This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom

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At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSROOM.

Here are the latest:

Concept Mash looks like the best AI-powered mind map tool I’ve seen so far, and it’s free. I’m adding it to Not “The Best,” But “A List” Of Mindmapping, Flow Chart Tools, & Graphic Organizers.

I’m not so sure this is the best way to use AI with ELLs: Emergent Bilingual Students Find Their Voice With Real-Time Translation

This post describes what I think is the easiest way to determine if AI is used – much more effective that AI text detectors:

Teacher friend of mine now requires his students write in cloud docs with recorded history he can track because of this — when he sees the doc was empty til someone pasted 2000 words in last night, that’s an easy F. Insane what education is facing.

— Mitch Dyer (@mitchyd.bsky.social) June 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM

Peer and AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR): A human-centered approach to formative assessment

Britannica now has a chatbot, for what it’s worth.

I’m not quite sure what Write Like A Human does, but it might be worth a look by teachers.

Same problem with AI & education. AI can be helpful in helping teachers create more accessible materials & help English Language Learners. That ain’t nothing, but it’s not enough 4 tech companies —-Will The Washington Post Embrace the AI Slush Pile? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM

People can be very smart in some areas and very dumb in others——-Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ https://t.co/y69W4WBVqm

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) June 8, 2025

I have created an app to help my students study vocabulary. This is a more complex app with different ways to test vocabulary acquisition. Have a look! Have a look! https://t.co/hCC7yetuPn. #vibecoding pic.twitter.com/vqUvGPajrd

— Blog de Cristina (@blogdecristina) June 10, 2025