The AI Eras Tour: Swift-ly Remixing AI Teacher PD

Outline

Ready to join the AI Teachers Department? This creative spin on teacher-PD remixes Taylor Swift's albums with generative AI concepts. Explore how to create "Reputation"-making professional learning experiences and spark hands-on engagement through the examples across the AI eras! This session will also walk participants through a creative process leveraging AI tools like SchoolAI to make PD relevant, relatable, and memorable. Walk away with a frame of reference on how to use AI to help personalize teacher-training, promote relevant outcomes, and increase perspectives in asset-based instructional design.

Session Outline:

Part 1: Welcome to the AI Eras tour (10 minutes)
- Gist: AI PD concept introduction & connection to Taylor's eras; the "why" and relevance behind this PD design and making teacher-training relevant, personalized, and themed precisely for your stakeholders.
- SchoolAI Feature: Using AI as a tutor to build background knowledge/preview concepts before learning. Participants will experience an AI chatbot Space to introduce themselves, share their level of experience with AI and prompting, and build a bit of background knowledge on Taylor Swift’s “Eras” concept.

Part 2: Creating the Era PD themes + Era-themed example: Fearless prompting (15 minutes)
- Gist: Basic AI prompting practice and nuances of prompting for educational-purposes in LLMs
- SchoolAI Feature: Showcase of how I built a SchoolAI Space to be my PD design assistant + overview of how prompting in SchoolAI compares to prompting in everyday LLMs.

Part 3: Explore the AI Eras (15 minutes)
- Gist: Jigsaw-lite / choose-your-own-adventure hands-on exploring of the AI eras + collaborative table debrief based on Eras-style reflection questions.

Part 4: Create a PD outline (10 minutes)
- Gist: Participants will use AI as a mentor and teammate to generate a unique version of their own version of an AI Eras tour-style PD or relevant concept for their stakeholders.
- SchoolAI Feature: Teachers will use a SchoolAI Space to help them co-create ideas.

Part 5: Sharing/closure (10 minutes)
- Showcase PD outlines assisted by AI
- Recap, reflect, and next steps
- Sharing of Tarah's resources and prompts used during this session
- Where to find SchoolAI online and at ISTE

Supporting research

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

The AI Infused Classroom by Holly Clark

From PREP to PREPARE by Dan Fitzpatrick: https://preview.mailerlite.io/preview/282063/emails/104000432553068105

Augmenting Human Creativity with AI - SectionAI Zoom event featuring Dr. Peter Stone and Greg Shove https://www.sectionschool.com/events/live-events/augmenting-human-creativity-with-ai-2

Learning Evolution by Carl Hooker

Unheard Voices: Examining Equitable Representation, Social Justice Pedagogy, & Resources to Bend to Textual Justice With US History - Guide by Eric Junco

The PD Book: 7 Habits that Transform Professional Development

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" by Daniel H. Pink