Differentiation Creator & Comprehension Helper
DiffIt is am amazing and FREE, AI tool that helps teachers create and differentiate (modify and/or adapt) resources into teaching materials. It’s super convenient to use as the user is able to search on a topic or ask a question, include a video or article link, or paste in text.
Product:
The user can adjust the reading level and language, to produce the teaching material as needed. This is an amazing tool as it allows both educators and students to integrate the use of AI into curricular adaptations and differentiated learning/teaching. In a student’s perspective, DiffIt can also aid with their reading level and comprehension abilities.
- Produces useful learning materials with variation of assessments (multiple choice, reading passage and comprehension questions, graphic organizer, matching)
- AI-generated teaching material aligned with learning objectives
- Align to standards – ELA, Science, History
Agency:
- A tool that engages students in digital literacy and literacy
- Makes and applies meaning of text through reading strategies
- Synthesizes text
- Supplemental or primary resource
- Cross-curricular use for all subjects
- Collaborative – Teacher-centred use OR student use
- Adapt any text or article for any reading level
- Provides references to the resources
- Provides AI-generated synthesis – summary, vocabulary words, multiple-choice questions, open-ended prompts, and more
Use:
DiffIt does provide agency to its users but it’s crucial to understand that this AI-tool is not a replacement for reading, teaching, or learning. It is a supplemental tool that engages users with proper reading levels, clearer reading structure, and hopefully comprehension towards building user literacy skills and abilities.
I experimented with Diffit for a while and found that the worksheets came out with fairly generic language. This may be a problem on my end with the prompting I provided. An amazing feature of Diffit is its ability to differentiate texts for different levels of readers. Just like with anything AI, the more information provided in the prompt the better. For improving Diffit, I would like to see more options in the graphic design aspect of the worksheets you can generate.