The Achievery - Created by AT&T in collaboration with Warner Bros. Discovery, The Achievery features clips from some of the most popular, well-loved movies, TV shows and cartoons from Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network, paired with lesson plans and learning activities that K-12 students can engage with. Free, but requires teacher registration.

Along - This digital reflection tool can be used to deepen student-teacher connections and set up a system for regular check-ins. Teachers post a prompt (either one they've created or one selected from a database of research-informed questions). They then add their own response to the prompt before sharing with students. Students see the prompt and their teacher’s response (these can be created in video, text, or audio) and then post their own response in a completely private and secure setting. Free.

Bingo Baker - Make fast and customized bingo cards for any topic or subject area. You can even have your students play bingo virtually with their device. Free, but requires free registration.

Checkology - Checkology is a free e-learning platform with engaging, authoritative lessons on subjects like news media bias, misinformation, conspiratorial thinking, and more. It is best suited for grades 6-12 and adults. A free teacher registration is required to access the content.

Curipod - Create interactive lessons filled with creativity, reflection, and critical thinking using polls, word cloud creation, open questions, drawings, and Q&As to capture student voices. Teacher registration required. Free plan offers five private Curipods with unlimited participants; Premium provides unlimited pods at $7.50/month.

Empatico - Provide meaningful learning opportunities to deepen students’ worldview and social-emotional learning (SEL) with this platform that matches and connects K-8 classrooms across the world as virtual pen pals in meaningful ways (with live video exchanges and SEL content). Free teacher registration required.

Formatically - Instant citation tool designed to provide a a book or website citation in MLA or APA format with editing ability. 

IdeaBoardz - Great for virtual brainstorming. Create a free account, create your board, and then share the URL with students. Try out this one I created.

The Juice - This current events platform delivers five articles to students every day. Designed for grades 5-12 at four different reading levels, each standards-aligned articles has vocabulary, a comprehension quick check, the option to read or listen to the articles, infographics, and articles on SEL and STEAM topics. There is a 30-day free trial. After that, it's $25/month.

Mighty Owl - From the creator of BrainPOP come these free videos for grades K-7 in ELA, math, and science. A free teacher account is required to access the videos.

Project Zero's Thinking Routines Toolbox - Ramp up student understanding and engagement with these research-based thinking routines. Everything you need to implement them is included. Free.

Rewordify - Use this free tool to simplify difficult passages, teach vocabulary words, and more. You can copy and paste your own text into it or pull from a huge library of classic literature and public documents. Settings allow you to designate a difficulty level. The site is designed for students 13 and up and offers a free login for individualized learning. 

Summarize This - Students copy and paste text into the box and it is summarized for them. A free tool that requires no registration.

Virtual Stickerboard - Individually or together, students add virtual stickers to a board following a set diagram to create a finished picture. Try this sample one I created. Free.

Word Wanderer - Use this free tool for students to see what words they are using too much in their writing. Simply copy and paste their text into the box and it will build a word cloud of words used.

ChatGPT - ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with the chatbot. The language model can answer questions and assist you with tasks like composing emails, essays, and code. Free. Check out this PDF with educational prompts to test out ChatGPT.

GooGPT - A free tool that combines Google search results and displays more answers by free ChatGPT. To see its real power, try this search: "What is the best instructional strategy to use with ESL students?” 

GPTionary – Free thesaurus with ChatGPT. This is a good tool to use with students for vocabulary development.

Elicit - Free AI research assistant.

Scribble Diffusion - Turn your sketch into a refined image using AI with this free (and fun!) tool. Good for check-in's with students, main idea concepts, and vocabulary development.

Animated Drawings - This cool site takes a child's (or adult's) drawing and animates the character in it. It can then be uploaded to social media or downloaded. The tool requires no registration and is free.

Starry AI - Transform your description into a variety of art pieces with this free tool.

SummarizeYT - This Chrome extension will summarize a YouTube video in the thumbnail with ChatGPT. You get 10 free summaries. After that, it is $5/month.

Parlay and Parlay Genie - Parlay allows teachers to set up virtual round table discussions with students; it's very powerful. Parlay Genie is an AI-powered discussion prompt generator. Both of these offer a free version that contains pretty much everything you would need and they provide Google Classroom Integration, Google Sign On, and Microsoft Sign On. Learn more about it in this blog.

GPTZero - This free site lets you check text to see if it was created by a human or AI.

SchoolAI - Save hours of time you normally spend on emails, marking homework, lesson plans, ideas, creating quizzes, brainstorms, reports, and more with the help of this tool. It has a limited free program, but is $120/year for unlimited access. 

Trivvi - This site will take content you share with it and create three or five questions from the content. Students can then play a game to answer online. The Basic version is free with more features in the paid Pro version for $5/month. Check out this example I created on the Battle of the Alamo.

Dad-J: Modern Calorie Tracker - This free iOS app blends real-time human and AI coaching to help you meet your nutrition goals. Track your food, fitness, and mindfulness habits so you can learn from them, change them, and achieve your health goals. The basic plan is free; additional features are available for $19.99/year.

Futurepedia - Stay current with new AI tools with this free and searchable site.

Resources

• How AI Can Enhance Education

• Artificial Intelligence Tools Inspire Classroom Creativity

• How to Improve Google Search Results with ChatGPT

• How ChatGPT Can Help with Grading

• Four Ways AI Can Help Teach Poetry

Canva Template Search Terms - This great tool from #Jenallee makes it easy to find exactly the right template in Canva. It includes back to school, classroom, top 10, student templates, and how to teach with Canva. Free.

IdeaBoardz - Great for virtual brainstorming. Create a free account, create your board, and then share the URL with faculty. Try out this one I created.

National Geographic Online Courses for Educators - These courses range in content, length, and schedule, and are open to any educator from anywhere in the world who works with students in either a formal or informal setting. Free.

Talking Points - This free app allows teachers and parents to message each other in their preferred language. The teacher can send out a message in English, and the parent can have it translated into one of over 100 languages. Parents can also respond in their preferred language and it will be translated back for the teacher. It’s available as a mobile app or text-only for parents who do not have smartphones. 

Text Blaze - This tool is a huge time saver. Save smart text templates and insert them anywhere using keyboard shortcuts, eliminating repetitive typing through keyboard shortcuts that help you quickly paste in text. They offer a free trial; educators receive 50% off the Business price of $6.99/month.

Virtual Flipchart Tools - These free templates download in PowerPoint and can then be customized and used for brainstorming, problem solving, gathering input, and more. 

Google Arts and Culture 3D Pottery - Recreate historical pots using your computer. It's relaxing, but also challenging. Free.

Virtual Bubble Wrap - The name says it all. Free.

Jigsaw Explorer - Rest your mind and recenter yourself by putting together one of these free, online jigsaw puzzles. Two new puzzles are added each day. (Studies have shown that jigsaw puzzles can help improve visual-spatial reasoning, short-term memory, and problem-solving skills, as well as combat cognitive decline, which can reduce the risk of developing dementia.)

Do Nothing for Two Minutes - The website's premise is that most of us never slow down enough to truly relax. So it challenges you to simply sit back and do absolutely nothing. Touch your mouse or go to another screen and the timer starts all over again. Free.

Art Selfie - Match yourself to a person in a famous work of art. Free. Or match your pet to one like it in a famous painting. Free.

Breathe Slowly - This website guides you to exhale and inhale on cue, responding to the relaxing motions of the animation. You can customize the time intervals, color scheme, and whether to play audio. Free.

This Is Sand - Build your own artistic masterpiece from virtual sand. Hold your left mouse button and sand flows from it, dropping to the bottom of the screen and slowly mounting. If you want to change the color of the sand, click the circle in the top-right. Free.

Rainy Mood - Love listening to the sound of rain, but it's not happening in your area today? This website will help you relax. Free.