Session 3
Session 3 | Presentations | 12:30pm
Bruce Henecker - Ed Tech Paradigms, LLC
In this interactive session, join us as we explore the capabilities of ChatGPT-3.5, a powerful tool from OpenAI, and learn how to transform it into your personal learning assistant. This AI chatbot, trained on diverse internet text, can support your learning journey across a multitude of topics, serving as a tutor that's available anytime, anywhere. No matter if you're a student, teacher, librarian, technologist, or administrator, you'll gain valuable insights into leveraging AI to enhance your knowledge acquisition and teaching methods.
We will focus on practical, hands-on experiences, guiding you through the process of developing effective prompts and using ChatGPT-3.5's responses for learning. We'll also touch on the limitations of the tool, considering its training cut-off in 2021, and how to navigate around these challenges.
To fully participate in the session, please ensure you have an OpenAI account to access ChatGPT-3.5.
Conference Strand: Emerging Technologies
Target Audience: Grades K-12
Daniel Holbrook - Emmanuel College
Teaching during the pandemic has been incredibly challenging, and educators are looking for new ways to increase student engagement and collaboration for in-person, hybrid, and fully virtual classroom environments. Breakout Fun! is a new classroom activity creator designed by Professor Dan Holbrook and coded by one of his former students. With a quick and easy set up, the game encourages meaningful student engagement and interaction in any learning environment!
Conference Strand: Game Based Learning and Simulations
Target Audience: Grades K-12, Post-Secondary
Samuel Mormando - Garnet Valley School District
With the world rapidly changing around us, we're tasked with adapting our teaching methods to keep up with new technology, societal shifts, and unprecedented challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic. In this presentation, we will explore the power of Effectively Designed Instruction (EDI) to personalize student learning and cater to diverse student needs across all course modalities: traditional face-to-face, online, and blended.
Conference Strand: Instructional Design
Target Audience: Grades K-12
Hal Turner - Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University
Erin Czerwinski - Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University
SUNY OER Services and the Open Learning Initiative have a history of creating and promoting OER materials for the SUNY system's free use. OLI's new platform empowers faculty and departments to author new content, customize existing OER, or simply deliver materials from the existing catalog. This workshop will focus on the design and use of Torus authoring and delivery environments, which are built on a foundation of learning science, and enable you to incorporate Learning Engineering practices into your development and instruction.
Conference Strand: Open Educational Resources (OER)
Target Audience: Post-Secondary
Sarah Olbrantz - Wells College
As an educator, have you ever wondered what life would be like if you did not have to repeat directions or continue to answer the same question over and over again in the classroom? Or, as a student, have you ever wished you could hear the instructions or key ideas from a lesson again at your own pace when it was convenient for you?
Well, I have a tech tool that helps solve both of these problems: Loom. Loom is an easy video messaging tool that helps you get information across through instantly shareable videos.
With this, there are endless possibilities:
- Record lessons and enable individualized learning
- Explain assignments or event details
- Compliment a curriculum
- Create an introductory hook or anticipatory set video to play at the beginning of any lesson
- Share directions on how to access an online platform or website
- Describe an issue or question you have while screencasting a document or website
- Introduce your course or course material (syllabus)
- Model how to solve a problem or annotate a text through the draw feature on your screen while recording
Other benefits include:
- Loom is quick and easy; you do not need to worry about the video being too large to send in an email or upload onto Google Drive
- Viewers can add comments/questions and react to your video with emojis
- As an educator, you can see who watched your video and how long they watched it.
- You can link a document or website (through an URL) at the end of the video (or next to the video explanation) for further information
- You can collaborate easily while still setting privacy settings to only specific people
- Embed your video onto any webpage
And the best news: Educators can get unlimited recordings and access to premium features for free!
During this session, we will explore all of the features of this tech tool and how it can support instruction. You choose the topic, and this fun, interactive session will provide step-by-step guidance on how to create a quick and easy video with Loom.
Conference Strand: How to/Integration
Target Audience: Grades K-12, Post-Secondary