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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.
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.
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.
Gem for WL Lesson Planning: This chat agent in Gemini helps instructors build proficiency focused language lessons. It is trained with ACTFL and CA standards and Can Do Statements. Tell it the language level and theme and it will walk you through the rest. Developed by Nicole Naditz, 2015 ACTFL TOY.
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.
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.
AI for Education: 5S Prompt Framework for Educators. Additional downloadable resources to support teaching and learning also available including frameworks for students.
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.
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.
Stable Diffusion: photo realistic images from text.
Leonardo AI: AI art and video generator. The creator has significant control over the parameters of an image.
Napkin: an infographic generator. Type in the words and let it generate related graphics, edit and adjust content to your liking.
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.
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.
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.
Synthesia: text-to-video generator with a variety of avatars to choose from as well as background. Freemium tool with many more options in the paid version.
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.
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.
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:
Don't just prompt, copy, paste: just as we don't want students to do this, educators also need to iterate. This article clearly explains the importance of looking at AI-generated lesson plans and any other content with a critical eye.
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
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.
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.
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.
AI Ethical Guidelines: Educause describes each of the elements of ethical AI use: Beneficence, Justice, Respect for Autonomy, Transparency and Explainability, Accountability and Responsibility, Privacy and Data Protection, Nondiscrimination and Fairness, and Assessment of Risks and Benefits.
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
Futurepedia: largest AI tools directory, 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.
Research & Articles of Interest
Research & Articles of Interest
Amplifying Human Skills in the Age of AI: Using The C.A.R.E.S. Framework: Cultural Competence & Curiosity. Adaptability & Instructional Agility. Relationships & Empathy. Ethical Judgement. Scholarly Discernment & Critical Thinking. Tech & Learning, January 2026
These Students Use AI a Lot -- But not to Cheat: this podcast is based on college students responses to how they are actually using AI. A great 35 min listen while driving, making dinner... College Matters from the Chronicle, November 2025.
A More Human University: The Role of AI in Learning: Educause article. Perspectives on the changing shape of education and assessment in the AI era.
25 Observations about the State of AI in Schools: Learning on Purpose blog post.
Making Space for Real Conversations: AI Chatbots in the Language Classroom: THE FLTMag article by Nataliya Spirydovich, October 2025
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.
UDL & AI as Partners
UDL & AI as Partners
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