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[00:00:00] Shanna Martin: Thanks for listening to the tech tools for teachers podcast where each week we talk about a free Piece or two of technology that you can use in your classroom. I’m your host, Shanna Martin. I’m a middle school teacher, technology and instructional coach for my district.
[00:00:31] Fuzz Martin: And I’m a producer and husband Fuzz Martin, and I’m the artificial part of this artificial intelligence duo.
[00:00:43] Shanna Martin: I know you’re proud of that one. Good job.
[00:00:47] Fuzz Martin: Artificial intelligence is better than no intelligence at all. Right? And so as long as I got a little,
[00:00:55] Shanna Martin: Oh my goodness. Episode two Oh seven. We are here and it is almost spring break.
[00:01:01] Fuzz Martin: It was 70 here on Friday.
[00:01:03] Shanna Martin: Yeah, like outside people in shorts and t shirts and guess what
[00:01:07] Fuzz Martin: we know it’s yeah He recorded this on Sunday and now it’s snowing and there’s like an inch of snow on the ground
[00:01:13] Shanna Martin: Welcome to Wisconsin 25
[00:01:15] Fuzz Martin: degrees.
[00:01:16] Fuzz Martin: Yeah,
[00:01:16] Shanna Martin: we just need spring break.
[00:01:18] Fuzz Martin: So we need
[00:01:21] Shanna Martin: This is what they call like false Spring yes, and there’s usually two of these where you have false spring to my second
[00:01:27] Fuzz Martin: winter
[00:01:28] Shanna Martin: I have second winter and then you have
[00:01:30] Fuzz Martin: Fall, spring, again, and then third winter,
[00:01:32] Shanna Martin: and then, and then, and then you actually get spring for four days.
[00:01:35] Shanna Martin: Yes. And then it’s summer. Yes. Like that’s how that’s going to work. So super fun. But here in Wisconsin, at least it is like around about springtime, depending on your school district spring break time. So some schools like have spring break this upcoming week. Some people have spring break the following week and the week after.
[00:01:53] Shanna Martin: But somebody is getting a break soon, so I know it’s well deserved and you’d
[00:01:58] Fuzz Martin: yes, you deserve it. You all deserve it.
[00:02:01] Shanna Martin: It’s that kind of time of the year when we need some extra assistance. So why not share another AI tool to assist? You and keeping your sanity while teaching your students for the next couple of weeks here.
[00:02:17] Shanna Martin: So last week we talked about gamma. I should say two weeks ago. We talked about gamma, but the last episode was gamma and it was an AI tool. And I was, sometimes I try not to do things together and sometimes I do them purposefully together and that, Oh, I have another really cool AI tool. And I thought I’d really like to share this one as well.
[00:02:33] Shanna Martin: So the tool we’re talking about this week is school AI. Dot com, or you can look at app dot school, AI. com. And it’s school SCHOOLAI. com. And this super awesome tool that is free and has so many awesome things about it. It’s hard to like just pick five to like highlight, but obviously it’s free, which we love.
[00:02:59] Shanna Martin: So for sure, that’s a highlight. There are like extensions that like you can upgrade, but really there’s so many free tools, which is awesome. It offers IEP support, which I think is really great for classroom teachers when you have to support with goals and Um, trying to come up with a language sometimes it’s difficult to make sure that you’re really clear in what you’re setting up for your students to make sure that those goals are set clear, um, and concise.
[00:03:23] Shanna Martin: So they do like one of the tools is IEP goal writing, which I think is awesome. There’s a rubric writer, which I love a good rubric writer because I use a lot of rubrics in my classroom. And while I have written a lot of rubrics in my 21 years of teaching, I still sometimes. I don’t like the phrasing of it, or I’m trying to make something really clear for students, or I’m trying to like, so having an AI tool to help me write a rubric, I’ll take any day, especially then I can like write a bunch of different ones if I need to, to set things up the way I want them to.
[00:03:59] Shanna Martin: This is one of those tools that can connect with, all types of content areas. So it doesn’t matter if you’re teaching kindergarten or if you’re teaching. High school chemistry, these tools are going to support you in your classroom in a variety of ways so they can help every kind of educator in every content area, not just one or two, which I think is super helpful and again, saving you time and support and getting all the things done that we have to, there’s a lesson planner in here to like, yeah,
[00:04:30] Fuzz Martin: um,
[00:04:31] Shanna Martin: For those that have to make sure and they’re like aligns with your standards and your target.
[00:04:35] Shanna Martin: I’ll get to it. I’m very excited about this. And then also it’s got like fun ways to connect with other teachers. You can see like how other teachers are using it and what other resources they’ve created and what they’ve built for plans and things like that. So you can share ideas. And again, you’re able just to connect with others, which I think is awesome.
[00:04:50] Shanna Martin: I love connecting with teachers. From all over the place and just seeing new ideas, new, cool, creative things. So there are so many cool things about school AI. And I was very excited to share this one today because it just helps. Yeah,
[00:05:03] Fuzz Martin: it does. And it looks like it has a whole, a whole lot of things. So
[00:05:08] Shanna Martin: yeah, way too
[00:05:09] Fuzz Martin: many for us to get into, but what, uh, what makes you like it the most?
[00:05:13] Shanna Martin: Yes. So if you go to school AI, you have like your launch pad and it’s got the little sidekick. It’s got to find a space. It’s got creative space. You can unlock things if you, you have a free account. So it includes parts of it, but then you also like your district could really hook you up with all the money our districts have, um, you could get some support, but there are these different spaces that you can share.
[00:05:37] Shanna Martin: So even they like women’s history month and they have March spaces, for different things like read across America and stuff like that. But so you have spaces you can discover, you can create their sessions. So you have all that there’s a lot to dig into, like you said, I’m going to highlight the tools right now, because that’s my favorite place where all the things are.
[00:05:56] Shanna Martin: But there’s so many different resources that you could use any one part of this, and it’s going to save you time in your classroom. So there are, if you go across the top, the little toolbar, there’s a tools button. And if you click on that, it will create generating like multiple choice quizzes, build your own like creative documents.
[00:06:16] Shanna Martin: I want to highlight. So the rubric generator I talked about before, so let’s go there.
[00:06:21] Fuzz Martin: Okay.
[00:06:21] Shanna Martin: Cause I love a good rubric reader. So you type in your grade. Um, I’m going to pretend like I teach fourth grade today. Or the S let’s see, the assessment title is going to be, the capital, uh, Wisconsin state capital.
[00:06:36] Shanna Martin: Our child is learning about this right now. Capital, assessment details. So we’re going to talk about like highlights of the Wisconsin state capital, point scale, or drop around on one to four additional information. We can talk about how this was a research at a fourth grade level research project.
[00:07:01] Shanna Martin: Highlighting the Capitol building. If anybody ever knew this, it’s burned down twice. It’s been built three times.
[00:07:11] Fuzz Martin: They had to lower the mast so that it was lower than the U. S. Capitol building. Because when they first put that up, it was higher.
[00:07:20] Shanna Martin: That’s a fun tip.
[00:07:20] Fuzz Martin: Yeah.
[00:07:22] Shanna Martin: It’s fun to highlight.
[00:07:23] Shanna Martin: Okay, so I’m getting carried away with actually like creating this assignment right now. Researching project. Okay. And it’s capital building. Cool. All right. Standards. We’re going to do. And what’s cool is you click on standards. You’ll give grade level subject area and it actually pulls them up for you.
[00:07:39] Shanna Martin: Now, this is going to pull up English standards for me because we’re writing a paper and you can pick your state. So if I’m going to find my Wisconsin standards. And I’m going to pick my state and my subject. It will break it down. So depending on what state you’re searching, it will break down. Like they even have, like for Wisconsin, they have fine arts, they have, foreign languages, health, math.
[00:08:05] Shanna Martin: Nutrition, physical education, science, social studies, K 5. So Wisconsin standards are all in there, depending on how your state sets up standards, they are accurate to your state, which I appreciate. And then you can choose your strand. So I’m going to choose history standards, and then I literally can go through and click.
[00:08:21] Shanna Martin: The topics that I want to cover, and research past and present describing cooperation, independence, explain history, culture. Like it’s very, very cool. And then once I’ve like chosen all of those things, and then I can just hit go and it’s going to do exactly what I want it to do, which is fantastic.
[00:08:44] Shanna Martin: And it’s going to make all the things that I want it to. And so I really just, I think it’s very like you pick your standards, drops them all in, you click generate. And obviously I did not write a very strong prompt this time. That’s the thing you have to learn about. I feel like some people get frustrated with AI because you really do have to write very clearly.
[00:09:02] Fuzz Martin: The prompts, the prompts,
[00:09:04] Shanna Martin: and I’ve worked on that and I’ve actually practiced writing a prompts to make it do what I wanted to do. But anyway, with not much of a prompt, it has created me a rubric about the Wisconsin state capital. And it covers explanation of history and culture provides comprehensive, comprehensive explanation of history and culture and sovereignty.
[00:09:22] Shanna Martin: And it like drops like the standard in their use of sources because we talked about research, political values. So it’s very, like, it’s a nicely laid out rubric I can go in, I can edit it if I choose to, it gives me all of the doc choices across the top and boom, like I have a rubric created, which is awesome and fantastic.
[00:09:41] Shanna Martin: And then I can share it, copies of the link. I can export it. I can change the prompt if I want to, and I’m good to go. Like that rubric is set for me. I can go use it for something, which is super cool. Love it. Love everything about that. So like, Rubricus, what are you putzing with right now?
[00:09:59] Fuzz Martin: I was putzing with the jokes one.
[00:10:02] Shanna Martin: Of course. Do you have a joke for us?
[00:10:04] Fuzz Martin: Uh, I, I did. And then I, uh, I, I kind of lost it. Um, Oh, nope. There it is. Okay, here we go. Ready? Are you ready? Yes. Why was the Titanic so bad at keeping secrets? I don’t know why. It had too many leaks. Oh, do I have a. Oh, I do. There we go. All right. So glad that you hit the button.
[00:10:31] Fuzz Martin: Load it in again. Two more. What did the iceberg say to the Titanic? Stop following me. I’m not a tour guide. I don’t know. It wasn’t very good. No. Uh, why didn’t the Titanic finish its journey? I couldn’t get past that sinking feeling. Oh, all right, folks. I’ll be here all weekend. Tip your waitress. Try the veal.
[00:10:56] Fuzz Martin: Don’t
[00:10:57] Shanna Martin: hurt yourself. Don’t
[00:10:58] Fuzz Martin: hurt yourself.
[00:10:59] Shanna Martin: Um, okay. So back to the cool tools now that we’ve shown you two of them. Other things. Oh my gosh. So they have a text translator. Love that I talked about the IEP ones and my highlights for setting high IEP goals. They have vocabulary lists that will generate vocabularies based on a subject or topic.
[00:11:16] Shanna Martin: So highlighting vocabulary, story, word problems, letter of recommendations, class letters, performance tasks, generators. Syllabus writers. Ooh, that would be nice. PLC agendas for those of you that are meeting with your staff and that it keeps your recent documents across the bottom. And that’s not all of the things, that’s just some of them.
[00:11:36] Shanna Martin: There’s a text leveler, which I think is super helpful. I use a lot of different text pieces in my class. And so being able to level text when we’re reading it together is really helpful also for small group work, in the classroom based on text is there multiple choice quizzes, lesson plans, worksheets, build your own.
[00:11:53] Shanna Martin: So there are so many different tools with school AI that you can check out and try out along with again, in the spaces you can create, discover, and then the new section that they have added, it’s called community. And again, it’s across the top and here. It’s like, welcome to our community. You can introduce yourself.
[00:12:12] Shanna Martin: And then as you go through there, there’s other educators and they talk about like, where they’re from, what they did, what tool they used, and you can pose questions. And, or you can see what they’ve created. And so there’s still like, you can introduce yourself and then there’s like a swag swap and then there’s a little certifications if you want to get like certified in school AI, if you knew that for like professional development and then they have, just different ways of collaborating and connecting with other teachers.
[00:12:40] Shanna Martin: They have a little, show and tell area, which I think is really cute. And so you’re able to say like how or what you created. So. This one teacher, like just the first one here, here’s a rubric I created using the rubric tool on Lady Macbeth’s influence. And so you can look and click on it and then that’s the, what the other teacher created for something in their classroom.
[00:13:00] Shanna Martin: So you have ideas. Do I love being able to share ideas with other teachers? So I think that that’s really neat that they are able to, do that and connect with school AI and to be able to see other teachers resources. And connect with other teachers that way. And then they also have, again, another color, another section for resources and spaces for teachers.
[00:13:20] Shanna Martin: So, not only do they have tools, but you can connect with other teachers along with many other, just options. So they have a little assistance section as well, where you can click on that, like co teacher, and they’ll give you a little chat bot.
[00:13:34] Fuzz Martin: Yeah, like, Hey, you know, I no longer, have a field trip coordinator, so I can use the field trip coordinator assistant to help
[00:13:43] Shanna Martin: create an
[00:13:43] Fuzz Martin: agenda for a field trip.
[00:13:44] Shanna Martin: Yep. And like brainstorm those things. They have a curriculum coach, like working on a new course. Let me help you. So it can help you if you’re like, need some like support or some professional development, or I just think like. Sometimes you just wanna bounce an idea off of somebody. Yeah. And while it’s not a human mm-hmm.
[00:13:59] Shanna Martin: Like it’s obviously gonna be ai, it also is just a way to kind of flush out your own thoughts or ideas. Yep. And ’cause we don’t always have time to run down the hallway and ask somebody something ’cause there’s a billion other things going on. Mm-hmm . So those little assistants are also there that you can check in with as well.
[00:14:14] Fuzz Martin: I would say that’s probably the way that I use AI the most in my career. Mm-hmm . In marketing is that I will. Say like, here’s my strategy that I came up with for, you know, X, Y, or Z brand or whatever the, you know, campaign is going to be, and then what am I missing? Or can you make any other recommendations or how would you make this better?
[00:14:33] Fuzz Martin: And, it’s really good and obviously very quick.
[00:14:37] Shanna Martin: Yeah, it’s like instant feedback.
[00:14:39] Fuzz Martin: Yeah. Helps you.
[00:14:40] Shanna Martin: Your idea is horrible. Try something better. You know, it’s never said that,
[00:14:44] Fuzz Martin: but sometimes I wonder if it thinks it
[00:14:47] Shanna Martin: try again. Whoa,
[00:14:49] Fuzz Martin: Whoa. Hey, you ever had a imposter syndrome? Cause you should.
[00:14:57] Shanna Martin: Let me make you feel bad.
[00:14:58] Shanna Martin: But no, so again, these are there for support and to help you support the essay grading assistant, that’s one of those where I’m like, am I grading this? Right. Does this look right? There’s a little digital literacy coach anyway. So again, school AI has all of these awesome tools. Is there,
[00:15:14] Fuzz Martin: is there a.
[00:15:15] Fuzz Martin: Like an amount that you can use or that you can just keep using it or
[00:15:18] Shanna Martin: you can use it. I haven’t gotten to the point where I’m like locked out of anything, but there are some tools that will say like, like within the spaces or like certain pieces that you need, like the, the prize thing or whatever, like the non school, like the non free account.
[00:15:31] Shanna Martin: Gotcha. So there are pieces that you can use. You know, up to so much of it. And then they’re like, Hey, you need to not use the free version, but when it comes to the tools and stuff, I’ve been good so far, so
[00:15:44] Fuzz Martin: awesome.
[00:15:44] Shanna Martin: Yeah. So check out school AI. It is an awesome resource. It is helpful for all content areas.
[00:15:52] Shanna Martin: And as a teacher with time constraints in your life, check it out. It will save you some time. And some brain power. So thanks for tuning in. This has been the tech tools for teachers podcast. If you ever have any questions, you can find me on blue sky threads, Facebook, Instagram, and at smart in WI. And if you want to get more information on the links to the technology discussed in this episode.
[00:16:16] Shanna Martin: Visit smartinwi com. If you’d like to support the show, please consider buying me a coffee or two. Visit buymeacoffee. com slash smartinwi or visit smartandwi. com and click on that cute little purple coffee cup. Your donations help keep the show going. New episodes coming up each week, but after spring break.
[00:16:35] Shanna Martin: Thanks for listening. Go educate and innovate
[00:16:37] Fuzz Martin: the ideas and opinions expressed on this podcast and the smart in WI website, or those of the author, Shanna Martin, and not a firm player prior to using any of the technologies discussed on this podcast. Please consult with your employer regulations. This podcast offers no guarantee that these tools will work for you as described, but we sure hope they do.
[00:17:03] Fuzz Martin: Hey, Shanna. What’s an AI’s favorite type of music?
[00:17:08] Shanna Martin: I don’t know.
[00:17:09] Fuzz Martin: Algorithms. Nice.
