AI Tools for Teachers
There are so many different AI tools available to us, however, I have chosen just a few to share with you. These have personally worked well for me so I'm going to share my experience with those tools. I would love to hear about other AI tools that you have used that have worked well for you in your classroom or personally. We will explore ChatGPT, Perplexity, Canva Classroom Magic, Magic School AI, and Curipod.
ChatGPT Teacher Time Savers
ChatGPT is a generative AI tool that you interact with conversationally. Provide the chatbot with a question or a prompt and it will respond. There are many ways that you can use this as a teacher in your classroom. I do not recommend allowing students to use this in the classroom yet. If you do decide to use it, I would recommend using it as a guided discovery. Make sure if you do decide to use it in your classroom, read the terms of use.
Unit Outlines- Align your unit outline to your required standards. You can craft an outline by grade, subject, or timeline.
Create Lesson Plans- Ask ChatGPT to write a lesson. ChatGPT will compose activities, scaffolding, student-facing objectives, and assessments. From there you can continue to prompt ChatGPT to make adjustments to create a plan for your specific instructional needs.
Slideshows- As of right now, you can not create a slideshow using ChatGPT, however, you can create an outline for your slideshow.
Simplify a Topic- Ask ChatGPT to take a more complex topic and prompt it to the level of simplification you'd like.
Discussion Questions- Use ChatGPT to write engaging discussion questions for class discussions on a specific topic.
Rubrics- Input the criteria you want to use to grade and provide ChatGPT with the grading scale you would like to use and it will create a rubric you can use for your assignment.
Professional Correspondence- Prompt ChatGPT with your thoughts and ideas to create an email. Make sure to include the tone and style you would like your email to be written in.
Writing Feedback- ChatGPT is a wonderful tool for receiving writing feedback. It can also be used to help provide feedback for student writing pieces. Define the criteria you would like to give to the students.
Perplexity
Perplexity is another generative AI tool that also acts as a non-traditional search engine that is similar to ChatGPT, where you can pose a question and in return receive concise, accurate answers with a set of curated sources to support the answers provided. It provides you with easily clickable sources to continue your learning. It has a conversational interface that learns your interests and preferences over time. What is different about this resource is the sources that it provides sources where it drew the information.
Canva Classroom Magic
Canva has created classroom magic which is a suite of AI tools to use in the classroom. The best AI-powered features are built right inside Canva to take your brainstorms to finished products with more speed, ease, and creativity. These tools are made to help you save time on mundane tasks and help you discover new ways of thinking. These tools are available to both students and educators with limited or restricted magic studio features.
Canva Tools to Engage Students
Magic Animate- Automatically animate your designs or classroom materials into engaging and captivating videos or presentations. Add motion effects and seamless transitions to presentations and videos with just one click.
Magic Grab- Redesign teaching materials with Magic Grab. Use Magic Grab to separate and select the object you want to edit, resize, or reposition. This tool allows you to quickly update any text in your image, including a photo or a document.
Text to Image- Teach your students and make lessons exciting by learning how to turn your ideas from text to images in just seconds tailored to your educational needs.
Canva Tools to Save Time
Magic Write- This is your AI-powered assistant. Simply enter a prompt to generate your first draft. After you have a variety of options with the magic write you can continue writing, summarize, rewrite, more fun, more formal, sprinkle fairy dust, and fix spelling.
Magic Design for Presentation- Let Magic Design do the heavy lifting for you. Type in your prompt your idea and watch as the slideshow comes to life. It will create an outline and also provide some lessons for your content. In your prompt make sure to include keywords, outcomes, grades, audience, and purpose. Try to narrow these down to 5-10 words for the best results. For example, an informative presentation on solar eclipses for 5th grade. To access this feature open a presentation template. Tap on the design tab and write your prompt. From there a section will show up called Magic Design and you will see presentations created for you.
Magic Switch- Magic Switch allows you to quickly transform your designs in a matter of seconds. You have the ability to change the format, language, and dimensions of your designs. When you open your design, tap magic switch. You will have a choice to translate, transform into a doc, or resize. It will create a new design for you based on your specifications.
Canva Tools to Easily Edit
Magic Edit- Magic edit is a tool that allows you to unleash your creativity. You are able to reimagine your ideas by adding, replacing, or editing your image. Once you find the image you’d like to include in your design, click the edit photo button. Select the magic edit tool and brush over the area you’d like to edit. Prompt what you’d like the replacement to look like until you get the perfect fit. With this tool you can swap out backgrounds, change the color of images, and even add objects.
Magic Morph- Magic Morph allows you to transform words or shapes to boost your content from basic to advanced and visually more appealing effortlessly. When you are on a design, go to the apps button. Search for magic morph and then select the element in your design you’d like to improve. Describe the new look that you are looking for and then tap the magic morph.
Magic Expand- Magic expand, extends an image in any direction. This will help prevent weird proportions or strangely stretched photos. Choose the photo you’d like to extend and tap on the edit photo button. Click on magic expand and choose the size you’d like the photo to now be. Hit the purple button to expand and choose your favorite rendering to now include in your design.
Curipod
Curipod allows you to plan and deliver interactive lessons on any topic with the help of AI. Curipod has suggestions for topics or lessons that are favorites for students, but you can also create one from scratch as well.
I’m going to share with you some of my favorites that I’ve used so far or that I am planning on using with my students. To run an interactive slideshow, you need to prompt or create a presentation, and then when you are ready for the presentation hit play. Depending on when you want the students to join you will need to hit the person icon at the bottom of the screen to bring up the code for students to join.
Feedback from a historian allows you to specify what grade level you are teaching, name the historical figure you’d like to get feedback from, and then type the question the students will need to answer. Curipod will then create a slideshow to share with the class. The slides will include some background information on the historical figure that you chose and then prompt them to answer the question. Students will have an opportunity to answer the question within an allotted time. You can customize this right inside the presentation if they need more time. Then students will submit their answers to get feedback. The feedback will be from the historical figure that you chose. I tried playing around one day with King George III and George Washington providing students with feedback about the causes of the American Revolution. Not only will you get information on the level of understanding from your students by answering the questions, but you can also dive deeper into more critical thinking by having them analyze the response from the historian if what they said is accurate.
The paragraph of the week is simple to get started. You will be prompted to choose a grade level. From there hit do magic, and the prompt will be created. A slideshow will be created with a writing prompt for the students. They will be able to receive feedback when they are done writing. By default, it provides them with 30 minutes to complete the writing task.
Word of the day is similar to paragraphs of the week. With this activity, there will be a word for the students to explore. It will give the definition of the word, have students write a sentence using the word, write a synonym for the word, and an antonym for the word.
AI Feedback slides- Each day that I go and check these there seems to be more added. These are the ones that they have included. These activities provide students with feedback based on the criteria that have been predetermined. They currently have options for narrative writing and argumentative. The narrative story is a magical story where students get a prompt and they have to complete the story. It is suggested for students in 6th through 8th grade, however, my 5th-grade students thoroughly enjoyed this prompt. One of the prompts they were given was to write a story about a magical doorway that appears in the middle of your school playground during recess and where it leads. The students will write their story and when the time is up they will submit their story. The students are limited to 1000 characters. They will receive feedback on their story from AI. The current options for argumentative writing are to convince the evil AI ruler, convince AI to buy, and monsters and magic. Of these, you will be given the option to determine either the rule, monster, or object to buy. The students will then be prompted that they need to convince AI to do these things based on the quality of their persuasiveness and the quality of their writing.
Magic School AI
Magic School is a platform made specifically with educators in mind. The tools available on Magic School are designed and focused on everyday tasks for teachers. Just a reminder not to include student names or personal information and again always check for bias and accuracy. They also have just released MagicStudent which is a way to use AI in the classroom that is guided and managed in a way that teachers can see everything students are doing in terms of what they are prompting and researching.
Student work feedback is based on custom criteria, the feedback will come back in the form of areas of strength and areas of growth. Specify the grade level, the assignment description, the focus of the feedback, or the rubric criteria, and then copy and paste the student's work. It will then generate feedback based on the custom criteria you input.
The next tool is report card comments. Report card comments always took so much time, to make sure they were professional but got across what I was trying to say. Now with the report card comments section, you can generate report card comments with a student's strengths and areas for growth in a matter of seconds. It has made doing report cards much easier.
Rubric generator is a tool that has AI write a rubric for an assignment you are creating for your class in a table format. Include the standards or objectives, the assignment title, the assignment description, and the points scale. From there it will create a rubric for you to use.
Email responder, professional email, and email family are all great tools to help you generate customized professional email communication for multiple purposes. This has come in handy when having difficult conversations with parents.
Science labs can generate an engaging science lab based on topics and standards of your choice.
Exemplar & non-exemplar is a tool that creates responses to specific assignments to help “see” what is expected. This has come in handy when doing different writing assignments or projects.
Again, there are so many different tools available on Magic School, that you need to just go check it out for yourself. This is a tool that I use daily and has saved me a lot of time doing everyday teacher tasks.
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