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The EdTech Take Out is a podcast for teachers who are looking for innovative ways to integrate technology in their classrooms. It is hosted by Jonathan Wylie and Mindy Cairney from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team.

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The EdTech Take Out is a podcast for teachers who are looking for innovative ways to integrate technology in their classrooms. It is hosted by Jonathan Wylie and Mindy Cairney from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team.

    Ep 120: AI Madness - Round 1

    Ep 120: AI Madness - Round 1

    In the spirit of March Madness and how much we love Iowa Women’s basketball on our team, we have taken this idea of bracket play into the AI world and have come up with four different categories for AI tools. Within those four different categories, we have chosen two tools that we feel fall into that category to match against one another. To compare these two tools, we will share the cost, what integrations the tool has, and usability of the original output. 
     
    For the next two weeks, we will advance tools through the bracket and we will share more in-depth analysis of these tools.
     
    Main Course: Elite Eight 
     
    Bracket 1: Productivity and Communication:
    Ghostwrite (Mindy)Cost: 15 emails a month, unlimited for $10/mo
    Integrations: Outlook, Gmail, Zendesk
    Usability of Original Output: built into your email composer, choose tone, style, length, very little need to revise.

    Goblin Tools (Gina)Cost: Free
    Integrations: Download as a file, copy and paste
    Usability of Original Output: Simplistic, choose tones to communicate, choose level of tone

    Bracket 2: Lesson Planning
    School AI (Mindy)Cost: teachers get a freemium account, otherwise purchase as a district (schedule a call)
    Integrations: download or copy
    Usability of Original Output: easy entry point for teachers getting started with AI, provides structures for completing a robust prompt, helps teachers get to a response that they want, sparks some ideas and provides a flow to a lesson

    Cuirpod (Gina) Cost: freemium, $7.50/mo  individual account, school license or district license $4000/yr
    Integrations: NA (link sharing for adding students to a lesson)
    Usability of Original Output: Many of the lessons that are generated are a good “starting point” however, a teacher would want to go through and add additional information and perhaps adjust some of the questions or interactions that Curipod automatically creates with AI.

    Bracket 3: Scaffolding
    Eduaide (Gina)Cost: Freemium: 15 generations/mo, limited feedback bot Pro account: $6/mo, school and districts accounts
    Integrations: NA
    Usability of Original Output: Good starting point for ideas, but doesn’t actually create differentiated artifacts. 

    Diffit (Mindy)Cost: Free up to 2500 words, $15/mo or district license
    Integrations: Print or Download (with free version), paid Google integrations
    Usability of Original Output: generates content, paste in text for easy leveling, grade leveling of text can be challenging to decipher–its really about student level so worth a professional eye.

     
    Bracket 4: Assessment and Feedback
    Brisk (Mindy)Cost: Freemium or District Purchase
    Integrations: works with Google docs, but integration into comments is for purchase
    Usability of Original Output:, generates feedback with the click of a button: glow and grow, rubric criteria and next steps 

    Class Companion (Gina)Cost: Freemium, free for teachers and students, paid school/district account integrates Class Companion into LMS (Schoology and Canvas, with additional features)
    Integrations: LMS integration with school or district plan.
    Usability of Original Output: Teachers have access to the content library on the free teacher plan. They cannot create a library of their own content. The AI is useful in coaching student and providing them just in time feedback and they are writing. It is transparent to all (students and teachers) they are getting feedback from AI and there is a place where students can dispute feedback they get from the AI. Geared towards an older audience so elementary teachers might not find this as useful.

     

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    Ep 119: The National Educational Technology Plan (NETP)

    Ep 119: The National Educational Technology Plan (NETP)

    News and Updates:
    Google BardAI is now GeminiAI 
    Google Doodle contest
    Seesaw has instructional templates: Seesaw Library=> Daily Routines => Instructional Templates
    Pear Deck adds additional tools with its new name, Pear Deck Learning: Pear Assessment, Pear Deck Tutor, and Pear Practice.
    Main Course: National Educational Technology Plan
    What it is: This 2024 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) examines how technologies can raise the bar for all elementary and secondary students. It offers examples of schools, districts, classrooms, and states doing the complex work of establishing systemic solutions to inequities of access, design, and use of technology in support of learning.
    Why it’s important: It addresses three main components: the digital use divide, the digital design divide, and the digital access divide. It also provides actionable recommendations to advance the use of technology in teaching and learning in these three areas.
    Digital Use Divide: Inequitable implementation of instructional tasks supported by technology. On one side of this divide are students who are asked to actively use technology in their learning to analyze, build, produce, and create using digital tools, and, on the other, students encountering instructional tasks where they are asked to use technology for passive assignment completion. While this divide maps to the student corner of the instructional core, it also includes the instructional tasks drawing on content and designed by teachers. 
    Digital Design Divide: Inequitable access to time and support of professional learning for all teachers, educators, and practitioners to build their professional capacity to design learning experiences for all students using edtech. This divide maps to the teacher's corner of the instructional core. 
    Digital Access Divide: Inequitable access to connectivity, devices, and digital content. Mapping to the content corner of the instructional core, the digital access divide also includes equitable accessibility and access to instruction in digital health, safety, and citizenship skills.
    Tech Nuggets:
    Caffeine for Macs - Mac app to prevent your Mac from going to sleep while presenting.
    Stickity - Cool online stickers for feedback.
    School AI - Create customized chatbots (Sidekicks) for students to interact with for specific assignments.

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    Ep 118: A Few of Our Favorite Nuggets...

    Ep 118: A Few of Our Favorite Nuggets...

    These are a few of our favorite Google Updates:Gifs and stickers in slides - Insert >> Image >> Gifs and Stickers (Gina)Customize notification settings in Google Docs - Tools >> Notification SettingsInsert Emoji in Google Docs - Insert >> Emoji
    There are a few of our favorite new tools:GirlJamsRevision History - Extension to see how long you have written for, copy and pastes, deletions, etc.MyLens.AI - Generate different timelines quickly. Download timeline as a PNG.You can now export YouTube questions from MagicSchool.ia into Google Forms with the new MagicSchool.ai
    GW Corner Booth:Student Engagement Through Metacognition: A Instructional Coaches Workshop - course #226291Two Dates:January 19, 2024 orFebruary 23, 2024. AI in Education (Course or two stand alone workshops) - Dates: February 13th and March 5th. Full Course for recertification #226303Day one only workshop #226304 - “What is AI?” workshop Day two only workshop #226305 - “Integration of AI in Teaching and Learning”
    Both courses will be held in-person at Grant Wood AEA.
    Don’t forget to take care of you:https://twitter.com/TCEA/status/1733835712003186920?s=20

    • 14 min
    EP 117: Welcome, Shalyn and News & Nuggets

    EP 117: Welcome, Shalyn and News & Nuggets

    In this episode, Mindy and Gina interview their new teammate Shalyn Huber. 
     
    News:
    Kahnmingo is coming to Canvas: Kahnmingo is an AI tutor that was developed by Kahn Academy. 
    Seesaw - Computer Science Activities and English Language Explorers: Newcomers
    Teach AI Toolkit
    Catch up with the team from ITEC: bit.ly/DLGWAEAitec2023
     
    Nuggets:
    Reader Mode in Chrome
    Text FX with Google: Suite of tools to support figurative language generation. 
    Twee - AI aid for teachers who use text and much more. Generate reading questions. Generate dialogue around topics. 
    Searching Tabs in Chrome with @Tabs in Omnibar, search tabs with carrot
    Ghostwrite: ChatGPT Email Assistant 
    Office Hours for Seesaw
     
    We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on X @DLGWAEA or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram! You can always use our #EdtechTO and share your thoughts with us too!

    • 33 min
    Ep: 116 Welcome Back and Goodbye, Jamboard!

    Ep: 116 Welcome Back and Goodbye, Jamboard!

    Mindy and Gina explore some Jamboard replacement tools.
    Figjam
    Get verified as a Figjam educator
    Eric Curts Figjam for Schools Webinar.
    Miro
    Miro education templates
    Miro for Teachers (Video)
    Canva Whiteboard
    Getting started with Canva Whiteboard video series

    • 15 min
    Ep: 115 - Universal Design for Learning with Lynn Kleinmeyer and Bridget Castelluccio

    Ep: 115 - Universal Design for Learning with Lynn Kleinmeyer and Bridget Castelluccio

    In this episode, we are jumping back into Universal Design for Learning or UDL and brought our resident experts Lynn Kleinmeyer and Bridget Castelluccio in to share more about this topic. We’ve talked about UDL in the past, but it is such an important topic, we wanted to bring it back to the forefront again.
    6 Myths about Universal Design for Learning - UDL
    UDL in the ESSA
    MTSS: What Is a Multi-Tiered System of Supports? | Understood
    Lesson Planning with UDL
    CAST UDL Guidelines
    Katie Novak’s website
    Zooming in on MTSS (Katie Novak) - learning session at GWAEA
    GWAEA “Foundations of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)” microcredential
    We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on Twitter @DLGWAEA or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram! You can always use our #EdtechTO and share your thoughts with us too!

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