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As an Italian teacher, I am passionate about creating globalized citizens. I see technology as a tool to help bridge the gap between our students and the world. In the digital age, we have access to the world at our fingertips and it is our responsibility as teachers to teach our students how to use technology and as active participants in a global society. All of our students have access to platforms like Discord, Twitter, Instagram, and online gaming which connects people to each other from every corner of the globe. Because they are digital students, they are able to gain a deeper intercultural understanding that previous generations and, in turn, they are more empathetic and understanding of other cultures and other people. Technology in education is not just a tool, it strengthens community engagement by connecting students, educators, and families to each other from across the globe. The use of online platforms and apps allow parents to be more active in their student's education. Overall, integrating technology in education allows students to become digital, globalized citizens who can navigate and contribute to the now globalized world. Technology is a way to get our students to learn multiple languages and navigate the world after school. By teaching them how to communicate in other languages and across cultures, we are preparing them for a future where language, technology, and global awareness are going to be the basic requirements for job prospects.

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Description: Diffit is an AI-powered tool that helps teachers create customized, differentiated reading materials for students. This makes texts more accessible for ELLs and struggling learners. Teachers can adjust the reading level, summarize the content, and generate vocabulary supports. Diffit can also transcribe YouTube videos and translate them into other languages. Additionally, it links directly with your Google account and creates documents that can be shared with students via Classroom.

Educational Use: Teachers can use Diffit to differentiate instructional materials by providing differentiated versions of the same text. This ensures that all students are able to engage with the material. This is useful for scaffolding lessons, supporting language instruction, and literacy skills. Additionally, it can create comprehension questions and vocabulary supports.

Community Engagement: Diffit can be used to create accessible school communications for families. Teachers can translate and simplify newsletters and homework instructions.

Challenges: Diffit relied on AI-generated content, which requires teachers to review each document for accuracy and appropriateness.

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Description: Magic School is an AI-powered educational assistant that is designed to help teachers create lesson plans, worksheets, readings, assessments, rubrics, etc. It also lets teachers differentiate materials and develops assessments. This makes lesson planning more efficient for teachers to support their students.

Educational Use: Teachers can use Magic School to customize instructional materials by adjusting the reading levels, generating differentiated questions, and creating scaffolding for students. It also helps teachers differentiate readings, creates vocabulary lists, and creates comprehension activities.

Community Engagement: Magic School can help by translating newsletters, simplifying parent communication, and creating multilingual documents and resources. It also helps teachers draft emails in multiple languages for a multilingual home. I have used Magic School in my first year of teaching because I was too afraid of calling a parent.

Challenges: Magic School still requires teachers to review content for accuracy and appropriateness. AI-generated materials should always be reviewed by the teacher.

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MagicSchool.ai - AI for teachers - lesson planning and more!

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Join over a million teachers saving hours of time using the #1 AI Platform for Education, MagicSchool, to help lesson plan, differentiate, write assessments, write IEPs, communicate clearly, and more!

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Description: ChatGPT is another AI-powered educational assistant that helps teachers and students. It helps by answering questions, generating text-based responses, providing explanations, creating rubrics, and finding sources online. It also can be used to create lesson plans, create writing prompts, simplify complex texts, and assist with language translation. I have used ChatGPT to create fun and engaging activities for my Italian classes, like Pictionary, Feedback Bingo, Flash Cards, Memory Games, Jeopardy Questions, and so much more.

Educational Use: Teachers can use ChatGPT to scaffold materials for ELLs and struggling students by simplifying resources, creating sentence starters, summarizing long texts, and generating vocabulary lists. Many educational focused, AI-powered platforms use ChatGPT software such as, Magic School, Diffit, Quizlet, Duolingo Max, Khan Academy's "Khanmigo" and GPTeens.

Community Engagement: ChatGPT can support community Engagement by translating school newsletters and draft messages in multiple languages.

Challenges: ChatGPT, like other AI platforms, should always be reviewed by the teacher. Additionally, ChatGPT is the most popular AI platform and students use it often to cheat on their assignments.

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ChatGPT is your AI chatbot for everyday use. Chat with the most advanced AI to explore ideas, solve problems, and learn faster.

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Description: Mizou is another AI-powered educational tool where teachers are able to create and customize AI chatbots tailored to their lesson plans, objectives, and assessments in over 50 languages.

Educational Use: Teachers can create chatbots to provide individualized support for students to practice skills, receive instant feedback, and engage in interactive learning activities. It can also function as a formative assess because it records the conversation a student has with the chatbot and the teacher can refer back to it later.

Community Engagement: Mizou offers translations in over 50 languages. The teacher can create a chatbot in the student's or family's native language and then converse in the target language.

Challenges: Like all AI-powered tools, teachers should review the chatbot interactions to ensure accuracy and appropriateness.

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AI Chatbot Solution for Teachers and Schools

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Mizou is an AI chatbot marketplace designed for educators. Offering personalized assessment, engaging activities, and automated grading, Mizou streamlines teaching processes for a more efficient classroom experience. The future of education with Mizou's AI-powered tools tailored for teachers and schools.

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Description: Kahoot is a fun, time-based, competitive, game-based learning platform that allows teachers to create interactive quizzes, surveys, and learning games to engage students in the content.

Educational Use: Teachers can use Kahoot! for formative assessments, summative assessments, and lesson reviews. The platform allows teachers to create quizzes, customize questions, insert visuals cues, and allows students to work at their own pace in different modes.

Community Engagement: Kahoot! can be used for parent and community involvement through family quiz-nights and fun competitions that reinforces at-home practice.

Challenges: Kahoot! requires a very reliable internet connection. Several times I have had problems with the platform due to internet issues. Additionally, because it is time-based, it may cause some students to feel pressured or anxious.

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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Description: Nearpod is an interactive, multimedia-based platform that enables educators to create engaging, student-centered lessons such as videos, real-time formative assessments, quizzes, and polls. It also supports differentiated instruction and student engagement.

Educational Use: Nearpod allows teachers to deliver lessons in real-time or allow teachers to assign them for self-paced learning. This makes it very adaptable for all students as they are able to learn and relearn at their own pace. The platform supports scaffolding like text-to-speech, visuals aids, translations, and comprehension checks.

Community Engagement: Nearpod can be used for parent workshops and family activities if teachers share lessons via Google Classroom. Additionally, Nearpod's translations and accessibility features allows teachers to communicate with multilingual families.

Challenges: Nearpod requires a paid subscription, which limits access for some teachers, like myself. For example, one of the art teachers pays for the subscription and loves the platform. I have seen her lessons and they are incredible. Additionally, it requires very reliable internet connection. I have seen her students struggle with the internet connections.

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Nearpod: Foster a love of learning in every student

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Create active learning experiences students can’t wait to be a part of.

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Description: Quizlet is a platform that helps students and teachers create, share, and use digital flashcards and quizzes. Additionally, it has adapted AI technology to help tutor, similarly to Mizou. It offers multiple study modes such as matching games, AI tutoring, flashcards, and practice tests.

Educational Use: Teachers can customize study sets and incorporate images, audio, and translations. The Quizlet Learn feature, powered by AI, can modify students' study sessions to expand on their learning experiences. It is very useful for vocabulary building and test reviews.

Community Engagement: Quizlet offers free study sets and practice that students can access at home.

Challenges: The advanced features, such as the tutoring, test creation, and progress tracking, are only available via a paid subscription.

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Descriptions: Wordwall is an interactive and printable activity generator that lets teachers create customized learning games, quizzes, word searches, and other fun games to strengthen vocabulary and spelling. It offers digital and printable formats.

Educational Use: Wordwall provides visuals and interactive vocabulary-building exercises such as matching games, flashcards, anagrams, and word searches. Teachers can use it to modify activities based on the students proficiency levels.

Community Engagement: Wordwall can be used at home to connect parents to learning. The printable features also make it accessible for students.

Challenges: The more advanced features and customization options require a paid subscription.

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Wordwall - Create better lessons quicker

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Need a fresh teaching resource that fits your class and teaching style? Create a customized pack of interactive and printable activities in just one minute.

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Description: Babbel is a self-paced language learning platform, similar to Duolingo. Babbel offers vocabulary lessons, grammar exercises, and pronunciation practice. There is a speech recognition feature and it uses dialogue-based lessons. Babbel helps students with listening, speaking, and reading skills.

Community Engagement: Babbel can support family engagement by helping the parents develop their English skills alongside their students.

Challenges: Babbel focuses on structured lessons over gamification which is less engaging for students. It also requires a paid subscription. Unlike Duolingo or Quizlet, Babbel does not offer a free version.