🗑️ Save time, get stuff done with AI

🤖 Introducing TeachAid 2.0: A Massive Leap in AI for Education

TeachAid has rebuilt its AI platform from the ground up to offer the ultimate all-in-one curricular solution: expertly crafted unit and lesson plans, visually engaging presentations, adaptive activities, and final assessments designed for real student choice.

With this leap forward, we’re excited to unveil three innovative features that set TeachAid 2.0 apart:

🚀 Interactive Classroom: Energize your teaching with real-time tools that foster dynamic, engaging lessons.

🎙️ Student Participation Tools: Amplify every student’s voice with features that drive creativity, collaboration, and meaningful contributions.

🎮️ Interactive Assignments & Activities: Transform learning with personalized, hands-on tasks that resonate with every learner.

TeachAid 2.0 isn’t just a platform; it’s the most significant advancement in how AI empowers educators and engages students. Built to save time, improve outcomes, and inspire excellence, it’s the leap forward the education world has been waiting for.

Sign up now to experience TeachAid and discover how AI is reshaping education for the better.

💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡

🤖 Catching you up to speed on artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is already starting to impact our schools — and education in general.

No matter your role in education (yes, even if you teach littles), you really should know what’s going on.

Here’s why:

• This technology will be a huge part of your students’ future lives, no matter what they do for work.

• As a teacher, it can save you time, give you ideas, and help you get stuff done.

• There are ways AI can be used in education that are less ethical, less beneficial … and less “good for kids”. We ALL need to be watching and aware.

• If we understand what AI does — and can do — it can help us better prepare our students (and ourselves) for changes that will inevitably come.

(Have I convinced you yet?)

📚 THE BOOK: I wrote a book — AI for Educators — to help teachers get caught up to speed on artificial intelligence.

People call it a “quick read” and a “page turner.” I wanted to write something understandable and digestible that would translate AI for the classroom and for teachers.

💼 THE FREEBIES: Even if you don’t get the book, because you subscribe to the newsletter, I wanted to give you the companion website of the book for free. And we’ve just added new resources to it recently!

Here’s what you’ll find on the site ..

Infographics

These infographics pull information directly from the book, summarizing the chapters visually.

Tools

Lots and lots and lots of new AI tools have come on the scene in education. (Not all of them are great.)

We’ve rounded up 40 of our favorite AI-powered tools that can help teachers get work done … and help students learn.

Resources

We have written a LOT about artificial intelligence and its place in education.

On our AI for Educators resource page, we’ve pulled together some of our best, most important work on AI for teachers.

We have posts about the inaccuracy of AI detectors (spoiler: they’re terrible), whether you should cite AI in schoolwork (spoiler: most of the time no), and 6 ways to prepare students for an AI future.

Classroom activities

You can use AI to help you teach — and it doesn’t mean adopting a new app or teaching students to code.

In fact, in two of our activities (with downloadable Slides/PowerPoint templates!), teachers use ChatGPT and students don’t even touch it.

• The “Frankenbot” activity (with template!)

• The “Be the Bot” activity (with template!)

Videos

Sometimes, it’s just easier to watch a video — listen and learn as someone describes it to you.

We have a whole collection of AI-related videos on a wide range of AI-related topics. They’re on Teachflix, our library of teacher-approved instructional videos for the classroom.

BONUS: Here’s video of a full 45-minute AI session I did at the FETC Conference in Orlando, Florida. It’s called Tomorrow Glasses, and it’s my call to equip students with skills that will support them in an AI future.

… and much more!

Our companion site to my book, AI for Educators, is packed with a ton of free resources — whether you get the book or not!

💻 TECH TIP 💻

📺 WEBINAR: Understanding AI Tutors in K-12 Classrooms

This FREE webinar sponsored by Toddle is coming up this week!

I’ll give you the lay of the land when it comes to AI tutors and chatbots … what to know, what to look out for, how to use them, etc.

📅 DATE: Thursday, Feb. 6
⏰ TIME: 2pm U.S. Eastern / 11am Pacific
📍 LOCATION: Online
Followed by a Toddle AI Tutors Demo and Walkthrough

👋 How we can help

There are even more ways I can support you in the important work you do in education:

1. Read one of my six books about meaningful teaching with tech.

2. Take one of our online courses about practical and popular topics in education.

3. Bring me to your school, district or event to speak. I love working with educators!