EP 121: AI Madness - The Final Four

The EdTech Take Out

In the spirit of March Madness and how much we love Iowa Women’s basketball on our team, we have taken the idea of bracket play into the AI world. In the last episode, we shared eight tools within the four categories of productivity and communication, lesson planning, scaffolding, and assessment and feedback. In this episode, we narrowed those eight tools down to four to face off in head-to-head competition.

• Ghostwrite
  • Cost: 15 emails a month, unlimited for $10/mo
  • Integrations: Outlook, Gmail, Zendesk
  • Student Use: Age restricted to 18 and up, but you could use as exemplar emails
  • No additional uses besides email generation.

• School AI
  • Cost: teachers get a freemium account, otherwise purchase as a district (schedule a call)
  • Integrations: download or copy the output
  • Student use: sidekick, bellringer, exit ticket, historic figure chatbot: spaces
    • Students do not need accounts.
  • Additional features: rubrics, text leveler, performance tasks, syllabus
    • Built-in chatbot assistants for teachers: field trip planner, co-teacher, curriculum coach

• Eduaide
  • Cost: Freemium: 15 generations/mo, limited feedback bot Pro account: $6/mo, school and districts accounts
  • Integrations: download or copy output
  • Student use: Age restricted to 18 and up
  • Additional features: Different categories for instructional use: planning, information objects, independent practice, cooperative learning, gamification, questions

• Brisk
  • Cost: Freemium or District Purchase
  • Integrations: works with Google docs, but integration into comments is for purchase
  • Student use: Students 13-18 can use Brisk teaching, however the educational institution has to reach out directly to Brisk to authorize the accounts.
  • Additional Features: Creates many different types of content on the fly (quizzes, decodable texts, lesson plans. Releveling on texts. Inspect writing by using the Replay tool in Brisk to see a time-lapse video of the writing being generated.

Join us next week for the AI Madness Final!