To-Do List

I decided to hop on the AI bandwagon to help me create a to-do list for my project. I will eventually edit this list to fit what I feel is needed for my grade level and content.

🎨 PROJECT CREATION (Using Canva for Student Choice)

✅ Clarify the classroom issue: Rigid curriculum limits how students can show understanding
✅ Define your goal: Allow students to choose how they show what they know
🔲 Choose & prepare 3–4 format options in Canva (that are first grade-friendly):

• 🔲 📸 Storyboard (draw or select images to retell a story/concept)

• 🔲 🎙️ Podcast (simple audio explanation with teacher support)

• 🔲 🎥 Video (recorded explanation or performance)

• 🔲 📊 Presentation or poster (using visuals and short sentences)
  🔲 Create a short video lesson that introduces the concept and choices
  🔲 Design a choice board (visual menu) for students to select their format
  🔲 Create visual step-by-step instructions for each option
  🔲 Make a simple rubric or checklist students can understand (e.g. Did you include a beginning, middle, and end?)
  ✅ Plan supports for ESL students: visuals, sentence frames, partner work, modeling

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📝 WRITTEN REFLECTION (For Blog, ~1500 words)

✅ Explain the origin of your project idea: personal story + classroom experience
✅ Describe the importance of student choice, especially for ESL students
✅ Explain how Canva supports creativity and accessibility at the first grade level
🔲 Define your technology identity (likely techno-constructivist)
🔲 Connect to at least 3 course texts or concepts (e.g., digital media, student agency, critical pedagogy)
🔲 Show what is new for you (e.g., using Canva in this way, giving tech-based choice, assessment flexibility)
🔲 Include 5+ hyperlinks (Canva help, research on student choice, ESL learning strategies, etc.)
🔲 Proofread for clear, engaging writing
🔲 Post it on your blog by July 14

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📽️ PECHA KUCHA PRESENTATION (20 slides x 20 seconds)

🔲 Make 20 slides that visually tell your story (with minimal text)
🔲 Write a 40–50 word script for each slide (total ~6m40s)
🔲 Include slides that cover:

• ✅ Your teaching context

• ✅ The problem (rigid expectations)

• ✅ Your beliefs about how young kids learn

• ✅ Why student choice matters

• ✅ How Canva will be used

• 🔲 Examples of student options

• 🔲 Supports for ESL students

• 🔲 Rubric and assessment

• 🔲 What you learned in this course

• 🔲 Final reflection
  🔲 Practice timing and flow
  🔲 Be ready to screen share on Zoom July 9

I know that all I needed to do for this blog post was create my checklist

for the project; however, I would like to reflect on my use of Artificial Intelligence here, as today's class (July 3) focused heavily on the benefits of AI. I decided to use AI to help me get my thoughts together. With a large project like this, there are many parts and sections to consider. I thought AI could benefit me by giving me a precise layout of what I have already done and what I still need to do. I enjoyed this experience because it also helped me realize where I was lacking on giving AI prompts. My first prompt was "help me make a to-do list to help with my project what do i still need to do. Here is the project The Project:...". I then used control a and control v to copy and paste the project expectations and I included what I have already completed. The AI provided me a response, which I did not use. It added a time-line that went until mid to late July. At this point, our class will be over. I prompted "no time line please and just a list based off of what I have to do from the outline i put". After AI gave me a response, I realized the content was a bit too advanced for my grade level, so I prompted again. I told ChatGPT to recreate it but for first grade. Then I also asked it to check off what I have already completed. I am hoping to improve my prompting and utilize AI more often to support my students and my teaching.

Here is my APA reference to the conversation I had with ChatGPT: 

OpenAI. (2025, July 3). Final project planning and hyperlinks [Large language model]. ChatGPT. https://chat.openai.com