AI for the Inclusive Classroom

Leveraging AI for the Inclusive Classroom

AGENDA

• AI Literacy
• Ethics and AI
• AI Policy
• BREAK (5min)
• Snapshot and Demos of Some AI Tools
• The Importance of Prompting
• Resources and Question Time

Presented by sandra Norum

Some of the information in this presentation is Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 by Eric Curts. Details: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

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Honouring Place

Mission Public School District is located on the Traditional, Ancestral, Unsurrendered, and Shared territories of the Stó:lo people, of Leq'á:mel, Sema:th, Matheqwí, Sq'éwlets and Qwó:ltl'el First Nations, peoples of this land since time immemorial.

Halq'eméylem is the language of this land and of Stó:lō ancestors. The place from where Halq’eméylem (Upriver dialect) originates is Leq’á:mel. The language comes from the land, and it has been this way since time immemorial.

Looking south over the Fraser River from the east corner of the SBO in Mission

Welcome

About meSandra Norum

For the last 18 years in MPSD, I have been a TTOC, a classroom teacher, an ALT Ed teacher, and an LST. My current role is District Inclusion Mentor Teacher. In this role, I support educators across elementary, middle, and secondary levels in developing inclusive educational practices. My responsibilities include assisting with programming for diverse learners, mentoring new teachers, implementing CB-IEPs, and facilitating professional development within the district. I am also a district partner for POPFASD (Provincial Outreach Program for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder) and ARC-BC (Accessible Resource Centre). I also act as a district liaison for Gifted Learning. My education: B.A. (double major in Psych and English), B.Ed. (Curriculum and Instruction), Post Grad Certificate (Inclusive Ed), and an M.A. (Learning and Technology)

INDEX

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Goblin Tools

LUDIA UDL

AI Literacy

AI For ed

Chat GPT

Ethics

Resources

Policy

Copilot

Magicschool

DIFFIT

What AI is Vs what it is not

TOP COMMON MISTAKES MADE BY EDUCATORS

Recommented Read: "Impact of AI on all learners"

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IS NOT

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In Depth and Meant to Replace Teaching

A Tool We Can Use For Efficiency

• Is not unbiased
• Does not account for the incredible uniqueness of students or teachers
• Is not meant to do your work for you
• Does not account for the relationship needed for great teaching
• Is not useful for growing our on-going learning and problem-solving as educators

• Is like any other tool - needs a human to operate it
• Is useful for generating options
• Can augment and expand on your own ideas
• Can help differentiate assignments
• Is helpful for speeding up the process of UDL

Computer systems that perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence.

• Understanding and processing language
• recognizing patterns
• making decisions
• solving problems
• learning from experience
• interacting with the environment.
• Carry out complex tasks with little or no human intervention

So What is Artificial Inteligence (AI)?

So What is Generative AI?

With generative AI… Every educator now has a 24-hour personal assistant. Every student now has a 24-hour personal tutor. It does this by learning from a large amount of existing data, then using that knowledge to generate new outputs that are similar to the data it was trained on. Much like a very complex predictive test system.

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All students can and should learn ABOUT AI before they are ready to learn WITH AI.

Ethics and AI

Discussion: Which of the topics below worry you the most? And why?

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Appropriation

Intellectual and Artistic Property

Cheating

IndigenousPerspectives

Uneven Playing Field

EnvironmentalImpact

These topics outlines the essential concepts students need to learn about Ethics and AI

Policy and Ai

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Handout: Page 14 Inclusive Learning

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Ministry of Education AI Policy

MPSD AI Policy

Government of Canada AI Guidelines

Considerations fo AI in K-12 Ministry of Ed

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Accessibility is Law

See BC Law on Accessibility

AI Can Help

Some Tools Being used by Educators

This is just a small sampling of what is available for the public to use.

A great app for students, but also staff who are neurodivernt

Goblin tools

Goblin Tools is a collection of small, simple, single-task AI-powered tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult.

Gobin Tools is offered free and available to all. It will stay free. Mobile apps of the tools are offered at a low price (on Android and iOS)

DEMO

Click here for a short demo video

Try it! go to: https://goblin.tools/

Makes using and implementing UDL for your lessons and classroom easier

ludia AI for udl

AI-powered UDL partner, can help you reduce learning barriers and discover ways to support all learners in reaching their full potential as expert learners.

Try it! Go to:https://poe.com/Iudia

DEMO

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Open AI ; Chat GPT 04

ChatGPT can be an indispensable assistant for teaching tasks

ChatGPT is an AI-powered assistant designed to answer questions, generate ideas, and support learning by providing clear, conversational responses. It can help teachers create lesson plans, explain complex topics, as well as compile study guides, formula sheets and other useful universal supports.

Example of 'hallucination' or errors with Generative AI

Microsoft Copilot

• MPSD staff have access through MS 365 - YOU MUST BE ON EDGE BROWSER
• LLM from Microsoft based on ChatGPT-4
• Free chatbot allows 30 chats per session and 300 total chats per day
• Chats can be in three modes: Creative, Balanced, or Precise
• Can generate new images using DALL-E 3

YOU HAVE TO BE IN EDGE BROWSER TO USE COPILOT

Magic School Ai

Over 80 AI resource types and learning objects to generate, including:

• Planning
• Content
• Questions
• Intellectual Preparation
• Student Support
• Communication
• Community Tools

DEMO

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Approved in other BC School Districts

diffit for teachers

DEMO

Get leveled resources from an article, PDF, video, text passage, topic, term, or question including: New leveled text, summary, key vocabulary words, multiple choice questions, short answer questions, and open-ended prompts.

Differentiating

Prompting (AI For education)

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Use with a Chat Bot

Learn how to Best Prompt a Chat Bot

Copy and paste directly into your chat bot of choice (I recommend Chat-GPT)

Puruse the prompts listed in the Prompt Library to get a sense of what works best

Other helpful resources and tools

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Scotty Breaks It Down

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Teacher Server AI Tools

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AI Classroom: Leveraging ChatGPT For Special Ed

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AI For Education

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Eric Curtis: AI Resources

Indigenous Pathfinders in AI

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Project Read AI

Considerations for Using AI Tools in K-12 Schools

BONUS - Spreadsheet with comparisons and useful prompts

Now time for questions

Questions about what you have seen or learned here today?

Please email me at sandra.norum@mpsd.ca

THANK YOU

Please email sandra.norum@mpsd.ca if you need further support.

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So What's The Problem?

Generative AI, which uses data lakes and question snippets to recover patterns and relationships, is becoming more prevalent in creative industries. However, the legal implications of using generative AI are still unclear, particularly in relation to copyright infringement, ownership of AI-generated works, and unlicensed content in training data. Courts are currently trying to establish how intellectual property laws should be applied to generative AI, and several cases have already been filed. To protect themselves from these risks, companies that use generative AI need to ensure that they are in compliance with the law and take steps to mitigate potential risks, such as ensuring they use training data free from unlicensed content and developing ways to show provenance of generated content. Summarized using AI from :

Appel, G., Neelbauer, J., & Schweidel, D. A. (2023, April). Generative AI has an intellectual property problem. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2023/04/generative-ai-has-an-intellectual-property-problem

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Negative Impacts of AI on Academic Integrity

Ethical and Psychological Considerations

Potential Mitigations

Balancing AI in Education

Indigenous-Led AI: How Indigenous Knowledge Systems Could Push AI to be More Inclusive

The "Abundant Intelligences" project, led by Professor Jason Edward Lewis (Concordia University) and linguist Hēmi Whaanga (Massey University), has received over $22 million from Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund. This interdisciplinary initiative involves 37 researchers from eight universities and 12 Indigenous organizations in Canada, the U.S., and New Zealand, primarily Indigenous members. The project aims to incorporate Indigenous knowledge systems into AI development, addressing epistemological gaps in Western-centric AI. By integrating Indigenous values and perspectives, it seeks to create more inclusive and holistic AI technologies that better reflect diverse human experiences.

It's the Law!

The Introduction of the ABC (Accessible British Columbia) Act in BC (2021) - outlines how we must remove barriers for disabled people MPSD forms an Accessibility Committee (2023) - we hear from disabled people, parents and caregivers and other stakeholders

All Things Are Not Equal

Cost and Access: Fancy AI tools are expensive, so smaller groups or schools might be unable to afford them, leaving them behind.Skill Gaps: Not everyone knows how to use AI well, so those with the know-how get ahead faster. Built-in Bias: AI can pick up unfair ideas from the data it’s trained on, worsening problems like discrimination.Unfair Uptake: schools with less budgetary contraints can utilize elite training, while schools with less money might struggle or even misuse it, putting students' privacy at risk.

Appropriation

Indigenous communities raise concerns regarding the unregulated use of artificial intelligence (AI) in knowledge production. Dr. David Gaertner, an Associate Professor at UBC's Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, emphasizes that AI's algorithmic data harvesting often lacks the necessary context and nuance to accurately represent Indigenous stories, histories, and politics, leading to misrepresentation and appropriation. He advocates for the adoption of Indigenous data stewardship practices, which have long safeguarded data sovereignty and cultural integrity, as a means to counteract the extractive tendencies of AI technologies. By highlighting the historical contributions of Indigenous and Black communities to technological advancements, Dr. Gaertner suggests that these practices offer alternative pathways toward building a sustainable and equitable future.

Gaertner, D. (2023). Indigenous data stewardship stands against extractivist AI. University of British Columbia, Faculty of Arts. https://www.arts.ubc.ca/news/indigenous-data-stewardship-stands-against-extractivist-ai/