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At the end of the day, we must remember that artificial intelligence is, fundamentally, a tool. A critical professional skill is now knowing which of these tools are appropriate for a given task, curriculum, and age level. With hundreds, if not thousands, of AI options already available—a number that will only increase as AI becomes embedded into the software we already use—making informed choices is essential.
The challenge lies in navigating this growing AI landscape to identify which tools are truly effective for learning, which ones are safe and protect student privacy, and which ones are vetted and supported by the AVRCE. Just as we select the right novel or scientific equipment for a lesson, we must now apply the same professional discernment to our selection of AI.
Ultimately, the true value of any AI tool, from personalized feedback generators to automated lesson planners, is only as high as the skill, pedagogical expertise, and ethical judgment of the professional—the teacher—who selects, customizes, and integrates it into their practice, ensuring the technology actively supports genuine learning rather than merely automating tasks.
Ultimately, the true value of any AI tool, from personalized feedback generators to automated lesson planners, is only as high as the skill, pedagogical expertise, and ethical judgment of the professional—the teacher—who selects, customizes, and integrates it into their practice, ensuring the technology actively supports genuine learning rather than merely automating tasks.
To ensure safety and privacy, we cannot list every potential AI tool that exists for education; instead, it is crucial that teachers and staff pay close attention to the AVRCE list of approved applications. This list helps ensure that any technology used adheres to our regional centre's standards for data security and student protection.
General Use (AVRCE Provided)
General Use (AVRCE Provided)
Google Gemini
Google Gemini is used by teachers as an AI assistant to save time on administrative tasks like drafting emails and communications, to accelerate lesson planning by generating objectives, quizzes, and rubrics, and to personalize and differentiate content for students across various learning needs.
Gemini Tools in Classroom
Gemini tools built into Google Classroom are a suite of AI features for educators that primarily function as an ultimate assistant to save time by quickly generating lesson plans, rubrics, quizzes, and vocabulary lists, while also supporting personalized learning by re-leveling text and creating custom AI study companions (Gems and NotebookLM) grounded in class materials.
Gemini Gems
Gemini Gems are custom, reusable AI assistants—created by teachers with specific instructions, role, and context—to automate repetitive tasks like generating quizzes, drafting lessons, or acting as a partner for students, and can be shared through Google Classroom to provide personalized, focused learning experiences.
Notebook LM
NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and writing assistant that allows teachers to upload their own class documents (notes, slides, readings) to quickly generate reliable, customized study materials like quizzes, audio summaries, mind maps, and flashcards that are strictly grounded in the source materials for personalized student learning and content review.
Instructional Design and Materials
Instructional Design and Materials
Diffit
Diffit is an AI tool for teachers that automates differentiation by instantly rewriting any text, article, PDF, or YouTube video transcript at various reading levels while simultaneously generating a full set of accompanying, cited instructional resources like summaries, vocabulary lists, and quizzes to save teachers significant planning time.
Eduaide
Eduaide is an AI-powered instructional design platform and assistant, created by teachers for teachers, that streamlines the entire planning process by offering a suite of over 100 tools to quickly generate standards-aligned lesson plans, rubrics, quizzes, graphic organizers, and games to save significant preparation time and enable easy content differentiation.
Napkin
Napkin AI is an AI-powered visual storytelling tool that quickly transforms text, notes, or documents into clean, editable diagrams, flowcharts, infographics, and mind maps, helping teachers simplify complex concepts for students and reduce time spent on creating visual aids and presentation materials.
Magic School
Magic School AI offers educators a library of over 80 specialized tools to rapidly generate lesson plans, differentiate content, create assessments, and handle administrative tasks, helping teachers save significant time and combat burnout.
Assessment
Assessment
Brisk Teaching
Brisk Teaching includes an AI tool for Assessment to rapidly create quizzes and comprehension questions from any source material, alongside a separate Feedback tool that automatically generates personalized, actionable comments on student written work by evaluating submissions against a rubric or learning criteria.
Snorkl
Snorkl is a web-based educational platform that enables students to record verbal and visual explanations of their thinking on a digital whiteboard and then provides them with instant, personalized, AI-generated feedback on their reasoning and process.
Student Use
Student Use
Notebook LM
NotebookLM supports middle and high school students by acting as a personalized AI research and study assistant, generating tools like flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, and summaries directly from their uploaded class materials to clarify complex concepts and facilitate test preparation.
Gemini for Students
Gemini assists students as a general AI Chatbot that generates text and images by offering personalized educational support, including simplifying complex topics, providing homework assistance, and generating custom study aids tailored to their specific learning needs and grade level.
Gemini Gems
Gemini and its custom AI agents, called Gems, serve as a centralized, personalized AI assistant for students—providing homework help, customized quizzes, and deep research summaries—while simultaneously empowering teachers to create and assign AI experts (Gems) grounded in specific class materials and lessons directly within Google Classroom.
Magic Student
Magic Student is the student-facing platform within Magic School AI that provides a set of 50+ teacher-controlled AI tools designed to help students with personalized study support, homework assistance, creative projects, and building AI literacy within a safe, monitored classroom environment.
Brisk (Boost Activity)
The Boost Student Activity feature in Brisk Teaching is an AI tool that allows teachers to instantly transform any online resource (like a webpage, YouTube video, or Google Doc) into a safe, interactive, and personalized chat-based learning experience for students, offering activities like AI tutoring, character chats, debates, or writing coaching aligned with teacher-set learning goals.
Common Tools with Integrated AI
Common Tools with Integrated AI
Canva
Canva leverages its Magic Studio suite of AI tools to accelerate and simplify the entire visual creation process for all skill levels, enabling users to generate images, videos, and presentations from text prompts, instantly reformat designs across platforms (Magic Switch), and perform complex photo edits like removing, replacing, or expanding objects and backgrounds (Magic Edit, Magic Eraser, Magic Expand) with natural language commands.
Google Workspace
AI integration, primarily through Gemini, fundamentally changes how users interact with Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, and Meet) by providing AI assistance to instantly draft and refine content, generate visual aids, analyze data, and automate routine communications, all while maintaining enterprise-grade security and data protection.
Padlet
Padlet is an online collaborative tool—often described as a digital bulletin board—that uses AI features like Magic Padlet and Padlet TA to let users instantly generate entire boards, lesson plans, quizzes, rubrics, and custom images from text prompts, significantly simplifying content creation and boosting real-time student collaboration and activity creation.
Adobe Express for Education
Adobe Express for Education is a free, all-in-one creativity platform that uses AI features, like Firefly for generating images and text effects, to empower students and teachers to quickly create and collaborate on visually impactful presentations, graphics, videos, and multimedia reports using safe, classroom-ready tools and guided, standards-aligned activities.
Organizations and Collections
Organizations and Collections
EduGems
EduGems is a curated repository of specialized, AI-powered "Gems" for Google Gemini, designed to provide educators and students with custom tools for lesson planning, student support, and interactive learning.
Playlab - Teacher Creations
Playlab is an AI platform for educators and organizations that allows them to build, customize, and share their own task-specific AI applications—without needing to code—by steering the AI's behavior, guardrails, and knowledge to align with their specific curriculum, learning objectives, and instructional practices.
Education Prompt Library
The AI for Education Prompt Library provides a curated, categorized collection of GenAI prompts—covering areas like Lesson Planning, Assessment, Special Education, Communication, and Administrative tasks—that educators can copy and use with large language models (like ChatGPT or Gemini) to save time and generate high-quality, aligned classroom resources.
Google Labs
Google Labs serves as the central hub for AI experiments at Google, featuring innovative tools—such as Flow for filmmaking and Mixboard for concepting—that allow users to explore and interact with Google's most advanced AI models and technologies.
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