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Honing Our AI Superpowers in the Classroom: Personalizing Feedback and Learning for Students and Teachers
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by Philip Seyfried, Staff Developer, AI and EdTech Specialist, The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower; Lauren Gould, Staff Developer, The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower; and Dr. Lucy Calkins, Robinson Professor of Literacy at Teachers College, Columbia University, Founding Director at The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower, and Senior Author of Units of Study in Writing, Reading, and Phonics
Sponsored by The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower
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It can be daunting to harness the power of AI in education, especially when it comes to personalizing feedback and learning experiences for every student. Many educators have experimented with various AI tools and approaches, trying new technologies without feeling confident they’ve developed a comprehensive, effective system to meet their students’ diverse needs.
In this edWebinar, you’ll discover specific strategies for integrating AI into your classroom based on cutting-edge research and refined through real-world implementation. You’ll gain a handful of replicable, user-friendly, and low-prep ways to use AI for personalized feedback, along with methods to help students apply AI-enhanced learning across all subjects. We will guide you through practical examples of how to align AI tools with state standards to support comprehensive learning outcomes.
You’ll then explore some of the most crucial considerations when implementing AI for differentiated instruction. We will help you think through assessing AI tools in logical and manageable ways. You’ll learn about a progression for introducing AI in the classroom, as well as an array of techniques to leverage AI for common educational challenges.
You’ll leave this session with a set of practical, classroom-tested AI tools and strategies to use immediately! This edWebinar will be of interest to elementary, middle, and high school teachers, school leaders, and district administrators looking to enhance their teaching practices with AI. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.
About the Presenters
Phil Seyfried is a Staff Developer and AI and EdTech Specialist at The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower (RWP-M). Phil is deeply committed to preparing students to navigate and contribute to academic and real-world discourse. A doctoral student with a decade of middle school language arts experience and a strong affiliation with RWP-M, Phil is eager to share his deep knowledge of research-based nonfiction writing and his commitment to fostering critical thinking and evidence-based argumentation. Most recently, Phil had been investigating the intersection of artificial intelligence with literacy practices. Phil has also studied the representation of Native Americans in children’s literature and is dedicated to the pursuit of educational equity.
Lauren Gould is a Staff Developer and Content Creator at The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower. If you watch Lauren working with teachers, you’ll see her use a marker pen like magic to capture all their brilliant ideas on her iPad. One minute there is a blank screen, the next minute there are images linked with arrows and captioned photos that highlight the gorgeous work of the teachers and kids with whom Lauren partners. “Look what these teachers are doing,” she’ll say. “Look at what these kids did!” Lauren never points out that the beautiful results come not only from the teachers and kids, but also from her own insights and ingenuity. Previously, Lauren taught at the American School of Barcelona, where she specialized in supporting multilingual language learners. She livens the learning community at RWP-M, just as she does her classrooms.
Dr. Lucy Calkins is the Founding Director of The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower. She’s been on the faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University for over four decades, as both the Co-director of the Literacy Specialist Program and as the Richard Robinson Professor of Children’s Literature. Dr. Calkins has written 50+ books, including the widely adopted Units of Study curriculum. Dr. Calkins began her career as a teacher for elementary, middle, and high school students, then joined Don Graves as a researcher on the National Institute of Education’s first major study of children as writers. That research has been credited with transforming the teaching of writing, bringing writing workshops, which were once the province of college classrooms, into K-8 classrooms. For decades since then, Dr. Calkins has devoted most of her time to leading organizations that aim to support best practices in the teaching of reading and writing.
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The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower was created out of the pioneering work that Lucy Calkins began over 40 years ago. Inspired by her research, she developed innovative curricula and methods that transformed the way children learned to write. For decades since, she has worked with educators to help students become what she always knew them to be: proficient and enthusiastic writers, readers, and thinkers.
Today, RWP-M remains deeply rooted in this experience, while also holding true to this a spirit of innovation and continuous learning. Lucy Calkins and her team author the Units of Study in Reading, Writing, and Phonics and several series of engaging decodable texts. More than authors of curriculum, at its core, RWP-M is a community of practice, a think tank, and a professional development organization dedicated to transforming the way students learn to read, write, and think.
