Last year I vibe coded an app called “WriteRight” ostensibly to help students improve their writing skills. The app also produces a report for students that includes information on their errors and how to correct them. This year, I have started using the app to collect intelligence (conduct research) on…
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SpeakWell App May Help Students Speak Better
For the first time ever at my university, and probably anywhere else in Mexico for that matter a custom made AI app specifically designed for students was used as a class assignment to evaluate the students’ speaking abilities. The App is called SpeakWell, and I designed it using Google’s Firebase…
AI Won’t Kill Creativity, and it Won’t Motivate the Lazy, Either: AI for Writing in the EFL Classroom
Welcome to this last post about using AI in the EFL classroom. I suspect it will be the last for a while. I am ready to move on to more exciting things, not that this wasn’t exciting as all get out…using AI to help my students become better writers, I…
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Making the Grade: AI and Assessment
Couldn’t I leverage this technology to instruct students to write better, or better yet, get the AI to teach my students how to write?
Too Late to Innovate: On the Impending Demise of Foreign Language Instruction
Sayonara, Japanese! Au Revoir, French! Machts gut, German! It’s all over for the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at West Virginia University. The university has cut the aforementioned languages, along with Italian, Russian, and Arabic. Apparently, Spanish and Chinese are being allowed to continue with face to face…