AI in the classroom
Zotero and other citation generators
Zotero saved me in my first year of college! It is a super-efficient way of keeping track of sources when researching. Best of all at the end it will put them all into a bibliography for you. Before I used Zotero I used “easy bib” or “citation generator,” we were taught to use these in middle school to cite our work. I think it was a very valuable tool to learn how to use at a young age as citing my work became very important in my later years. Through learning about citation generators, I have learned other skills to help me in my research endeavors such as using bibliographies of articles to find more sources on a given topic.
Would I use it as a teacher?
I would use it in a classroom as citing your work is a very important skill to have especially in older grades and post-secondary. however, in todays day and age it is unrealistic to have students cite by hand as there are so many tools out there.
Cube Creator
Cube creator is a cool AI tool that could be used for many activities. When I was in grade 6 we made “all about me” cubes, where we decorated each side of a cube with our different characteristics, traits, likes and dislikes. Then the teacher hung them on the roof around the classroom. I enjoyed this activity and felt proud to have it hanging in my classroom. Cube creator provides a umber of templates already set up for mysteries or stories to be used for novel studies. However, this cube generator could be used for an activity like I did, or for many other activities. Some ideas I came up with were…
- – Class cubes (cubes with students names, either an entire class or by desk group etc)
- – Story summarizer (1 side = characters, 1 side = setting, 1 side = conflict, etc)
- – Literary elements (1 side = metaphor, 1 side = simile, 1 side = personification, 1 side = onomatopoeia, etc.) students would roll the dice and come up with an example of the given literary element
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