AI and it's Impact for Teachers

 

       Measuring Genuine Learning in the Age of AI

To confidently measure student learning, educators need to emphasise process and authenticity in their assessment design.

                        Strategies for Effective Assessment

1. Process-Oriented Assessment:

   • Focus: Assess the journey, not just the destination.

   • How: Require drafts, outlines, research notes, or process journals. This shows the student's unique thought progression, which AI struggles to replicate.

   • Example: Students submit multiple essay drafts, explaining revisions.

2. Authentic & Real-World Tasks:

   • Focus: Design assignments that demand critical thinking and application in novel, real-world scenarios

   • How: AI generates based on existing data; authentic tasks require original thought and context-specific application.

   • Example: Students design a solution for a local community issue, incorporating local data.

3. Metacognitive Reflection:

   • Focus: Have students reflect on their learning process and how they used tools (including AI).

   • How: Genuine personal insights and self-assessment are difficult for AI to fake.

   • Example: Students write a reflection on how they used (or didn't use) AI and why, and what they learned from the process.

4. Oral & Interactive Assessments:

   • Focus: Incorporate spoken components to assess real-time understanding and critical thinking.

   • How: Live discussions, presentations, or interviews require spontaneous responses that AI can't easily mimic.

   • Example: Students orally defend their project choices and answer questions on the spot.

5. Transparent AI Use & Citation:

   • Focus: Teach students responsible AI use, treating it as a learning tool.

   • How: Require disclosure and critical evaluation of AI outputs. This builds AI literacy, a crucial skill for the future workforce.

   • Example: Students must cite AI use and critique its generated responses, explaining their modifications.

What does it take to be in the North East?

 Getting teachers into the NORTH WEST takes 

'Strong relationships and discursive interactions'

Discursive interaction refers to a type of communication where participants explore ideas, question each other, clarify thinking, and build understanding together—rather than just receiving or giving information. It’s common in classrooms where the focus is on collaborative learning and critical thinking.

Key Features of Discursive Interaction:

• Open-ended questions: Encourage discussion and different viewpoints.

• Back-and-forth dialogue: Students and teachers exchange ideas, not just one-way speaking.

• Clarifying and challenging ideas: “Why do you think that?” or “Can you explain more?”

• Using evidence or reasoning: Students support their answers with examples or logic.

• Collaborative meaning-making: Everyone contributes to deeper understanding

Leading to the North-East - Quadrant

 

Russell Bishop's 'Leading to the North East' identifies a quadrant where students have a 1 in 4 chance of achieving to their full potential. 

This top right hand quadrant is where teachers have strong relationships with their students along with strong explicit teaching skills.

Therefore students have a 3 in 4 chance of not achieving to their full potential if they are being taught by teachers in the 3 other quadrants. 

All parts of the above are paramount to be working in the far right quadrant. 

Part 3 is the bit where when teachers monitor students' progress and the impact of the processes of learning and modify practices accordingly this is when leading in the north west can be sustained.

Day 9 Revision

Revision

DAY 8 Working with Data

EMPOWERMENT

AN EMPOWERED class is a class that learning is ready for them and not waiting for the teacher to get the learning to them. Digital technologies allow for this to happen on a daily basis.

The Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy are also about empowering all to succeed in the journey of learning.
This week allowed me to explore google sheets and forms more deeply which in turn will help me immensely. The tips and tricks that can make life so much easier and quicker to complete tasks.

Media

                                     Pepeha

Visible                             NO SURPRISES

Can you see it or can you not.                         It is either visible or not.

Visible teaching Visible learning

People need to see learning journeys

Visible to whānau, students, colleagues, teachers ........everyone

Learning journey needs to be visible the learning journey up to date has been like walking through a MAZE

SUCCESS used to be about the ability to read the teacher's mind - those that could SUCCEEDED those that couldn't FAILED

Thank goodness things have changed and students have more access to unlocking the secret.

The default is VISIBLE, not INVISIBLE

Every part of the learning process needs to be visible

Google Sites is a great way to lead learning in an online space where you can turbocharge student learning.

Buttons are a great way for people to access information quickly to keep to the 3 click rule.

Incognito window. 

This is a great way to see if your documents on your site are VISIBLE. This is so much better than having to find someone with a different log in associated with the school.

Visible learning is the way forward and we as educators need to embrace this for the betterment of our students so that they have a better understanding of their learning journey

 not just trying to unlock the code or find their way in a MAZE!

Today has been a very productive day where I have been able to update our school website. I have also learnt a lot of new little gems along the way.