5313 Week 4

https://app.magicschool.ai/tools/lesson-plan-generator?share=2fc01be5-4b83-494a-bb2c-536005b5e2c5  

I have used magicschool.ai quite a bit in the past. I think it usually does a pretty good job if you give it some guidance at giving you materials to work with. I have primarily used it for lower level math and english. The lesson I asked it to write today was for my Algebra 2 students. The standard is N.CN.3 Find the conjugate of a complex number; use conjugates to find magnitudes and quotients of complex numbers.

I think it does a good job with this standard depending on what you are looking for. If you are good at teaching the content, a content expert, and skilled at questioning you can definitely use this lesson plan. It does a really good job with giving good examples of practice or example problems. These problems I find follow a very clear path of increasing rigor which is appreciated. The biggest problem I see is that it is just either vastly underestimating how long something takes or somehow under the impression that everyone has totally mastered every standard preceding it. The other big issue is that it doesn't have much in the way of questioning or any real teaching, just a map to follow. Again, I think it does create a rigorous product, but it seems more like a framework with problems as apposed to a lesson plan. I think this perfectly follows what we have been reading about AI in class. AI can be an awesome tool. AI is only a tool, it is a long ways away from being able to weild itself to "build" anything. I think this ties back to that authentic education. Without teachers bringing it to life, it feels pretty soulless.

The tool is used was Raina the chat bot. I think the chat bot is really the best feature in the website. The assessment it came up with was way better broken down into something that I will probably use on my next test. For example, it gave different different assessment questions for different levels and understandings of the standard. I would let it help me find questions to assess my students, but I wouldn't let it do it. I definitely would not let it deliver instruction in any way whatsoever. Again, it is simply a way for an already skilled teacher to save some time in thinking of practice problems, passages, or writing prompts.

I do use magic school. I use it for what it can do, but I use some form of AI as a teacher atleast once a week. I think when it has been the most helpful is with younger students in reading. If you ask it to punch you out 250 words where vowel teams are often used on the 2nd grade level it will be amazing. You can ask it to give you the 5 hardest words from that passage and review them first. I think it's best use is probably for someone like me, an intervention specialist. When I am working on or assessing progress on a very specific skill it does a great job. The insights I would offer on it is that it really isn't too different from the old school teacher guide books I grew up on. It is an effective tool for an effective teacher, not a replacement for one.