Reduce Your Brain Strain With AI (ICTCM 2025)

How instructors may use AI tools to help them prepare lesson plans and materials for the classroom! Presentation to Pearson ICTCM 2025 conference in San Diego, CA.

1. Reduce Your Brain Strain with AI: AI's Role in Streamlining Lesson Planning By Eddie Tchertchian Los Angeles Pierce College

2. Icebreaker 01 Let’s get to know each other! History of Educational Tools 02 AI is not the first! What Is AI? 03 What is it, really? Examples 04 See it at work!

3. Icebreaker!

4. If you could have a graduate student TA in your classroom, what is the first task you would want them to handle, and why? Icebreaker

5. History of Educational Tools

6. Remember these?

7. Got your car keys?

8. Technological innovations have continually reshaped the landscape of education, making learning more accessible, interactive, and adaptable to the changing needs of students and educators. The integration of technology in education continues to evolve and influence how we teach and learn in the modern world. Technology Changes Education

9. Major Educational Impacts Mid 1990s Graphing Calculators Mid 2000s Wikipedia Mid 2010s Canvas (LMS)

10. More Examples Personal Computers Internet Educational Software and Apps Cloud Computing Social Media Mobile Devices

11. Instant feedback allows students to receive assessment results and comments shortly after completing assignments. Immediate feedback Targeted remediation Increases student motivation Reduces student anxiety Spotlight: Instant Feedback on Assignments

12. What Is AI?

13. It’s not just Chat GPT ! Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology that allows computers and machines to mimic human-like thinking and decision-making. It enables computers to learn from data, solve complex problems, understand language, and recognize images and patterns. AI is used in various applications, from voice assistants like Siri or Alexa to self-driving cars What the heck is AI?

14. Some Types of A.I. Natural Language Processing Computers understand, interpret, and generate human language. Used in chatbots, language translation, and sentiment analysis Computer Vision The ability to interpret and understand visual information from the world, including images and videos. It's used in facial recognition, object detection, and autonomous vehicles. Speech Recognition Used to convert spoken language into text, enabling voice assistants and dictation software. Expert Systems M imic the decision-making capabilities of a human expert in a specific domain like education, healthcare diagnosis and financial analysis.

15. Using AI In the Classroom

16. What Can’t It Do?

17. Can It Teach? No! A.I. Cannot: i ncorporate complex human emotions into lessons A.I. Cannot: understand the socio-emotional needs of your specific students A.I. Cannot: make connections in a way that resonates with your students' experiences and interests ‹#›

18. A.I. Also Cannot… A.I. Cannot: understand learning styles and needs of individual students A.I. Cannot: Add the cultural nuances, local contexts, or historical sensitivities that are important in creating relevant and respectful lessons A.I. Cannot: make ethical and moral judgments ‹#›

19. Basically, AI cannot decide what you should teach. It cannot decide how you should teach. A.I. Cannot Teach for Us

20. What Can It Do?

21. How Can AI Help with Brain Strain? A.I. can: brainstorm ideas for lesson plans. give many different options for lessons on specific content. suggest fresh approaches. offer ideas on engaging activities. suggest possible interactive experiments. suggest multimedia resources. offer cross-disciplinary approaches, like suggesting ways to blend art with science or literature with history.

22. Reduce Cognitive Load Offer Choices Cognitive load refers to the total amount of thought and attention required to process information and complete tasks. AI can recommend a variety of educational methods and resources.. This can help teachers find the most effective and engaging materials for their students.

23. Outline a Lesson Plan Use AI to outline lesson plans

24. Build quizzes, tests, and activities from curriculum materials S hare the curriculum to AI and then ask for things like fresh quiz and lesson plan ideas that use modern or culturally relevant examples.

25. Role-play challenging conversations Use AI as a stand-in for a particular persona—like a debate partner who will point out weaknesses in their arguments.

26. Build a Rubric Use AI tools like Harmonize or eduaide to build specific rubrics in minutes. Sample

27. Practice for non-English speakers U se ChatGPT for translation assistance and to practice conversation

28. Use it as a tutor-in-a box! Teach students to use it to fill in their learning gaps and gain background knowledge about a concept!

29. Eduaide Examples

30. How Have Instructors Used A.I.?

31. Please draw the house from "The Fall of the House of Usher" For a Visual Aid!

32. T o Make a Custom PowerPoint/Slide in Seconds Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3

33. For HTML Code for Designing Canvas Pages! Query Can you give me html code for a sky blue banner that would work in Canvas? Response To create a simple HTML code for a sky blue banner that would work in Canvas (assuming you're referring to the Learning Management System), you can use inline CSS to set the background color to a sky blue shade. Code Example: <div style="background-color: #87CEEB; color: white; text-align: center; padding: 10px 0;"><h1>Welcome to Our Course!</h1></div>

34. For a n Icebreaker!

35. Useful Links

36. Links to helpful sites/AI software Lesson Planning and Display Eduaide.Ai Lesson Creator Gamma (create slides from existing slides) Slidesgo (create slides) Build Your Own Stuff Dall-E (images) / ChatGPT

37. Links to helpful sites/AI software Chatbots Chat GPT Google Gemini Copilot Build your own Chatbot for your class Quora Poe (free). Thanks Benny!

38. THANK YOU!