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Teach Smart
Preparing students for success goes beyond traditional academics. Teach Smart is a 15-hour program that makes your faculty well-rounded, future-ready professionals, with a blend of life-based skills and technology skills.
Why Teach Smart?
Many skills, one confident teacher
We build a blend of essential life-based skills and new technology skills, so teachers can handle the many roles they play today.
Use technology creatively
Teachers learn to do more than adapt. They use technology creatively and keep up as it changes.
AI for personal learning
Teachers use AI tools for content creation, language practice and better assignments.
Debate and discuss with AI
Teachers, and their students, sharpen their speaking and reasoning by debating with AI.
What teachers learn
- What AI is, and AI in our daily life
- AI myths, and why to explore and embrace AI
- What AI can and cannot do
- Real or fake quizzes
- What LLMs are, and how to prompt for the result you want
- Fact-checking tools
- Tools better than ChatGPT
- Lesson-based slides and videos with AI
- Free tools that make teaching simple
- Talk to a historical figure
- Lesson plans, quizzes and more with AI
- Dictate in any language and get typed text
- Explore mathematics and science with AI
- Assessment tools: quizzes answered on mobiles (up to 50 people)
- Create a subject chatbot
- AI Studio and NotebookLM
- Debate any topic with AI
- All the latest updates on AI
AR and VR activities
AR and VR work on Android, iOS and the web. They bring lessons to life.
- Draw in augmented reality and share your creation as a short video
- Visit New York in virtual reality, in 360°, with a Google Cardboard (make one or buy one)
- 3D activities from MGH for rotations, slopes, reflections, cross-sections, parallel and skew lines and the Pythagoras theorem
- MERGE EDU: make a Merge Cube, open lessons anywhere and answer quizzes with Object Viewer and Explorer
- HoloGlobe on the Merge Cube: see real satellites, clouds, fires, temperatures and earthquakes
- An AR escape-or-survive game on the Merge Cube
- Drive to the Moon: launch a rocket, suit up and take a Moon shot
- Drive to Mars: walk on the surface of Mars in AR
- Visit NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and take real-like selfies
- An escape room: solve the mystery within a set time (needs a 3 m × 3 m free space)
- Bring 10 museum pieces into your room, such as Zeus and an Egyptian mummy, with full information
- Learn about 100 historic women, including Helen Keller, by scanning a US bill