The reason I like it so much is because it makes learning fun and makes lessons into a game which is great because it helps students engage and motivate them. What I also like it’s that it allows students to see how they’re doing right away meaning they get instant feedback. Some teacher friends I know told me teachers can track their students' progress and find out which areas students need more help with. It’s effective because it encourages students to participate especially for students who might be shy or hesitant. 

The pro of this it’s that it makes content engaging for students and provides instant feedback and data for teachers. The downside is that we might not realize at the moment but there might be students who might get too focused on the competitive aspect instead of learning the goals. I do believe Quizizz would be a great tool to make learning more interactive while also making it  enjoyable for the students when I start teaching.

First, I create my 'original', by typing a very specific prompt, what I want the content focus to be or how long it should be, or how simple it should be. Then, I ask it to either translate or rewrite with different grade levels.

When I convert it to a Google Doc, I usually edit and revise the activities or vocabulary lists. I think the best feature of this site is that it is flexible. There are many templates for activities, short/long answer questions - but you can create your own activity as well. Some teachers just run things through Diffit, print it out and give it to the students, but I like to be more creative so students don't get bored.

You can also upload videos and create activities with it, there are books that are in the data base so you can create chapter by chapter packets/summaries/activities.

A tool that I used in the past was Edpuzzle. It makes YouTube videos interactive. Instead of students just watching the video, teachers can add questions, notes, or short quizzes throughout the video. Edpuzzle can generate questions and show how much a student has done. This tool keeps students engaged and helps teachers check if their students understand the lesson.

Another AI tool I have heard about, which I saw teachers from TikTok talking about, is Brisk teaching. I don't have much knowledge about this website. All I know is that it helps teachers with lesson planning.

One such tool is ELLevation. I like this tool because it is mainly geared towards teachers, allowing them to observe wider data trends relating to the language level of their ELL students and facilitating the creation of differentiated instruction for their diverse student bodies. I think that ELL teachers really need this kind of support. ELL's as a student population are very diverse, variably, and constantly fluctuating. Moreover, ENL teachers must process new ELL students at various points of the year, creating logistical challenges. Having a tool which could help ENL teachers categorize data could give the birds eye view which is necessary for teaches to provide more individualized support for their students. I have seen ENL teachers grapple with these challenges first hand, and think they could use such a tool to help their practice.

I must also say, I like the concept behind Audiopen. Having students speak to an AI generator in order to monitor their speech patterns and language challenges is a good idea. I think that it compels students to monitor their own language while still genuinely creating it. I think it is a good way of having students monitor their speech, especially since spoken errors are often harder to point out or identify. This might be good for teachers, so they understand what struggles their students come up against more.

Of course, students will need to first learn how to navigate the tool box and play around with it before using it in their content classes. A possible con can be having students translate the whole text in their language. Students need to be reminded that it is a tool to help when reading in English and should not translate the whole text.

I have used Chat GPT for lesson ideas. As a teacher, I really try making my lessons as interactive as I can but sometimes, I run out of ideas. Chat GPT helps me brainstorm new ways to present the information I am trying to get across. This is a good tool because it makes my life easier. I'm able to look at some ideas and modify them for my classroom. This is useful because it helps teachers cater to different learning styles while also saving time.

One AI tool that I found useful last year was https://app.play.ht/home

You can create your own listening activities with this website by typing in a dialogue. The dialogue will then be read aloud by a human voice. You can change the speed of the voice and choose the gender or accent. You can also choose the purpose of the voice for: entertainment, characters, advertising etc.

I like to use this tool for "fill in the blank" activities for students to practice their listening skills. It's effective for having students practice listening to audio for the NYSESLAT exams.

I have not played around with it enough, but I don't think you're able to create a conversation between two people yet, which would be even more useful for language learners.

I also enjoy this website: https://www.spokabulary.com/

for practicing spelling or vocabulary. You give the website 10 words and it will generate games to practice those words. It has fill-in the blank, scrambled words, and even Wordle! It's great :)

It's effective for practicing spelling words recalling vocabulary in a game-ified way. My students really enjoyed using it last year!

I don't believe that it's a site that you can login to and save your games though. It's a site where you have to regenerate the games every time, which is a pitfall.

One more website I love is https://www.naturalreaders.com/

This website is perfect for students who are not on grade-level for reading. You can upload docs, pdfs, or images, and the AI will read the text to you with a human voice. You can change the speed and click on the sentence you want the voice to read to you. The text that is being read is also highlighted. The best human voices are behind a pay wall unfortunately, but the free voices are still great.

Some of my students used this last year in class and to help them do their homework at home because it is an APP they can use on their phones too.

I highly recommend this APP!

The one I’m most familiar with is ChatGPT, and it is my go-to program because I’ve used it since my first year of teaching, so it knows the context in which I need it to “translate” my emails to be more parent or admin-friendly.

I would say a Pro is that it knows me very well because it learned my communication style from my years of use, but a huge Con is that I sometimes find myself relying on ChatGPT to write these formulaic emails to my families, which makes my family connections feel forced and unauthentic.

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I use Chat GPT to help me generate ideas, and I take it from there. I would like to use AI in the coming year with my students (first graders) to help them improve their mastery of phonics and spelling. I would want my incorporation of AI to be interactive and ideally something that gets my kids out of their seats and moving, because they all seem to learn and retain information best kinesthetically.

I have looked at Quizlet as a potential candidate for classroom learning because it quizzes students on what they learned via flash cards and games. I have also looked at DreamBox Learning, which is similar to a program we use in the classroom called iReady, that challenges kids on mathematics in a way that is adaptive and based on their mathematics proficiency level.

I would like to explore good AI tools for MLLs as I believe while AI isn't a replacement for teaching, it can be a tool and an aid.

Grammarly is another great tool, I feed my writing for grammar check and it has a feature that suggest to improve your writing that's really helpful!