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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.