“What If History” Is A Fun AI Tool & Also Makes Me Feel Sad About What AI Has Done To Classrooms

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I’m a big fan of alternative history.

And doing alternate history lessons in my IB Theory of Knowledge and ELL classes were some of my favorite times of the year – the creativity and deeper thinking exhibited by students was off the charts (see The Best Resources For Teaching “What If?” History Lessons).

But I felt like I had to stop doing them the last two years I was in the classroom because of Artificial Intelligence.   The assignment was very hard, and I loved my students, but I thought the temptation of ChatGPT was just going to be too much for many of them.

I remembered that sense of sadness when I learned about a new AI tool called What If History.

It’s free, and it’s a lot of fun to just invent a scenario and have it run with it.

Nevertheless, it’s a reminder of what we’ve lost over the past three years….