Scroll down for a list of tools supported by the EdTech Team here at WAB.
Keeping up with development in GenAI in Education can feel overwhelming. Some considerations as you choose and try tools for use for your work, or with students:
Educator Cautions:
Never upload personally identifiable, sensitive or copyright information into any AI tool.
These lists share some curations of AI tools and are updated regularly.
Some food for thought in these demonstrations of GenAI.
Quick Tips: When you are testing an AI tool, try it out on areas of knowledge that you know really well. This will help show how effective the tool can be for your needs. Avoid novelty uses - use them to create demonstrations of value. Keep a record of your experiments.
Many creativity tools with AI are being developed, bringing their own opportunities and ethical concerns. Here are some very simple, quick-access demonstrations of what is available.
The Library & EdTech Teams at WAB are prepared to support teachers and students in adapting to AI. The section below is mirrored from the EdTech Team guides for Faculty, and showcases some tools that can be supported by the team here at WAB.
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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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. | <13 |
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Flint | Login: Login with WAB Microsoft Account Accessibility: International Line. |
Create tutors for students to use for a wide variety of things. Use standard chat features to interact with GPT4o. Account available for Grade 8-12. | <13 |
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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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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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Poe |
Login: Google, Apple, or Email
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Offers multiple models to experiment with and the ability to create your own bots with your own knowledge base. | 13+ |
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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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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+ |
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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. |