CIEC 2025

Chatting is synonymous with interaction. One of the main premises of language learning is that learners must engage and interact with the target language in order to learn it. In this workshop, participants will explore how chatbots on free platforms such as Magic School and Mizou can be customized by teachers and students to increase the interactivity of the classroom. Participants will learn to create, and teach students to create their own chatbots that transform information and academic tasks into opportunities for interaction. Participants should be familiar with the basics of AI and should have some experience with using ChatGPT or other AI applications.

This session is probably most relevant for late elementary and middle school teachers.

Learning outcomes

1) Participants will gain proficiency with creating, and teaching students to create, chatbots for various purposes.
2) Participants will grow in their appreciation of the potential of chatbots to help students interact with an array of language and language-based tasks.
3) Participants will value play with emerging language teaching / learning tools.

Important Resources

Using AI Chatbots to Make Students Think About [Insert Topic Here]!
Educational Chatbot Sandbox
Designing Chatbots by Thinking About Purposes
Useful Prompts for Chatting with Chatbots

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Using MagicSchool AI we will explore ways to help support students of all ages (G3-12) to challenge their thinking, grow their background knowledge, revise their writing, and more. Teachers will have actionable data and insight into where their students are in any given context. Teachers can decide which tools to leverage and how. This will be a hands on workshop where participants should bring a device (ideally a laptop) and will have time to explore how they can use this in their own classroom.    

Understand how to Integrate MagicSchool AI into a UDL framework to significantly enhance the learning experience for all students. Empower both teachers and learners. Provide for continuous learning and responsible implementation.