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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

AI Student Learning Activities with Prompts! Interviews, Debates & More

AI can be a powerful tool for educators to help save time, create content, provide feedback, and much more. As helpful as AI can be for teachers, it can also be a powerful tool for students.

Understandably AI use with students may be limited in many schools for several reasons. In some cases the students may be too young to use AI tools, as many times the required age is 13 and above. Or it may be a situation where AI tools are not yet approved by the school.

Thankfully there are many ways that AI can still be used with students. These activities involve the teacher managing the AI, but including the students in the learning activity. Some sample AI activities for students that teachers can lead include:

🎙️ AI Interview
⚖️ AI Debate
🧩 AI Games
✍️ AI Co-Writing

I recently recorded a new version of my PD session "Today's Special Classroom Guest: Mr. A.I. Chatterbot" where I do a demonstration of each of these activities. See below to watch the recorded video and to access all the prompt templates.

I am excited and honored to once again be presenting at the UCET 2025 Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 25th and 26th.

I always look forward to an opportunity to see old friends, make new friends, share some ideas, and learn so many new things from others.

You can get all of the details about the conference including registration, presenters, sessions, and more on the conference website at:

https://ucet.org/conference/

Below is a list of sessions I will be presenting at UCET 2025, along with any associated resources. Please feel free to join me for any of these sessions. I look forward to sharing, learning, and chatting with you!

My 2025 NCTIES Sessions

I am excited and honored to once again be presenting at the 2025 NCTIES Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina on March 5th through 7th.

I always look forward to an opportunity to see old friends, make new friends, share some ideas, and learn so many new things from others.

You can access more NCTIES information and register for the conference at:

https://www.ncties.org/2025-registration.html

Below is a list of sessions I will be presenting at NCTIES 2025, along with any associated resources. Please feel free to join me for any of these sessions. I look forward to sharing, learning, and chatting with you!

Give Your Students a Voice - Be An Author Month 2025

This blog post is sponsored by Book Creator, but all opinions are mine.

Book Creator has long been one of my favorite EdTech tools, providing students with both the inspiration and the tools to tell stories, share their ideas, and let their voices be heard.

I have often shared about Book Creator, including how this tool can be used to help students write and illustrate their stories. For more details on that, see my earlier blog post and tutorial video here - "Book Creator Pen Tools - Let Your Inner Illustrator Come Alive!"

Well March is "Be An Author Month" and Book Creator is helping to celebrate it through activities, webinars, templates, and a personal narrative competition for all students.

Writing is a passion of mine, including this blog, my "Control Alt Achieve" book, my poetry for kids, my essays on wellbeing, and more. I am so excited for resources that support and inspire students to write.

See below for all the details on how you can access these free resources and engage your students in the writing activities.

EdTech Links - Week of 2-10-25

Each week I keep an eye out for the latest edtech resources through blogs, social media, podcasts, videos, user groups, and more. I then try to reshare these resources in many ways.

One way I share these is here on the blog in these "EdTech Links of the Week" posts. See below to explore the latest batch of resources, and be sure to share with others who may benefit.

If you want to make sure you don't miss new resources, you can:

🔗 View all EdTech Links of the Week: bit.ly/caa-links

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And as always, please let me know of any resources that you recommend. I would love to learn from you!

AI-AI-Oh! Awesome AI Uses in Education

Artificial Intelligence can be used in so many different ways in schools to improve teaching, learning, creativity, productivity, support, and more for educators and students.

Recently I recorded a 45-minute webinar where I covered a wide range of helpful and creative ways to use AI in schools.

To bring some order to my examples, I organized them into six categories including:

🤔 Brainstorming
✍️ Creating Content
✂️ Altering Content
🔎 Processing Information
💯 Grading and Feedback
🗣️ Student Conversations

See below to watch the recorded video, as well as access the session resource document and slideshow. And please reach out to me to let me know your suggestions for other AI uses. I am excited to learn with you!