1. 9:50 AM – 10:40 AM
Dr. Maureen Yoder
myoder@lesley.edu
Twenty-four for '24:
Inspiring and Promising
Trends, Technologies,
and Tools
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Please fill out a
raffle ticket
Room: Webster
3. Overview: Format and Agenda
Chat GPT: November 2023 update
AI: Concerns, Strategies, Potential for 2024
AI, Picasso and You
People Helping People with AI & AR
4. AR in your Hand – Creativity Cubed
Virtual Field Trips
Be Your Own Emoji
TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2023: A Tiny Sampling
A Look Back and Thinking Ahead
5. A Treasure Chest of Billions of Resources
(Your Tax Dollars at Work)
Robots: 3 Dimensional Learning
Drones: Taking Flight
The Ears Have It! The Power of Audio
Tell Me A Story
6. An Augmented “Reality Check”:
AR in the Real World
Augmented Reality:
Making Books Come Alive
Googling Around: Doppelgangers & More
What’s new with Google Arts & Culture?
9. Launched as a prototype on November 30, 2022
Provides detailed responses and articulate answers
across many domains of knowledge.
Uneven factual accuracy was identified as a
significant drawback.
ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer)
Altman began as a part-time partner at Y Combinator in 2011.
Y Combinator helped get Airbnb and Dropbox started.
22. .
New York City Public Schools
Chancellor David Banks,
pictured June 27 in New York,
wrote in an op-ed published
Thursday that "students are
participating in and will work
in a world where
understanding generative AI
is crucial."
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/chatgpt-ban-dropped-new-york-city-public-schools-
30. And one thing technology is getting better
at is replicating human behaviour. Even
behaviour some may consider strictly
human, like creating art.
https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
35. How can YOU use these to
develop
and illustrate lessons?
What about
copywrite?
How do you teach your students
about these?
How do artists
respond?
Who is the artist?
38. FREE
Seeing AI narrates the world around you. This
ongoing research project harnesses the power of AI
to open up the visual world by describing nearby
people, text and objects
Text and
image
recognizer
Scene
describer
41. Be My Eyes connects you with a
global community of volunteers . .
. who are ready at a moment’s
notice to help you see – to lend
their eyesight and support with
everyday tasks.
Free, Global, 24/7
Most calls are answered within 30
42. https://aira.io
Aira (pronounced eye ruh) was founded to uniquely address the needs of
people who are blind or have low vision by providing access to visual
information thereby providing independence and agency.
Starting at $26
15 monthly minutes
Aira is a live, human-to-human
professional assistance service
44. Text-to-Speech
IOS Text to Speech
“Settings” “General”
“Accessibility”
“Speak Selection”
Slide to ON and
adjust “Speaking
Speech-to-Text
https://fosspost.org/open-source-speech-recognition/
50. View entire video at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTpqhvUVyv3yaK8pXBKEOL4BbpPAX4YU8
55 sec
51. From Merge:
“If teachers are going to buy
more than 3 cubes they should
contact us directly.
On http://mergeedu.com/
tap "contact a sales rep” or
email sales@mergeedu.com
Free 3-Month subscription to Merge EDU apps - $30
$29.29
Black Friday
Cyber Monday
discounts
70. Some people worry that artificial
intelligence will make us feel inferior,
but then, anybody in his right mind
should have an inferiority complex
every time he looks at a flower.
Alan Kay
82. Electrical signals made by
clenching your jaw or lifting an
eyebrow turn into commands
NAQI transforms inconspicuous
micro-gestures into a nearly limitless
set of commands to control all the
devices
where we work, live, or play.
https://www.naqilogix.com/naqi-platform
84. List price:
$999.99 256 GB
$1119.99 512 GB
256GB, Compact, Foldable
Design, One-Hand Control, Best
Selfies, Full Cover Screen,
Hands-Free Use
Reply to texts, change
songs, snap photos with
one hand.
3.35” x 2.83” x 0.27”
130. • Drones are the next wave of ‘jobs you haven’t thought of’ as
our students of today enter the workforce of 2030.
• The drone is a tool to teach the essential skills of problem-
problem-solving, digital competence, coding, and creativity.
https://shemaps.com/blog/educational-drones-ultimate-buying-guide/
132. www.pippaanddronie.com
Female role models
Career possibilities
Positive uses of drones
Interesting, relatable activities
The best STEM children’s books
for teaching kids about drones.
https://shemaps.com/blog/stem-childrens-book/
135. UAV: unmanned aerial vehicle
“. . . the demand for
drone pilots is expected
to grow by 51.1 percent
over the next five years”
https://www.vaughn.edu/blog/demand-for-
drone-pilots-soars-uav-jobs-that-pay-over-100k/
142. China recently showed how serious it is about preventing cheating
during its all-important college entrance exams, so it used a drone to
detect signals from devices that could be used to share answers
146. June 8, 2023 by Lauren Du Plessis
https://www.teachingexpertise.com/classroom-ideas/hearing-activity-for-preschoolers/
Get your little explorers excited by getting them to search
for different sounds in the environment. From chirping birds
to honking cars, they’ll get to develop their listening skills
while having an adventurous time.
153. “Research suggests that audiobooks can
aid in the development of key literacy skills”
https://bookriot.com/audiobook-sales-up-for-10th-straight-year/
Fluency / Retention / Pronunciation
154. storynory.com
“Storynory has been giving free
audio stories to the world since
November 2005. We are a podcast
and a website with audio
streaming. Some months we serve
around a million downloads of our
mp3 files. All our content is free.”
157. Project Gutenberg is the oldest digital library,
started in 1971.
But CEO Greg Newby says it “isn’t great at
either creating or distributing.”
So Microsoft and MIT teamed up to make the
Open Audiobook Collection, using text-to-
speech tech to turn 5,000 books into free,
synthetically narrated audiobooks, now
available on Spotify.
158. human-read audio books, read by people
https://www.gutenberg.org
computer-generated text-to-speech
LibriVox, a volunteer community - human read
Open Audiobook Collection. Almost 5,000 titles from 2023, via a
collaboration with Microsoft and MIT. These use neural text-to-speech
technology for more natural-sounding computer-generated audio
books. (also available on podcast platforms and The Internet Archive.)
174. . . . First scroll to the right to see other options,
then click “Retake” to try with another Selfie.
175. How to find your fine art doppelgänger
Open the Google Arts & Culture app
Click on the camera.
Scroll right to “Art Selfie.”
Click the blue icon “Take a Selfie”.
Face the camera and click “Art Selfie”.
View the doppelgängers by scrolling to the right.
Retake if desired.
178. Choose “Art Filter” and click on “Pick Your Filter”.
Put yourself in a famous photo:
Open the Google Arts & Culture app
Click on the camera icon.
Scroll along the bottom of the screen and ”Tap an artifact to
activate”. Click on “Try filter”
193. iCivics was founded by Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor in 2009
to ensure that all Americans
have the knowledge and will
to participate in our unique
experiment in self-
government.
icivics.org
194. icivics.org
As “The Nation’s Report Card” shows that only
22 percent of eighth graders in the United States
were deemed proficient or better in civics.
iCivics calls for greater prioritization of civic education
to sustain and strengthen our nation’s constitutional
democracy.
205. “Voting is one of the primary
ways we participate in our
democracy. Election Day is a
great opportunity to help your
kids understand how our
country works—and to talk
about the values you believe
in (no matter who you're
casting your ballot for).”
https://www.kindercare.com/content-hub/articles/2016/october/good-politics-how-to-teach-your-kids-about-voting
224. 9:50 AM – 10:40 AM
Dr. Maureen Yoder
myoder@lesley.edu
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Room: Webster
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