240: AI in the tools you already use

Do you know there is probably AI in the tools you already use? Here are the ones mentioned in this episode:

1. Gmail – Smart reply / compose

2. Canva

• Text to image (under Apps)
• Magic Write
• AI Photo editing
• Magic Create Presentations

3. Google slides – ‘help me visualize’ rolling out this feature and Google docs – help me write – in labs at present

4. Grammarly Go

FundaFunda classes mentioned in this episode

• Computer Applications
• Graphic Design with Canva

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226:Exploring AI with Your Homeschooled Teen

In this episode, you will learn why exploring AI with your teen is something you should be doing.

If you know very little about AI, a good place to start would be our previous episodes on ChatGPT

3 previous episodes on ChatGPT
Episode 215- What is ChatGPT?
Episode 216- ChatGPT and the Future of Education
Episode 217- 10 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Homeschool

5 topics to address with your teens about AI

1. Learn something new together. 3 websites mentioned

• Canva
• ChatGPT
• Microsoft Designer

2. Discuss the ethical questions involved

3. Discuss appropriate use for assignments – Video mentioned (start at minute 17) Generative AI with Steve Dembo and Vicki Davis

4. Learn to use it effectively eg how to craft good prompts

5. Discuss how AI might affect their choice of career

Show sponsor FundaFunda Academy classes mentioned that will include instruction on how to use AI:

• Graphic Design with Canva
• Computer Applications

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217: 10 ways to use ChatGPT in your homeschool

Randi Smith from Peanut Butter Fish Lessons is my guest again and together we came up with 10 ways to use ChatGPT in your homeschool.

This is the third episode in our series about ChatGPT. You can listen to the first one on “What is chatGPT? here and the second one on ChatGPT and the future of education here

Here are our 10 ideas – listen to the episode to hear them explained:

1. Rewrite a fairytale in two new ways – one with an unreliable narrator and one with a new setting. Circle the words and phrases that show the change in the good guy/bad guy and that show the new setting.

2. Paste an article into ChatGPT and ask it to rewrite it for different reading levels.

3. Give a list of vocabulary words. Ask your children to use ChatGPT to define them and generate three sentences. Also have it tell them the prefixes, roots, and suffixes. They must correct any mistakes. Then they need to write one sentence that relates to their own life.

4. Generate an essay on a prompt about a novel and then discuss different ways one could answer the prompt

5. Create a Mind Map on a specific topic by asking chat to create an outline. Then repeat for each of those items to generate topics under those topics. Continue for an assigned number of levels.

6. Use it to grade your children’s essays

7. Have ChatGPT create a science lab for something you are currently studying in science and then determine if it will work. Ask your children questions like these: Do you think the materials and procedure will help you obtain the objective? Are the materials all items that you could obtain easily and would be safe for you to work with? Are there any other materials you think you need that are not listed? Can you follow the procedure safely? If not, are there changes you could make to follow the procedure? Complete the lab if possible. Do your findings agree with the conclusion?

8. Create tests and reading comprehension quizzes

9. Foreign language: Ask ChatGPT to write captions for 10 pictures you took on a field trip, vacation, etc. (You would have to describe the picture eg. write a 50-word caption about the Grand Canyon in Spanish. Tell your children to circle the words that are new to them and then make a list of 10 new words or phrases they learned.

10. Ask for a lesson plan on something you want to teach your children

Bonus idea: Use it to find recipes and make a shopping list

You can find Randi at

• Peanut Butter Fish Lessons
• Instagram @peanutbutterfishlessons
• Facebook @peanutbutterfishlessons

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216: ChatGPT and the future of education

In this episode, we discuss ChatGPT and what the evolution of AI technology means for the future of education. My guest is Randi Smith from Peanut Butter Fish Lessons who was also the guest on the episode Exploring Media Bias.

This is the second episode in a 3-part series on ChatgPT. You can listen to the first one on “What is chatGPT? here.

The questions we discuss in this episode are:

1. Should we be alarmed by ChatGPT?

2. Is this the end of the essay? The end of needing writing skills? What writing skills will students still need?

3. How do you think ChatGPT will change education?
a) What are new ways we will need to assess students?
b) What new skills will students need to work effectively with Chat GPT?

4. What benefits do we see in having students work with ChatGPT?

5. As homeschool parents, how should ChatGPT and other forms of AI factor into how we homeschool?

The websites you can use to check if an essay has been written by AI are GPTZero and Checkforai.

You can find Randi at

• Peanut Butter Fish Lessons
• Instagram @peanutbutterfishlessons
• Facebook @peanutbutterfishlessons

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204: AI resources for your homeschool

In this episode, we look at some free AI resources you can use for your homeschool.

The AI tools mentioned are:

• Google AI experiments and in particular Quick Draw and AI Duet
• Autodraw
• Instapainting
• Craiyon
• Dream by Wombo
• Verse by Verse
• Quillbot
• Wordtune
• Speechify

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