AI Literacy: Ethics and AI: This session will be with Joshua Maples, a High School ELA educator who challenges us to think about important topics related to AI ethics. Sonal Patel, Tonya Coats, and Joshua Maples discuss the implications of AI-generated text for plagiarism detection in education. Joshua shares his experiences with AI tools like ChatGPT and Class Companion, highlighting both the benefits, such as immediate feedback and time-saving, and the challenges, such as ethical concerns and the need for responsible use. Joshua emphasizes the importance of professional development for teachers to integrate AI effectively, suggesting a gradual approach to introduce less intimidating tools. The conversation also touches on the role of AI in differentiating instruction and the need for clear policies to address AI-related issues in education.

Joshua Maples: [email protected]

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Brenda Dougan, a secondary mathematics coach at Fontana Unified School District, shared her journey from wanting to be a pediatrician to becoming a math teacher. She emphasized the importance of blended learning in math, using tools like Quizizz, EdPuzzle, and Nearpod to engage students. Dougan highlighted the challenges of planning and grouping students heterogeneously but stressed the benefits of active student participation and differentiated instruction. She advocated for using AI tools to streamline lesson planning and enhance student engagement. Dougan's approach aligns with the new math framework's standards for mathematical practice, focusing on collaborative problem-solving and perseverance.

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Zoom meeting with Dr. Christina Pierce. The discussion focused on the Alta Loma School District's computer science (CS) education initiatives, driven by the Educator Workforce Investment Grant. Dr. Christina Pierce highlighted the integration of CS into the curriculum, starting with sixth graders moving to junior highs and expanding to seventh and eighth grades. The district also offers CS enrichment at the elementary level. Key strategies include professional development workshops, collaboration with feeder schools, and involving diverse educational partners like counselors. The conversation also emphasized the importance of equitable CS education, addressing barriers, and fostering a community of practice to enhance teaching and learning.

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Omar, Dana, Devin and Yusuf discussed the potential of AI to enhance personalized learning experiences for students, with a focus on empowering educators and schools to learn about AI through hands-on projects. They highlighted ethical considerations and professional learning required for responsible AI use in education, emphasizing the importance of understanding AI capabilities, data privacy, and human-centered design. Speakers emphasized the need for creativity and ingenuity in leveraging AI resources to achieve a more democratic education system.

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We'd like to welcome our special guest, Dr. Heidi Baynes from Riverside County Office of Education. Dr. Baynes specializes in the integration of technology into classroom instruction, and is a strong advocate for computer science, education and the CS for All movement. Her experience in K 12 public education includes online blended and traditional classroom models, where she has taught multiple subjects and grade levels. Additionally, she is highly invested in the importance of the maker movement and looks for ways to merge the maker mentality with lessons designed to enhance the student learning experience. 

@baynesheidi
https://www.seasonsofcs.org/

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Michael Arrington is a behavior strategist and consultant with 20 years of experience as a motivational and keynote speaker. He is also the founder of MEA training and Program Development LLC, which supports adolescents aging out of foster care. In addition to his work, he frequently serves as an educational consultant on issues of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Registration for DigCit Week Webinars: https://bit.ly/SBCSSDigCit2
Michael's Website: https://www.michaelarrington.education/

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We have a very special Esports episode today. SBCSS and our department Digital Learning Services have been passionate about growing and expanding Esports programs within San Bernardino County. Esports is a great way to help students connect to school through something they enjoy doing, and are passionate about, not to mention the opportunities eSports now provides with CTE scholarships, and job opportunities. With all that excitement around eSports we're very happy to introduce our guests for today's podcast, Chris Shima, Scholastic Esports specialist with Generation Esports and Jacob Beach, the director of Esports at University of Redlands.

Contact for Shima:
https://www.generationesports.com/
https://www.highschoolesportsleague.com/
https://www.middleschoolesports.com/

Contact Jacob on Discord
Blitzkrieg30#3764

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We'd like to begin by introducing our very special guest, Dr. Roy Rogers principal at South Ridge Middle School and Lauren Freeman, who is an extraordinary educator for history, social science, and she's a yearbook and IB coordinator. We're just so pleased to have them both here today.  They're here to share information about how to use Chat GPT, which is a language model developed by open AI that uses deep learning to generate human like responses to natural language inputs. 

You can find Dr. Rogers on Twitter @edurlrogers and Lauren @freeLaurentech

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We are very excited to introduce our awesome guests for this episode. Katie Henry, head of partnerships for North America from Microbit Educational Foundation, Alinda Beiter from Melva Davis Middle School in Adelanto School District and Dominique Conerly from Kelley Elementary School in Rialto. They came today to our changing the world bit by bit with microbit workshop to help engage other teachers just like themselves in microbit endeavors.

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Sue Thotz and Leticia Citizen from Equity in Action CA,  a group of educators who are working to diversify conference spaces in Southern California.

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