Blog Post #5

    My initial thoughts on artifical intelligence in a K-12 setting are very multifaceted. I do believe AI can provide many benefits to teachers as well as students, but I think it can easily be abused if not regulated. As a future educator, if I was to implement AI into my curriculum, I would make sure to assess its usage and ensure my students remained ethical. In my own usage, I would also try and not rely on it and become overly dependent on its function.

    For my Personal Learning Network, I have primarily used Pinterest. I have been interacting with different educators that publish their classroom or classwork ideas, which is very beneficial and offers a lot of good insight. I really like to see what other people are using in their classrooms in order to start thinking of how I want mine to function. This helps my future immensely because I will already have some connections and resources available to me once I graduate and become a teacher.

    Growing up, I attended very digitally rich schools. In elementary school, we had desktop computers in every classroom and a mandatory computer class once a week. In middle and high school, we were expected to have iPads for assignments and all of my classrooms had TVs for the teachers to teach off of. I believe that growing up in a digitally rich environment prepared me a lot for college since all of the assignments are extremely technologically based. You have to know how to use your devices efficiently in order to succeed, so I am very grateful for the background and preparation I received.

    Some software tools that I would like to implement in my future classroom are Padlet and Ruth. When these were introduced in class, I knew that they would be very useful for my future students since it allows for so many different functions, especially collaborative writing and social annotation. I would use Ruttl to help students collaborate on the dissection of an article and provide feedback on digital content, fostering critical thinking and digital literacy. Padlet could be used for collaborative work as well, allowing students to organize and share their ideas in an engaging way.

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