EDT112 Dan Stitzel - AI Generated Review Games, BlueSky, and More!

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Well that said let's get into today's episode. Longtime listeners of the podcast. First off. Hello, long time duct tapers. And thank you for sticking with me through all of my shenanigans. Anyhow those long time listeners, those people I just addressed right now, might remember something I used to rave about back in the day, the adjacent possible. Now I don't typically repeat soapbox moment topics, but this one is so pertinent right now. I just have to talk about it.

So for the newbies, what is the adjacent possible? Well, if you're a longtime listener and don't want to hear about it again, go ahead and skip like 90 seconds forward. But for the rest of you, it's a concept that I see as really core to this podcast. The adjacent possible is a really cool sounding term, actually that started with evolutionary biologist, Stuart Kauffman. Science teachers, if you had evolutionary biologist on your educational duct tape bingo board for today, you are welcome.

Anyhow, Kauffman explained how in the evolution of living things, new species and traits can only arise from what already exists. Evolution takes one step at a time. In other words, what's possible comes from what's adjacent to it. Kaufman also applies this idea to human creativity and innovation: new ideas emerge by combining existing concepts and building upon what is already known.

Now I'm not a big video game guy, but I like to picture the adjacent possible as the original Legend of Zelda game that I played as a kid. It's the one where Link travels through a map that looks like a series of connected rooms. When Link is in one room, the only rooms he can access are the ones directly connected to it. But when he steps into one of those rooms, then he has new doors to explore. That's kind of how the adjacent possible works.

This idea blew my mind when I first heard about it in the innovator's mindset by George Couros. Couros picked it up from Steven Johnson's where good ideas come from. And Johnson picked it up from Kaufman. That's the adjacent possible in action actually ideas evolving step-by-step one person building on another person's brilliance, and here's where we come to the new part. And those of you who skipped over that 90 seconds: welcome back in. This brings me to Twitter. Or should I say X?

Or more accurately, the artist formerly known as the thriving EDU Twitter community. For a decade, Twitter was the place for educators to connect and to learn and to share. It was an amazing space for ideas to evolve step-by-step demonstrating the adjacent possible. My career path shows the adjacent possible and Twitter was the catalyst of it all.

But let's face it over the past few years, it's felt less like the magical idea sparking space at once was and more like a ghost town with the occasional tumbleweed of inspiration blowing by and more often, honestly, a sandstorm of bots and ads and arguments and clickbait. And look, I'm not here to analyze why it became a ghost town. Not only is this not a political podcast, the reason it happened is moot. Twitter is not the same anymore and I don't need to autopsy it.

What I do need is a new place to connect with educators. Enter BlueSky. So BlueSky is Twitter's adjacent possible. It evolved out of Twitter. And honestly it feels kind of like 2013 Twitter. Full of hope and collaboration and opportunity. And for educators, it's the perfect next room in our adjacent possible. If you join us there, you'll find that BlueSky is a lot like Twitter.

A few key differences is that it gives you more control over what you see and how it's moderated by letting you choose your own algorithms and customize your feed. It's not set up for things to go viral or to sell ads. It's set up for connection and that's what we want it to be set up for. I believe that BlueSky and the #EduSky community can be like stepping through one of Link's doors by making the leap you're opening yourself up to new ideas, connections, and opportunities to share.

And those may not have been possible without entering that new room. And honestly, it's making, learning on social media fun again, at least for me. Now. It's not all sunshine and rainbows. You'll encounter people there with different opinions, but isn't that part of learning?

The good news is BlueSky gives you more control over what you see and engage with than Twitter ever did so when those different opinions go from pushing your thinking, which is a good thing, to pushing your buttons, which is a bad thing, you can make it so you don't see those things anymore. So I hope that you'll join me on BlueSky. Here's what I want you to do. Number one, create your account. Of course.

Number two, follow me @JakeMillerEDU, and number three, fill out the EduSky form that I've linked in the show notes. So Alice Keeler created this EduSky or EduSky group, and this form uh, as a one-stop shop to jumpstart your BlueSky experience. So once you fill out that form, you'll be directed to a spreadsheet. Your name will go into that spreadsheet by filling out the form. And you'll see a whole bunch of other things in there. One of which are starter packs. So that's step four.

Use the starter packs. These are curated lists of educators you can follow with just one click. It's like hitting the skip intro button on Netflix, but instead of binge watching episodes, your binge connecting with educators on social media. That's step four, use the starter packs. Step five, check out the list of EDU chats. Remember Twitter chats. That's a memory that makes me smile right there. They were an early EduTwitter gem: scheduled chats where educators dove into topics in real time.

Well guess what? They're back, but now they're on BlueSky. And so far they've been vibrant and joyful. And step six. Finally, if you're a fan of this show, I'd like to create us a little community on there. So post about the podcast on BlueSky with the #EduDuctTape, I'll see that post and I'll add you to a dedicated listener list so that we could see each other and connect with each other. So in conclusion, why BlueSky? Because it's not just the next step in social media's evolution.

It has the potential to present to us the next step in our evolution as educators. It's where we can learn together and grow together. As part of each others adjacent possible. So, what are you waiting for? Press pause, join BlueSky and step into the next room of your professional growth adventure. Today's guest is Dan Stitzel. Dan has worked for the Streetsboro city schools for 15 years as a classroom teacher, district technology coach, and now as the Director of

Technology . Through these years. Dan has had the chance to present at the district, local, state, and national level on various tech integration tools and strategies and Dan's current tech obsessions are generative AI and computer science. you can connect with Dan by emailing him at D N Stitzel at gmail. com. And as always, that is in the show notes, but not in the show notes actually here in the podcast is Dan. What's up,

Like I, it was probably in the, in the, uh, in between the cushions and my couch or something, I don't know where I lost it to. And then, uh, we were like, we have to, we have to record it virtually. And so we did. And I think Missy needed your help connecting or something like you had it all ready for her while she was

I was crowned the 2004 King of Hearts at my high school Valentine's dance and the Queen of Hearts is now my wife.

So I think I'm doubting both of those. I think the first one is the lie.

But Dan knows the metaphor well, because he's like, had to hear me drone on through the book. not hear me read me droning on about, but educational duct tape is my metaphor that, educational technology is at its best when we use it as a tool to solve problems like duct tape, rather than as the goal of our lesson. So we'll always ask a question that's like teacher wants to do this. What technology or technology related strategy can we use to help us?

So my question for you, Dan, is what tool or strategy would you use to do a whole class review game with formative assessment included? So I want to give a disclaimer here. This might not be. You know, I've learned a lot since I originally started talking about this formative assessment educational duct tape. I don't think review games always give us the richest formative assessment data, right? But the operative word here is we want to do a review game.

We want that fun piece and we will get formative assessment data out of it. So we're not, maybe there's certain tools where we're like, wow, that's an amazing formative assessment tool, but here we're focused on it being a game experience too. So just want to give that disclaimer. So what would you use Dan?

I was listening to Josh, who is the founder of GimKit, and it was an excellent speech. He did a great presentation, and he said, you know, basically, and I can't remember his exact words, but he basically said, like, how many of you teachers in the crowd have actually asked your students why they play games? And he's like, someone asked me and I said, because I like the competition. I like this. I like that.

you know, that really resonated because sometimes games and playing games get a negative view because, oh, you know, you're just playing video games instead of doing your work or whatever it might be. But there's a reason that people are drawn to playing video games or, you know, whatever type of game it might be. And a lot of it's the challenge, it's the reward, whatever it might be. So when he mentioned that in his presentation, it stuck with me.

And so I really have tried to integrate gamification as much as possible over the last few years since that presentation, recently with the huge push of AI, it's been, it's become even easier. Yeah. I mean, there are so many tools that just do it so quickly for you. but there's also so many tools that you can still really have the driver's seat you can still like, really control it, and create those games using the content you might already have, or create those games.

with a little, you know, help from whatever chat bot it might be that you're using. so the first strategy I want to talk about is just using your favorite chat, your favorite generative AI to actually generate the questions and then how you can gamify that, and do it all in about five minutes.

Something that I have showed others how to do, staff I work with, or just people in presentations, is I'll open up ChatGPT, or whatever your, you know, chat choice might be, I just always kind of default to ChatGPT, um, and I'll say before you, you know, before you open it up, copy the standard that you have been working with. so whether it's, you know, your, very specific standard, or this overarching. Topic whatever it might be, come in with the information.

So what I like to do is I because I taught language arts for 10 years, so my mind always goes to the 8th grade language arts standard. Is I copy and paste the 8th grade language arts standard for figurative language and connotative meanings and I tell the chat. I just want to say like, hey, please create 40 questions for eighth grade students for the following standard. And then the really big thing is you want to make sure that you put in there.

Please make sure each question has a specific answer because a lot of these generative AI tools will do open ended questions, which are great. They're awesome for discussions, and they're really, you know, open ended questions, and those, you know, extended response questions are extremely important, but if you're trying to gamify, you want something that has a pretty specific answer.

So I always make sure I say like, please make sure that each question that you generate also has a specific answer so I can really evaluate it. you know, in best practice, I always say, like, as a teacher, you do need to go back and make sure that, yes, that is the right answer. don't ever just push something out because You know, chat GPT says it's right. You ultimately still need to make sure it is right. And then what's nice about that is it will

So I think if I'm really deliberate about the way I prompt it, I can avoid those things. But then you're right. I then needed to go back and check it for, for accuracy. both in terms of like, is it asking the right questions and giving the correct answers, but also is it asking the things that you really need to ask the learners? I think those things are super important.

And I would advise to, Good, really good advice on your end to say, like, not just build me formative assessment questions about, whatever the language arts topic you mentioned was, which was above my head, but actually giving the entire standard, right? Not just like, give me questions about mitosis, but give it like giving them the whole standard of what you need to know about mitosis in there so that they gear those questions.

But I'd go even further and say, if you have Some kind of list of things that you know that goes with it that you just copy or paste in maybe out of your, uh, planning guide or something like that, that's going to really hone those questions that asks, like, for example, you know, as you know, I do a lot of work related to personalized learning nowadays, and we recommend that teachers, if possible, write out learning progressions, which shows as the kids progress in their

learning, they're going to start here and then they're going to master these. Skills and then these skills and then these skills all the way up till they're at mastery. Like if I could say like, here's the learning progression, then it could give me questions that relate to all levels. And I could really start to know where my class is on it, which I think could be really cool.

So anyhow, so you go into the, the AI, whatever AI chat bot you want is you give it some details on a prompt and say, give me questions that have a clear answer.

So then what it's doing now is it's taking those questions and it will generate it takes my advice and then it generates those questions in an order of kind of level one all the way up to Let's say level 10 and level one questions are worth like 20 Level three questions are worth 40 and then all the way up to level 10 where they're worth 90 So, the students, you know, so what it's doing now is it's giving them a little more of that motivation They see

that money sign there You And it's fake money, you know, I'm not passing out thousand dollars to all my students, but it's giving them a goal at the end They're saying okay in order for me to show that I've kind of mastered this. I understand it.

I need to Reach that one thousand dollar point and I can go through and I can you know Do all the level 123 questions kind of as like to get me ready, or if I feel pretty confident, I can almost jump to those level six, those level seven, those level eight questions where they're worth more money, because I can still get myself to that thousand dollar endpoint. so it's taking. You know, and what you said is wonderful.

If you have more information, if you have all the notes, you have that learning progression, yeah, throw that in there because it's super specific. But if you're just starting from a standard, what it did is it took my, you know, where I just said, hey, create 40 questions based on this standard. Then I went through, I vetted those. Then from there I told, you know, told the robot, the chat, now let's make a game out of this.

And in order for it to be a game, I need it kind of leveled, and I need there to be, you know, an obtainable, like there needs to be something at the end that I need to reach. And then I even take it a step further as the teacher. to help myself. I just say, you know, after it's already given me all the questions, the answers just so that I can then copy this in an orderly way and print it. I say, can you please put all the questions, answers and point values into a table?

So then what it does for me is I can then go through and quickly see all my 20 level 1 question, my level 2 questions that are worth 40, whatever it might be. So that if I am going through just to kind of double check that, hey, the students really did, you know, hit that 1, 000 mark, whether that's really important or not.

I can, you know, I at least I easily have all those questions and those answers right there, and it also is really, it really helps me then kind of do a second vet of seeing the question and the answer before I do actually push this out to my students. Um, so that's just using like, yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes.

If we get down to, Like, a level, or jump down, I should say, to Level eight here, in the phrase, the silence was deafening. What is the figurative meaning? So now it's more, the silence was overwhelmingly noticeable. So it's, you know, it, it, I, I feel that it gets a little more complex. Um, and I think too, if, if, What's nice about these generative AI tools is if you don't feel like they're complex enough, you can say right back to the robot.

Hey, could you please make the level eight questions more of, you know, difficult or whatever it might be? I'm not sure what word you'd want to use, but you can have that conversation. You can, you know, you can go back and change that up before you ultimately say this is what I want to give my students as this gamified formative assessment.

So if you're giving it that feedback while it goes, it's going to get better and better. one like level up that I would even suggest would be to maybe explain to it either a, what the D O K levels are and explain to it. What you mean, what a D O K level question with one question will look like two question will look like three question was like, et cetera. And say, if it's a one it's point value should be between 10 and 30 and two, 40 to six years, whatever. and really.

Really forced the AI to understand what you mean to do by that. Um, And the other option is too, if you did something like giving it a learning progression or proficiency scale, you could say, if it's a question that relates to this level of the proficiency scale or learning progression, whatever term you use for it, that could have X number of points. If it's this, it should have X number of points.

And then really, it probably does a really good job of identifying the points itself, but that could really, drive the quality there. And I love the suggestion you gave to not to totally take over, take this interview away from you here. I love the suggestion you gave of how a kid could say like, you know what? I'm this, I'm going to skip the 10 and 20 point questions. Cause I'm ready for the. 80 point questions, um, because that that's metacognition happening right there.

That's that kid going like, I'm at a high level of understanding here and I'm ready for the higher questions. And so if we really attach that with intention to either the standard or the elements of the standard or D O K, then the kid's doing something pretty awesome there when they think about what level question they want to

You can't go back. I mean, that's not life. That's not reality. So like if a student tries to do a higher level question and they're like, you know what, maybe I'm not ready for this, then go back. Try, you know, try the other questions that will help you get to that point. but yeah, it's, you know, and you don't have to use like the fake money. You could use points.

You Um, just, I kinda, I don't know, for me, it's just, if there's, I was always that type of student where, like, I needed to know there was, you know, something I was really working towards. And even if it's a fake thousand dollars, whatever it is, like, I'm still, I can still see that goal and I can still work towards it.

and I, you know, and I can, like we said before, like, you can be that student's like, well, I'm going to just do 10 of these questions or you can be the one that's like, hey, I'm going to focus more on getting to that point. So that's just, you know, and that's using just your generative AI. that's just, you know, for like, like me, I'm really into generative AI right now.

Like I, like you've mentioned in my bio and so I always try to see like what I can do there before, you know, I jumped to some other tool, but, there are so many other ways to gamify in ChatGPT or in other generative AI tools. That's just one that's pretty quick. You can put that standard in, you can talk about it. And I think too, like you said, what's really important is, you know, the more information you give, obviously the better results you're going to get.

Uh, you know, and Alex Kotran from AIEDU, he was giving a speech one time and he said something along the lines of like, these prompts that people are writing, they're not a five minute thing.

Like you can't just, you can't expect a really good, Result if you're just throwing something in for like five minutes Sometimes and sometimes it comes out what you want because if you're giving it all that information in five minutes Like you said you have a save to a doc and you upload that doc whatever it might be But he's like there are people that are writing prompts for hours to get that result They're looking for and so, you know, we have to realize

if we are using these generative tools like this there is going to be some vetting there is additional information is going to be needed But ultimately you can get some really cool results

And based on the value and the students just take that quick little assessment assessment that way, some will put it into a different tool like Quizizz, where they can then assign values that way, based on the points. So, you know, and I've actually had teachers that will play like around the world, like go like back to like what we used to do as like a review game where, you know, you start and if you get the answer, you can go on to the next one.

So, I would say most of the teachers that I have showed this to do it more of like a Jeopardy style, but it can be an individual activity. It can be, you know, like, again, like you need to work to this value, if they're doing a Jeopardy style again, then, you know, it's not so much as like you need to get to a thousand dollars. That's more if you're having it, it's an individual review. but it can just be presented to students as like, Hey, like here's all the questions.

Here's how much they're worth. You need to get to this point. and then you turn that assessment and however you choose to pass it out.

so it's been, you know, it's been presented in different manners, but using that generative AI to get to that point, Is a time saver and I always say it's having like two brains creating the assessment because it's like you're still the One that's like really driving it, but then you have this like new co teacher that is kind of there to really be like Oh, hey, remember we talked about this or maybe we didn't talk about this and we should add it in so it's kind of nice to have that too.

when they do that, the other thing too, is I love your Google form option for this because you can make them not required and let them just answer the ones they want to. And you could use conditional formatting.

To make it so they have to type in the right answer so they could kind of keep track as they go of how many points they have and just submit it when they get enough, you know, like there are ways to, there are ways to hack conditional formatting and forms, but hopefully kids aren't doing that. And then the other thing too, you mentioned putting this into quizizz. Quizziz is really nice. Cause you're going to upload a spreadsheet into it. And so if you prompt.

Chat GPT or Gemini or whatever you're using or Claude, to organize the table, the way that the quizizz organize the spreadsheets, you could just copy and paste it and upload it. Cause quizizz will take, you can identify times or point values. I think when you do that, can't

quizizz has that You know ability to write the math problems in and answer With using those different math symbols that a lot of the other gamified sites don't have And or didn't have and so we finally this year we figured out a way to make it happen and just yeah the data was We used it for Majority of our formative just our quick assessments to see like where our students were at and it was really rich.

I realized that, but we have found really good success using quizizz and it's in the free version, too. So it's not something that you have to pay for, and there's multiple ways of doing it.

So if you wanted to Prompt it you still want it to be the chat engineer and you want to type all those things in you can do that or like you mentioned you can upload spreadsheets You can upload an entire worksheet that maybe you created Years ago that you still and we all have that filing cabinet of like the paper Versions of our work that we still pass out so you can scan that in or whatever and upload it to quizizz and gamify what I love too is something else you can do

is you can just drop a link in so let's say you find a Really great article On National Geographic Kids or whatever it might be, and your students read that article, or you read it as a class, you can drop that link in the quizizz, and it will generate a quiz based on the information that's pulled from that website, and then you still have the power though, it's nice, you still have the power as the, as the teacher, the proctor of that quiz to go in So, yeah.

And make adjustments, you can take questions out, you can, you know, change questions up, you can change the response style, which is really nice. So if it generates questions as all multiple choice, but you want some extended response, or whatever it might be, you can just go in and edit that. Um, which is really, really cool. Another thing I love about quizizz too is using that AI, you can make things more, I can't remember exactly how they word it, but they're more real, I think real world.

So, what you can do is you can press the little AI button and then you can change it so it converts it to a real world scenario. So it might be talking about like A dinosaur that has not existed for a long time, but then it throws it into, Oh, you're visiting a local museum where this dinosaur bone is or whatever it might be. So it puts it into a real world situation for your students, which is really cool. And that's also in the free version.

It just does it super quick because of AI powers there. I mean, there's just, it's incredible what quizizz has done with their AI.

is really, it's really cool to see. It's really cool to be a part of that. I think as someone in ed tech,

Like when the animal groups, like the students would get like super excited. They'd be like, Oh, we're part of the giraffes or whatever. And like, they'd get so excited. But I think personally, Gimkit is the one that I would say to me is like the most fun, just because I don't know, like, I think it started like a different movement. but they're also powerful. They're also great. So I, and Blooket, Blooket has just come in and done so many great things too.

So if you could go like, Hey, I make this game for me. And then you could just, you know, Put it in, or it's already in there based on if the tool has AI and you just vet it. Like, can you save that time? Get some really good questions out of it. And like we said, give it as much information as you can. So that's as quality as it can be. and you've saved that time. You're getting some good formative assessment information. Your kids are having a blast.

They're being metacognitive as they think about what questions to ask. And do I understand and things like that? that's pretty

Like I'd type in every question into, um, Kahoot or every question into Quizlet. And, you know, and it was, and it was great because the students loved it. It was a wonderful way to get that data, to get those formative assessments in a fun way. but now. I mean, that took, that would be, I'd be watching, you know, whatever sporting event was on TV and I'd watch the entire game by the time that 10 questions, you know, Kahoot was done or whatever. But now it's a fraction of the time.

And I'm still putting in more information, information that I had, information from blogs, information from everywhere, cause I can drop those links and whatever I can throw in there. and it's still, it's saving me time and it's just giving me really awesome, questions to ask my students.

and it can keep learning. I could teach it how to like, what, like, no, not that kind of question. Not this kind of question. Like I could really get it really good, by building it. but if you don't have that, if you're just using a free version, just kind of save that prompt and keep tweaking that prompt to make it better and better so that each time you get

And then I can just Copy and paste that prompt in and just change a couple of words, change, you know, the standard, whatever it might be, to get results based on, you know, that, that modified, search. So, yeah, always just save them. I mean, especially like a Google drive or your space is essentially unlimited or very close to it. just make a folder

Um, so yours has the extra half of a sleeve for that half episode, that mini episode, but I think the shipping will be a little bit lower for

Before we sign off, let's take a quick look at some ed tech news. That's caught my attention. First up, I keep mentioning canva's updates in this segment this time I want to focus on their entire suite of AI tools, which have been recently enhanced to make your creative process faster and easier. They've added so much stuff. So now they've got magic media magic, right? Magic design, and styles. All of which let you whip up graphics or personalized text or create high quality templates.

While keeping everything on brand. And if you need some inspiration or a quick design tweak, which is what I normally need, I want it to get me started with an idea. And then I like to run with it myself. They've got layouts and resize and magic switch to help you out with that kind of stuff. Plus they've got a photo editor and a video editor that come packed with AI features to perfect your visuals with ease. Uh, so many new additions to Canva. Honestly, I haven't even explored them all.

I need like a week off of work to just sit and mess with all these different tools. Uh, what part of canvas magic studio are you most excited to try? I'd love to hear about it. Connect with me on blue sky, as I mentioned earlier, and let me know about it. Use that hashtag EDU duct tape and tag me at Jake Miller EDU. And let me know, what are you most excited about in canvas magic studio?

Next let's talk about some Googling news, Google added new question types in Google forms for the first time since. No, maybe ever, maybe since the beginning of the tool, I'm not even sure. Anyhow, they've added customizable ratings questions. You can set a specific rating scale and even add fun icons like stars or hearts to make it easier for students to share their opinions and their feedback. Star ratings. What does is Amazon? Uh, this is a great addition though. I'm really excited about it.

And I'm curious, how are you using this in your classroom or school? Again, reach out on blue sky. Let me know all about it. Finally, on the magic school front, they've added a presentation generator to their cornucopia of amazing tools. Every time I go into magic school, I'm like, there's so much stuff in here to look at. It's kind of like Canva. I haven't even seen it all in magic school yet. I use it little star to put my favorites up at the top so I can come back to them.

But there's so many things in there and now there's a presentation generator as well. It can turn topics or learning standards or. Going to upload a Google doc or give it a YouTube video or a link to a certain thing, like a URL. Even give it your lesson plans and it'll turn them into presentations. So you just type it in or Lincoln in or upload your content. Tell it what grade level it's for. Tell it how many slides you want. And it'll generate the skeleton of a structured presentation for you.

It doesn't add any design elements, but it gets the content in there for you. And it does a really good job of it. You should try it out. Uh, I'm curious. I gave you three new updates, three pieces of ed tech news. There. Uh, Canva magic media, Google forms, adding those customizable, rating scales and magic tools, presentation generator. Which one are you most excited for? Uh, head over to blue sky, create that account.

Connect with me, use the hashtag EDU duct tape and let us know which one you're most excited about. All right, that does it for today. I can't wait to connect with you all on blue sky. I hope you're doing well. Thank you for being here. Have a great day.