Collierville School District AI Workshop
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Session 1 8:45-9:30 Generative AI & Instructional Design

1.0 Introduction and Speaker Contacts
1.1 Open Disclosure of AI Usage
1.2 Instructional Design: Magic School AI
1.3 Creating Presentations Using Gamma
Session 2 9:40-10:25 Demystifying AI

2.1 Explore how Neural Networks Function using Google’s Quick, Draw!
2.2 Learn how to Prompt using Google’s Say What You See
2.3 Create your own Persona using ChatGPT
Session 3 10:35-11:20 The Fading Promise of AI Detection

3.1 Play Real or Fake Text and Take the Real or Not Quiz
3.2 Explore an Ethical Challenge Involving AI
3.3 Test a Variety of AI detectors
Session 4 12:50-1:35 Teaching with Generative AI

4.1 Case Study: AI in the Writing Classroom
4.2 Using Copilot in Instructional Design
4.3 Build Your Own Chatbot: Poe
Session 5 1:45- 2:30 AI in the Classroom: Writing, Research, and Feedback

5.1 Using AI for Feedback
5.2 Research: Explore Different AI Research Tools
5.3 Writing: Choose Your Prompting Adventure
Session 6 2:40 -3:30 Multimodal AI: AI Music, Video, and Avatars

6.1 AI Music
6.2 AI Video
6.3 AI Avatars

1.2 Instructional Design: Magic School AI

Introduction:

Your district adopted Magic School.AI. You should be able to access the app via your institutional login, but there may be specific instructions that were emailed to you to activate your account. There may also be a short onboarding process if this is your first time logging into the app

Magic School is a wrapper app, meaning it uses an AI company’s foundation model(s) to power various features. The underlying model might be a multimodal model from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google or an AI image generating model from Adobe, but they all function similarly.

Explore Magic School

Magic School uses pre-made prompts that are designed to help teachers recoup time in instructional design. Currently, you can use Magic Tools for 60+ different use cases.

Build content using Magic School

Take some time to explore Magic School by using it to generate some different types of instructional content you might be tasked with in your classroom. Let’s explore a few of the tools based off of Magic School’s Top Tools for All Teachers:

Lesson Plan Generator: Generate a lesson plan for any topic or objective you are teaching
Multi Step Assignment Generator: Based on any topic, generate a warmup, academic content, key vocabulary, text dependent questions, and a writing prompt aligned to standards.
YouTube Question Generator: Generate guiding questions aligned to a YouTube video.
Multiple Choice Quiz Text Based: Generate a multiple choice quiz and answer key based on any text and customized by question type.
Text Rewriter Tool: Take any text and rewrite it in different words, more concise, for a new audience, change topics of characters- anything!
AI Resistant Assignment Suggestion: Combat tech-savvy shortcuts! Develop robust assignments that AI tools can't crack, ensuring authentic student work.

Keep in mind:

Magic School and other instructional tools promise educators that using AI will save them time, even though they mention that AI can often be wrong. Make certain to carefully read the output to check it for accuracy and bias.
Consider labeling the material you generate for instructional use. Remember, labeling AI outputs helps promote transparency with your students and serves as an excellent teachable movement to model ethical and open usage of this technology.

Discussion Questions to Consider

How might using AI tools like Magic School change your approach to lesson planning and content creation? What aspects of your work could be enhanced or streamlined?
What potential drawbacks or limitations do you foresee in relying on AI-generated content for instruction? How might this impact the personalization and authenticity of your teaching?
How could integrating Magic School affect the time you spend on various teaching tasks? What might be gained or lost in terms of your professional development and creativity?
In what ways might using AI for differentiation and IEP creation complicate the process of addressing individual student needs? What ethical considerations arise?
How do you envision balancing AI-generated content with your own expertise and understanding of your students? What role should human judgment play?
What challenges might arise in ensuring the accuracy and appropriateness of AI-generated assessments and rubrics? How would you address these?
How could the use of AI in instructional design impact student engagement and motivation? Consider both positive and negative possibilities.
What strategies could you employ to maintain transparency with students and parents about your use of AI-generated content? Why is this important?
How might widespread adoption of AI tools like Magic School affect the teaching profession as a whole? Consider potential impacts on job roles, skills valued, and teacher education.
In what ways could reliance on AI for connecting lessons to real-world contexts potentially limit or expand students' perspectives? How would you mitigate any limitations?
How do you think using AI for instructional design might influence your own critical thinking and problem-solving skills over time? What measures could you take to stay intellectually engaged?
What safeguards or practices should be put in place to ensure that AI tools like Magic School complement rather than replace teacher expertise and creativity?

AI Generated Content:These discussion questions were developed through human-AI collaboration. The author, Marc Watkins, provided the context, goals, and key considerations for exploring AI use in instructional design. Anthropic’s Claude 3 then generated the questions based on this input.