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General AI Multi-purpose Sites for Education
General AI Multi-purpose Sites for Education
MagicSchool: created for teachers by teachers. A series of tools to save time in teacher workflows.
Twee: with a specific focus on language learning this tool organizes it's options by activity building for reading, vocabulary, writing, speaking, grammar, listening. Freemium.
Diffit: Great tool for making authentic content comprehensible. Choose a topic or an authentic resource from the web and Diffit will create a leveled text, summary, vocabulary list, concept check, and a variety of student ready activities to help students with close reading and analysis of a text. Create your login with Google and content can export directly to your drive or if you prefer export to MS Word.
Brisk Teaching: another educator-focused tool to generate content in multiple languages, provide feedback, and make the lives of teachers a little easier. It's a Chrome extension and generates content in Google apps.
AI for Education: resources and webinars on using AI in education. "Helping teachers unlock their full potential through AI." Check out their Prompt Library.
Eduaide: teacher tools that generate content in English. Options to have it translated within the tool into French or Spanish. Or get your ideas and do the translations as needed for students yourself.
SchoolAI: Free AI tools for teachers. "Generate customized docs in seconds. It’s like magic, but real."
Flint: creates assignments that provide a context and specific person with whom a student can chat. Will base the response on primary source documents uploaded by the instructor. Adjusts for student grade level. Works in many languages.
AI Just KILLED Traditional Language Learning
AI Just KILLED Traditional Language Learning
-great tips and ideas for how students can get support from ChatGPT to improve their language proficiency.
Generative AI Engines
Generative AI Engines
ChatGPT: version 3 is free and does fairly well. Will chat in any language. Like all chatbots, it can be delusion so do this for fun not for facts. Paid versions are more powerful and accurate as one might expect.
Gemini: the Google chatbot. Similar to ChatGPT in functionality. Gemini has a larger context window (memory of the information input) than ChatGPT and is running its own AI platform. Speed and memory make this an extremely powerful engine.
Copilot: a Microsoft chatbot that can manage text in multiple languages and will also turn text into images using Dall-E 3. The app integrates ChatGPT4 but doesn't do well with oral communications, yet. It also doesn't save your communications so you are not able to go back after it has timed out.
Claude: this one is much like the others but it has an artifacts feature that creates interactive elements in its output.
Perplexity: great for informational queries, this one works more like a search engine than a chatbot. Includes source footnotes and searches current web materials for more complete and accurate information that can be easily verified.
ChatBot Arena: compare the responses from 2 gen AIs simultaneously and use or mix and match responses to get what you need. Choose Arena Side-by-Side from the tabs at the top in order to choose which chatbots you want to compare.
Pi: This one is worth watching. At the moment input is only typed but it can read back it's written output. When it reads the output it is still learning the pronunciation rules but it is less mechanical sounding than others. It is growing in the number of languages it can handle.
Chatbot Cheat Sheet: this is a comparison doc that shows the most common of the chatbots with their strength and weaknesses.
Prompts To Get Started
Prompts To Get Started
AI for Education: 5S Prompt Framework for Educators. Additional downloadable resources to support teaching and learning also available including frameworks for students.
Image & Audio Generators
Image & Audio Generators
Adobe Firefly: text-to-image generation, ability to edit images, and add textured text based on your description.
Enhancing World Language Instruction With AI Image Generators: Use case of students using TL to generate images.
Canva: make sure you are signed up with a free educator account. Look at trending now in the apps section to find a few different text to image generators that will open into your Canva page.
Picsart: generates multiple images based on the text you provide. Has tools to edit, add backgrounds, change sizes, add effects, text and more to the image and the option to download your final version.
Ideogram: get inspiration from thousands of existing AI generated images or start with your own text to prompt the engine to create what you need.
ImageFx: this Google image generator does much better with text than most. However it still can struggle with lifelike image creation.
Copilot: Image Creator: supported by Dall-E 3. Generates 4 images for each prompt.
ChatGPT: Creates realistic images based on text. Formerly known as Dall-E, this is OpenAI's image generator. The more descriptive, the closer the image is to what you want.
Napkin: an infographic generator. Type in the words and let it generate related graphics, edit and adjust content to your liking.
Animated Drawings: upload your drawing and leave the rest to this fun site. You can make it walk, dance, jump, and many other options.
Loudly: Generate music based on genre or choose to go text to audio. It will generate 3 options at a time, each will be 30 seconds long. You can pay to have access to longer audio segments. Download as MP3 for free.
MusicFX: Google's music generator. Describe the sound you are seeking and see how it turns out.
Video Lessons
Video Lessons
InVideo AI: turn any content into a video. Begin with any idea and continually refine it to get the video you are looking for. Currently creates videos only in English. Use it to help students understand difficult news topics and discuss or create comprehension questions in the target language.
Glasp: this chrome extension transcribes with clickable timestamps, summarizes, and can create learning content based on YouTube videos by passing the information into a generative AI tool. You decide exactly what you want your summary and follow-up to look like. Works in many languages and will generate the content in the language you choose.
Twee: It can create a transcript and series of exercises, summaries, and more with a YouTube video. While it's primary language is English it is able to pull a proper transcript in other languages. Tested in Spanish and German.
Visla: text to video or let Visla generate the script based on your ideas. You may choose to provide tone, pace, purpose, language, and more improving the ability of the video to meet your needs.
Language Assistants
Language Assistants
Speakology AI: imagine a zoom conversation in the target language about the topics students are studying. With Speakology AI students can do this 24/7 at the time most convenient for them. It's an opportunity to practice language and build the confidence to speak in natural spontaneous sessions.
Short Answer: help students learn to write with this gamified writing tool that works in your language.
Diffit for educators: create leveled texts with a URL of an article, pdf, or video. Or paste in any text. This tool allows you to choose from almost any language and level.
Lingoteach: Specifically for languages this will generate a text based on your specification, create an audio so you can listen and read, allow highlighting of parts of speech, create practice exercises and more. There are a limited number of resources you can create before you need to pay, FYI.
Murf: text to speech voice overs in multiple languages. Import or copy and paste the content to be spoken and pick the voice you want in your language. Share using the embed code or a link.
Character.ai: It will converse in a language of your choice. If you say something in a non-authentic way it will tell you how it would have said it and it will use circumlocution to explain what you didn't understand so you remain in the target language.
EnlightenAI: you can teach this tool to provide personalized writing feedback on student work. It will learn from you, rubrics, and samples that you submit to know what you are looking for in student writing. It also can guide students as they write so they have a couple of opportunities to improve their work before they turn it in. As of Feb. 2025 this works in Spanish and English. Additional languages to be added soon.
Presentation Tools
Presentation Tools
Tome: does a nice job of generating slides based on an outline. You can edit content. Also generates images to go with your slides.
Canva: tones of templates and all the other features and tools of Canva. If you want more flexibility in how your slides look this is the tool to go with but it does take a bit more effort in design.
Gamma: currently supports 12 languages in addition to English. Import your slides and improve them with AI or have it generate what you need from a prompt you provide.
Curipod: generate interactive lessons similar to Nearpod or Peardeck only with a little help from AI. Generates slides and activities.
Research Resources
Research Resources
NotebookLM: this google tool allows the upload and linking to a variety of document types. It then provides a summary, the ability to interact asking Gemini for information based on the linked/uploaded documents and a podcast like report based on these documents. All citations provided and linked.
10 "Best" AI Tools for Research (July 2024): article listing and describing AI tools for research available as of July 2024. Identifies differences and pros of each of the tools.
Perplexity: pulls citations for all the content that it provides both in a short summary and as footnotes.
Consensus: analyzes peer-reviewed research and citations can be provided in the format of your choice.
Elicit: like Consensus it reviews scholarly research however the citation mechanism isn't as good. It does allow for a search based on time frame which is a nice feature.
Policy Resources
Policy Resources
AI and Copyright-3 Key Issues: a nice article identifying the primary concerns around copyright and AI.
Institutional & Course-Specific Policy statements:
Responsible Use Resources
Responsible Use Resources
Critical evaluation tools for AI generated content. Develop Media Literacy skills in all students.
FLUF test: Developed by Dr. Parker, U of FL.
CRAAP test: Developed at CSU, Chico, used to test any sort of research, not just AI. Infographic form.
AI Literacy Framework: Developed by Kate Grovergrys of Madison College, this framework helps educators move towards a more positive approach to teaching AI literacy and away from policing it's use.
Teaching Students to Use AI Responsibly: Interesting ideas in this article that could be adapted to a WL activity to help students to use AI as a learning partner rather than a learning replacement.
Generative AI decision tree: a useful flow chart for students to help them determine when and how to use AI in their work.
Bloom's Taxonomy Revisited: with AI finding all the facts, this enhanced version of Bloom's, developed at the University of Oregon, shows what AI provides and what human factors can be assessed at the different levels of the taxonomy.
Rethinking Assessment in the Age of AI: changing our perspective and behavior to lead the educational charge in a world where AI is fostered not feared.
Understanding How AI Works Makes It More Effective in Lesson Planning: Edutopia article describing a teachers experience and lessons learned in using Gen AI to develop a unit plan and series of lessons.
How OpenAI Works for geeks wanting to better understand different versions and what's behind the scenes.
The AI Assessment Scale: from no AI to full AI integration, this scale helps identify where different educational tasks fall and how to explain your AI policy to your students.
Using AI Tutors to Flip Your Classroom: prepared students allow teachers to push students to higher-order skills during synchronous time.
Designing AI-Enhanced Assignments for Deeper Learning: ideas for integrating AI into learning and guiding students to higher levels of bloom's taxonomy.AI for Research: a page of links provided by the librarians at Northwestern University.
StefaTECH is about whether, when, and how to use tech successfully with a focus on use of AI
AI vs. Human: a video from CASLS with ideas/activities that help you and your students recognize what AI does and does not do well with respect to cross cultural communication.
Augmented Course Design-Using AI to Boost Efficiency and Expand Capacity: great article that will help speed up the process on course design. Work smarter not harder!
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
Using AI to Give Feedback (Sharing use cases with Brisk and Magic School)
Reimagining Lesson Plans: Examplse for Canva, Blooket, IXL, and Powtoon lesson planners.
10 ChatGPT alternatives- Compared
Cengage Survey on Instructors' Use of AI (8/28/23)
AI Pedagogy Project: provides resources and guidance for HE educators as well as example assignments for multiple disciplines. Created at Harvard.
Futurepedia: largest AI tools directory and it is updated daily. Just tell it what type of tool is needed and it will provide options.
One Useful Thing: a blog on AI uses with a focus on designing prompts for different chatbots.
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