Mr Hammerlund

Made with Craiyon , Prompt: "cartoon bots doing what they want in a classroom" A colleague said aloud in the staff room, "ChatGPT is down!" (I think he was reading an article about it.) I told him that I was able to use it earlier in the morning after I read that the IB is now allowing it according to an article in The Guardian . I wanted to confirm that I had read in their terms of use that they restrict usage to users 18+.  He replied that we cannot control what happens outside of school and if students sign up for it on their own that is on them. The question I was asking was: If ChatGPT is for users 18 and older, how can the IB say that students can use it when most students are under 18? 

Made with Dall-E Prompt: "use technology to communicate ai" I am working with the Grade 5-5 team on their How We Express Ourselves Unit of Inquiry. They are focusing on how we use technology to communicate and specifically on AI. It's my role to pull small groups of students and work with them.  The plan I am weaving through the UOI is to talk about  what AI and ChatGPT is, the strengths and weaknesses of AI tools, how to write a good prompt, the ethics of using AI tools. The Unit is framed around the learner profile attributes of communicators, open-minded, and risk-takers. For my part, I have not found an authentic way to integrate risk-takers and open-minded yet, but communicators will be addressed by inquiring into how to write a good prompt and what a good ethics policy might look like. The highlight of the unit so far was last week when students tried to write stories using ChatGPT and the resulting stories were just a regeneration of the prompt. Next week we will h...

I have been thinking about using Sites in class for the majority of the year. My own philosophy is to create lessons in Slides so they can be reused in the future. In my school, most teachers write their content directly into the Site - which can be OK, but something isn't working.  "It's so confusing. It's not just this class, it's all classes. I don't know what to do." This is what I heard from a student in one of the MYP classes I support.  The overall look of most class Sites is pretty good. However, I think there are still a few missing pieces to supporting student understanding. I would suggest the following changes: The Unit Title, Statement of Inquiry, and ATL Skills at the top of each page. Control the flow of the lesson - easy to understand. Use a Google Slide deck for your lessons.  Add a Google Form to collect feedback. This could be next to each day's lesson like in Alice Keeler's example here . Consistency between classes. Make links ...