Sequoia Con: ELA Presentation 24

Harnessing AI

Lisa SnowNBCT, ISTE Cert

to enhance & deepen students' understanding of literature.

Magic School AI Pioneer & Certified Trainer, Quizizz Game Changer, Edpuzzle Coach, Kami Certified, Microsoft Educator, Wakelet Certified, IBM AI Fundamentals Credential

Lisa SnowNBCT, ISTE Certified Educator

Challenges of Teaching Literature

• Engagement
• Fun? Collaborative? Connected to Students?
• Critical Thinking
• Considering sources, points of view, tone, etc.
• Intimidation
• Writing is hard. Some literature is hard.
• Access and Relevance
• When will we ever use this?!

Intimidation

Engagement

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking

Intimidation

My Approach

Students Engage when they are able to play, do, collaborate, and make choices.

Students want a place to start; don't make them start from a blank page.

AI is one of the most relevant skill sets for the future; Literature is also relevant, but AI brings Buy-in.

Relevance

Kids are tempted to/Going to Use AI. I need to help them use it well (as a tool).

Reading Literature requires inference, visualization, sentiment analysis; AI can support students in those tasks.

Using AI requires students to examine the product. This examination is literacy, too.

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Three Projects/Activities

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Poetry

Giving students a collaborative project to help visualize and discuss Romantic Poetry

Shakespeare

Thinking about soliloquies from Hamlet visually to unpack meaning.

Better than Sparknotes

Embracing what is "easy" to augment what they produce.

On the next slide, is a link to a padlet, so you can share your experience and ideas. Need a tool to get started: Canva Magic Studio, Padlet, and Bing Copilot are free with entry-level AI components.

• Make an activity for your students to visually interpret poetry.
• Play around with making a visual poem in padlet; what poem would you use?

• How could you structure an assignment to start with an AI rough-draft, so students can build towards something excellent?

Time to play!Take one of the three activities on the previous slide and make it your own.

Your Turn!

Bonus Activities

Interview Victor Frankenstein

Compare an AI summary to your own

Change the speaker of a poem

On the next slide, you can share your experience and ideas on the same padlet. Need a tool to get started: ChatGPT, Bing Copilot, or Perplexity offer easy to access chatbots.

• Copy the literary character prompt, and create a different character for your students to interview:
• Kindergartners would love to hear from Bluey or Daniel Tiger.
• Try out a character from the Wings of Fire books.
• Have 9th graders pick the brain of Romeo or Juliet.
• Use a Chatbot to summarize a poem or piece of literature, then compare it to your summary.

• Take a poem and change the speaker's voice, what changes? What stays the same?

Take one of the three bonus prompts and make your own chat-bot resource/activity.

Your Turn!

Feedback

Lsnow@eastsidecatholic.org

Thank you!

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