ATLIS + Ed3 Course Info Session: AI Made Practical for Teachers

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Hello everyone and welcome as we gather for this meeting to talk about some of our upcoming AI courses.

We have an introduction activity and so we invite everyone to open up the chat and to play along here as we start out.

So we're gonna come back to this in just a minute, but take just a second glance at it and, uh, put your number in the chat.

Which of those do you think is AI generated? So I'm gonna give you just a second.

Grab your number, put it in the chat there, and then we're gonna come back.

So if you'll go to the next slide.

We're gonna come revisit this in just a moment.

Can you move us one more slide forward? We're still in the image.

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Welcome everyone.

Today we are talking about a very special partnership that Atlas has with ED three Dowell.

Now, you may have heard us talk about this, but it's new and so many of you may be learning about this for the very first time.

We have a wonderful partnership with another group that really focuses on the pedagogy and we have a great collaboration with them.

So let's meet them and tell you a little bit more about it.

Let's go to the next slide and meet our speakers.

So, hey y'all.

I'm Ashley Cross.

I'm the senior Director of education and content here at Atlas, and I'm really thrilled to bring our speakers with you today.

So if you were at our Atlas conference, you saw on the main stage Bri saref.

She is the CEO and founder of ED three Dow.

She's been doing really fascinating work in the educational technology space for a long time, but has, um, made this really great company and they're a nonprofit.

They do some really cool work, and she also has a colleague of hers, Dr.

Armina.

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Thank you.

And, um, y'all, Armenia is the learning manager for ED three Dow, so they're gonna do some cool stuff.

So Rudy Armina, welcome.

We're so grateful to have you with us today.

Thank you.

It's great to be here and very excited to partner.

Awesome.

Well, can you tell us a little bit more about, about, uh, the courses that we have and also, I know a lot of us are very curious about those AI images.

So tell us which of these are human and ai? Oh, I was wrong.

I was, I was wondering if you were throwing us off with, uh, you know, maybe are they all ai? I was kinda leaning in that ditch, so it's fascinating.

Yeah, It's, you know, what's interesting about human, uh, about images and about any content that's on the internet these days is it's really hard to tell what's AI and what's human.

McKinsey predicts that by next year, 75% of the content on the web will be AI generated.

And so if you think about how we're actually, um, able to parse out what we're seeing and, uh, be able to believe what we're seeing, it gets a lot harder and harder, which is why these courses that we're putting together, um, and that we're, uh, facilitating together, Ashley, are gonna be so important for educators, um, for tech directors, for anybody that is available to take these courses.

So let's go to the next slide.

Just a quick introduction about who we are.

We're, we're a nonprofit, as Ashley mentioned.

We have three main areas of work.

We do online professional learning, and so far over 50,000 educators have taken our courses.

And these are 45 hour courses, so they're pretty robust.

Um, almost all of the educators would recommend our courses because they are very hands-on, they're very practical, and Armenia will talk a little bit more about, um, what they entail.

And, uh, we also have a community of practice.

We've got over 4,000 members from across the world that connect with each other, share best practices, and anyone that takes our courses actually has access to our community of practice.

We also have a micro grants program, and anyone that is, um, in this, uh, community in Atlas is eligible for it.

We actually give up to, uh, $1,000 to anybody that wants to facilitate a peer-to-peer learning event about AI or about any emerging technology.

So I'd love for you to, um, take a look at that once we, uh, get to that part.

And then, um, research and development is our third arm.

We, uh, do a lot of projects that are going to push education to the next frontier.

And right now we're, um, facilitating a project called the Portrait of a Teacher in the Age of ai.

We're trying to answer the question, how does the role of a teacher change in a world transformed by ai? And we're really, really lucky to have Christina and Ashley a as a part of this, uh, project.

So let's go to the next slide.

Um, one question that I think is on all of our minds right now is how AI is shaping and impacting education.

This session is not necessarily about that, but we did wanna give you a few little, um, uh, insights into what we've seen so far as be as being the most important things that we should be looking out for as educators.

So just wanted to go through that really quickly.

Uh, thank you.

So the three things and this, these three things are probably not the most, um, obvious things that most other people are writing about.

These are the things that we notice through our research and through our work that are probably going to be most important.

The first one is discernment and critical thinking.

And this goes back to our activity, right? It's really, really hard to judge what is AI and what is human.

And so the ability to judge what is AI and what is not is really important for both students and for educators.

Also, the ability to decide when to use AI and when not to.

Um, I don't know about you, but I use Chachi, BT and Claude and Gemini every single day.

And what I don't want to get to personally is what, how I rely on GPS with GPSI, you know, I know where I'm going, but if I didn't have GPS, I don't think I would.

And I really don't want that to be the case for ai.

So I use, um, AI in very specific cases, and we really wanna make sure that students are knowing when they want to use AI and when they shouldn't use AI so that they're not losing their fundamental skills and they're, um, able to really, you know, engage in cognitive, uh, work on their own.

So the first one is determined critical thinking.

The second is agency.

Um, AI has given us a really incredible power, which is, um, creating adaptive experiences, personalized experiences, and being able to really create anything.

If you've checked out any of these, um, cool new apps like Lovable or GPT creators, um, or bot creators, you can actually like code full webs websites and apps on your own now.

Um, and you can also create a lot of adaptive, um, assignments, assessments, experiences for educators.

So agency is actually going to be really highlighted in this age of AI for, again, both students and for educators.

And so we really wanna perpetuate that through all the experiences that we have with AI and again, our courses.

And the third is human-centered, uh, pedagogies.

Now this is, again, something that not everybody would agree with, but this is how our organization really looks at what is important in the age of ai, which is with ai, which is po You know, it's possible for AI to do really anything, and it can take on so many different tasks that educators doing.

The thing that it cannot do is it cannot make, uh, it, it cannot, uh, judge, you know, um, and evaluate the way that humans experience things.

It cannot, uh, make assessments based on what a human, uh, background is, right? And so social emotional learning, project-based learning, universal design for learning, restorative practices, all these human-centered and student-centered pedagogies become even more important in the classroom because while AI is, you know, um, looking at your data and is creating adaptive experiences, teachers really are going to be facilitating experiences that are going to, um, empower edu uh, students to be able to pursue a path of agency and discernment, right? So these are the three things that we are really seeing are going to be the most important for age of ai.

So let's move on to the next thing.

And I know that was a lot, um, and, uh, you know, in a future, uh, webinar, I'm sure we can go deeper into it, but we really just wanted to touch on, um, a few of those things.

So, um, the next thing is, uh, just these course opportunities that we have.

So I'll pass it back to Ashley so she can talk about this partnership.

Yeah, absolutely.

And what we love here is that it's a really custom thing.

So you guys talked about you have all of these thousands of people that are taking it, but through Atlas and through this partnership, we're going to be focusing on the independent school lens and kind of have a group of people going through this together, um, that are looking at these three areas.

So it's very much through that technology lens as well.

So you'll recognize some of these.

So design thinking and AI design thinking has been very, very popular with independent schools.

Everything from makerspaces to entrepreneurial classes to computer science and stem.

And then you of course see project-based learning and ai.

And the last one, I really love this media literacy, critical thinking and ai.

So some really invaluable courses for our people at schools.

So again, we're expanding this where we definitely welcome the technology leader, but others at your school as well that may find these AI courses that are very specialized.

Um, so it's, it's not just that, again, we're talking about every AI out there, but we're really talking about this through a pedagogical lens that I think your people at your school are really gonna appreciate.

Yeah, and you wanna think back to the three things that I mentioned earlier about why, about how we wanna look at AI right now.

Discernment agency and pedagogy and discernment and agency are things that are, um, continuously woven through all of these courses.

And so Armenia is gonna talk about why these courses are different than the other offerings that you might have, um, on the market right now, and how they're going to actually facilitate really rich experiences for educators.

And then we'll also go into, um, the outcomes that each of these co, uh, courses is actually gonna provide for educators.

Hi everyone.

I'm so excited to be here to talk more about our courses.

And before we delve into the specifics of each of the courses, I wanted to take a moment and just think of the big pictures and share the features of our courses and why we've designed it this way.

The activities are practical, the format is self-paced, which allows for agency and flexibility.

And the context is all, uh, multimodal.

So when you go through the content and the learning experiences, you're gonna have a variety of learning experiences.

And these are the same things that we wanna model for our learners in the classrooms as well.

In addition to that, we also utilize portfolios, which allows educators to capture their learning.

Uh, we offer a community which is made up of over 4,000 educators who are sharing various ideas and taking our various courses.

And we only offer free tools that are mentioned in our courses with alternatives just in case they're blocked.

And I'll explain more about that later when we go into some tool demos.

All of our courses are mapped to the global competencies with unesco, which are focused on fine ma major categories of, uh, AI foundations and, uh, professional development.

So we're super excited to now go into what the course offerings are through this partnership.

First, we have our design thinking course, as Ashley mentioned.

Um, the way I want to introduce this to everyone is that we know design thinking didn't quite come out of education, right? It started in the industry.

And so a lot of times the challenges that we face when we bring design thinking onto our campus is how do we make it make sense in the, in the classroom? How do we make it make sense for schools? Whether it's you're doing a, um, you know, a sprint inside your classroom where you've decided to go design a sprint with your whole school.

How do you do that? What are the tools and resources you need? And most importantly, what are the design thinking mindsets you're going to need to bring tech to life? And what this course will do is help you achieve those outcomes.

You'll get to identify real learner needs, real school needs.

You'll have the opportunity to prototype different kinds of solutions and iterations with ai, and you'll be able to uncover the secrets of what it means to bring design thinking to life in your classrooms.

That includes things like actionable problem statements, uh, uh, the ideating, prototyping and testing solutions and supporting, uh, research and iteration with the support of ai.

And so, um, you're not only, you know, uh, practicing design thinking, but you're really becoming owners of that process through the course.

And identifying real actionable ways that AI can be integrated throughout the entire process.

Another unique thing this, uh, does, I think when you look at the process of design thinking and how it's evolving from the original kind of steps and processes that were introduced to us is how the cycle is not a step-by-step cycle per se, right? Every time you get more information, the more you empathize and understand your users do more, you're able to design for them and develop those solutions.

Um, and so that's what we have to offer in this design thinking course, and it's super exciting and you'll love the, uh, uh, course instructor as well.

Uh, super fun to watch those videos.

So that's design thinking.

Uh, next up we have PBL.

And I'll tell you firsthand, when I first started with PBL in the classroom, I found it so overwhelming the, uh, plethora of information all over, whether it's online or going to different workshops, sometimes it felt like, where do I even begin? And so the course starts with that, how you can begin to understand that PBL journey, how to make it come to life in the classroom with all of the different, you know, components that we have to do as, as educators inside the classroom or within the school itself, right? We got so much going on and how do we make sense of all of that? Um, and what the course does is it gives you all the resources thinking about the PBL journey, thinking about your action list as the designer, the guide on this PBL journey, and, um, the activities and learning experiences and the sequences that you put together of the different milestones to bring PBL to life.

And of course, the, the outcomes that we're looking for is this, you know, cultivation of the learner agency and really make, having them own their process, having them own their learning as we support them and guide them on, um, uh, inquiry and finding various possible solutions to what the problems are they're exposing.

And in addition to that, showcasing their learning and being able to debrief what they learned and how they could apply it to the next project.

And so by the end of the course, you get to have a classroom ready PBL unit.

You have a AI and PBL toolkit, and you have various portfolio artifacts.

The third course that we have is one on, uh, media literacy and the age of ai.

So think back to that activity we started with and how it's getting more and more difficult to tell what's real from what's fake.

And, um, thinking about this webinar and how we started being able to identify what's AI and what's not, these are essential skills that we both have, you know, learn ourselves and be able to model for our learners.

And so this course strengthens educators skills to analyze the credibility, bias and persuasion, then be able to model it for their learners.

And so you look at the ethical creation of media, and it's not only a critique, but it's really about using AI to surface those patterns, compare different resources and support with evidence-based claims.

Um, as you go through the course, you get to walk away with different practical strategies and make sure that we don't add to the problem of, uh, AI slop that's out there in the world, right? And make sure that when we put together learning experiences, when we're working on critical thinking, that we empower our learners to have that cognitive independence.

And so that's an introduction, uh, to the three course offerings we have in this partnership.

Um, and next I wanna move into, uh, some, you know, tips that you can use as you kick off this school year.

Um, and, uh, some ways we can think about ai.

So here's some small demos, uh, of tools that I'm really excited to share with you guys.

Some things that I have fun kind of u utilizing different AI tools for.

All right, so let's get into it.

The three categories we're looking at today are how AI can be a coach, your partner in creativity and customization.

So when I walk through these courses, I wanna emphasize that we think about AI tool use, both for our, uh, our teachers, our facilitators, right, and our learners.

And what are the opportunities for both to use 'em? As I mentioned earlier, one of the key features is all the tools that we share are free and accessible, and we also, um, offer alternates.

So you'll notice as I walk through the demos on, uh, the screen, you'll see what tool I'm using and I'll talk more about it and you'll see, you know, who gets to use it.

I do wanna add a caveat here that whenever we're using AI tools with learners, uh, to always avoid sharing personally identifiable information, PII, uh, to, uh, avoid using the tools with, uh, learners under the age of 13.

And when you're choosing AI tools, uh, really investigate the safety and privacy features before choosing which ones you go with, right? So Notebook, lm, Claude Perplexity, these are some reliable AI tools that think deeply about privacy and security.

So with that being said, let's get into the more exciting component of, you know, what are these AI tools and how we think about it.

The theme I want us to think about as we go through these different categories is the capability and the skill of the ai.

Because in this rapidly evolving space, it's super important to develop your AI mindset, not around the brand, right? Because it could be here today, gone tomorrow, but really what we wanna emphasize here is seeing what it's capable of and how we can utilize it in our different learning experiences.

All right? Without further ado, let's get started with our first demo.

All right, so, uh, Yulee is the first one I wanna feature here.

And Yulee is that friend who like, doesn't sugarcoat anything, right? Keeps its receipts.

You said actually 12 times in three minutes, also breathe.

So it, it's funny until you realize it's right, right? But the magic is, it helps you become aware of how you sound.

So you can show up daily, you wanna be heard, um, and what it's capable of is mind blowing.

This can be used for us as educators, as we prepare, right to speak to our learners or to model how they can use these AI tools to practice their project pitches.

Like let's say you're doing, uh, project based learning, right? They get to practice before they present to a panel, and there's a variety of uses, whether they're interviewing or preparing to speak into large audiences or defend their, you know, mini thesis that you might do in the class to present their ideas.

So let's see what this looks like.

I have a demo.

Um, it doesn't have a voiceover, but you get to see what the process is.

So I'm gonna walk us through, um, the demo and kind of talk through what you're, uh, seeing.

So as you go through, it's gonna ask you a few questions.

You know who you are, you create your profile, and you have a certain amount of, you know, free uses that you can have.

Um, this was my first time using this tool and it started with me allowing it to record my video.

I did like a presentation on PBL and that was my topic.

Like, here's me talking about PBL after I talked, um, it asked me some follow-up questions and I answered it by the end.

You'll notice on the screen it has like a coaching section and an analytics section.

So I'm scrolling through to show you like how it documented the presentation.

And on the right side you see areas of growth and strengths, right? It's like your enthusiasm for you.

These potential is evident and engaging, nice job, but it's also like, oh, you should slow down.

You need more clarity and structure.

So it really gives me areas of growth and things to consider as I practice my communication skills.

And I think this is, uh, a super cool tool to use, and the capabilities of it is just astonishing to me.

Um, so I hope you enjoyed that.

And, uh, yes, of course, uh, educators can use this and so can learners over the age of 13 and Yulee was the, you know, uh, source I use for this demonstration.

The last thing I show you here is the analytics.

So it shows you how many fillers, words, what kind of pacing I had.

And you'll notice that as I'm speaking right now, I have to control my pacing too.

'cause I get super excited about a topic and then I'm talking a hundred words a minute, which I should slow down on, and that's definitely something I'm working toward.

All right, so next we got, oh, there we go.

All right.

So this is a super fun tool.

Uh, this is suno and the possibilities with this is endless as well.

I've seen various educators use this for different purposes, like bringing a novel to life, visualizing a project question, bringing music to life.

'cause if you have students who like know how to play instrument, they can upload whatever they come up with and then layer other sounds and vocals to that, all created by the AI to support it.

As long as you give those descriptions, they can, uh, tell a story to impact change.

Uh, they can do self-reflection, right? You can create, uh, I have a friend who created a whole playlist, right? With their learners to start their advisory.

And so they started off those songs that way.

Um, the po there are so many possibilities.

Um, I had another, uh, friend who did like this whole water conservation project, and they used this to do a public service announcement and they had a song for it, and it was all original, and they came up with those words.

So, super cool.

So what did I do for today? For our demonstration? I typed in the kind of song I'm looking for to go with our theme of the presentation ride.

So the school year, some cool ideas.

Um, so I described it as a song about the start of the school year and how to make AI your creative thought partner using electronic pop with driving beats and layered harmonies, rich synth textures, um, anthemic and soaring vocals.

So here's what I got.

And I also love how it lets you export this video with the words.

Check this out.

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I think you need to Share your computer sound too.

Oh, I'm sorry.

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Yep.

You have to unshare like stop sharing your screen and, and reshare.

And there's a little checkbox on there that says that share computer sound.

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And that one will allow us to hear It again.

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No worries.

We're with you if you're following along in the chat.

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Yeah.

So Kelsey uses this one with her husband.

She's told a that Atlas staff about this.

They use it on road trips to create songs and entertain each other.

You know, that's interesting 'cause uh, my husband actually introduced this to me when it first came out.

He made a song about how he's like this.

He's Norwegian, and I'm Armenian or like, have like ancient cultures.

So the first thing I ever heard of it was like, he made this like, love story thing about how this Viking met this ancient Armenian.

And I was like, wow, this is something.

So he was actually my introduction point to Suno as well when it first came out.

Nice.

All right.

So let's test this one more time.

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So I'll pause it right there.

You can see that it's a couple minutes long.

And in my screenshot you can also see that I went through different variations of it.

The other cool thing is you can do like remixes.

Let's say you didn't like the, the voice or you didn't like the sound, and you, you wanna try it in a different way.

It'll take those words and revise it.

Uh, or if you're more particular about the lyrics and you wanna maybe with the classroom or, uh, individual learners, you know, make their own lyrics and then make it into a song.

There are just so many, there's such a variety of ways you can, you know, approach this.

But I, I, I think this is a fun introduction, right? Of what the capabilities of a IR well, for now.

Um, so I hope you enjoyed that in your, uh, uh, you know, youth throughout the classroom.

Year.

Armenia, that was a really great one.

And I love how you presented it too, where the students can bring their own tracks and then go to ai.

That's often how I find myself using ai.

You know, it was really starting with something pretty solid and then going to it as my thinking partner.

So that's a great example.

Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, I, my pleasure.

I I'm right there with you.

And like Rudy mentioned too, like cognitive atrophy is important to me as well, right? Like that GPS example is, I, I feel it like, uh, so realistically in my life as well.

'cause I'm like, oh, how did I get there? You know? And I, I have to admit that's what the reality is.

But I do wanna also say, that's not where I wanna be with ai, right? So when I think about ai, I do do want it to be my partner.

I wanna start with those ideas and maybe, you know, um, uh, come with ideations, but I also wanna make sure I always keep my voice and, and be able to have that, the critical thinking and the cognitive independence.

So super important.

All right, we got a few more tools to go.

Um, next up is another creative tool.

And okay, so DMI, uh, I'm Armenian as maybe you were able to tell from my name, Armina, which technically means Armenian lady.

And so, uh, uh, I love olives, right? And, uh, I love olives so much that I got married in a space because it had olive trees.

And to honor the glory of olives, I made this musical about 'em.

Olives, my dearest love a Taste of Heaven from, All right, so that's eight seconds, right? And I'm so astounded by how real this looks.

She's wearing a dress out of Olive.

She's singing about olive.

The scenery is olives.

The entire thing is this Broadway production, and it's the magic of vo, right? And if you're thinking armina, you know, that's not in my budget.

The cool thing is Canva is free for educators, right? And you get your account and you log in there and they've partnered.

So you can actually make vo videos inside of Canva.

So I wanted to leave that tip there.

For those of you who are like, you know, I really love this tool, but we're not invested in vo so check it out in Canva.

And that's why I left it on the screen as a, the Canva logo and the VO logo, the VO three logo.

Um, and I hope you have fun with that as well.

Like, think about ways how this could be used as, you know, a hook or, you know, trying to bring together some of the ideas that people wanna visualize and represent after a PL lesson.

Um, there's so many, you know, different ways you can use this in a group setting, or if you are, you know, presenting and you wanna capture people's attention.

Hey, can I add one more way to access this? Yes.

So there's, there's going through like just vo you can also access this through Gemini.

Mm-hmm.

So Google Gemini has a dropdown where you can just change the setting to video.

Um, so again, many of you have access to that, so check it out that way as well.

Yeah.

Thank you Ashley.

Okay, and the last one, this is a little bit, uh, you know, more focused on customization.

One of my favorite things to do, and one of the challenges I have when I go into a chat bot is it knows so much, right? Different kinds of information.

And sometimes I have to keep redirecting it, just like, you know, educators do with learners, we have to keep redirecting.

And so to help kind of address some of those challenges, I think building a custom chat bot is super useful.

So what I did here is I built a PBL learner voice and choice chatbot.

One of the major challenges I found with schools who are, you know, adopting PBL is they're like, learners are having challenges figuring out what their project is.

And one of the key, uh, things there is to help them develop projects that are in line with their interests.

So like, how can we do that? And how could a custom chatbot be our friend? In doing so, I'm gonna talk us through this demo and show you how I went about creating this custom PBL and AI voice and choice, um, chat bot.

So you'll notice here I'm having that, uh, conversation with, uh, chat g pt.

I'm like, this is what I wanna do.

I want you to help, you know, learners who are struggling to figure out what their ideas are by asking them questions about their interests.

And the key thing here is when you're building a chatbot like this, it's super important to make sure that it takes the role of a coach where it guides them step by step versus giving them all the answers, right? So whether you're gonna use a tool like this with learners or use it yourself, and then give learners ideas of like, oh, what are they interested in? They care about water conservation.

What are some possible things we can do with water conservation? Or let's say, one of the things I had come up was like learners wanting to be YouTube influencers and wanting to understand that life.

And, uh, you know, we did like a quick search and it came up with all of these great ideas about talking about the, the marketplace, the workforce, and what this means in the last 20 years.

And it was quite an interesting research study.

Um, so what learners can do using this chatbot is have a base conversation, and this chatbot guides 'em like a coach and says, you know, what are your interests? And it starts to talk about their interests.

And it says, oh, uh, here are like five possible, uh, roads you can take.

Which of this is more, more interesting to you, right? And this way it's not surveying the, all of the internet and all of the data it's been trained on, it's only looking at the data you give it.

So then what data did I give it, right? I gave it what is the PBL journey, right? Because that's important.

It needs to understand my interpretation of the PBL journey, and then our school, let's say if we have a framework, and that's what we're following.

So in our case, we have the six markers on the PBL journey.

So I made sure it knew that, um, I made sure that it also had information on, uh, the global sustainability goals, because I think that's an interesting way to start the conversation as well.

Like, what are some of the global problems we're facing as humanity and find intersections of their interests with the problems that we're facing.

So I had another learner who was super interested in fungi, just all about, um, you know, mycology and it built this whole project about how you can use ology to solve problems on our earth, you know, because it's a decomposer.

So like fungi are decomposers.

And it came up with a lot of different solutions and possible ideas of how you can deal with, like, issues with plastics and such.

So you take an interest and then link it to all those kinds of things that you have to, as a, as an educator when it comes to standards, your timeline, your milestones, and, and make it interesting for the learner.

So custom chatbot is another way to go when we're talking about the use of AI in the classroom in a way that it's a partner for us in a way where it helps us, you know, take conversations to the next level.

But it's not, you know, doing the thinking and the acting for us, right? It's like a, it's a partner, it's a coach, and it takes it step by step.

Okay? So I know I just threw like a whole bunch of information, a bit of a whirlwind in a short amount of time.

And the whole point of this is to get us thinking about AI utility.

And we would love for you to take, you know, our courses and do like a deeper dive into the utility of ai.

And I wanna emphasize here, going back to my original point, it's not about the brand, it's about its functionality, its capability, right? And our AI mindset, how we look at these tools.

So to, uh, uh, give us a resource.

I wanted to share one of my favorite, uh, sites where I kind of investigate what AI tools are out there, right? Because I don't wanna real be reliable on any one of them.

Um, uh, for, for the example of Google Expeditions, years ago I fell in love with Google Expeditions, that app I invested in the cardboards and everything.

Then Google decided it's not gonna continue that project though.

Uh, and then the iPhone started to update themselves and it didn't work with the tech anymore, but I loved it at the time.

'cause you could immerse yourself into like the life of a cell, you could go into the workings of a heart or the life of a bee.

So learning from the lessons of my past, now I approach it in what are AI tools capable of? So if you go onto this website, what can AI do today? That is exactly how you can search for AI tools.

So say you're looking for a tool that does, um, infographics and one of my favorite infographic tools right now is napkin ai.

But let's say you wanna create a visual and you're like, what AI tool can help me do that? What are some alternatives, right? So always starting by the categories and the capability of what the AI tool can do.

Um, and if you wanna do that deeper dive, I would love to see you guys in our courses and I'm actively a part of that community.

You're welcome to ask me questions on Mighty Network as well.

In addition to our over 4,000, you know, educators who are conversing about these topics every day.

Uh, I actually, you know, am in those course channels.

So I look forward to, to seeing, you know, people taking the course and sharing their learning.

Um, and I'm super excited for that.

Well, fantastic.

Thank you so much for being here and for giving us an overview of the courses and also for letting people know a couple of new kind of trending things.

Uh, we've dropped a link in the chat there if you would like to learn more about those or to share them.

And, uh, let us know if y'all have any questions.

Feel free to come off of Mute and you can add them there or in the chat if that's better for you.

Kelsey, did you have anything else? A couple questions we've gotten from members is if you register for the course, how long do you have access? Um, so because these are self-paced and on demand, you'll get your invite from our partners at at three Dow and you'll have access for a year.

Um, and then the other kind of logistical thing is, uh, we understand a lot of teachers may want to participate.

Um, so for Atlas members, if you purchase, I think it's 10 or more, um, to courses, then you get a discount for, um, at a certain cap.

So, um, you know, pass the word onto your teachers.

It would kind of be cool to see like a group of teachers at your school, maybe taking it together and, um, learning together and sharing challenges.

So I'm excited to hear, uh, if anyone has started, um, let us know so we can hear, you know, what you're doing with it and hear the results.

Fantastic.

Well, thank you so much for being with us today.

My pleasure.

We'll send out some, yeah, yeah, some follow-up information of how everybody can get signed up.

But this has been fabulous and we're really looking forward to having this very special offering for our community.

So thanks everybody.

Have a great day, and we'll talk to you soon..