In this article published on the American Psychological Association and written by Ashley Abramson. She explains various ways professors such as Nobel Prize winner Daniel M. Oppenheimer have embraced the use AI in their classrooms to encourage critical thinking skills while also being aware of cons it can bring in the classroom setting.

I agree with Dr. Oppenheimer, I think allowing the brainstorming with AI while making sure students keep in mind the faults of AI and critically analyze the responses they have been given is an excellent way to incorporate it safely. However, it is important to keep in mind how often Ai can be used for cheating.

If any teacher was going back and forth about AI use in their classrooms this article may be something to read to help decide. Sometimes Cons can outweigh Pros or Vise Versa.

It gave me great insight into various ways to use AI in the classroom such as using AI for repetitive tasks like grading quizzes.

They also have linked YouTube Videos if that is more helpful than written instruction.

Closed Captioning is something I use very often having deaf and HOH family members, so having that resource there that can help HOH or Deaf students keep up with their learning as well is always something I will keep in mind and would use in the future.

Even just in its cover photo you can see its various uses, my favorite was the built in teacher tools to make quizzes or fun quiz games but Nearpod can do so much more giving the teacher complete control and allowing use on ANY device. Nearpod would be something to keep in mind for fun presentations.

When I explored AR I used it to bring children's books to life the characters with help of the camera would pop off the screen and speak to the reader, this was incredibly immersive and would be so much fun with young readers, if I taught young classes this would be a top pick.

As someone who wants to focus on older classrooms I bring this up because this was a study done with a college class. In this class they used VR to give students an interactive lesson with a 3D brain models, experiencing things on a microscopic level with the use of VR. They learned the use of VR with the hands on activities spiked students willingness to learn and motivation.

I can only imagine how useful VR could be in a historical setting, maybe being able to visit historical sites without ever leaving the classroom, it wouldn't exactly be the same but very convenient.

It can be used in another set of ways with anonymous polling in class.

One of the ways I could use this in future classes would be making learning objectives into a word cloud to make it more visually pleasing.

This is something I would definitely use in future classes.

One of my favorites listed here was organizing classroom games with QR codes like a scavenger hunt, I actually did a QR code scavenger hunt on my Big E Welcome to EKU with my group so I know they can be fun.

My least favorite one that I don't think I could implement would be the Self-Attendance. I don't know how you could get around someone sending it to an absent friend or students accidentally forgetting and getting marked absent. I suppose it could teach a form of responsibility, I would have to think on it.

One of my favorites I could see myself using would be the "Learning Stations" each station has a different QR code with a different learning objective or lesson such as a video or worksheet or discussion question. I was drawn to this because of its versatility, Learning Stations could be used in almost ANY classroom and subject.