Mixboard is Google’s latest new AI-powered tool, and it was released today.

In many ways, it’s a souped-up Padlet board.  You give it a prompt (in mine, I wrote “Great Pyrenees dogs” and it showed a bunch of pictures of them.  I then dragged one of them to the prompt box and told it to add a speech bubble saying “Thank goodness I have a break from those dumb sheeps.”  When I saw I had added an “s” to the end of “sheeps,” I dragged it back to the prompt box and wrote “Delete the s at the end of sheeps” and it did.

This got me thinking that it could be used in a similar way that I’ve used Padlet’s “I Can’t Draw” AI tool with ELL Newcomers (see How I’m Using AI Art Generation To Teach English To Newcomers).  Basically, students write text to create images.  Mixboard’s ability to easily correct mistakes is nice, and Padlet doesn’t have that feature.  But Mixboard’s inability to have everyone else see what others are creating, and to comment on it, doesn’t make it as useful as Padlet’s tool – for teaching, at least.

Instead of coming up with yet another marginally useful AI tool like Mixboard, I just don’t understand why Google couldn’t have added AI features to one of their tools that was truly useful, but which they killed – Jamboard!  Jamboard had a lot of similarities to Mixboard.

Google has just been throwing AI to so many things to see if any would stick!

Four of them seem useful so far – NotebookLM, the Live Translate feature on Google Translate, Storybook, and Learn Your Way.  You can learn more about those tools here:

Google’s New “Learn Your Way” Could Be Very Useful In Making Boring Textbooks More Accessible.

Google Unveils Two Language Tools – One Can Be Very Helpful, The Other Not So Much

Google Has Often Failed At AI, But They Have Hit It Out Of The Park – For ELLs, At Least – With New “Storybook”

Here’s a video about Mixboard:

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