Martin Palermo, PhD

SchoolAI AI-Powered Tutors and Learning Activities

Here’s one I’m playing around with for a bonding quiz. Feel free to play around with it and ask it questions.
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Playing around with building chat bots 🤖 using SchoolAI for “test corrections.” Uploaded a copy of the test and set parameters like “ act like a teacher and help students understand each question but don’t give them the answer.” Lots of potential. #iteachchem

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These look great Katy

You posted about a recent intervention that improved scores for females. Here’s an article showing some addition methods that might be helpful in closing the gender acheicement gap www.lifescied.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

@msruggerio.bsky.social working on two papers at the moment looking at AP scores for AP chem AP maths and similar to our previous research with physics, females on average score 1 point lower than males on AP exams

Got to tour the click chemistry lab today at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

That’s a good question. I don’t have a great answer, but I found having students constantly compare work with their neighbors has helped a bit.

I also have mastery quizzes set up in canvas. I made banks do question for each lesson and then the quiz pulls from each back so Ss can take unlimited times for the highest grade. I do this at the end of each unit.

Ariel beat me to it but whiteboarding and frequent short quizzes that are low stakes. For home, I assign videos in edpuzzle that reinforce/assess concepts with immediate feedback on the embedded questions.

In class or outside of class? Or both?

That would be awesome. Thank you. Email is mpalermo@wfsd.k12.ny.us

A disorganized pile of puzzle pieces that depict Lewis dot diagrams of oxygen, chlorine, nitrogen, carbon, and nitrogen.

A Lewis dot structure model of CH4, methane, made with puzzle pieces alongside student work determining the type of bond between carbon and hydrogen, drawings of Lewis dot structures.

A Lewis dot structure model of H2O, water, made with puzzle pieces alongside student work determining the type of bond between oxygen and hydrogen and drawings of Lewis dot structures.

A Lewis dot structure model of NCl3, nitrogen trichloride, made with puzzle pieces alongside student work determining the type of bond between nitrogen and chlorine, drawings of Lewis dot structures.

I always talk about how building Lewis structures is like putting a little puzzle together, so this year I decided to just go ahead and make one. I think this really helped my students see the octet around that central atom and get some practice drawing their first structures. #iteachchem

Love it. Going to make these tomorrow. Thanks for the great idea Sarah.

Check out the Gauth app for checking answers to problems. Works really well. It’s on the App Store. Not sure about android.

Here!! I need to up my shirt game this year though.

If you could add me that would be awesome. Thank you.

Second the #iteachChem group.

Not really. Just having different pathways for graduation. So unlike now, they won’t need them to graduate in the future. I think it’s a great idea actually. It is always so disheartening when I have to proctor at the end of the year and an ENL student is taking an exam for the 5th + time.

For sure. Our state added more PE’s etc so we have more to cover unfortunately.

New York has a lot more content (DCI’s) than the NGSS. So we have to cover more. I follow the modeling curriculum which I find to be more robust imo.

Thank you, that’s great to hear. Appreciate the input. Some of our middle school teachers are using it for the first time this year.

What are your thoughts about the level of content? I feel it’s lacking at the high school level. Good starting point but teachers definitely need to add to it.

The percentage of males and females in AP Cal AB and AP Stat was roughly equal but that’s not the case for Cal BC.

My colleague and I are working on an AP math paper and found that gender parity stops at AP calc BC.

Yikes

Very interesting Marianna. We have similar issues in AP chem as well.

I’ll give this place a go.