AI-generated Would You Rather dilemmas for classrooms and staff meetings! Timer, live anonymous voting via QR code, and a discussion prompt every round.
This is awesome! If doing this with students and they don't have a smart phone to easily scan the QR Code, could their be a shortened URL they could enter?
I love would you rather icebreakers with students. I'm most familiar with using them in math. I really like the idea for this app.
I ran into three inter-related problems right away. I chose 9-12 math, thought provoking, and one of the options was to know the date of your own death. To bring up potential suicidal ideation without warning (a suicide prevention hotline etc. and emotional preparation) is something I couldn't do safely. Plus, if I wanted to use this an ice breaker I couldn't because of the distraction of the topic of suicide, and I couldn't use it as an exit ticket because we wouldn't have time to discuss.
2) Compounding the problem is there isn't a way of modifying the prompt in the app, and
3) when I clicked generate again to generate a different question, I repeatedly got the same one. When I chose silly mode, and clicked generate, I did get different ones., but it repeated some of the same ones over and over.
Thank you Sam. Thank you so much for taking the time to try Would You Rather and write this up. This is exactly the kind of real-classroom feedback that makes a tool better, and I really appreciate you being specific.
The first point you raised is the one I care about most. You are absolutely right. A question that surfaces something like knowing the date of your own death has no place popping up unannounced in a classroom, and putting a teacher in the position of navigating suicidal ideation with no warning or preparation is not okay. Thank you for naming it directly. I have made changes so that cannot happen again.
Here is what is now fixed:
1. Safety guardrails. The app now has strict rules built into how questions are generated, so it will not produce anything involving death, self-harm, violence, substances, or other topics that do not belong on a classroom screen. On top of that, there is a second automatic check that catches and discards any question that slips through before it ever reaches you. Thought-provoking now means imaginative and curious, not dark or heavy.
2. You can steer the topic. There is a new optional focus box, so you can type something like fractions, geometry, or ecosystems and the questions will lean that way. That should make it work as the math icebreaker you were picturing.
3. No more repeats. The app now remembers what it has already shown you in a session and generates something genuinely different each time you click Generate, in every mode.
The updated version is live now, so a refresh should get you the new experience. If you run into anything else or have ideas, I would love to hear them. Thanks again for helping me make this safer and more useful for students.
Wow. You're so fast with this update! This is brilliant. I just tested a few topics and it was impressive. It looks like your guard rails are working. Probably no guardrail system is foolproof, but we can always regenerate. Excellent work with the rewrite and I will recommend this to our staff of teachers.
On the refinement front: Often, the questions are great, but I would like it even better if I had the ability to make one change here or there in order to refine the prompts to students, especially in order to reference something that we've been discussing. That way, the AI is helping us come up with ideas, but we as teachers would have fine-grain control over how things are worded. Might it be possible to give an option to teachers to rephrase one or both prompts before sharing it with students for voting? You were so responsive with my first pieces of feedback that I figured it would be worth it to get greedy and ask for even more.
Ok, give it a try now. I just tried to edit it as I am sitting at a conference waiting to present. This game is actually going to be my warmup to VIbe Coding.
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