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March 2024
Learning improves when students are inquisitive, interested, and inspired, which are all markers of authentic motivation and student ownership. Key components of active engagement look like: (1) the teacher as facilitator; students doing the work, (2) frequent opportunities for discourse using academic language (3) all students participating, structured in a way that students cannot opt out. Check out these resources to support active engagement:
- 3 Strategies to Increase Student Participation
- Maintaining Productivity as Spring Approaches
- An Effective Strategy for Successful Group Work
- 5 Station Rotation Ideas from Catlin Tucker
- 4 Brain Breaks for Different Classroom Needs
- Student engagement: 5 brain-based tips for re-engaging reluctant learners
Engaging in Deep Discussions
Rich class discussions versus quick, short “right answer” responses to questioning may be key to student engagement in your classroom. Providing students with opportunities to build on peers’ thoughts using these 5 steps to deep discussion can add to your strategies for engaging students in deeper conversations about learning.
AI Prompt Engineering, Text Evidence, and Story Settings
Adapted from Matt Miller, Ditch that Textbook
What if, in addition to having students use a graphic organizer to list text evidence, they were asked to use that text evidence to engineer a prompt for a Text to Image AI engine, like Canva? What images could they create based on the setting from the story?
Provide the text that students will use to gather evidence.
Have students find key details that describe the setting
Students then craft a prompt to create an AI-generated Image that represents the text evidence they found and includes details they annotated.
Students then analyze the image. They can look for evidence of text in the AI-generated image and determine what improvements or added details should be made to generate a new image.
Students with different sets of texts and settings could trade images and see if they can find the text that generated the image.
Remember, right now the only approved site for student use of Text-To-Image AI is Canva’s Magic Studio.
Learn it LIVE!
Don't you wish you could just see the thing you want to learn about live and in action, instead of just reading about it?!? Did you know you can collaborate with and visit the classrooms of Learning Leaders from across the district? They have opened their classrooms up for others to observe student learning in action! Check out the Learning Leader Observation Classroom process. For more info, visit the Learning Leaders website
Like the stickers on this slide? Check out the Stickity for Docs and Stickity for Slides extensions!
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