About This Webinar
This presentation offers an introduction to Generative A.I., specifically focusing on Google Gemini, and its practical applications in education. Participants will learn how Gemini can assist in various teaching tasks, including lesson planning, intervention, and providing student feedback, thereby freeing up time for more individualized student interaction. In this presentation we will discuss common concerns about A.I. replacing teachers, and students using A.I. to cheat.
Participants will navigate the Gemini interface and learn the importance of crafting and refining effective prompts. Participants are encouraged to actively engage in creating lesson plans, assessments, and parent communication emails using Gemini.
This session will conclude with ethical considerations, particularly regarding cheating, with strategies provided for adapting assignments and assessments to mitigate A.I. misuse.
Throughout the session, participants are encouraged to ask questions, explore the technology, and consider how to integrate these practical applications and ideas into their instructional practices.
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Executive Summary from ON24's AI:
The webinar provides a beginner-friendly overview of using Google Gemini as a practical “teacher assistant” to save time and support instruction, especially in classrooms with wide-ranging student needs. It explains generative AI as a large language model trained on internet data, emphasizing the need to verify outputs due to potential bias or inaccuracies and to avoid entering personally identifiable information, particularly in free accounts that may use prompts for training.
The presenter demonstrates core use cases: crafting effective prompts (role, audience, task, context, format), generating differentiated reading passages at multiple levels (and for multilingual learners), rewriting complex texts (e.g., Wikipedia) to an appropriate reading level, building standards-aligned lesson plans with activities and exit tickets, creating slide decks via Gemini’s Canvas tool, drafting parent communications, and generating custom instructional images.
The session closes with guidance on responsible classroom use, including defining acceptable AI use with students, redesigning assignments to be more “AI-resistant” through checkpoints and oral responses, establishing baseline writing samples to detect voice shifts, and noting that AI-detection tools are currently unreliable and can unfairly flag English learners and special education students.
