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Artificial Intelligence in Education LibGuide: AI educational Tools and Uses

Determining whether or not to use AI

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Citing with AI

Citing AI is necessary:

1.If you are incorporating information from it in your papers/projects. 

2.If you are directly quoting from it in your papers. 

MLA Parenthetical or Intext Citations for AI:

1. Directly in Prose: According to ChatGPT .... (beginning of original search prompt)

2. End of quote or information generated from AI:  ........(beginning of search prompt, STORM AI)

MLA Works Cited for Artificial Intelligence

1. Author: There is NO author for AI generated content. MLA considers humans to only be authors. 

2. Source Title: Describe what was generated by the AI tool and the prompt that was used. 

3. Container Title: Name of the AI tool. 

4. Version: Name the version of the AI tool you used. 

5. Publisher: Name the company that created the AI tool. 

6. Date:  Put the date the AI content was generated for you. 

7. Location: Use the general URL for the AI tool. 

Education Specific AI Tools

Welcome to a list of AI tools that are geared towards educational purposes. More and More AI tools are becoming subscription based but I tried to also include some free tools for quick and easy use. 

1. School AI: An AI powered lesson and activity generator for teachers and students. 

2.Semantic Scholar:  A free AI powered tool to access abstracts and research articles in the areas of science and economics. Includes TLDRs for its sources. 

3. Elicit: A free AI tool that will find and summarize academic article abstracts and/or summarize full articles that you upload into it. Please note though that uploading any article you find in a subscription library database is considered a violation of copyright laws. 

4. STORM: A free AI tool from Stanford University's OVAL lab. It will take your research related questions and create a Wikipedia-like article with links for future reference. 

5. MagicSchool: An education specific AI that can help teachers create lesson plans, give feedback, differentiate, create games and more. Has tiered pricing. 

6. Diffit: An AI for teachers to create lessons, assessments, vocabulary lists, activities, etc. 

7. Consensus: An AI that provides you with answers and citations to scientific academic research questions. Has tiered pricing.