♻️ Review tools students WANT to use

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💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡

♻️ Create custom review tools with Spaces in SchoolAI

Imagine: it’s the night before a test. Your students are studying. (Hopefully!)

If you could do a one-on-one study session with them, that would prepare them to the max — custom studying based on what they need the most.

That’s fantasy, though. There’s only one of you and so many of them. You’re not going to make a house call the night before a test, either. I mean, you have a life (or at least like to tell yourself that you do).

Instead, let’s create the next best thing.

Let’s lead students through a digital review session that’s custom created for what they need to study.

We’re going to create a Space in SchoolAI (schoolai.com) with instructions on how it should guide students through the study session.

🤷🏽 What are Spaces?

To create a Space in SchoolAI, you write instructions on …

• what students should study

• how they should study

• what behaviors you want them to avoid

• even fun ways to interact with them (“talk like a pirate,” “use Minecraft as an analogy,” etc)

There are even pre-created Spaces on lots of topics, like English, math, economics, science, reading, and more. Instead of writing a custom one, you can choose one of those.

Spaces are interactive chatbots that follow the instructions you give them for interacting with students. If you can imagine an interaction you want a Space to have with a student, you can write instructions to create it.

Once your Space is set, you can preview it. Interact back and forth with it just like a student would to make sure it’s doing what you want it to do.

Then, when everything’s set, you launch the space and share it with students (with a link, code, or QR code).

You get to monitor student interactions with the Space so you know what’s going on.

Watch a 3-minute video walkthrough on creating Spaces.

✍️ What can I use Spaces to do?

You can use it to guide students through review, but that’s not all. Create a Space to …

• guide students in writing as a coach

• have a fictional chat with a historical figure or book character

• explore a career

• do personal exploration of a topic you’re studying

• support students through a research project

Learn more: Our post walks you through the basics of creating and using Spaces.

Tips for creating Spaces: This list shares tips for writing prompts for a good Space.

💰 Can I use Spaces for free?

Yes … sort of. In a limited way.

(I have advice for making the most of those limits.)

The free Standard Individual plan limits you to 150 Space launches per day. (A launch is when a student loads one of your Spaces.) They call it your “daily participant limit.”

There some other limitations to a free plan, but I think the launch limit is the toughest one to navigate. (And it’s not really all that tough.)

What’s a “launch”? When a student loads one of your Spaces. (Or opens / clicks on / brings up a Space.)

• They can interact in it as much as they want after they’ve loaded it.

• If a single student loads up three different Spaces, that counts for three launches.

• If a single student brings up the same Space three times, that’s three launches.

🤔 How much can I really do with the free plan?

Here’s what you can do with 150 launches per day …

HIGH SCHOOL/JUNIOR HIGH:

• ONE launch per student (class of 25 kids) for SIX class periods

• TWO launches per student (class of 25 kids) for THREE class periods (three classes one day, other three classes the next day … rotate)

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:

• Up to SIX launches per day for each kid in an elementary class of 25 kids

FREE REVIEW AND STUDY:

• Put links to lots of Spaces your students might want to use on your class website or learning management system (LMS).

  • Students use it whenever they want (and you hope their sporadic use won’t add up to 150+ launches per day).

Of course, if your school or district has purchased a license for every teacher, this isn’t an issue. (But hey, we don’t all get district licenses for all the things we love, do we? And we have to make do on a free plan sometimes …)

🚶🏼 What now? Next steps …

🔎 Search the available Spaces in SchoolAI or create your own (you need a free SchoolAI account)

📺 Watch a full SchoolAI walkthrough (22:38)

📘 Read our SchoolAI post with beginner/intermediate/advanced options and tips for writing great Spaces.

💻 TECH TIP 💻

🖼 My fave image generator gets upgrades!

When I was teaching high school Spanish full-time in the spring, Ideogram (ideogram.ai) was my JAM.

I used it to make fun pictures with my vocabulary that my students could describe. It was the best!

Ideogram’s AI models keep improving. Plus, they have Magic Prompt, which will use AI to improve your prompt to get better results.

Sadly, each time they get better, you get less and less for free. 😟

But for now, you can use their new model 2.0 for several images for free every day.

Check out Ideogram.ai to get started.

👋 How we can help

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3. Bring me to your school, district or event to speak. I love working with educators!