I have previously posted about Websim.ai (see “WEBSIM.AI” IS A FREE, & I THINK HELPFUL, TOOL FOR CREATING ONLINE SIMULATIONS FOR STUDENTS).
I recently revisited it just to see if there were other ways it could be useful, and was pleasantly surprised to see that it had improved and now it lets you create games and other interactives.
It, like most AI these days, needs very specific prompts or it will almost certainly not generate the results you want.
Eventually, it created this decent game on opposites in response to this prompt:
A creative game accessible to English Language Learners who are learning opposites. when asking a question, always show two choices. Double check to make sure the choices include the correct answer. Have the images related to the question. Make sure the choices do not include a word that is in the question. Have at least ten questions. Make sure the answer choices are definitely incorrect – in other words, that they are not close in meaning.
You can tell from the wording of the prompt the mistakes it had made in previous attempts.
It did a better job at creating a sentence scramble game on its first try in response to this simple prompt:
Create an interactive series of scrambled sentences about clothes for beginning English Language Learners
However, it seemed unable to create interactives that required most complex thinking. No matter how much I refined the text, it could not create a useful “choose your own adventure” story of any kind.
Another nice thing about it is that it isn’t blocked by our school district’s content filters – at least for now!
For English Language Learners for now, posting Quizizz or Blooket games works better for practice. But if and when it increases its skills, Websim.ai could have its place.
However, especially since its not blocked, I will be having my IB Theory of Knowledge students experiment with it as part of our unit on AI. It should give them an idea of some of the possibilities and limits of AI at the moment – plus, they’ll be able to create online activities that their classmates can try out!
Because I’m including it in my AI unit, I’m adding this post to A Beginning List Of The Best Resources For Teaching About Artificial Intelligence.
I have previously posted about Websim.ai (see “WEBSIM.AI” IS A FREE, & I THINK HELPFUL, TOOL FOR CREATING ONLINE SIMULATIONS FOR STUDENTS). I recently revisited it just to see if there were other ways it could be useful, and was pleasantly surprised to see that it had improved and now it lets you create AI, learning games, TOK Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
