While it was a lot of information, I feel I have some core activities to address questions students and parents may have about AI as district expectations are developed. Seventh graders are very tech savvy and go to chat GPT often, but often tattle on peers' use. Having a protocol and providing background on how to use AI well would be quite helpful to my team! I am excited to adapt materials using AI thoughtfully as not only something exciting and new but as an example of effective use of AI tools.

Wonderful!

mbaklanova — 2025-06-25 18:31:10 UTC

I've created a lesson for my 3rd grade El students. I was impressed by an interactive flashcard game Canva came up with. I feel much more comfortable now writing an excellent prompt for AI to get the results I am looking for.

2025-06-25 18:31:25 UTC

I love the fact that I have been learning a lot about AI. However, being honest, I feel a little bit overwhelmed thinking that I still have a long way to go.

So much to do!

2025-06-25 18:32:07 UTC

I was able to start this design in Canva and finesse it in GPT. I'm hoping to use it as a logo for my Therapeutic Program. I also used the prompts to create a more streamlined - progress monitoring system which I am excited to edit and implement. I'd love to try and make more videos - but I haven't had too much luck there. I realize I need to input more material to get out a better video response.

The bias information was also so important to keep in mind and reflect on.

More New things

2025-06-25 18:34:41 UTC

I had a blast again today. There were times that I was overwhelmed with so many platforms. I see the advantages of canva and hope to explore more. My last item was an AI created video based on a first day class expectations presentation. Wow, so cool.