AI Tips You Can Use This Week

About this episode

Meryl shares practical AI tips for immediate implementation in homeschooling.

368: AI Tips You Can Use This Week In this episode, Meryl shares a practical mix of AI tips you can implement right away. What’s covered: 1. Ask Maps (Google Maps) Google Maps has a new AI feature called Ask Maps, currently rolling out. Instead of browsing categories, you can ask specific questions — gluten-free fast food nearby, a park within five minutes of a highway exit, a restaurant halfway between you and a friend. It understands your direction of travel and filters results accordingly. 2. Prompting — Where to Start If you’re new to AI tools and don’t know where to begin, start with purpose-built tools like Brisk (Chrome extension) or Magic School AI rather than jumping straight into ChatGPT or Claude. Both are designed for teachers but useful for homeschoolers, and they’ll give you a feel for what’s possible. Once you’re comfortable, you’ll likely want to move to the LLMs directly for more precise control. 3. Prompting — Leveling Up Be specific: give the AI a role, describe your outcome, set constraints (time, materials, age range, format). Then try this: tell it everything you can think of, and ask it what additional questions it…

People in this episode

Host: Meryl

Topics covered

• AI tips
• homeschooling
• education technology
• Google Maps features
• prompting techniques
• AI tools for teachers

Keywords

• AI tips
• Google Maps
• homeschooling
• prompting
• education technology
• Brisk
• Magic School AI
• ChatGPT
• Claude

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google Maps

Products: Brisk, Magic School AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Gamma, Canva, NotebookLM

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