Using AI Tools to Increase SOCIAL STUDIES Learning and Enhance Teacher Productivity (Grades 6-12) Presented by Dr. Rhett Oldham Award-Winning Social Studies Teacher andInternational Presenter

Specifically Designed for Grades 6-12 History/Social Studies Teachers

• How to make best use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) resources to enhance student engagement and learning in your history/social studies classroom
• How to effectively use state-of-the art AI technologies in your social studies classroom … Explore and gain hands-on experience
• Pitfalls to avoid and solutions to ethical concerns with the use of AI-powered tools and resources in the social studies classroom
• Highly practical ways you can save time and increase your teacher efficiency and productivity using AI

Practical Ideas and Strategies

This seminar presented by award-winning social studies teacher Rhett Oldham is an exciting opportunity for Grades 6-12 history/social studies teachers to explore the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence and their specific applications in social studies. Explore outstanding ways you can make the most of this cutting-edge technology – specifically in your own social studies classroom. You will learn how to create a learning experience that strengthens students' critical thinking, creativity, and engagement. This seminar is designed to provide you with practical, actionable strategies and skills you can implement immediately to enhance your existing social studies curriculum, making it more interactive and impactful for your students.

Join Rhett for a highly practical day filled with ways to make best use of AI tools to strengthen your students' social studies learning, streamline grading and assessments, enhance your instruction, and improve your own productivity.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Make Best Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools in Social Studies
   Essential, practical ways to harness Artificial Intelligence tools in your Grades 6-12 social studies classroom … Explore the best, most useful AI tools for increasing your students' learning while increasing your own productivity
2. Quickly Create Engaging Social Studies Lessons With Al
   Spark your students' interests and motivation with AI, easily creating compelling social studies lessons … Construct fun and highly engaging learning opportunities with just a few clicks
3. Easily Differentiate Your Instruction to Better Support Diverse Learners
   Learn how to quickly and easily differentiate your social studies content, processes, and learning products to build on students' strengths and address their uniqueneeds … Quickly customize and strengthen your existing curriculum using AI
4. Simplify Grading and Provide Meaningful Feedback
   Discover how AI technology can quickly and accurately grade social studies assessments, and provide students with meaningful feedback
5. Improve Students' Concept Retention Using Critical Thinking Tools
   Utilize AI technology to create engaging social studies learning experiences that improve students' retention of key concepts … Promote active learning and strengthen critical thinking skills
6. Save Valuable Time With Artificial Intelligence
   Time is the only commodity that cannot be borrowed, bartered, kept, or stolen … Explore great ways to use AI to save time on lesson planning, grading, and administrative tasks, giving you back valuable time for where you're most needed
7. Help Students Utilize AI as a Powerful Research Assistant
   Empower your social studies students to leverage AI to engage in thoughtful inquiry work … Teach students how to use AI to learn more and communicate about the specific topics, concepts, ideas, and skills that fascinate them
8. Avoid and Address Potential Pitfalls and Ethical Concerns
   AI opens exciting new opportunities, but it also raises valid concerns … Explore ways to promote the responsible use of AI in your social studies classroom
9. Prepare Social Studies Students for Future Success
   Learn the best ways to engage students with AI technologies in your secondary social studies classroom, while helping them develop the skills necessary for their future professional and personal success
10. Extensive AI in Social Studies Digital Resource Handbook and Special Online Access
    You'll receive an extensive digital resource handbook packed with practical ideas, strategies, and tools specifically designed to help you increase students' social studies learning and enhance your own productivity … Receive special online access to Rhett's Google Drive full of additional AI resources for social studies

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• The best, most useful AI tools to enhance your instruction and productivity, and increase your students' social studies learning
• How to readily integrate AI into your existing lessons and units so you don't need to start from scratch
• Numerous ideas for fostering creativity and innovation in your social studies classroom using AI platforms and applications
• Ways AI can deliver real-time feedback and improve student performance by tracking progress and helping learners with self-assessment
• Approaches to help you differentiate your instruction rapidly and easily to better support your unique learners, including those with special needs
• Innovative ways to build students' critical thinking, collaboration, teamwork, and problem-solving skills using AI
• Methods for using AI to streamline administrative tasks like strategic planning, crafting sensitive email replies, notes home, and documenting evidence of learning
• How AI can help you manage your social studies instruction, support cross-cultural learning, and foster a global mindset
• Essential ways to strengthen student research and data analysis skills using AI
• A roadmap for integrating AI in the social studies classroom: the latest developments, challenges, opportunities, and pitfalls to avoid
• How AI can easily provide personalized instruction in social studies, engaging students' specific interests, preferences, and learning styles

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As a current social studies teacher, I am excited to share the incredible potential of Artificial Intelligence to greatly enhance teaching and learning in secondary social studies classrooms. I can't wait to share the best of what I and my students have found most effective.

Nothing can replace the impact we as social studies teachers have on our students and their learning. I remember when everyone said Google, SparkNotes, and Wikipedia would ruin education! In short, they didn't. Though our pedagogy becomes more nuanced with AI, we'll look at ways to stay grounded. We'll explore how AI is an exciting development with the power to actually make our jobs as social studies teachers easier.

During our day together, you will learn how to harness the power of this transformative technology to greatly enhance your social studies curriculum. Through interactive and hands-on activities, we'll explore practical strategies to help you easily integrate AI tools into your everyday work as a social studies teacher. And you'll get to connect with a diverse group of educators from across the country interested in using AI in
social studies.

We will explore the ways AI can enhance student motivation, creativity, and critical thinking. You will leave with practical and innovative ways to incorporate AI into your classroom instruction, as well as a deeper appreciation for the possibilities for leveraging AI technology to enhance social studies education.

I look forward to partnering with you on this journey.

Sincerely,
Dr. Rhett Oldham

P.S. I will empty my teacher toolbox as we deep dive into AI. You'll leave ready to hit the ground running with great, practical ways to use AI in your social studies classroom!

Who Should Attend

Grades 6-12 History/Social Studies Teachers

About BER Live Online Events

With the current health challenges, all BER in-person PD events are currently being presented in a Live Online format:

• Outstanding Instructors
  All programs are led by outstanding BER national trainers
• Extensive Resource Handbooks
  You'll have access to an extensive digital Resource Handbook before, during and after your seminar
• Highly Interactive
  You'll be able to ask questions in real time and interact with the instructor and other participants
• Program Guarantee
  As we have for 48 years, we guarantee the high quality of our programs. If you are not satisfied, we'll give you a 100% refund.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive AI in Social Studies Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this
seminar. Included in the handbook are:

• Sample prompts and strategies for using AI tools to create engaging and personalized social studies lessons that cater to individual student learning needs
• The latest developments in AI including emerging technologies and their implications in the social studies classroom
• Techniques for leveraging AI to streamline grading and assessments, and provide timely feedback
• Best practices for promoting responsible and ethical use of AI in social studies, including data privacy, security, and student well-being
• Ways to use AI to automate routine administrative tasks, allowing more time for teaching and student learning
• Strategies to foster critical thinking, collaboration, teamwork, and problem solving in social studies using AI-powered tools

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in making best use of AI tools in secondary social studies classrooms.

Consultation Available
Rhett Oldham will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own social studies program.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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