Looking to learn more about generative AI and need a place to start? The tools below are a carefully curated set that will address most of the generative AI scenarios teachers and students at WAB might find value in. There are an ever growing number of tools in the AI landscape, but some have very clear and ethical uses at WAB. The tools below align with our vision of teaching and learning and are easy to connect with and use. For a much more comprehensive treatment of AI and the potential for innovating classroom learning, please see the Innovation Guide for AI.
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Perplexity |
Login: No account needed. Can login with Google or Apple to save chats, use latest models, or upload files.
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Perplexity is a chat-based tool that functions as a search engine. It summarizes results and provides the sources that back them up. You can chat with the tool to ask further questions about the search results. Find a full guide on this HERE. Unlike ChatGPT it can provide current results (after 2021). |
18+ 13+ with parental consent |
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Bing Copilot | Login: Accessible with WAB Microsoft account Cost: Free Accessibility: Web browser, |
Bing is linked with Chat GPT and is available directly from the Bing search engine. As a search tool, it can provide results that are current and reference web-based resources. ☞Instructions HERE | 18+ Unavailable on student licenses |
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Magic School |
Login: Login with WAB Microsoft account
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Includes the most relevant tools teachers need to save a lot of time. The Magic Tools area allows you to generate a wide variety of teaching tools and resources. Ideal for teachers, not students. | Currently for Teachers. |
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School AI | Login: Create uname/pwd or Google Cost: Free Accessibility: International Line. |
Create bots for students to use to check for understanding. Explore a variety of pre-made topic spaces. | <13 If <16 do not share any personal information |
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Diffit |
Login: WAB Microsoft |
Adapt any text or article for any reading level. Get quick informational texts for any topic - with vocabulary, comprehension checks, and more. Tweak to your liking and share with students. |
Designed for Teachers. |
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Sider | Login: Google, Apple, or phone number even your China Mainland number! Cost: Free Accessibility: International Line. |
A great sidebar browser utility that extends search, generates text content, summarizes, and gives access to Bing, ChatGPT and Bard. That's a lot in a small package. |
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Adobe Firefly |
Login: Use your WAB creative cloud account.
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An ethical choice for image generation Firefly utilizes its stock gallery and public domain assets to train its model. |
18+ |
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Canva | Login: Use your WAB email to sign-into WAB Canva. See HERE. Cost: Free Accessibility: International only; Web browser or iOS device |
Canva uses its own language model to generate images from text. You can find the text-to-image generator as a content type at the bottom of the left hand toolbar. A summary of Canva AI tools is here. Canva's new Education tools are also here. | <13 With teacher consent and supervision |
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Padlet | Login: Login with Microsoft. Cost: Free Accessibility: International only; Web browser only. |
Padlet has both a resource generator and an image generator. You can find the text-to-image generator under the three dots titled "I can't draw". Magic Padlet is the sparkle tools under Create. |
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Elicit |
Login: Signup with Google or by creating a username and password.
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Search for academic sources and abstract summaries. Includes links to PDFs where possible, and filtering options. | 13+ |
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Chat PDF | Login: No account needed but can login with Google. Cost: Free plan limited to 2PDFs per day. Accessibility: International Only; Web browser. |
Simple tool to draw information out of complex text in PDFs. Once a PDF is loaded, you can ask it questions, and Chat PDF will provide short answers. Do not upload any personal or student data. | 13+ with parental consent and supervision |
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Consensus | Login: Recommend logging in with the password-less email verification. Cost: Free Accessibility: International Only; Web browser, |
Consensus allows you to chat with a collection of research papers. The tool synthesizes answers in an attempt to find the "best fit" conclusions. | 18+ |