Alexis Mabe

Alexis Mabe, EdD is an Educational Technology Specialist with more than ten years of experience in the classroom. She is a Writer, Consultant, Speaker and the CAO of Miami EdTech. In 2019, she became an Apple Distinguished Educator and received her doctorate in Global Educational Leadership. Alexis is passionate about helping teachers use technology to foster the skills students need to be 21st Century Learners.

From Hours to Minutes: Highlights from My ISTE Session

I look forward to The International Society for Technology in Education every year. This year, perhaps even more so because my session “AI for Teacher Efficiency” was accepted. Towards the beginning of last school year, I did a training at my school on the same topic. Teachers gave such good feedback, I decided to apply to speak at ISTE to share the information with more teachers.

The topic of Artificial Intelligence definitely dominated the sessions. I overheard many people complaining about how they experienced AI overload. However, I believe the content reflects what people really want to know more about. AI for Teacher Efficiency focused on how teachers can save time utilizing AI tools. For example, the real mind blowing moment of the talk came when we showed how you can AI App Smash. Writing your lesson plans, making your presentation deck, coming up with review questions and making your test used to take COUNTLESS HOURS. However, you can do it all now in under 5 minutes. See the workflow below:

ClassX – Use the lesson plan creator function, enter in a topic and grade level. Yes, you can do this same thing in your favorite LLM, but I find that the format the lesson plan is given in ClassX makes it easy to continue with the process.
Gamma – copy and paste your lesson plans into Gamma to create your presentation deck. Once you have a draft, you can give feedback and do things like ask for more pictures or even ask it to obey the rules of Death By Powerpoint.
QuestionWell – use QuestionWell to create review and test questions. Yes, many, many other tools can do this same thing (Magic School, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc), but the reason I love QuestionWell is because you have a choice of how you export the quesitons. You can download it in the formate to upload into a Kahoot, or a Gimkit to help review. Or, you can instantly create a Google Forms quiz or download as a Word document.
- PRO TIP: turn your Gamma presentation into a website so you can share the website with QuestionWell. You have to pay for the copy and paste function and I prefer free!

Check out my next post to see highlights of other ISTE presentations.