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Though I’ve shared many AI-powered tools, I haven’t made any secret of my skepticism about all the hype about how it’s supposed to revolutionize education.

I do, however, believe it’s important to teach our students how to use it responsibly, and I also believe it could have a particularly useful (though still small) role in directly helping our ELL students.

I also am certain, based on my own personal experience, it can save teacher preparation time and help us produce more individualized materials helpful to our students.

In other words, though I don’t think it will revolutionize the classroom, it can have a helpful role in it.

One of many avenues I’ve been exploring the use of AI is through AI chatbots that we teachers actually create.

I wrote about one I made for teachers at I CREATED ANOTHER CHATBOT FOR ELL TEACHERS & IT SEEMS TO BE RELATIVELY DECENT?

Other teachers have had success creating chatbots for their students.

Mizou appears to be the most popular tool for creating chatbots for this purpose.  You can read an Eric Curts’ blog for details.

Here are two specific chatbots for ELLs using Mizou: one created by Blog de Cristina to help with writing, and one created by My English Domain for conversation practice.

And, here’s another one using it:

 

And, you definitely want to read this post:

School.ai also lets educators easily create their own AI-powered chatbots.  It’s also free!  You can read more about it at Eric Curts blog. You can also try out this teacher-created chatbot.

The newest tool for teachers to use is called ProjectFTK.  Here’s a video about it:

PBS NEWSHOUR FEATURES FREELY AVAILABLE AI CHATBOT FOR HELPING STUDENTS WRITE

Introducing MagicStudent: The Perfect Tool to Teach Responsible AI Use is from Two Maine Teachers.

Chatbots to the Rescue: 8 Time-Saving Ideas for Busy ESL Teachers is from Blog de Cristina.

I’m sure more tools are both out there now, and will appear in the future.

I’m adding this “Best” list to the twenty-three others ones I’ve shared and regularly update, as well as two animated videos Katie Hull and I did with Ed Week.