Grow to Glow: Fostering Interculturality with AI-Enhanced Conversations

Watch our latest Grow to Glow webinar, "Fostering Interculturality with AI-Enhanced Conversations." In this session, you'll find out how Nualang AI Chatbots can facilitate language-learning conversations with students, prompting opportunities for intercultural reflection within a safe and stress-free environment. You'll also explore how AI tools can enhance intercultural learning while keeping classroom practices ethical, safe, and culturally authentic.

Grow to Glow: Fostering Interculturality with AI-Enhanced Conversations

Thank you for your interest in our Grow to Glow professional learning series!

This session—led by Alexis Buschert, Instructional Strategist; Amy Rill, Instructional Technologist and Producer; and Kristy Placido, Managing Editor of Supplemental Product Development—explored how AI tools can support interculturality in the language classroom while maintaining ethical, safe, and culturally authentic practices.

The focus of this year’s Grow to Glow series is interculturality: students’ ability to investigate cultural products, practices, and perspectives and interact with others using culturally appropriate language and behaviors. This webinar concentrated specifically on the “Knowing Myself” component of intercultural learning, helping students reflect on their own cultural identities and compare them with those of the target-language communities.

Practical Applications for the Classroom

  1. AI as a Teacher’s Creative Partner
  2. Best Practices for Prompt Design
  3. Creating Custom GPTs

Nuala News and AI-Supported Conversations

The session concluded with a look at Nuala News, a monthly leveled news feature within Wayside’s Nualang platform.

Each month includes:

  • Two articles per language (Spanish, French, German) at both novice and intermediate levels
  • Glossed readings
  • A model dialogue
  • A safe, adaptive chatbot conversation that guides students to connect cultural content to their own experiences

This structured environment allows students to practice real intercultural reflection without the risks of open-world AI tools.

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Gathering Perspectives from the Field on Interculturality

DEC 2, 7PM ET

Join us for a lively panel discussion featuring experienced teachers and World Language education experts! We’ll explore both the successes and challenges of fostering intercultural competence in the language classroom. You'll leave with valuable insights and practical ideas for creating inclusive, intercultural spaces for your students.

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