5 Tips to Use AI to Gamify Your Class
Gamification is great for engaging students, however can be challenging to create. Use AI to gamify your class faster!

5 Tips to Use AI to Gamify Your Class
Gamification is great for engaging students, however can be challenging to create. Use AI to gamify your class faster!
If you have Google Gemini in the sidebar of your Google Docs
You can ask to append another version, by scrambling the questions or creating different questions.
If you need multiple versions, Gemini can save you a ton of time.
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Formative Assessment
Instead of:
“I need to grade this.”
Think:
“What can I learn about my students’ thinking from this?”
Use Google Gemini to make an app, like a spinny wheel random student chooser
Hover over the 3 dots on the Gemini Chat in the left sidebar to choose "Pin" to make it easy to get to.
Or bookmark it :)
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You see a billboard about the lottery
Who wants to win the lottery?
What would your billboard look like to win the lottery?
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Used Gemini Canvas to create a quick 2 minute demo for students learning about powers of 10.
Since Gemini Notebook is based on the carefully curated resources I added, it is able to support me in how I do things and the content that I actually want my students to know.
Have you played with Google Pics yet (it's not available on all accounts yet)
I opened up Gemini this morning to find some new options in the sidebar.
Labs sound like fun, some interesting things in there.
(Students was not what I was expecting it to be)
What labs do you think you'll use?
In Gemini, type the @ symbol to connect to your other Google Workspace tools.
Go to canva.com/ai
To describe what you want to create.
See if it can make your handout/rubric/classroom activity starter.
I like this idea... we need to help our students to be great COMMUNICATORS so they can clearly describe what they are trying to do. Whether you're managing an AI assistant or actual people, communication is essential.
In Google Gemini, choose the tool CANVAS to code or create interactive apps.
"Create me a spinny wheel app to randomly choose student names"
How you liking the new interface in Gemini Notebook?
Click on the 3 dots on the notebook tile
Choose to "Pin to Top" or "Add to Collection"
Collections are... folders.
In Canva
Highlight PART of your design
Right click
Download this selection
This made it easy to add xy axis and number lines to my Google Doc