AI Tools for Inclusion & Multilingual Learners

Some AI tools have potential to save teachers a lot of time in supporting their learners, through making content more accessible and working across languages.

Some affordances of new AI tools in the multilingual classroom can include:

• Access to technical language
• Pre-teaching vocabulary
• Adaptive resourcing and translation in response to students’ needs or interests
• Comprehensible input through making complex texts accessible
• AI-mediated translanguaging
• Active outputs and feedback using AI-enhanced tools
• Making connections to cultural or personal issues of significance

Here is a slide-deck with some examples (there are many more), mostly using examples from PerplexityAI, ChatPDF, Canva Magic and Education CoPilot’s AI FreeStyle space. You can copy the prompts and try in whatever tools you have access to. Teachers with greater expertise than me in these areas might find even more useful applications.

Some Go-To Tools:

• CoPilot’s AI Freestyle space
• Perplexity, for GPT + Bing Search, chat and sources
• ChatPDF to create a bot to interact with a pdf, across languages.
• WAB AI Innovation Guide
• (If You) USEME-AI

Read More:

• Using AI to support emergent bilingual learners in the classroom, by Maya Goodall.
• How AI could bridge the linguistic exclusion gap, by David Colls for ThoughtWorks
• AI Integration in Language Learning, from PlatAI
• Essentials of AI for Language Learning, from Intellias
• Intelligent information processing for language education: The use of AI in language learning apps (paper from Science Direct)
• DuoLingo Max: AI Chatbot for Language Learning

Language Equity & Home Language Preservation

• An A.I. Translation Tool (StoryWeaver) Can Help Save Dying Languages. But at What Cost? (from Slate). Try StoryWeaver here.
• Embracing AI To Preserve Dying Languages, from Fair Planet.

Tan K Huynh’s Teaching ML’s Podcast: Adapting with AI

Tan has a brilliant podcast about teaching multilingual learners, and Stephen had the privilege of being invited on to talk about AI. Check out all of Tan’s episodes, they are great.

Robo-tiger teacher and students image generated in MidJourney by Stephen.