What's the single biggest benefit AI has brought to your teaching?
Whether it's saved you hours of planning, helped you differentiate like never before, or changed how you give feedback. Drop your answer below.
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If I'm being 100% honest, AI has helped me rethink what's possible in my classroom. To clarify, I look at lessons and units and wonder, what else can I do with the material. Sometimes, Claude or Gemini have a great bit of insight I can run with. Often times I find myself then using AI tools to start a build of a lesson, graphic, or slide deck, then spend my time really iterating on my own and...
Differentiation is, as for many colleagues, what I would choose if I had to pick just one thing. It has made lesson planning easier and faster while at the same time catring to different students' needs.
The biggest benefit AI brought is an increase in engagement on some levels and more excitement on others. In hindsight its about bringing new and modernization to the classroom, that of which reflects the real world and corporate America. Students are tired of feeling like they've been doing the same old things year after year, only to hear about whats happening around them but not get to...
Like many of the educators here, I would have to say the biggest benefit of AI has been how easily it supports differentiation. In the past, it was always expected, but there was very little guidance, few tools, and limited professional development to support it. AI has changed all of that by making differentiation manageable, but for me it goes further. It allows for true personalization; I...
After 39 years as a secondary level English and journalism teacher, I transitioned to working with college level education majors. Teacher candidates benefit by using AI strategy feedback as they develop original assessments and handouts. Recently, we were working on developing rubrics. Each category was reviewed to see that statements used evidence-based descriptions. Artificial intelligence...
Being able to personalise resources quickly and adapt them. In the past, that would have taken hours to achieve. It means I can even revisit something within the same school day, or to a particular group who have struggled, or even, to a group who found something not challenging enough.
I totally agree Sheryl, and AI is available 24/7. We all know that the work of an educator extends well beyond the start and end of class, so being able to receive input, suggestions, comments, and generate ideas when you need them is a definite benefit.
Picking just one is really tricky, but I'd say creating outlines for lessons or topics which I can then build on and develop into my own finished plan has been a real time saver. Historically, I've always searched the internet to see what is already out there to help frame some ideas for my own planning. Using AI has made this so much quicker.
The single biggest benefit AI has brought to my practice is the ability to elevate the quality of thinking, both mine and my students’, while significantly reducing the cognitive load of routine tasks.As a teacher of IB Language Acquisition and Literature, AI has transformed how I differentiate and scaffold learning. I can now generate multiple versions of a task at varying levels of...
Dan mentioned the "still in control of my content" point that you emphasized in your comment. The insights provided by AI supply the type of information that might be offered by a veteran colleague.