It’s one thing knowing how to keep your student engaged for a whole hour, it’s another thing to make the lesson so interactive and fun that you risk going overtime. Intrigued? Well, today I’m going to introduce you to a (now fairly well known) tool that you can easily utilize to make your lessons the highlight of your students’ day.

If you’ve ever struggled with maintaining your students’ full and unconditional attention during your tutoring session, you might just want to try this one out. But wait, first, read our blog on How to Increase Student Engagement in Lessons to learn a couple of tutor-tried-and-trusted methods of piquing your student’s interest session after session. Once you’ve done that, keep reading to discover a revolutionary tool that’ll help you wave ‘goodbye’ to dull lesson materials forever.

Introducing AI image generator exercises. Sound familiar? Yes, it’s that image generator tool that allows you to input some text into a search bar and in turn generates an image based on the text inputted.

From Beyonce building sandcastles on a ski slope to a floating bagel answering the telephone — AI image generator tools will let you create the craziest of images – the more absurd, the better! AI tools such as Dream by Wombo, Deep AI, and BigSleep can help you recreate scenes from your wildest dreams (or simply help you overcome that hassle of finding relevant stock images!).

Ok, you’re probably thinking, all of this sounds great, but how is this relevant to tutoring?

Well, the AI image generator function can be used in various ways throughout your lesson. You can start by incorporating some AI image generator- based games and exercises into your warm-ups, or use them during the lesson when you see that your student needs a break from the imperfect subjunctive.

Here are some examples of cool exercises that you can try for yourself:

1. The letter game

One idea for a warm-up exercise is getting your students to come up with as many words as possible beginning with the same letter for different categories. Once you’ve run a letter through the list of categories below, have your students create a sentence with the words and then get them to input the sentence into the AI-image generator to see what comes out of it. This works especially well for group lessons, you can have a competition to see which student comes up with the most creative combination of words and generates the most amusing image.

Here are some examples of categories that you can use for this exercise:

Person:

Something you find in an office :

Verb:

Adjective:

Place:

Animal:

Food:

Here is an example with the categories Person, Something you find in the office, verb, and adjective, and the letter ‘P” – the President prints purple paper.

2. The description game

Rather than having your student come up with the words, you can create an AI-generated image yourself, then ask your student to describe everything that is going on within the image to you verbally. This is a phenomenal way to practice new vocabulary with your student. For this exercise, you might even want to avoid making the images too unusual and stick to setting up conventional scenes with words that are closely associated with each other to help your students build on their cognitive skills. For example, ‘A barista makes a cappuccino for a customer in the cafe.’

3. The blind artist

This is a fun game to play with younger students, but is also great for beginner learners of any age. Show your student a photograph of a famous landmark, place, or scene, then hide the image. The student’s task is to then describe the image in text and input it into the AI-generator to see how close they can get to recreating the image.

These are just three examples of some ways that you can experiment with the AI image generator tool in your lessons. Have fun creating your own games and of course, feel free to share them with the PrepYourLesson community! In fact, we challenge you to create your own AI image-generator exercise materials. Before you upload your lesson material, make sure to use the tag ‘fun with AI’ and we’ll send you a small gift!