Bloom's level: Creating
Brainstorming Buddy
A Tinybot that helps broaden students' thinking – it uses questions and prompts to lead them to more ideas, rather than pushing one idea on them. Great for kicking off a project, planning a school event or finding a research question.
What it's good for
- Coming up with project ideas
- Designing experiments
- Creating stories
- Planning school events
- Finding solutions to problems
- Preparing presentations
- Developing research questions
- Building creativity
Not suitable for: organising work or creating timelines (use Planning Bot for that), revising material, explaining new material, or checking knowledge.
Sample prompts
The teaching material includes sample prompts for the subjects and topics in the table below. That said, you can use Tinybots in any subject and with any topic – the samples are mainly here for inspiration.
Subject
Topic
Age
Length
English Language Arts
Why is it useful to understand how language works?
14 to 15
10 minutes
Geography
How can our school use water more wisely?
12 to 13
10 minutes
Media Literacy
How can you spot disinformation or fake news?
15 to 16
10 minutes
Computer Science
Where do we come across robots and automation today?
12 to 14
10 minutes
catalogue of educational chatbots
11 Tinybots. One for every stage of learning.
To make them easier to navigate, we’ve grouped the Tinybots into categories based on the revised Bloom’s taxonomy. The flower diagram shows the cognitive levels, named at the bottom of the image, with the individual Tinybots branching out from them at the top. The categories help Tiny set the right learning goals and assessment criteria, which we then use to give you and your students feedback on each conversation.
