Online Course: AI in the Classroom
In this 10-module online course, you’ll learn how to turn AI from a vague buzzword into a practical, time-saving teaching partner. Step by step, you’ll see how to use classroom-safe prompts, Black Magic virtual assistants, and the WISSAM framework to plan units, differentiate from real student data, support IEP work, and give better feedback—without losing your professional judgment. By the end, you’ll have a clear, ethical gameplan for using AI to save hours of work while putting more energy into what matters most: your students.
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Module 1: An Overview of the Course and Site
Discover how AI can transform your teaching in minutes, not hours. In this lesson, you’ll see how the AI Miracle Factory’s virtual assistants and classroom-tested prompts generate lesson plans, leveled texts, assessments, and even IEP drafts—freeing you to focus on what really matters: connecting with students. If you’ve ever wondered how to make AI practical, ethical, and truly useful in the classroom, this is where you start.
Discover how AI can transform your teaching in minutes, not hours. In this lesson, you’ll see how the AI Miracle Factory’s virtual assistants and classroom-tested prompts generate lesson plans, leveled texts, assessments, and even IEP drafts—freeing you to focus on what really matters: connecting with students. If you’ve ever wondered how to make AI practical, ethical, and truly useful in the classroom, this is where you start.
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Module 2: Getting Started with AI Prompts
Learn the art of prompting with AI. This lesson shows you how to set up safe, organized ChatGPT workspaces, protect student privacy, and craft prompts that actually deliver classroom-ready results. Click in to see how to ground AI with your own standards, reduce errors, and save hours of planning time.
Learn the art of prompting with AI. This lesson shows you how to set up safe, organized ChatGPT workspaces, protect student privacy, and craft prompts that actually deliver classroom-ready results. Click in to see how to ground AI with your own standards, reduce errors, and save hours of planning time.
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Module 3: The Gameplan: From Data to Differentiation
This module introduces WISSAM—Whole-Language Instruction Supported by Standards, AI, and Metrics—a classroom-tested approach to using AI for truly individualized learning. You’ll learn how to analyze student data, build quick snapshots, and generate ready-to-use scaffolds, mini-lessons, and reference libraries. With practical prompts and free Black Magic virtual assistants, you’ll see how AI can handle the heavy lifting while you stay focused on connection, dialogue, and real teaching.
This module introduces WISSAM—Whole-Language Instruction Supported by Standards, AI, and Metrics—a classroom-tested approach to using AI for truly individualized learning. You’ll learn how to analyze student data, build quick snapshots, and generate ready-to-use scaffolds, mini-lessons, and reference libraries. With practical prompts and free Black Magic virtual assistants, you’ll see how AI can handle the heavy lifting while you stay focused on connection, dialogue, and real teaching.
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Module 4: Customized Unit Plans with AI
In this module, you’ll see how to turn student skill data into full unit plans tailored to real classroom needs. Using the WISSAM framework and Black Magic tools, AI helps you align texts to skills, scaffold readings, adapt assessments, and individualize activities based on student snapshots. The result is precise, equitable, and accessible instruction—built faster, but with higher quality.
In this module, you’ll see how to turn student skill data into full unit plans tailored to real classroom needs. Using the WISSAM framework and Black Magic tools, AI helps you align texts to skills, scaffold readings, adapt assessments, and individualize activities based on student snapshots. The result is precise, equitable, and accessible instruction—built faster, but with higher quality.
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Module 5: Student Snapshots Made Usable with AI
This module shows how to turn student snapshots and IEP data into a single, color-coded table of management needs. The result is a quick-reference tool that saves planning time, sharpens instructional precision, and supports compliance—while always supplementing, not replacing, the full IEP.
This module shows how to turn student snapshots and IEP data into a single, color-coded table of management needs. The result is a quick-reference tool that saves planning time, sharpens instructional precision, and supports compliance—while always supplementing, not replacing, the full IEP.
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Module 6: Drafting and Reviewing IEPs with AI
This module introduces two powerful tools—the Black Magic IEP Drafter and IEP Reviewer. Together they turn teacher reports, evaluations, and meeting notes into clear, professional drafts, then check them for quality and clarity against best-practice rubrics. With built-in guardrails, these tools save time, strengthen compliance, and ensure that every IEP reflects student voice, family input, and evidence-based planning.
This module introduces two powerful tools—the Black Magic IEP Drafter and IEP Reviewer. Together they turn teacher reports, evaluations, and meeting notes into clear, professional drafts, then check them for quality and clarity against best-practice rubrics. With built-in guardrails, these tools save time, strengthen compliance, and ensure that every IEP reflects student voice, family input, and evidence-based planning.
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Module 7: Revolutionizing Classroom Talk with Digital Transcription
This module shows how AI-powered transcription tools capture classroom discussions, conferences, and IEP meetings, turning talk into searchable notes, clear feedback, and student-ready resources. You’ll see how transcripts support absent and multilingual learners, engage parents, align co-teachers, and even power accurate teacher self-assessment—making classrooms more equitable, transparent, and student-centered.
This module shows how AI-powered transcription tools capture classroom discussions, conferences, and IEP meetings, turning talk into searchable notes, clear feedback, and student-ready resources. You’ll see how transcripts support absent and multilingual learners, engage parents, align co-teachers, and even power accurate teacher self-assessment—making classrooms more equitable, transparent, and student-centered.
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Module 8: Personalized Assessments with AI
This module introduces the Black Magic: Assessment Creator, a tool with 58 flexible options for building student-centered assessments. Watch how AI can generate complete packages—questions, rubrics, supports, and feedback—tailored to student snapshots and unit plans. Move beyond generic tests to personalized, practical assessments that truly advance learning.
This module introduces the Black Magic: Assessment Creator, a tool with 58 flexible options for building student-centered assessments. Watch how AI can generate complete packages—questions, rubrics, supports, and feedback—tailored to student snapshots and unit plans. Move beyond generic tests to personalized, practical assessments that truly advance learning.
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Module 9: AI-Powered Feedback for Student Writing
This module shows how to use ChatGPT as a feedback engine—not a grader—for essays, creative pieces, and discipline-specific writing. Learn how to generate clear, student-friendly comments anchored in evidence, adapt prompts for different genres, zoom in to sentence-level for struggling learners, and track growth over time. Keep your professional judgment at the center while saving time and giving students concrete, actionable steps to improve.
This module shows how to use ChatGPT as a feedback engine—not a grader—for essays, creative pieces, and discipline-specific writing. Learn how to generate clear, student-friendly comments anchored in evidence, adapt prompts for different genres, zoom in to sentence-level for struggling learners, and track growth over time. Keep your professional judgment at the center while saving time and giving students concrete, actionable steps to improve.
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Module 10: Academic Integrity in the Age of AI
This module explores how to prevent and address AI misuse in student work. Learn practical design fixes, humane checkpoints, and disclosure policies that make thinking visible and keep learning authentic. From verbal conferences to evidence-first review prompts, you’ll gain a clear, defensible playbook for fostering honesty while keeping the focus on real understanding.
This module explores how to prevent and address AI misuse in student work. Learn practical design fixes, humane checkpoints, and disclosure policies that make thinking visible and keep learning authentic. From verbal conferences to evidence-first review prompts, you’ll gain a clear, defensible playbook for fostering honesty while keeping the focus on real understanding.
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