Supporting Teacher Candidates Through Lesson Study: AI for Creative Lesson Planning (Poster 3)

• In Event: Lesson Study Transforms Education and Optimizes Learning

Abstract

In this session, participants will collaborate with peers on the challenges of best practices for empowering students for creative use of technology within an inclusive classroom that represents a safe space for students to construct meaning. Using technology to promote critical thinking is an important aim of education to help organize and analyze information as well as adapt to the rapid changes in society. To better cultivate critical thinking skills, instructional strategies can provide open-ended questions to promote reflection, discussion, debates, or persuasion (Ennis, 1996; Freire, 2000; Paul, 1990; Schellens et al., 2009). Therefore, with the use of technology, critical thinking can be stimulated during instruction. Ruha Benjamin (2022) reminds us that for those who want to construct a different social reality grounded in justice and joy we can’t only critique the world as it is. We have to build the world as it should be to make justice irresistible (p. 11).

Authors

• Gabriel Matney, Bowling Green State University

• Allison Goedde, Bowling Green State University

• Joanna C. Weaver, Bowling Green State University