EP304 Is artificial intelligence the key to a 40 hour teacher workweek?
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We know there's potential…but let's talk about the larger implications for the profession.
In this episode, I'm sharing how AI has already transformed the way many teachers work, and exploring the ethics, best practices, and future trends for AI in schools.
Listen in to hear:
- What surprised me in a survey about schools' AI policies
- 3 principles that guide my approach to AI
- Why educators MUST shape the direction of AI (and not leave this to tech companies)
- My favorite ways to use AI to streamline teaching tasks, including differentiation and assessment
- When you might want to use ChatGPT in place of a search engine
- My recommendations for the best free AI tools for teachers
- 3 crucial mindsets to develop as you plan how to incorporate AI in your work
Let's explore the big picture overview of AI's impact, its strengths and weaknesses as a tool for teachers, and specific ways fellow educators have used it to reduce their workload responsibly.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Episode 304 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm your host, Angela Watson, and I'm here to speak encouragement into the hearts of educators |
| 0:12.2 | and get you informed and energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:16.7 | Today I'm exploring whether artificial intelligence is the key to a 40-hour teacher work week. |
| 0:22.9 | Visit truthforteachers.com for an easy-to-read, easy-to-share version of this podcast episode. |
| 0:30.6 | If the IEP process is confusing for you as an educator and overwhelming for families, |
| 0:36.9 | there's a new free resource that |
| 0:38.6 | can help. Season 3 of the Understood Explains podcast is like a crash course on IEPs, from |
| 0:45.2 | the perspective of a teacher who's been there. Hosted by teacher and special education |
| 0:50.1 | expert Juliana Ertube, Understood Explains is demystifying the IEP process for families, |
| 0:56.4 | with episodes explaining the difference between 504 plans and IEPs, how kids qualify |
| 1:02.3 | for IEPs, how to know if your child needs an IEP, and more. It's a great overview for |
| 1:07.7 | the general ed teacher and totally understandable for families who are |
| 1:11.8 | unfamiliar with the IEP process. Understood Explains is also available in Spanish to support multilingual |
| 1:17.9 | families and help them advocate for their kids. And it's all free. To listen to Understood Explains, |
| 1:23.8 | search for Understood Explains in your podcast app. That's understood explains. |
| 1:32.2 | In an email that I sent out to my list in the spring of 2024, I included a five-question poll to |
| 1:40.7 | uncover teachers' current opinions on generative AI. Over a thousand educators responded to this |
| 1:48.0 | poll, and I promised that I would analyze and share the findings. I've already sent this follow-up to my |
| 1:53.5 | email list, which, by the way, if you're not on, you can join over 90,000 other educators. I send |
| 1:59.5 | one message a week, typically, it's on Sunday evenings. And you can |
| 2:02.8 | just go to truthforteachers.com to sign up for that. It's right up in the header. So my email list |
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