Wonderful … Creative … Verbose? This episode of WELSTech features a talent boost that’s sure to entertain while it educates! We’re sharing what we’ve learned about AI during our book discussion with our special guest edtech correspondents. There’s also a special Advent treat, picks to improve your productivity and video production, plus a couple of cool videos explaining multi-grade classrooms.

The discussion

Ped-AI-gogy – Martin and Sallie, along with our well-spoken education technology correspondents Rachel Feld and Jason Schmidt, return to this season’s book discussion of The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education by Daniel Fitzpatrick, Amanda Fox, and Brad Weinstein. Chapters 4 & 5 are centered around pedagogy and make for an interesting, albeit boxy, look at the continuum of adoption of the current disruptive tool, Artificial Intelligence (AI), in education.

Ministry resource

• Upcoming Christmas Concerts
  • Martin Luther College – Dec 2 @ 7:30 pm and Dec 3 @ 4:00 pm – Both concerts will be livestreamed
  • Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary – Dec 10 @ 3:00 and 7:00 pm – The 3:00 pm concert will be livestreamed
• Forward in Christ interactive Advent devotions – Learn more on this Together video update

Picks of the week

• Ditch Summit
• Use Google Bard to summarize a YouTube video
  • Jason’s example – Summarizing Sir Ken Robinson’s Changing Education Paradigm’s TED Talk
  • Snipd does the same for podcast
• CapCut – AI video editing
  • Thanks, Principal Michael Vlieger from Risen Savior LES in Mankato, MN!
  • Sample Risen Savior Connection generated with CapCut
• Microsoft OneNote
  • OneNote Review – Does it work well on your iPad?
  • Learn more about the PARA Method
  • How to Setup PARA in OneNote: Organize Your Life Like a Pro!

Community feedback & events

• Bing Chat rebrands as Copilot
  • How to use Bing AI // Bing Chat and Dall-E 3
  • Enhance Teaching and Learning with Bing Chat – Free Microsoft course
• From the WELSTech Google Group – Tim Vogel is the source of Multi-Grade Classroom videos
  • What is a multi-grade classroom?
  • Benefits of a multi-grade classroom

Next time

WELSTech celebrates Christmas with an interview of Dan Nommensen

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