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 but can login with Google or Apple.
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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). |
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Bing | Login: Personal Microsoft account needed. Can be linked to WAB account to access from a work-linked browser. Cost: Free Accessibility: International Only; Web browser, extension, iOS and Android apps. |
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. |
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You | Login: No account needed but can login with Google or Apple. Cost: Free. Accessibility: International Only; Web browser, extension, iOS and Android apps. |
You.com looks like a conventional search engine, but has chat along with text, code and image generation tools. Search results include sources and related websites to explore. |
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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. Currently Free. Includes links to pdf where possible, and filtering options. |
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Chat PDF | Login: No account needed but can login with Google. Cost: Free plan limited to 120 pages or 3pdfs 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 questions of it and Chat PDF will provide short answers. Be careful what you upload as there is no information on the site about data privacy protection. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Padlet | Login: Login with Microsoft. Cost: Free Accessibility: International only; Web browser only. |
Padlet uses the Dall-E 2 model to generate images from text. You can find the text-to-image generator under the three dots titled "I can't draw". A great starter activity to do with students. |
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Education Copilot |
Login: No login needed. Access from WABs IP gets you pro features.
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Includes the most relevant tools teachers need to save a lot of time. The workshop area (linked) allows you to generate writing prompts, quizzes, lesson ideas, and much more. Ideal for teachers, not students. There is a full guide on this HERE. |
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Diffit |
Login: Google |
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. |
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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. |