Great AI Tools - Monica Burns

Monica Burns in her new episode 10 tools for creating quizzes
(classstechtips.com) curated 10 tools for teachers. Not only in creating quizzes, they could be use in different part of the teaching or prepping process. 

Some AI tools that I have been using heavily with my class are
Edpuzzle: Multiple questions are great to check the students’ understanding of visual input. Videos provide better context with just a few pictures. I also love how it allows open ended questions with written or oral responses. It is even workable for 
middle/lower graders. 

Chatgpt and Claude: It is amazing when I start to test their limits. During the prepping process, I can basically discuss/test different teaching ideas with these two bots. It is efficient in the brainstorming stage and it is powerful to generate ideas. Burns’ suggestions regarding how to more effectively use them with prompts are very useful. I might include information like,

• Students prior knowledge
• The ability I am looking to assess
• Students grade level and specific information about such level
• Curriculum standard connected to the lesson/assessment⁠

With Claude, I can even upload documents to give it a better understanding of my students or the materials.  


There are some great AI tools that I tend to use less in the class such as 
Kahoot!: it’s very exciting with the competition and multiple choice questions. I found, though, in my class, the students tend to bash in short-term excitement and lose the focus for deep thinking and discussion. Perhaps I need to try a different way to moderate the process. 


Tools that I wish to try in the next semester:
Diffit: Supposedly, it creates supplemental resources for indicated grade levels. I am not sure yet about its data pool. I hope it will also work for our students outside of the US. 
Briskteaching: It is another quizzical generating tool with chord extension. (It feels to me the class time is filled with quizzes for the students…) I have also read other teachers’ positive comments of such tool. When I tested it, it seems more useful for more mature students with complex contents. 
Socrative: Like Mentimeter and Peardeck, their interactive features allow teachers to monitor students’ real time progress. It could work perfectly in a discussion class.
MagicSchool: Like Twee, it’s a  platform containing lots of tools such image/voice generator, speech-to-text, video script… for teachers. They don’t come free. For teachers who mostly create their own teaching contents without textbooks,  it is wonderful and time saving. ​