Happy Tuesday! Anyone who is exploring AI quickly realizes that the quality of what you get from AI directly depends on the quality of your prompt. Say hello to the AI for Education Prompt Library—your new go-to resource for powerful AI prompts designed specifically for education. This incredible library is packed with ready-made prompts that help you use AI tools for everything from generating creative writing ideas to crafting personalized study guides. There is even a page of prompts for AI Resistant Assessment. Whether you’re an AI newbie or an experienced user, this resource makes it simple to integrate AI into your teaching practice in meaningful ways and get the most out of Copilot.
On a more serious note, Safer Schools: Erase is offering free online workshops for students and parents about social media awareness, cyberbullying, dealing with violence, online safety and more. Please send a message home encouraging parents to attend these workshops if they are interested. Here are links with more information, dates of the workshops and registration:
Students: Separate workshops for grades 5-8 and 9-12 erase Gender Based Violence Student Sessions
Parents: erase Family Sessions
…or for both links visit https://learn71.ca/online/erase_family-resources/
AI For Education Prompt Library:
Click here or on the image below to visit this fabulous prompt library.
Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone got a chance on the weekend to go out and enjoy the sunshine. I sometimes have to remind myself that I like winter and try to embrace the chilly days. I recently found two things that I would like to share with you that may help you enjoy winter. The first was a lesson plan from the New York Times, titled “How Nature Comes Alive in Winter“. This reminded me of all the wonderful teaching resources at the New York Times Learning Network. Here you can find up-to-date discussion articles, picture prompts and more! I will share the link below. The other neat site that I would like to share (thanks to Matt and his Ditch That Textbook emails) is about Snowflakes. It is full of really interesting snow crystal facts, videos and information.
New York Times Learning Network:
I encourage you to check out this amazing resource with stuff for almost any grade. You can find contests, writing prompts, and opinion pieces that students can read with questions at the end to get them thinking and so much more!
New York Times Learning Network
Welcome back everyone. I hope you all had a restful and fun holiday 🙂 I came back to some exciting news from Microsoft: Math Progress is now released globally so we all have access! I was super excited when Reading Progress came out, a great program to help people improve their reading, and now Math Progress is available in Teams Assignments to help students ages 9-18 improve their Math skills. Math Progress will generate Math questions (or you are welcome to create your own), auto-grade them, track student progress and help you identify focus areas for more support and when you send the results back to the students, they can open them to see the steps that they should have done to complete the question (oh yeah, the computer does that for you). Can you tell my excitement by my run on sentences? This is a great tool that you can use to create homework, quizzes and tests. Did I mention that students can even submit the written work that they do to support their answers?
Here is a short (ish) video explaining how it works: