Welcome!
Welcome to Pedagog.ai’s Crash Course: AI & Education! This short, asynchronous course is designed to give teachers an introduction to all the basics, including what generative AI is and how teachers can leverage its vast capabilities for everything from writing emails, to creating lesson plans, to teaching students key AI literacy skills.
This course is designed for teachers of all levels and subjects. The modules include examples from across disciplines and the assignments allow everyone to apply the skills in a way that’s relevant to their teaching context.
We look forward to having you join us!
Key Details
Course Format: Asynchronous
PD Hours: 5
Contact Information
Overview
Module 1: Introduction to AI in Education: A quick overview of the field of artificial intelligence and a discussion of the issues and opportunities that it raises for education.
Module 2: Streamlining Teacher Workflow with AI: Examples of how teachers can use chatbots like ChatGPT to help with communication, paperwork, and record-keeping tasks.
Module 3: Curriculum Development with AI: A discussion and several examples of how teachers can use chatbots to help with unit and lesson planning and creating and adapting materials for their classrooms.
Module 4: Adding AI to your Lessons and Assessments: Ideas for how teachers can begin incorporating AI into their lessons in order to make lessons more engaging and help students gain key AI literacy skills. Also, an overview of how AI can be used to create assessments and be used as an assessment mechanism.
Module 5: Combatting AI Plagiarism: An overview of why AI tools present a risk of academic dishonesty and a discussion on how to combat the issue with students, including key institutional policies, creating honor codes, and talking to students about academic integrity.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
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Reflect on the impact that generative AI is having, and will continue to have, on their teaching and education more broadly. -
Use AI tools to streamline tasks like emailing, paperwork, lesson planing, and differentiating activities. -
Begin incorporating student use of AI into their lessons. -
Reflect on the issues that AI tools create for academic dishonesty and craft an AI use policy for their classes.
Logistics
Asynchronous: The course can be completed at your own pace with a recommended pace of. All course content and assignments can be completed at any time.
Discussion Forum: All students will have access to an exclusive discussion forum where they can discuss course materials, share lesson plans, and engage with other teachers taking the course.
Assignments
Instructors
Priten Shah
(CEO/Founder, Pedagogy.Cloud)
Priten H Shah, M. ED and B.A, Harvard, is the CEO of Pedagogy.Cloud, an education consulting company providing educational organizations with a full-suite of services including innovative technology solutions. He is also the author of the Wiley’s Jossey-Bass publication, “AI & The Future of Education: Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.“
Pedagogy.Cloud has worked with over 200 different educational organizations to adapt and innovate during major world events including the Covid-19 Pandemic. He and his team are currently focused on helping educational organizations adapt to the ever growing capabilities of AI, focusing on OpenAI integrations.
Through PC, Priten serves as CTO/CFO for Thinker Analytix, a Harvard partnered nonprofit that is leading the effort to create research-based tools for educators to teach reasoning skills.
Priten is also the founder of United 4 Social Change, a civics education nonprofit that focuses on helping teachers integrate interdisciplinary education into their curricula through animated videos, lesson plans, and innovative classroom activities.
Nina Bamberg
(Director Of Growth, Pedagogy.Cloud)
Nina has an MA in International Educational Development from Teachers College at Columbia University and has worked for many years in education and nonprofit program management.
Nina has worked with students of all ages teaching English, history, human rights, and current events. She also works in adult education as a citizenship educator and as an associate for a graduate-level course on conflict management.
For the past 3 years, Nina has served as the Director of Programs at United 4 Social Change where she worked on curriculum development, teacher professional development, and student workshops. She joins Pedagogy.Cloud in 2023 to help expand their work with educational AI tools and teacher engagement.
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