Artificial Intelligence (AI) has entered the world in which we live and work and is being used in both academia and the workplace. Rightfully so, educators are asking such questions as: "Exactly what is AI?  Should I use it?  Should I allow students to use it?  What are its implications?" 

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Through the use of this site and in-person peer conversations, the Office of Catholic Education and Formation will provide up-to-date AI information and opportunities in hopes that we will grow our AI understanding and learn together.

 

April 16, 2024:

•  If you have a Facebook account, here are three interesting educators/groups to join which may help you in the world of AI:

  • Teacher Tech - Alice Keeler

  • Control Alt Achieve

  • ChatGPT for Teachers

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•  Religion and an AI Search Engine: Magisterium AI

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March 5, 2024:

• ISTE's Guidance, Resources and Opportunity for Teachers in AI – Scroll through this entire page, especially the "Hands on Guide for AI Projects in the Classroom."

• AI Toolkit for School Leaders and Teachers – This toolkit advises policy and educators with continued knowledge concerning AI (webinar to be viewed).

 

February 6, 2024:

• North Carolina Publishes AI Guidance for K12 — AI for Education

• AI and Brophy (Brophy Prep is a Jesuit University with several resources on AI)

• Academic Integrity 2.0

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January 9, 2024:

• Pope Francis' speech in honor of the 75th World Day of Peace warned world leaders that reckless development of artificial intelligence could pose a risk to humanity. 

• AI For Education’s Top 5 most popular webinars of 2023 blend practical hands-on strategies with deeper insights from experts integrating AI in education.

  • Prompt Engineering for Educators

  • Using AI for Differentiated Instruction

  • Authentic Assessment with AI

  • How to Use ChatGPT for Lesson Planning

  • Creating AI-Resistant and Assisted Assignments & Assessments for Students

• "An Essential Guide to AI for Educators" is a free 2-hour course from AI for Education, which has helped over 5,000 educators learn about adopting AI responsibly in their schools.

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November 21, 2023:

• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY: ChatGPT Crash Course on Designing Authentic Student Assessments (toddleapp.com) 

• Brisk Teaching Extension (Change reading levels and language, create quizzes, write lesson plans and employ an AI detector of students' work.)

• Example of giving a teacher feedback on an assignment and suggestions on making it better (TikTok video).

• Introducing ReWrite Ai for Outlook and Word

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November 7, 2023:

• Current State of AI for Educators (several helpful articles): 

       https://drphilippahardman.substack.com/p/the-current-state-of-ai-for-educators

• Open AI Teaching with AI: https://openai.com/blog/teaching-with-ai

October 24, 2023: 

• US Department of Education (DOE) Artificial Intelligence and the future of teaching and Learning Manual

 

• State of Missouri: Manual for Considerations When Preparing AI Conduct

Issues Posed by Generative AI for Teaching and Learning (missouri.edu)

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September 26, 2023:

• Why is It Important That I Understand AI? (Forbes, September 4, 2023

• AI for Education: Free teacher training webinars