I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Though I don’t think AI is going to “revolutionize” education, I do think it has the potential of providing some superior opportunities in teaching ELLs.

One way is through differentiation of lesson materials – it’s easy to have a chatbot create a version of a text in an easier lexile level.  However, it’s important to remember that kind of modification’s most effective use is to help students develop prior knowledge that will help them access a more complex text.

Another way is through the easy creation of interactive videos for listening practice.  Quizizz is great for that (see I Think Quizizz Interactive Videos With AI-Generated Questions May ...).  ESL Video (A Forgotten (By Me!) Gem That Has Been Rediscovered (By Me & My...) is an excellent source of videos and quizzes that serve the same purpose, and they, too, have a free AI tool for creating questions.  However, it doesn’t seem to me that you can edit them and, until that feature is implemented, I doubt if I’ll be using it.

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