AI in Education: Empowering Our Practice by Mallory Lawler

Discuss with your team:

mlawler31 — 2025-04-15 15:38:43 UTC

What surprised you about the tool or process?
How could this AI tool enhance a lesson or unit you already teach?
What concerns or questions are coming up for you?
How might this support diverse learners in your classroom?
What’s one ‘quick win’ you could try next week?
What mindset shifts (if any) are you noticing in yourself?
Where do you see potential — for students, teachers, or systems
What’s one idea worth sharing with your team?

SEL

2025-04-15 15:54:03 UTC

Potential to generate SEL focuses lessons/discussions. Has to be some sort of standards that can be uploaded to help train AI how to focus on SEL

Age restrictions

2025-04-15 15:57:49 UTC

Very helpful to learn AI has different age restrictions (18+) and we have to be careful with how we’re using it or encouraging students to use ai.

Goal Setting

2025-04-15 15:59:09 UTC

Kahnamigo's SMART goal function helps to guide conversations with students and/or develop goals. Can also help with comments for progress reports/letters to parents

Diverse Learners

2025-04-15 16:04:12 UTC

We can use these tools to support diverse learners by creating interventions that are tailored to students' learning styles as well as their current deficits.

Student Usage Question (from whole group discussion)

mlawler31 — 2025-04-15 16:32:11 UTC

How can these tools be intentionally utilized by students? How can we help them be safe and responsible using these tools?

Consequences? Repercussions? (from whole group discussion)

mlawler31 — 2025-04-15 16:36:54 UTC

How can we support students in using it responsibly and for learning? What kind of restorative conversations can we have around student usage? Some schools are implementing consequences for AI use by students -- is this ethical? What are policies that can be put in place to support responsible use instead of punitive?

Parent Engagement (from whole group discussion)

mlawler31 — 2025-04-15 16:38:15 UTC

How can we support parents in utilizing AI to support their students with responsible usage of AI? How can parents and families use it to support at home learning/homework?

Language Usage (from whole group discussion)

mlawler31 — 2025-04-15 16:39:04 UTC

Using AI for students who speak other languages and supporting their learning in real time with their native language.

Leveling Work (from whole group discussion)

mlawler31 — 2025-04-15 16:40:22 UTC

Utilizing AI for specific grade level/skill level.

Scheduling (from whole group discussion)

mlawler31 — 2025-04-15 16:41:06 UTC

Supporting schedules and break times for students -- organizing student instruction time.

Student Identification (from whole group discussion)

mlawler31 — 2025-04-15 16:44:06 UTC

Remove all student identification prior to utilizing AI tools (i.e. no pictures, names, etc.). Ensure that students also know that they should not upload their own identifiers in AI programs.

West40 App Developer (from whole group discussion)

mlawler31 — 2025-04-15 16:50:07 UTC

What is the progress on the West40 app?
Can advocates come together to brainstorm and have input in the app development?
- Potentially have advocate teams come together to generate ideas and questions around the West40 app
Potentially creating a notecatcher for each team to drop ideas/questions/concerns regarding the app prior to the meeting with the developer.

Session Presentation

mlawler31 — 2025-04-15 17:36:41 UTC

Learning Technology Center

mlawler31 — 2025-04-15 17:37:09 UTC