Educators concerned about AI and unable to generate productive ways their students could use AI tools need to check this out.👈

.https://www.chatpdf.com/

At this point, it is free and available without an account. ✍️

Once connected you upload a pdf. I wanted to give it a significant challenge and something I could evaluate easily for accuracy so I took a chapter I had written (the chapter on learning as applied to technology from the textbook I wrote with my wife ( Integrating technology for meaningful learning) and uploaded it as a pdf file. I then began to ask for explanations, examples, and questions relevant to that chapter. I responded to the questions the AI tool generated and had my answers evaluated. What I have long thought potentially valuable AI was the role AI might play in functioning as a tutor. How can learners get flexible assistance when studying that they can shape to their needs? How can students discover what their needs are and then have their challenges addressed?

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While the system did require that I restart a couple of times, perhaps because I was working from a coffee shop with a sketchy connection, I was very impressed with the quality of the system. By quality, I was primarily interested in the accuracy of the content. Were the explanations accurate and different enough from the wording in the chapter to offer a reasonable opportunity for a learner to achieve a better understanding? Were the questions posed more than simplistic keyword vocabulary checks? Was the system flexible enough to understand me even when I got a little sloppy?👈

Any educator should evaluate similar issues for themselves using material they might assign. I understand that content they might like to evaluate may not be available in pdf format, but as I understand the developers there is already a Google docs version and soon to be a Word version💢n to