LogicBalls is an AI tool designed to help users with a variety of writing tasks by offering specific templates for different writing needs. These include class-wide emails, newsletters, text messages, blog headlines, and much more.
LogicBalls also comes equipped with a humanizing option, to make the text sound less AI. At the opposite end of the spectrum, it offers an AI detection tool.
Overall, LogicBalls is a platform that recognizes that various situations call for widely different writing styles, and seeks to provide a specific AI solution for each one.
As a journalist writing about AI, I find LogicBalls helpful and a nice change of pace from general-purpose chatbots that can sometimes only do what you want if you’re really good at writing prompts. As an educator, however, I’m concerned about one of the tool's implicit purposes: to better imitate human writing in a variety of settings.
Putting those important concerns aside for the moment, here’s a look at ways in which LogicBalls can help educators cut back on the daily minutiae of their teaching lives and focus on students.
What Is LogicBalls?
LogicBalls is an AI tool designed to provide AI assistance on a wide variety of tasks.
At first glance, LogicBalls operates much like any other chatbot with a text interface in which you write questions or prompts. But what sets it apart are the templates it provides for various writing tasks, and that you can search through specific education tools/templates to generate assistance in class prep and more.
Specific templates for education include an SAT practice test generator, a lesson plan generator, a grade level rephrasing tool, and much more. Administrative-focused tools are also available, from a report card comment generator to a college event proposal generator.
You can also access LogicBalls' AI detection tool, which seemed effective in my tests with it, although as LogicBalls itself notes when you use it, no AI detection tool is perfect.
What Are LogicBalls Best Teaching Features?
LogicBalls AI's most appealing features from a teaching perspective are its library of specifically prompted tools for teaching. These are helpful with various common tasks such as lesson planning, quiz generation, etc., but browsing the education-specific tools can also be helpful in coming up with new ways to use AI to teach.
For instance, I came across a class icebreaker generator and decided to test it out. Initially, I was skeptical that it would actually generate good ideas for ice-breaking exercises, but it exceeded my expectations. One was for students to generate a headline about themselves that summarizes their personality, while another was a fake news detection challenge in which students share three facts about themselves, two true ones and one made-up; the class then tries to guess which “fact” is false.
Neither idea is revolutionary, but both sounded fun, newswriting-related exercises I could engage in with my journalism classes in the future.
How Much Does LogicBalls Cost?
LogicBalls has a free plan that requires a login, and offers access to a chatbot and more than 2,000 AI tools and templates. It also comes with five AI detections per month and access to several different AI models.
LogicBalls also offers several different tiers of subscription, starting with the Pro plan which is $5 per month, a premium plan for $8.25 per month, and the elite plan for $11.65 per month.
Bottom Line: Would I Use LogicBalls To Teach?
I’m torn about LogicBalls, and this type of technology in general. It performs admirably as advertised and can do a number of tasks that teachers could need AI help with really well. In an increasingly crowded AI field, LogicBalls feels unique.
However, as I mentioned at the start of this article, there’s something inherently unsettling about a tool designed, in part, to imitate human writing. It doesn’t take a lot of pessimism to see how a tool doing that can be used by students to cheat.
On a deeper level, I’m also concerned about this kind of technology as a human. Outside of teaching, I’m encountering more social media posts, stories, and even emails that I suspect have been generated in part, or in full, by AI. This makes me worry that we’re heading for an age of inauthenticity and that effective AI tools such as LogicBalls could be used to bolster that.
The old cliche is true, of course, that any AI tool, or any tool for that matter, can be used for good or bad, and it just matters how you use it. This just may feel more true with LogicBalls than with some other tools.
