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How To Use Canva AI To Save Time In Teaching
Let’s explore the incredible AI tools available in Canva! Join me as we delve into using Magic Write, a powerful text generator, and exploring how you can use AI Image generator, both of which have the potential to reduce planning time and increase student engagement! Video Tutorial Magic Write (AI Text Generator) One of the remarkable AI tools in Canva is Magic Write, which harnesses the power of OpenAI’s GPT3 to generate text effortlessly. Imagine starting your maths class with a series of quick questions to assess your students’ understanding. With Magic Write, you can prompt it to create five multiple-choice questions for Year 8 fractions without answers. Furthermore, you…
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How To Make A Google Forms Quiz Using ChatGPT – EASY!
You can now use the power of AI to help us save time in planning and creating learning resources. Let’s put ChatGPT to the task of creating an interactive quiz! Of course you can directly retrieve generated quiz questions via the ChatGPT web app, but how about making the quiz interactive using Google Forms? Note: If you haven’t used ChatGPT yet, check out my post on how to use ChatGPT in teaching to save time. I’ve tinkered with a few fiddly solutions including: The simplest method I’ve found for creating a Google Form quiz using ChatGPT is through a quiz platform called Quizalize. Quizalize has integrated ChatGPT into their dashboard…
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How To Use ChatGPT In Teaching To Save Time
How can teachers use ChatGPT to increase the efficiency of their workflow? Are there simple ways you can introduce ChatGPT into your teaching practice, to save time? In this post, we’ll be looking at a range of prompts that you can use with ChatGPT that have the potential to change how you work. What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools are transforming the landscape of education. ChatGPT is a chatbot driven by AI that has been created by Open AI. It’s able to generate new ideas in a conversation style and it’s currently free to use. Limitations of ChatGPT It’s important to note that ChatGPT has various…
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How To Create A Digital Seating Plan Using Slides
Do you want to have a seating plan that you can edit all year round? Follow this tutorial to learn how you can create your seating plan in Google Slides.
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How To Make a 3D Printed Stamp
Do you want to learn how to bring digital files to life with 3D printing? You don’t need any prior experience to get started. You don’t even need to have your own 3D printer! Watch this teaser to see a close up of the finished product. Video Tutorial Step 1: Use Canva to design your stamp Create a 2D visual of your stamp using Canva, a free and beginner-friendly graphic design platform. You can include text and image in your stamp. Pro Tip: If you’re making a round stamp, click on Effects and use the Curve function to curve the text. Note: You can use the digital stamp for online…
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How to Use Padlet in 10 Ways For Teaching
Padlet has become a classroom favourite for teachers and students. Its rise came with the shift to online learning and the increasing need for teachers to engage and keep students accountable in their learning. What is Padlet? Padlet is a digital canvas that allows teachers and students to share their ideas and collaborate with others. It is student-friendly and, unlike other collaborative edtech platforms, it doesn’t permit students to edit or delete another student’s post. Padlet also filters profanity (yay!). Is Padlet free? Padlet has a free version that allows you to have access to 3 padlets. You can get an additional padlet if you register with this referral link.…
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5 Reasons why teachers love the Bitmoji Classroom (Featuring the Founder of Facebook group “Bitmoji Craze for Educators”, Dr. Allatesha Cain)
The Bitmoji. They are personalised emojis that look like you. Bitmojis have been around for a while, yet, recently in the teaching community, the Bitmoji craze has absolutely blown up! Teachers love Bitmoji! Some teachers even pay out of pocket for Bitmoji stickers to reward their students! Teachers from around the world are using Bitmoji and sharing their creative uses with others online.
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How to use 3 Types of Learner Interactions in Online Learning
In February 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the UAE region, amongst many areas, causing nation-wide school closures. Teachers began flooding online to research, collaborate, train-up and gear-up to fight for quality distance education delivery that each and every student has a right to. Edtech companies were supporting teachers by waiving fees to their services. Telecom companies were working rigorously to ensure their severs don’t burn, due to the wave of teachers and students hopping on to video-conferencing apps. Flashback to last year when I had the pleasure of team teaching with a brilliant individual who taught me about See Think Wonder. I would describe this teaching strategy as the cool…
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Engaging educational activities for students learning remotely #COVID-19
Since the beginning of school closures world-wide, I have witnessed the collegiality and raw strength of the online teaching community. Like many others, I have spent more time on Twitter this week than ever before. Teachers from around the world are sharing resource ideas and extending an arm and a leg to help others during today’s global crisis. How do we engage students? If students are involved in an asynchronous mode of remote learning, they will not have the presence of a teacher explicitly directing them to complete tasks. Students will need to self-regulate and motivate themselves. To solve this problem, educational technology (edtech) companies gamify learning experiences by using:…
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40+ Tools for Distance Learning (A response to COVID-19)
All UAE schools are closed for a month as a preventative response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The first two weeks will be Spring break, followed by two weeks of distance learning. Some other countries around the world have temporarily shut down schools including China, Japan, Iran and Korea. The spread of a virus behaves like an exponential function and will likely affect the education of students over the next few months. How do you implement distance learning? Distance learning involves students learning remotely, most commonly through the use of online learning platforms. Amidst global economic uncertainty, as an educator there are factors you can control such as equipping yourself with…
