AI-Enhanced Teaching Material or Shall I Say It's Finally OVER!

 Artifical, Quite Artificial!

"I've been through a lot, but this one... Man, this one was pure pain."

Welcome back, lads! I've brought you all a fresh new material! An AI-enhanced teaching material. Yeah, yeah, I can hear your applauses already (you better be applauding 😡), and I appreciate that, lads. Now, let's talk a bit about this... This... uhh... thing? Why would you even give this a name? ANYWAYS, BACK TO BUSINESS! 😊

For today's post, my friend Suvdanchimeg (Suvda) and I were assigned to come up with an AI-enhanced teaching material for 9th grade preparatory class high schoolers. Of course, the planning and designing processes were not children's play; we had to elaborate on our ideas a lot. At last, however, we decided on teaching conditionals using a humble and compact digital worksheet focused on improving writing skills. We set out to prepare one on Canva right away and came up with a 4-page material. However, there was this one single problem... It looked BAD! Our initial draft did not fully fit the criteria provided by our instructor and was also hard to follow. We needed a solution fast, so we sought a friend's opinion, who was no one else but Özgür. After an hour of discussion and exchange of opinion, I've set out to change the look of our worksheet, and Suvda joined me afterwards. We prepared our worksheet based on a 3-phased manner: On the initial page, we put 7 multiple-choice pre-assessment questions contextualized with Frindle by Andrew Clements; on the second one, we gave a table of rules for conditionals and also a writing exercise for our students in which they use MagicSchool's AI tools for feedback and getting a hypothetical reply to their letters; and on the last page, we asked our students 3 reflective questions to get them to practice their writing skills, making use of the language in any way possible. At last, we were happy with our product and went about preparing a suitable lesson plan following the ASSURE model. In 2 hours' time, if I'm not mistaken, we were done with everything and were ready to write our blog posts. 

A personal note I must mention here is that I pretty much believe this material of ours is quite compact for any classroom environment. It doesn't have a complex structure, and the instructions are very clear. Plus, no instructor would have any problems implementing it in their classrooms. 

So long, lads! 😉

Our material.

Our lesson plan. 

!AN UPDATE!

Hello again, lads! Just came by to let you guys know about the changes Suvda and I made to our material and lesson plan (you can find the latest versions below). To start with the changes to our material, we made some adjustments to our warm-up part, entirely removing the multiple-choice questions for pre-assessment. We also discarded the whole "teaching the conditionals" concept and instead attuned our writing enhancement purposes with the novel Frindle entirely. Also in the instructions part for the writing activity, we removed the requirement for using all 3 forms of conditionals to ensure consistency throughout. To say a few things about our lesson plan, we completely removed everything about conditionals, made some adjustments to the engagement part based on the new worksheet, and reworded the first part in the evaluation of strategies & technology.    

The lattest version of our material. 

The lattest version of our lesson plan.