Thinkdrive – AI Teaching and Learning Tools


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Thinkdrive Workshop

Thinkdrive – AI Teaching and Learning Tools

Discover practical ways to use Thinkdrive's AI tools to create engaging, curriculum-aligned lesson plans and activities while reducing planning time.

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Overview

AI, when used purposefully and effectively, has the potential to transform lesson planning. In seconds, teachers can generate creative, engaging and curriculum-aligned lesson plans and activities—delivering significant time savings while supporting high-quality teaching and learning.

This practical introductory workshop will demonstrate how teachers can use Thinkdrive's AI tools to support lesson planning and curriculum development. Teachers will have the opportunity to generate their own AI lesson plans and engaging lesson-starting activities, while exploring how AI can reduce planning time without compromising the quality of learning experiences.

Importantly, the workshop goes beyond AI generation. Teachers will explore how tasks can be strengthened through the use of aligned thinking tools and language scaffolds, helping students organise their thinking and develop more effective written and oral responses.

Participants will leave with practical ideas, resources and AI-generated activities they can use immediately in their classrooms.

Generate AI lesson plans using Thinkdrive
Create engaging lesson-starting activities
Strengthen tasks with cognitive verb scaffolding
Generate practical supporting activities

Example Schedule

3:25–3:30
Assemble & Introductions
3:30–4:15
AI and Lesson Design: Creating Dynamic Lesson Plans
  • Generating AI lesson plans using itc Thinkdrive
  • Customising the lesson plan:
    • Lesson trajectory – HOT tasks
    • Lesson starting activities
    • Cognitive verb scaffolding – customising the lesson plan with thinking tools and supporting language
    • Cooperative learning scaffolding
  • Generating AI supporting activities
Delivery

Online or Face-to-face

Presenter

Gerard Alford

Director, itc publications
gerard@itcpublications.com.au

Supporting Research

High Impact Teaching Strategies – Excellence in Teaching and Learning, 2020

  • Scaffolding – planned sequencing, specific steps / activities – effect size 0.53
  • Direct Instruction – explicit teaching practices, modelling – effect size 0.59
  • Feedback – student performance, learning goals, redirects teacher / student efforts – effect size 0.69

Note: An effect size of 1.0 would improve the rate of learning by 50% and would mean that, on average, students receiving that treatment would exceed 84% of students not receiving that treatment.

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