To AI Grade, or Not to AI Grade

Hey human,

I hope the week is going well. This week is going to focus on how others are using AI in the classroom. The prompt and a knowledge builder all come from others who are using AI. If you have done something incredible with AI and want people to know, reach out.

Knowledge builders 📚

• Make descriptive writing come to life with AI → Ian Addison outlines how he used generative AI with his pupils to make their descriptive creations come to life. You could use Copilot to get around the account issue.

• Let’s Think This Step By Step → Researchers from Japan found that by adding in ‘Let’s Think This Step By Step’ or variation of it increased the accuracy of LLMs on benchmark tests from 17.7% to 78.7%.

Industry updates 🤖

• EU Passes the ‘AI Act → The world’s first comprehensive framework to address the rising concern of AI, the AI Act classifies AI products by risk level, with strict rules for high-risk applications in critical sectors and lighter regulations for low-risk services. While the UK is not in the EU anymore, it would not be surprising for other countries to use this framework as a springboard for their own.

• American Teachers are Embracing AI to Grade Work → A large American education corporation whose curriculum is used in around 90% of schools in America has purchased an AI tool to help teachers grade writing assessments. I am personally quite sceptical that such an idea that this can work at scale. Have you used AI to help provide a final grade to pupils? If so, what was that experience like?

Fresh prompts ✨

1. Learning Objective sequence → This prompt comes from @WonderingMaths and was shared on X, formerly Twitter. Here is the deep structure of the prompt.

   You are a [year group that you teach/planning for], planning a 8 lesson unit on [unit]. It is for a [set and age]. Produce an outline of each lesson with learning objectives.

   Use in Copilot.

You are a secondary maths teacher, planning a 8 lesson unit on {Pythagoras and Trigonometry}. It is for a middle-ability Year 9 class. Produce an outline of each lesson with learning objectives

Here is an example of the output: