The idea behind Chatbots is great as it provides many learning opportunities for students. The research suggests Chatbots are an important aspect in the 21st century classroom as AI is able to respond to simple questions and give reminders taking less pressure off of the teacher. After familiarizing myself a little bit with the different Chatbot platforms such as Dialogflow, I am unsure if I would use any of these because of the following reason. First off, one of the videos shows how to program a chatbot to answer the question "What time is it?" It was neat watching how to program the Chatbot however, it seemed time consuming with many programming steps considering I have a smartphone where I can ask Siri that same time question and get an immediate response. Siri is also considered a Chatbot and can answer many questions, look up information, respond to questions with facts, etc. From an educational standpoint, I did like how some of the Chatbot platforms created scenarios and puzzles based on responses. After getting past the initial hurdle of learning how to use the platform and coding the Bot, I believe teachers could definitely benefit from using them in their classroom to engage and assist their students.
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I sound like a broken record with some instructions in my technology classes. I never even though of creating a chatbot, but you better believe it is happening soon. Thank you for all of your work. I especially liked the 3 sample bots. Really well done.