ISTE 24 Denver: Choose your own Adventures

Presenters: Belinda Howell and Dan Larson

Pick a path stories or choose your own adventures are not a new idea. What I liked about this poster session is how AI can be used to generate the text and the images. My biggest takeaway is how this activity can be used with events in history or provocations. The example I saw was asking students to choose one side and provide options/outcomes for making their choices. This can also be used to show mastery of concepts and definitions. when using AI you give the prompt feedback to change if what was generated doesn't suit your purpose, 'pretty much have a conversation with the AI you are using'.

Story Map and create adventure in Google forms

Multiple choice or select down - required response

AI to write prompts and generate images

https://sites.google.com/aldineisd.org/techededu/choose-wisely-creating-digital-choose-your-own-adventures-with-google-form/choose-your-adventure-choice-board

Independence and Empathy: enhances students’ agency and autonomy but also cultivates empathy as they navigate diverse perspectives and outcomes. Personalisation: promotes personalised learning experiences, catering to individual interests, preferences, and learning styles. Deeper Learning: Through branching storylines and interactive elements, students are motivated to explore, experiment, and collaborate, leading to deeper comprehension and retention of content. Feedback and Reflection: Facilitates immediate feedback and reflection, empowering students to learn from their choices and adapt their strategies accordingly.

https://sites.google.com/aldineisd.org/techededu/home

Canva for image generation
Focus here is to get engagement in the classroom

Digital Fluency Intensive... Day # 4

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DFI Session# 4 was about dealing with data. Today we learnt some tips and tricks to make dealing with data in goggle sheets easier and more manageable. Going forward I will definitely be freezing the headings and name cells so that I can scroll through the data to make viewing separate components easier, and using the filter view options so that I can look at specific group data more easily. The autofill feature recognises sequences and patterns. Just click on the first two cells then click and drag from the bottom right corner of the cell to utilise this feature. The explore tool allows for quick data analysis. It creates graphs that can be imported into the sheet - these can be manipulated from there.

Google Forms have so many uses in the classroom from gathering student voice, to collecting data, creating quizzes and pick-a-path stories to name a few. I have used google forms a lot in the classroom but will be using them more often now to collect evidence with images, links to completed work and blog comments and to explore the world in my maps. 

One of my takeaways from today is to make our class sites easily accessible to our parents and caregivers. Sharing and connecting is not new, it’s just the mode that changes. Our whanau are our authentic audience. Sharing these QR codes will allow them to continue to strengthen their connections to the learning their tamariki are making connections to. 

Here is the link to my notes from our learning today.