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The world of AI is a fast changing world! This list is just a quick view at some of the tools that have made a name for themselves.
Gemini
Teachers and Students MAY log in and use this program with their LCISD Google account.
Gemini is a family of multimodal AI models developed by Google, capable of understanding and generating various types of information including text, code, images, audio, and video. For educators, it serves as an intelligent assistant within Google Workspace, designed to enhance productivity, foster creativity, and personalize learning experiences for students by automating tasks like lesson planning, content creation, and personalized feedback.
What can Gemini do?
What can Gemini do?
- Draft lesson plans: Generate initial drafts of lesson plans, including objectives, activities, and assessments, saving educators significant time.
- Differentiate content: Re-level complex texts or create customized learning materials to suit different student reading levels and learning needs.
- Create engaging presentations: Generate original images and designs for Google Slides presentations, making them more visually appealing and informative.
- Summarize long emails and documents: Quickly distill key information from lengthy email threads, research papers, or reports, improving efficiency.
- Draft email replies: Provide suggested responses for emails, adapting to the user's typical tone and pulling relevant details from Google Drive.
- Take meeting notes in Google Meet: Automatically transcribe and summarize meeting discussions, highlighting action items and allowing participants to focus on the conversation.
- Generate discussion questions: Create thought-provoking questions for classroom discussions or assignments based on provided text or topics.
- Develop rubrics: Assist in creating or refining rubrics for assignments, ensuring clear evaluation criteria and alignment with learning goals.
- Brainstorm project ideas: Help educators and students generate creative project ideas for various subjects, promoting engagement.
- Create interactive quizzes and practice sets: Generate quizzes and practice materials, potentially with conversational feedback, to help students test their knowledge.
- Organize data in Google Sheets: Help organize projects, events, or student data by suggesting custom tables and automating data entry tasks.
- Provide personalized student feedback: Draft initial feedback on student work, highlighting strengths and areas for improvement, which educators can then refine.
- Generate letters of recommendation or grant proposals: Speed up administrative tasks by drafting formal documents based on provided notes or information.
- Translate text: Translate content into over 100 languages, supporting diverse student populations.
- Integrate with trusted academic sources (e.g., OpenStax, Data Commons): Pull information directly from authoritative educational resources to provide accurate and reliable answers to questions.
NotebookLM
Teachers and Students MAY log in and use this program with their LCISD Google account.
NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and note-taking tool that helps teachers analyze, summarize, and generate insights from their uploaded documents, like lesson plans, articles, or student work. It acts as a personalized AI assistant, grounding its responses in the provided sources to help with content creation, differentiated instruction, and collaborative curriculum development.
What can NotebookLM do?
What can NotebookLM do?
For Teachers:
For Teachers:
- Generate lesson plans, study guides, and assessments from curriculum documents.
- Create differentiated learning materials by adjusting text complexity or generating vocabulary lists.
- Collaborate on curriculum development and lesson planning with colleagues.
- Efficiently summarize and curate information from various sources for lesson preparation.
- Convert lecture notes or readings into engaging, conversational audio overviews for students.
- Analyze student questions and comments from discussions to inform teaching.
- Develop personalized learning pathways and suggest supplemental resources for students.
- Provide prompts for students to analyze primary sources and develop critical thinking skills.
For Students:
For Students:
- Organize research and study materials into a centralized knowledge base.
- Get quick summaries of lengthy articles, textbook chapters, or research papers.
- Automatically generate personalized study guides, FAQs, and glossaries.
- Receive simplified explanations of complex concepts with examples.
- Visualize connections between concepts through mind maps.
- Prepare for discussions and exams by generating prompts and practice questions.
- Receive support for writing and project development, including outlines and evidence finding.
NotebookLM Resources
NotebookLM Resources
MagicSchool.AI
Teachers MAY login and use this program with their LCISD Google account. Teachers may also create "rooms" for students to join.
Students MAY join teacher created "rooms" to utilize AI tools assigned by teachers.
MagicSchool.ai is a comprehensive AI platform designed specifically for educators, aiming to save them time and enhance learning experiences. It boasts a wide array of tools, with over 80 for teachers and 50+ for students. Teachers can create student rooms and assign AI tools for students to utilize.
What can MagicSchool.AI do?
What can MagicSchool.AI do?
- Generate Lesson Plans: Create detailed lesson plans for any topic, including objectives, activities, and assessments.
- Differentiate Content (Text Leveler): Rewrite any text to suit different reading levels, making content accessible for diverse learners.
- Create Multiple Choice Quizzes/Assessments: Generate quizzes, tests, or assessments based on a given topic, standard, or criteria.
- Write Rubrics: Develop rubrics for assignments in a table format, specifying criteria and scoring.
- Summarize Texts: Condense long articles, reports, or readings into concise summaries of chosen length.
- Generate YouTube Video Questions: Create guiding questions (multiple choice, true/false, free response) for any YouTube video URL.
- Provide Writing Feedback: Offer constructive feedback on student writing, highlighting strengths and areas for improvement based on custom criteria.
- Draft Report Card Comments: Generate personalized report card comments for students, outlining strengths and areas for growth.
- Translate Text: Translate content into multiple languages, aiding communication with multilingual families and supporting English Language Learners.
- Create IEP Drafts: Assist special education teachers by generating initial drafts of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).
- Generate Classroom Ice Breakers/Team Builders: Come up with quick and engaging activities for community building.
- Suggest Classroom Management Strategies: Provide ideas and solutions for common classroom management challenges.
- Develop Jeopardy Review Games: Create entire Jeopardy-style review games on any topic for interactive learning.
- Generate Informational Texts: Produce original informational texts customized to specific topics, lengths, and difficulty levels.
- Create Custom Chatbots: Build AI chatbots that students can interact with for various purposes, such as a "Tutor Me" bot for subject support or a "Character Chatbot" to engage with historical figures or literary characters.
Canva AI
Teachers and Students MAY log in and use this program with their LCISD Google account.
Please note that some tools are available for teachers that are not available for students.
Canva is a user-friendly online graphic design platform that empowers anyone to create professional-looking visuals, from social media posts to presentations, using a vast library of templates and a drag-and-drop interface. Canva AI, housed within its "Magic Studio," integrates artificial intelligence tools like Magic Write (text generation), Magic Media (image/video generation), and Magic Switch (format/language translation) to automate and enhance the design process, making content creation faster and more accessible.
What can Canva AI do?
What can Canva AI do?
- Magic Design: When faced with a blank canvas, Magic Design™ instantly generates sophisticated designs based on your written prompts or uploaded media. Personalize these designs or apply your brand elements effortlessly.
- Magic Design: When faced with a blank canvas, Magic Design™ instantly generates sophisticated designs based on your written prompts or uploaded media. Personalize these designs or apply your brand elements effortlessly.
- Automated Tasks: Magic Studio streamlines your workflow by automating repetitive tasks. Whether it’s resizing images or creating social media posts, it helps you work smarter and faster.
- Automated Tasks: Magic Studio streamlines your workflow by automating repetitive tasks. Whether it’s resizing images or creating social media posts, it helps you work smarter and faster.
- First Draft Accelerator: Need to draft content quickly? Magic Studio assists in creating initial drafts, saving you time and effort.
- First Draft Accelerator: Need to draft content quickly? Magic Studio assists in creating initial drafts, saving you time and effort.
- Expert-Level Design: Even if you lack complex design skills, Magic Studio empowers you to design like a pro. It offers features that enhance creativity and visual impact.
- Expert-Level Design: Even if you lack complex design skills, Magic Studio empowers you to design like a pro. It offers features that enhance creativity and visual impact.
- Magic Media: Generate photos and videos with text prompts.
- Magic Media: Generate photos and videos with text prompts.
- Magic Eraser: Easily remove unwanted elements from your designs.
- Magic Eraser: Easily remove unwanted elements from your designs.
- Magic Edit: Edit images using simple text prompts.
- Magic Edit: Edit images using simple text prompts.
- Magic Grab: Transform text and shapes with visual effects.
- Magic Grab: Transform text and shapes with visual effects.
- Magic Expand: Make images larger using AI.
- Magic Expand: Make images larger using AI.
- Magic Morph: Create smooth transitions between design elements.
- Magic Morph: Create smooth transitions between design elements.
- Magic Write: Generate text and summaries with AI.
- Magic Write: Generate text and summaries with AI.
Curipod
Teachers MAY log in and use this program with their LCISD Google account. Teachers may also create Curipod presentations for students to join.
Curipod is an AI-powered interactive presentation tool that allows teachers to create engaging lessons with real-time student participation and feedback. It aims to save teachers time while making learning more dynamic and personalized.
What can Curipod do?
What can Curipod do?
- Generate Interactive Lessons with AI: Quickly create full lessons, including slides, activities, and discussion prompts, by inputting a topic, grade level, and learning objectives.
- "Curify" Existing Slides: Upload your current Google Slides, PowerPoints, or PDFs and instantly add interactive elements to make them more engaging.
- Integrate Diverse Activities: Embed polls, open-ended questions, drawing tasks, and word clouds directly into presentations to encourage active participation.
- Provide Real-Time AI Feedback for Students: Offer immediate, rubric-aligned feedback on student writing or drawing activities, helping them reflect and revise instantly.
- Facilitate Peer Voting and Discussion: Allow students to submit responses anonymously and then vote on their peers' contributions, fostering collaborative learning and discussion.
- Monitor Student Progress with Reports: Access AI-generated reports that summarize class understanding, identify misconceptions, and highlight areas where students might need more support.
- Create Engaging Bell Ringers and Exit Tickets: Quickly generate short, interactive activities to start or end lessons, gauging prior knowledge or checking for understanding.
- Support Differentiation: Provide tailored feedback and learning opportunities while keeping all students engaged in the same activity.
- Offer Brain Breaks: Include fun, creative activities like drawing challenges to re-energize students during longer lessons.
- Translate Lessons: Translate lesson content into multiple languages to support English Language Learners (ELLs) and diverse classrooms.
- Moderate Student Responses: Teachers can review and approve student submissions before they are displayed publicly, ensuring a safe and respectful learning environment.
- Enable Student-Driven Direction: Use real-time student feedback from polls and activities to adapt and refine instruction on the fly, giving students a voice in their learning.
- Simplify Lesson Sharing and Collaboration: Share lessons with colleagues and collaborate on creating and refining educational content within shared workspaces.
- Eliminate Student Accounts: Students can join lessons using a simple code or QR code, reducing setup time and addressing privacy concerns.
- Foster Anonymous Participation: Allow shy or anxious students to contribute without social pressure, as their names remain hidden to peers but visible to the teacher.
Curipod Resources
Curipod Resources
Chat GPT
Teachers MAY create their own account and use this program.
Students are NOT permitted to use or create accounts in the school setting.
ChatGPT is an AI language model designed for engaging conversations, insights, and task automation. It’s like having a chat with an intelligent companion.
What can Chat GPT do?
What can Chat GPT do?
- Conversational Engagement: ChatGPT can engage in natural, human-like conversations on a wide range of topics.
- Answering Questions: It can provide answers to factual questions, based on the knowledge it has been trained on.
- Generating Text: ChatGPT can generate coherent and contextually relevant text based on prompts provided by users.
- Language Translation: It can assist in translating text between different languages.
- Content Creation: ChatGPT can help generate content for various purposes, such as writing articles, essays, stories, or product descriptions.
- Text Summarization: It can summarize lengthy texts or documents into shorter, more concise versions.
- Text Editing: ChatGPT can assist in editing and proofreading texts by suggesting improvements or corrections.
- Creative Writing: It can aid in creative writing tasks by providing prompts, generating ideas, or expanding on existing concepts.
- Personal Assistance: ChatGPT can act as a virtual assistant, helping users with tasks like setting reminders, scheduling events, or providing recommendations.
- Educational Assistance: It can assist students with learning by explaining concepts, providing examples, or answering academic questions.
- Customer Support: ChatGPT can provide basic customer support by answering common queries or guiding users through troubleshooting processes.
- Generating Code: It can assist programmers by generating code snippets, explaining programming concepts, or debugging issues.
- Playing Text-based Games: ChatGPT can participate in text-based games like storytelling, role-playing, or trivia.
- Generating Poetry or Prose: It can create poems, stories, or other forms of creative writing based on user prompts or themes.
- Providing Recommendations: ChatGPT can offer recommendations on various topics, such as books, movies, restaurants, or products.
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