AI Tools Meant to Assist Individuals with Instruction

What is Instructional AI?

Instructional AI, or AI in education, is the use of artificial intelligence to improve the learning experience for students and educators. It can be used to generate learning materials like worksheets and quizzes, help educators understand student progress and identify areas that need more support, and generate accessibility features for use in lessons with students with disabilities.

What are some Instructional AI Tools?

Curipod

Curipod is an interactive presentation tool for making lessons. One can create their own lessons or use the AI generator to create engaging and interactive lessons and activities (e. g., polls, word clouds, and drawings).

Eduaide.ai

Eduaide is a planning assistant that teachers can use throughout the instructional process. It's a great brainstorming partner in helping educators get started with planning units and lessons.

Magicschool.ai

MagicSchool.ai enables the creation of lesson plans, assessments and rubrics, individual education plans, student recommendations and more.

How do I cite Instructional AI tools?

If you choose to use generative AI tools for creating lessons plans or writing samples to share with your students, you should acknowledge or cite the output of those tools in your work. This includes direct quotations and paraphrasing, as well as using the tool for tasks like editing, translating, idea generation, and data processing.

As for what to include in your in-text citations and the Bibliography, Reference, or Works Cited section of your written work, apply the appropriate citation style's guidelines for citing generative AI.

APA Style (7th Edition)

At present, the American Psychological Association (APA) has not released official guidelines for citing generative AI. Even so, the APA did release a post on the APA Style Blog a short time ago providing guidance on citing generative AI.

Chicago Style (18th Edition)

The Chicago Manual of Style provides guidance for citing generative AI tools within its newly issued 18th edition, Section 14.112.

To cite AI-generated content properly in your work, Chicago style mandates that you include either a note or a parenthetical citation whenever you quote or paraphrase the output of an instructional AI tool. With that said, Chicago style recommends against including a generative AI source in the bibliography or reference list of your work. This is because it is not expected that individuals have the capacity to provide a link to their conversation or session with the AI tool. Accordingly, when using Chicago style, you should treat the content of your interaction with generative AI as you would a private conversation or phone call. As AI tools begin to acquire functionality to generate a shareable link to a chat conversation, this guidance from the Chicago Manual of Style may change.

Here are some general guidelines for referencing AI-generated content in Chicago style:

• Cite the AI tool as you would the author of an article.
• If you can, describe the prompt you used to obtain content from the AI tool in the text. If you cannot do this, include the content of your interaction with AI in a footnote or endnote.
• Use the date in your citation that corresponds to the date the content was generated by the AI tool.

MLA Style (9th Edition)

MLA now provides official guidance for citing information produced by generative AI. According to MLA, individuals who use generative AI in their creative endeavors should not credit the generative AI as an author. Additionally, the description of the content of the generated product should be treated as the title of the source, as if it were an article or chapter title.

Here are some other guidelines for referencing AI-generated content in MLA style:

• Cite the AI tool when you include its response(s) to your prompt(s) in your work. This includes paraphrased content, data, direct quotations, and images.
• If you use an AI tool to translate a text, edit your work, or generate an outline, include a note about this somewhere in your work.
• The MLA regards AI-generated content as a source with no author. As such, you should use the name of the AI tool you used in both your in-text citations and reference list. The title you choose should be a brief description of the AI-generated content, such as an abbreviated version of the prompt you used.
• If you create a shareable link to the chat transcript, include that instead of the AI tool's URL.

Last updated December 4, 2024

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