 Good afternoon everybody and welcome to this session which is about sort of using AI and ways in which AI can make the life of a teacher easier. And I'm going to be talking about teacher magic which is a AI platform that I've been involved in developing for the last year or so and that we launched end of March and is currently being used by over 20 colleges. So what I'm going to be covering today I'm going to sort of introduce what teacher magic is about. Talk a little bit about the philosophy behind teacher magic. Do a bit of a live demonstration and I'm going to share with you all a trial logon that will last for two weeks. So you're all going to get the opportunity to have a go with teacher magic yourselves. You can share this logon with colleagues of yours in your college and see what you think. And then at the end I will take some questions. If anybody wants to, I mean it's years since I've used collaborate so I'm not too familiar with it anymore so I'm assuming there's a chat thing like with teams. So if you've got any questions just chat put them in the chat and then I hope whoever's chairing this will be able to call those out between slides. So a bit of background. Why was teacher magic developed? The main reason was to make using AI in particular sort of chat GPT type tools. So teacher magic is based on chat GPT but it also uses some other similar platforms for developing AI content. To make it easy for teachers to do when I first came across chat GPT just nearly a year or so ago it struck me that this was incredibly powerful technology for educators but that it would probably be too difficult for a lot of teachers to do the kind of prompt engineering that's required to get the best out of it. Now some of you will know me I've worked in colleges well since 1986 which makes you feel very old. I've worked in digital since the late 90s being an IOT director led the blended learning consortium and something that I've always been very passionate about is finding ways to make using technology easy for all staff. It's very easy to get those keen enthusiastic staff using technology but I've always been keen to find ways of bringing all teachers on board with things and so teacher magic was designed as a platform that any teacher could use that would be very simple to use that would allow them to to save time on a lot of everyday tasks make this all the work a lot more efficient and also it supports creativity one of the great things about using AI is it gives you new ideas new ways of approaching things. We wanted to create an organisational solution. It's very aware having worked with a number of IT managers over the last few years that they might have concerns about sort of platforms like OpenAI which are based in America using an American servers that you know cyber security reasons IT managers won't want their staff putting their user details into a non-EU based server which most of the open AI ones are and so we've built an organisational solution where you're communicating with all of these chat GPT and similar services but the platform is based in the UK so while we're reaching out to those servers in the US the user's information doesn't go across at all just a query goes across so it's a much more secure solution. A little bit about the team behind teacher magic basically there's four of us we're all FB current FB or X FE staff so we're all very much based within the sector and a bit about the development process we started developing it around August. We firstly built a prototype we got three expert users doing some testing giving us some feedback and then we widened this out to 50 users now because they all wanted to get their colleagues involved because their colleagues saw what they were doing this in snowball to 300 users so we had 300 users from sort of January and February using the platform giving us lots of feedback and then based on that feedback we produced the platform for launch at the end of March we launched it in March but we've been continually improving it ever since we've very much driven by our user base by our customers by features and so we're constantly updating the generators and adding new generators so I'm now going to try and go go live so I'm going to come out of PowerPoint and open up share my browser okay so I'm going to now show you teacher magic so this is what teacher magic looks like so you log on and then what you see are over 20 generators and each of these generators schemes of work FAQs learning activities multiple choice questions etc are designed to easily do a simple task that teachers will do in their day-to-day work now we do have a chat bot generator which is for generic questions and so into this top one if there's any any sort of question that you have or anything that you want to do with AI that we don't have a generator for you can just and this just works very much like open AI so for example I've done here help me with a difficult meeting with students who has issues of attendance and punctuality and there you've got some advice on doing that if I scroll up the next one write a policy on student use of chat gpp for a college and there it's produced a policy write a risk assessment for a visit to a building site so there it's created a risk assessment hazards controls etc write a lesson plan for project project management on business level three and so there you see it's produced me a lesson plan so I'm going to show you some of the other generators now and to save time I've kind of loaded these up beforehand because I've only got half an hour and I want to show you as many as possible but the way that this works I come out of that if you want to use any of the generators so for example classroom questions you click there say you're doing something on you want five classroom questions on developmental psychology we've got balloons tapped on and they're built into this one we can choose open or close questions click on generate and you see it then it's generated five questions that a teacher can take into the classroom yet maybe to start the class off to have some nice open questions to to get the class going and again that's where I'm talking about this creativity things I've got you know the 20 years teaching experience but when I've been using this tool you know I come up with all sorts of new ideas thinking oh that's an interesting way to do something I hadn't thought of that before and so it's great for doing giving you new creative ideas for doing things very quickly so I'm now going to show you some generations that have already done so this is the multiple choice question generator and I've asked it to generate me eight questions on Bloom's taxonomy and say you see here which levels of blue taxonomy focus on the ability to remember facts and concepts is the text big enough for everybody there I can magnify it uh Texas good size okay so and you see it gives me the correct answer there for all of these questions and you can see that to write eight multiple choice questions that literally took me less than a minute how long would it take for a teacher to write eight multiple choice questions you're probably looking at half an hour to do that so you can see the time saving that stayed there and with a lot of these generators we've built in some useful export options so for example you can export in the gift format which you can then create creates a text file which you can upload into a vle like moodle or canvas or blackboard now again think about the time saving of that now that's one of the clonkier things in most most vle's is adding multiple choice questions it takes you know three or four minutes to build each question typically but by creating this file and uploading it into the vle you can create eight questions literally write them and upload them in about two minutes that saves you well over an hour's work so that hopefully is an example of how this can be a great time saving technology we've got a variant on this particular tool and again this came from our users where they said it would be really useful to have a generator that you could put in a web address and it would generate questions around that url and so what i've done here would the mcq generators i could somebody read out that question for me sure would the mcq generators automatically include plausible errors misconceptions as options or would you need to stipulate in the instructions no it does that that we built all that prompt engineering in the way this works we coded all that prompt engineering to give you good multiple choice questions you know we recommend that you check them that you can edit them and change them if you wish to if they're not perfect for you but they are you know and i'm going to give everybody a link to to have a go if you'll see that they do generally produce very good questions so so what i've done here i've taken this website the nhbc website on building regulations which is something that you know construction students need to to learn about i've taken the url for that i've copied that url here clicked on generate i've asked it to currently 10 questions and now also i've got a complexity slider this is on nearly all of the generators and so that's great for differentiation we generally recommend you start in the middle which is sort of generally around level two sort of thing and then you can slide up and slide down if you want to increase or decrease the the academic complexity and so so based on that website it's created me 10 multiple choice questions about building regulations about the minimum width of the virus gave the maximum weight for a ceiling and a domestic dwelling the minimum fitness for a structural floor in england so lots of very detailed multiple choice questions you see is giving plausible answers as the distractors etc the next question this is a particular favorite of mine the the classroom question which i showed you earlier on and so here i'm thinking in the case of maybe a travel and tourism lecturer is about to deliver a class on ecotourism we've all been here as teachers this one is great if perhaps you've not had enough time you had a busy day you've not had enough time to to plan that lesson you need some extra resources very quickly at the last minute so you go to teacher matt you think right i want five discussion questions to take into the classroom on ecotourism you can use blooms taxonomy here so you can go for the lower levels maybe for level two students you focus on knowledge and comprehension when you're going up to the levels three four and five you might bring in application analysis synthesis and evaluation and here i put in application analysis so these will be more sophisticated questions how can we use ecotourism to produce different solutions for environmental problems what methods can be employed to illustrate the benefits of ecotourism how can we separate and divide the elements of ecotourism so it gives you five questions that you can take into the classroom for a discussion the next one FAQs pretty self-evident so i put in Microsoft 365 as my topic and it's given me five FAQs about Microsoft 365 and again with all of these you've got minimum copy but for some of them you've got the option to export like with multiple choice questions this one again a particular favourite and one that came from our users is a rubric generator now marking rubrics i think are an incredibly powerful teaching learning and assessment tool if you produce a good marking rubric it makes it easier for the teacher to do the marking and it's also really useful for students if you give them the rubric up front and they know what they need to address to get a good grade and so with the marking group the rubric generator what the teacher must do is they put in an assessment name here this one is producing an exercise plan for a client and again i'm looking at um for sports teachers here um you specify you type in here so this is what you add what your performance indicators are going to be so i put in here knowledge understanding and addressing the client's needs and you see it's produced me here a marking rubric with knowledge understanding addressing the client's needs and poor, fair, good and excellent as the criteria and i can export this as a csv file or json file and then that allows you to uh share that with the students um this this is one that we've just added this week uh again from uh feedback from our users an analogy maker and so here um i want some analogies of homeostasis so if someone a biology teacher might want to do and ask it to produce me five analogies and so i've got homeostasis is like a thermostat constantly regulating to maintain a stable environment it's like a ship's captain steering a course to keep the passenger safe and comfortable and analogies are a great way of explaining things to students so if you put in any concept it'll give you a number of analogies to um to to help that explanation um again this one is lesson objectist and again i'm looking at homeostasis and thinking about how i could do a lesson on homeostasis and again this one we've included bloom stacks on me with and i've selected knowledge and comprehension and it's given me asked it to do five lesson objectives and it's given me those five objectives around homeostasis identify the components of homeostasis describe the physiological mechanisms that maintain homeostasis etc and finally the learning activities one again this is really useful particularly if you've got a very busy teacher who's rush perhaps a maths teacher is teaching fractions they put in fractions they put in five and this gives them five learning activities a fraction matching game have students work in pairs to match equivalent fractions decimals and presenters on card fraction problem solving provides students with a variety of fraction problems and have them work together to solve them fractions bingo so it gives you a whole range of different um solutions there okay so i'm going to go back into my powerpoint does anybody have any questions while i move on okay so i just want to tell you a little bit more about teacher matting then we launched it right at the end of march and we've already got um 23 colleges signed up so if your college isn't currently signed up and you'd like to maybe talk to people you know i've just got the logo so yeah um and um these are our first users of teacher matting um i've put jisc in here because jisc um very interesting what we're doing um and they asked us if we would partner with them on an evaluation project and that has just started where eight colleges are working with ourselves and jisc to do a detailed evaluation of teacher matting okay a little bit about the costings um this is the one that i think most is a thousand pounds plus fat the 50 users for an organization is the sort of base product and if you want an individual account you can have a basic account for 9.99 a month for professional 18 pounds a month and so here is the trial login so um if you want to maybe take a quick photograph of that um perhaps if somebody could copy it into the chat um i'll leave that on for a moment and this will work until the end of the month i'm very happy for you to share it um with any of your colleagues for them to have a go using teacher matting and see what they think um please take a note of that email address peter at transformeducation.co.uk so if you've got any questions or you didn't get time to uh take that trial log on down you can email me and i'll uh i'll send it through to you peter at transformeducation.co.uk and um just going to share now some some feedback some some of our users and um i'll be very happy to take some questions um so does anybody have any any questions that's kind of the the end of the presentation Howard College is generally using us a very good question um in all sorts of different ways we just had our first user group meeting last week um and um some colleges are focusing it on teachers who they think need additional support teachers new teachers and teachers who have had a lesson of observation and didn't perform too well um and um some colleges are distributing it equally across all curriculum areas some are focusing on particular curriculum areas and in general they're using it for planning for creating resources for um ideas for teaching and learning in all sorts of different ways um what was the next question i i just i just saw that one i'm not seeing uh the next one is from Michelle right place oh yeah uh what barriers have you come up against when lazing with sorry can you say that again i i didn't hear that yeah uh this one's from this one's from Michelle what barriers have you come up against when lazing with colleagues when lazing with colleagues or colleges sorry sorry with colleges not colleagues um well thankfully very few i mean we're absolutely delighted that so many colleges have adopted it so quickly and we're getting you know just tremendously positive feedback from our early adopters um um you know we've certainly found cases where we've got some very infusistic people in the college who want to use it and they're sort of working with the people in the college who hold the purse strings and trying to persuade them to uh to um find a budget and you know money is very tight in the sector at all times so some colleges where there is infusion to get it are um you know being challenged to find a budget for doing it um any other questions again there's my email address if any you want to contact me uh and the website for teacher matik i'll just go back to that trial logon uh if you'd like to have a look at does the AI engine use um us we've done some training on it as well so i'm not the right person to ask about this i mean we've got a technical team of over 20 developers working on this um who are very clever do some really good stuff um i'm not that technical but um i know they've done some training to make sure that it works around the um the UK curriculum um it uses open AI, Leonardo and other um language generative models um if you want to perhaps email me that question i can pass it on to our technical team