Is anyone using AI agents? I'd love to know what you are doing with them and how you are doing it.
I've noticed that word 'agent' is confusing a lot of highly capable people. It had this effect on me too and held me back for a while. They are powerful, but very simple to understand and set up. Honestly.I set myself a challenge when working with small business owners last week to teach a full 90 minute session on agents without using the word agent. No mysterious BS that makes the technology sound magical, just a simple nuts and bolts methodology. It worked.So, I'm going to do a free 40 min masterclass on the anatomy of an AI agent. I think I'll cap sign ups, so we can have a conversation. Anyone is free to join me. It's also agnostic to your preferred AI (as long as it has the capability e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini Spark, Claude...)Sign up link: https://theaieducator.io/agents-masterclass
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Yes! I'm an Assistant Head and Year 4 teacher in a Google school, so I've built mine in Google Workspace Studio. You just describe what you want in plain English and Gemini builds it.My current agents:Morning triage: summarises my inbox and calendar before school and drafts replies for me to check (it never sends anything itself!)MTC tracker: reads our times tables check practice data from...
I'm note sure if this is an agent or not but I get Claude to give me a wee report every Monday night of the top 3 AI in education stories that it thinks I might like. I've been using Claude for awhile now as co-teacher so it "knows" how I like to teach and it is giving me some good articles that I would never have found on my own
If your institution uses Google, this is a great place to start:https://studio.workspace.google.comYou can use natural language to describe an automation and it will suggest what it could look like and create it.
I have explored using an agent to help me keep up with research, manage scheduling, and draft email replies and summaries. While hesitant at first, I have come to really appreciate the time saved and the agent's efficiency. I recommend trying this if you have not ventured into this area of AI yet.
I’m starting to explore them for some of the admin that surrounds teaching. One example is asking an agent to find an invitation in my email, compare the offered times with my calendar, convert the time zones and add the most suitable option.The “how” is giving it a clear goal, access to the relevant tools and boundaries around what it can do independently and what needs my review. I’m finding...
Hi,I am not using an AI agent at present. I explored the possibility, but even though I use AI to save time and improve outputs/efficiency of admin, policy and T&L, etc, I am not ready to leave tasks to an Ai agent yet. I would feel like giving up control over my work. This is how i feel, but I am not putting down anyone using them. Thanks, Javier
I've started to use agents in my building for specific tasks. Some of the agents that I have include an EAL reviewer that looks at unit and lesson plans for scaffolding for EAL learners. I've found that when I keep the agents focused they do well in supporting the regular work that I do. I've also started dabbling with the idea of creating harnesses that loop the work of several agents...
Yes!I've created a prompt that scaffolds readings and assignments for ESL students. 1. Summarizes the document in three sentences or less in English and the student's native language.2. Creates a vocabulary table with definitions and translations based on the document. 3. Rewrites the original document with helpful in-line glosses for the identified vocabulary. But that's just a prompt. Used...
I have looking into creating an Agent to consolidate important dates and festivals to share with teacher librarians as well as a report with top AI stories (as shared by @aileen but the problem and concern is that all of these tools require a premium subscription--at least at this moment in time. I feel like the move to agentic AI is widening the equity gap further. Thoughts?
I have been using them in our Google workspace by following the Gemini templates in Studio - its also easy to create your own after using a prompt or the AI wizard to set tasks up.They useful tools but I don't rely on them too much