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SCVTHS English instructor Christopher Miller has written Designing Lessons in the AI-Infused Classroom: A Five-Stage Framework for Educational Intelligence
BRIDGEWATER – As AI becomes more prevalent, many people are finding new ways to incorporate the tool into their professions. Christopher Miller, an English instructor at Somerset County Vocational & Technical High School (SCVTHS), has written Designing Lessons in the AI-Infused Classroom: A Five-Stage Framework for Educational Intelligence to provide strategies educators can use in their professional practice that incorporate the technology into their classrooms while still encouraging students to be creative and curious.
Mr. Miller has been a teacher for almost twenty years, and regularly integrates new ideas and methodologies into his classes to engage and motivate his students. He is a Teacher Leader at SCVTHS, helping his colleagues to design curriculum that is student-centered, incorporates technology, and is appealing to their classes. He has spoken to educators on topics such as gamified learning, writing instruction, and classroom innovation, has served as a mentor for new teachers, and has been honored as Teacher of the Year.
As an English instructor, part of what Mr. Miller teaches his students is how to express themselves through writing. When he began to notice students handing in AI generated work, he “decided to start tackling ways of getting authentic work out of students” using the tool rather than banning its use. The strategies he developed eventually grew into his book.
In the book, Mr. Miller presents a five-step framework that will help educators to integrate AI into their classrooms. His process starts with engaging the learner, getting them involved in the subject matter. He next employs a process filter, which requires the students to take notes on the topic they are studying. This is followed by a creative element that encourages students to come up with unique ways of interpreting the material. He also has the students reflect on what they have learned, which requires them to synthesize the information they have received and the materials they have created. The fifth step is AI integration. AI can be inserted at any point in the process, with the understanding that students can use it to develop ideas, but in the end they need to develop their own work.
Mr. Miller has provided resources to facilitate learning, and actionable plans that instructors can read through and then implement, regardless of the subject area they teach. He hopes that his book helps other educators to develop lessons that use AI in a way that leads to more student centered learning experiences. “I would hope that teachers, supervisors, and administrators would read it to get a sense of, yeah, we can't ban it, so we need to learn how to use it. Because it is getting more prolific.”
Christopher Miller’s book, Designing Lessons in the AI-Infused Classroom: A Five-Stage Framework for Educational Intelligence is published by Routledge and is available through their website (www.routledge.com) as well as online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
For more information on this story, please contact Steve Philip at (908) 526 – 8900 x7267 or sphilip@scvts.net.
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