Great question! This site is a collection of free (or partially free) tools to help college professors both enhance their teaching, but also become familiar with AI tools available (and what they can do). I use these tools frequently for various tasks. I've included links to large language models and other tools that can help you create custom course content, design classroom games, generate fictional data for analysis, and much more!
This site is a work in progress, and I am continually updating it. Please let me know your suggestions (click the about me area, and scroll to the bottom to get my contact info).
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Generative AI—the kind of artificial intelligence that creates content—is evolving at lightning speed. Some argue it could reshape society as profoundly as the internet or the industrial revolution. Yet while some college faculty have embraced AI and others have sworn it off, most simply don’t know how to use it effectively in the classroom. And that’s a problem—because the best way to prepare our students for an AI-driven world is to understand these tools ourselves.
The way we teach hasn’t changed much in thousands of years. Picture Socrates under a tree, sharing his wisdom as students hurriedly take notes. Sound familiar? In many college classrooms, that same dynamic is still playing out—professors lecturing, students taking notes. But the world outside our classrooms is shifting fast, and we need to shift with it.
Higher education is standing on the edge of a major shift. Nearly every degree program claims to prepare students to think critically and solve problems—but in a world where AI is becoming a daily tool, are we actually equipping them with the skills they need? If we want our students to use AI effectively, we have to start by understanding it ourselves.
It's time for faculty to get hands-on with these tools, experiment with them, and bring that knowledge into our teaching.
The future won’t wait for us to catch up.
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General Disclaimer
All AI tools can make stuff up (the proper term is halluicante). I’ve ecountered this alot. Always double check the accuracy of the content you’ve asked the AI to generate.
Also, it’s a good rule of thumb to become familiar with the privacy policies of the AI platforms you use. You don’t want to give away something you don’t intend to.
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Below are links to content generation tools. These tools, also known as large language models (LLMs) are designed to give human-like reasoning to questions you pose. While there are some nuanced differences between all of them, most work about the same. Give it a task, and it’ll give you a result.
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A powerful AI chatbot designed for conversation, content generation, and various text-based tasks, with advanced reasoning capabilities.
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Meta’s AI assistant integrated into platforms like Facebook, offering conversational and search capabilities.
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