One of my most popular blog entries, Dicebreakers and Activity Debriefing Templates, made me wonder, how hard would it be to create a digital creation tool to aid educators in creating dicebreakers? If you’re not familiar with dicebreakers, the concept is simple: a dicebreaker allows children to roll a die (or dice) to get some kind of action item, answer a question, tell a story. Simply, each number corresponds to an action. It’s random and fun way to make engaging activities.
Dicebreakers have a long history, and Rachael Mann, Stephanie Howell are two people that I referenced in my original blog entry. This DrawSplat tool makes for a fun update.
What’s more, a dicebreaker tool can be adapted to make classroom icebreakers, entry/exit ticket activities, as well as a way to debrief learning to encourage reflection. These are powerful, high-effect size instructional strategies.
Note: I’ve directed an update that enables Concept Map Studio to now provide a format code you can import into any Gen AI chatbot. Then, your favorite AI tool can take your information (whatever you are reading or doing) and generate a JSON file that you can load into the Concept Map Studio. And, I had word wrap and multilingual capabilities included. And, you can embed maps as custom HTML code in Google Sites, and other places that accept embed code.
Multilingual Dicebreaker Creator
As a result, in the interests of creating a free tool, I steered Gen AI to vibe-code a Dicebreaker Creator. Of course, my Dicebreaker Creator tool is multilingual. It supports English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Arabic, Urdu/Hindi, some of the most common languages in Texas schools.
Here’s the Spanish version:
Here’s the Vietnamese version:
