🛠 5 new AI tools for the classroom

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💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡

🛠 5 new AI tools for the classroom

Looking to be more efficient? Save time? Get new creative ideas? Or just mix things up in the classroom?

We’re updating our post — 30 AI tools for the classroom — with more apps and sites. Check out the post for all of them!

Here are five AI tools I’ve come across recently that have my attention …

1. Brisk Teaching (briskteaching.com)

Brisk is a Chrome extension. Install it in your Google Chrome browser and you’ll start to see the Brisk icon in Google tools like Docs, Slides, and Google Classroom. Use it to provide student feedback, change reading level, and more. It’s also packed with dozens of teacher tools to take workload off your shoulders.

2. Claude (claude.ai)

Claude is an AI chatbot (like ChatGPT and Google Gemini). It’s been around for a while, but recently, it unveiled a new model that makes it much more powerful. It’s now one of the top AI assistants out there. It runs on Constitutional AI, which creates a set of principles it abides by.

3. Ideogram (ideogram.ai)

There are LOTS of AI image generators out there. Ideogram is quickly becoming one of my favorites. The images it generates are fantastic. But it has a secret superpower — magic prompt. It takes the description you write of the image you want (the prompt) and improves it using AI. It improves the final image drastically.

4. Antimatter Sorcerer (antimatter.systems)

Antimatter has added to its fun meme and text conversation tools for the classroom. Sorcerer is an AI chatbot that scores student understanding of a topic on a 0-100 scale. As the student responds, the sorcerer adds points to the scale to show the student’s growing understanding.

5. TeachAid (teachaid.ca)

TeachAid is a new member of the education AI tools community. It’s a one-stop shop where you can plan lessons, create assessments, as well as make interactive presentations and learning activities. Its interactive presentations are really cool, rivaling Kahoot-style formative assessment sites.

We’ll be adding more tools shortly to our AI tools blog post — and we’ll share them with you here!

🎯 Quick Teaching Strategy

🖍️ Simple self assessment

This quick teaching strategy comes from Teacher Phoenix Moony and shared via @Teacher2Teacher on Twitter/X.

Pheonix says they leave highlighters next to the turn-in bin. Students will highlight their name with they turn in assignments with a specific color.

• 🟢 Green highlighter if they feel they did well and are confident in their work.

• 🟡 Yellow highlighter if the student thinks they mostly understood it.

• 🟠 Orange highlighter if they struggled.

Phoenix says it’s a self assessment AND there are fewer papers missing names!

🔗 You can see the original tweet where this idea was shared here.

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