17 AI Tools and Resources for Educators

Everything I’ve published about AI since January has risen to the top of the list of most popular posts of the week, month, and year. If you try to keep up with them all, the surge in popularity and volume of AI-powered devices since the beginning of the year may make your head spin.

If your school year is over or almost over, you might have some time to try out some AI tools. I’ve put together a list that highlights some AI tools you might want to try. Subscribers to my newsletter received a PDF copy of this list on Sunday.

Overview of ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence tool that will generate documents for you based on some minimal inputs from you. For example, I simply typed “ten Canva features for students” into ChatGPT and found this article. ChatGPT can also be used to create poems like this one about the sunglasses worn by Geraint Thomas.

With a few changes to what you put in ChatGPT, you can create much longer articles than the ones described above. A simple, “Tell me more” or “How about X” can generate more content than ChatGPT.

Search with ChatGPT in Bing

ChatGPT has been incorporated into Bing. You can choose to use it or not when searching. This video shows you how it works and the difference in results when using it vs not using it.

Google Bard Overview

Google Bard is Google’s attempt to compete with ChatGPT. Over the coming months, it will be integrated into many of the Google Workspace tools you already use. Here’s how it works.

Bard makes it easy to quickly transfer transcripts of your Bard chats to Google Docs. All you have to do is click on the new Export button and then select “Google Docs”. Once you export your bard transcript to Google Docs, you can use all of the same Google Docs editing and collaboration tools that you would use with any other document. Watch this short video to see how to copy from Bard to Google Docs.

It’s easy to find images in Google Bard. Just type in something like “images of a happy person with a dog” and you’ll see a selection of about half a dozen images. It is not without flaws. Watch this short video for an overview of performing image searches in Google Bard.

AI-powered design tools

Canva’s magic design tool can be used to create an entire slideshow presentation from just one sentence. To be clear, it doesn’t just design the layout of the slides. It populates the slides with text and graphics to support the presentation theme! Watch this video to see how Canva’s magic design tool can create a presentation for you with just a simple gesture.

Microsoft Designer is an AI-powered tool that enables users to quickly generate multiple variations of graphic design with just a few clicks. Microsoft Designer aims to give you a gallery of designs based on your input. You can then choose the design you like best to download and use in your projects. In short, it’s like a graphic designer presenting you with a bunch of options to choose from.

Lumen5 is a tool that will generate a video for you based on your written work. To create a video with Lumen5 you can enter the URL of your published work or submit the text of an article you’ve written. Lumen5 will then select highlights from your writing and display them in a video. The video will always start with the title of your article. From there it will use any subtitles or section titles you have in your article to create sections for your video. If your article doesn’t have subheadings or section headings, Lumen5 will try to extract keywords or phrases from each paragraph. Check out my demo below to see how easy Lumen5 is to use.

Whimsical is a mind mapping and concept mapping tool with an artificial intelligence component. Whimsical’s AI tool generates concept maps based on any keyword or phrase you focus on on the screen. To use Whimsical’s AI concept mapping tool all you have to do is start a new concept map, enter a keyword or phrase, and then click the AI ​​icon. The tool will then generate a simple concept map of the associated words and phrases.

AI-Powered Assessment Tool

Edpuzzle is a tool I’ve used over the years to add questions to videos I make and videos I find around the web. Edpuzzle’s Teacher Assist feature will automatically generate questions that you can add to the video assignments you give to your students. With just one click, you can add multiple-choice and short-answer questions to videos you create and videos you find online. Watch this short video to see Edpuzzle Teacher Assist in action.

GotFeedback is a tool that you can use to give your students feedback on their writing more efficiently. As the title of this post states, getFeedback uses artificial intelligence to help your students provide feedback on their writing. Watch this video to see how you can use GotFeedback to analyze your students’ writing.

QuestionWell is an AI tool that will generate reading comprehension and guiding questions for any article you specify. Questions created by QuestionWell can be saved to a document or exported to some popular quiz apps including Kahoot and Quizzes. QuestionWell takes the text you’ve entered and generates a set of questions based on it. You can see all the questions and choose the ones you like. Questions can be exported to a Word document or exported to the Quiz app. All the question sets you create are also saved in your Questionnval account so that you can revisit them and edit them whenever you need to. Watch this video for a brief description of how QuestionWell works.

AI-generated content detection

GPTZero is a free tool that analyzes text to determine whether it was written by an artificial intelligence program. GPTZero has a few features that make it a bit different from some of the other AI detection tools I’ve tried. First, in addition to accepting text you copy and paste, GPTZero lets you upload PDFs, Word documents, and TXT files to analyze them. Second, GPTZero will highlight for you the parts of an article that it determines have a high probability of being written by an AI tool. Third, GPTZero provides a plexity score and a burstiness score to describe how it determined whether a document was or was not written by an AI tool.

AI Text Classifier is a free tool from Open AI, makers of ChatGPT, that will detect whether a piece of text has been written with ChatGPT and similar AI writing tools. To use AI Text Classifier you need to register for a free account on Open AI. Once you have an account you can use AI Text Classifier. To use the AI ​​Text Classifier, all you need to do is paste a block of writing (at least 1,000 characters, approximately 175 words) into the text field and click the Submit button. The AI ​​text classifier will then rank the writing as very unlikely, improbable, unclear if it is, possibly, Or potential Written by AI. For the record, the AI ​​text classifier classified my article about detecting writing created by AI as unlikely to have been written by AI.

AI Writing Check is a free tool created by the collaborative efforts of the non-profit Quill.org and CommonLit. AI Writing Check is a tool that was created to help teachers recognize writing created through the use of Artificial Intelligence. To use AI Writing Check, all you have to do is copy a passage of text of 100 words or more and paste it into AI Writing Check. The tool will then tell you about the likelihood that the writing was created by artificial intelligence or not. Thats all there is to it. AI Writing Check is not foolproof and, as noted on the site, students can still develop ways to get around tools designed to detect AI-generated writing. It’s also worth noting that it can’t handle more than 400 words at a time.

CrossPlug AI Content Detector is a free tool that you can use to determine whether an AI tool was used to generate a passage of text. Like other AI detection tools, Crossplug AI Content Detector is easy to use. To use it you simply paste a block of text into the content detector and it will give a rating of the likelihood that AI was used to generate that text.

Citing AI-generated content

MLA and the APA have published guidance on how to cite content created through the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT. You can read the MLA guide to citing AI-generated content here. The APA’s guide to citing material created by ChatGPT can be read here.

There are many similarities between the two guides. There is a difference that is worth noting. APA’s guide includes a template for citing ChatGPT as an author. The MLA Guide says not to treat generative AI tools like ChatGPT as you would a writer.