✨ New AI tools for the classroom

🎁 Adobe Creative Challenge: Win prizes for your class!

What if we could suggest a fun, creative activity for your students — AND they could win prizes for participating?

Let’s do both!

This month’s Adobe Creative Challenge is all about designing a creative alter-ego that matches with your students’ personalities.

Using Adobe Express, they can …

• create their alter-ego with AI Text to Image, describing it with a prompt to create an image, OR …

• create it with the Collage feature to use existing images

Either way, your whole class can win cool red Adobe beanies (aka toboggan, aka stocking cap)!

Check out this month’s Adobe Creative Challenge here — and register to win the class set of beanies!

FYI: All K-12 teachers and students in the US have access to the new Adobe Express. Here’s how you can log in with your school credentials.

🤖 NEW AI tools to save time in the classroom

It’s kind of amazing how quickly many of these new AI tools have come to the education scene, isn’t it?

There are brand new tools powered by AI.

There are established tools we already use that have added AI features.

And they all keep growing and growing and growing …

To keep you on the ball, we’ve pulled together 30 of our favorite edtech tools that use AI. But instead of adding and adding to our existing list, we stuck with 30 tools, removing some to make room for new ones.

You know … trying not to overwhelm you too much. 😳😳

Here are a few of my favorites we just added to the list:

• Bing Chat: I was surprised to learn that Bing Chat runs on the same AI model (GPT4) that people pay to get with premium ChatGPT. I've been using it recently and have really liked it. Save yourself $20 per month and get powerful GPT4 with Bing Chat instead.

• Goblin Tools: Special needs teachers have excitedly told me about this one several times. From the website: Goblin Tools is a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult.

• FigJam Jambot: FigJam is an online whiteboard tool with tons of features. Now, you can connect its sticky notes to the JamBot widget, which expands on the content of the sticky note with AI responses. It puts lots of emphasis on process rather than product.

Those are just a few of my favorite new additions to the post. Check out the whole thing for more AI goodness to save time and level up learning in your classroom.

Read: 30 AI tools for the classroom

🏨 Template: The Yelp review template

Studying a person or a place in history — or in current events?

The Yelp review template is a fun way for students to show what they’ve learned in a creative way!

In this free customizable Google Slides/PowerPoint template, students can fill in images of a place (or about a person) and play the role of reviewer.

Taking the perspective of someone else — and showing that person’s opinions and feelings — can help students see content in new ways. And it can be fun!

• How would Davy Crockett review The Alamo?

• How would Napoleon review the Palace at Versailles?

• How would your students review their favorite (or least favorite) element on the periodic table?

Make a copy of this template. Assign it to students in your learning management system. Then have them rate something — or someone! — through the eyes of someone else (even themselves).

Make a copy: The Yelp review template