Blog Post #6

     Blogging is a new (to me), interesting way to share thoughts and feelings. I  like that I can ramble on about all of my thoughts without anybody telling me to shut up or getting annoyed at my thoughts and opinions. If someone doesn't want to hear them, they just stop reading, and I like the freedom of voicing what I believe matters. I'm not a huge fan of having to manually type what I'm thinking, but it's not as bad as it could be, so I don't have much to complain about. I have learned that nobody interacts with my blog, likely because I don't interact with anyone else's but my point still stands. Blogging is not as active of a site as it used to be in its prime.

    I will most definitely use YouTube as web 2.0 tool in my classroom! I could easily create educational videos for my students, and they can communicate in the comments amongst themselves, as well as being able to ask me for help with anything the find too confusing. I also love the fact that it provides so many different ways to take in the information! There's visual, aural, and reading, if you put on captions or have subtitles included in the videos!

    When using generative AI for the first time it was an the in-class activity to have AI generate a classroom lesson plan for a specific subject. The first plan wasn't bad at all, but I did end up asking the AI to tweak the plan to involve more team and group work for the students. Besides that one little hang-up though, the AI did an incredible job at creating a lesson plan that stuck to the time restraints and age group that was indicated in the prompt! It was truly incredible to see, and the activities not only worked for the age group, but seemed actively engaging to complete as well!

    I could see myself using generative AI to simultaneously educate children and keep them entertained by having them create a story together and using AI to generate art to go along with it. Alternatively, I could have the children collaborate on a drawing and have the AI come up with a story behind it. I would avoid using AI for any actual teaching, and discourage the students from using AI to complete any of their own work. I could also use it as a lesson to introduce the concept that not everything you see and read is real, and that a lot of the things on the internet are false information, so they need to be sure to double check their facts.

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