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Discover the newest AI tools for personal and professional use. See what they offer and decide if they're for you!
AI prompts to enhance your lesson planning
AI prompts to enhance your lesson planning
Accomodate diverse learning needs: "Suggest modifications to a lesson on [topic] to support students with dyslexia and ADHD. Include visual aids, step-by-step instructions, and opportunities for hands-on learning."
Accomodate diverse learning needs: "Suggest modifications to a lesson on [topic] to support students with dyslexia and ADHD. Include visual aids, step-by-step instructions, and opportunities for hands-on learning."
Plan transitions and time allocations: "Structure a 50-minute lesson on [topic] with time allocations, transitions between activities, and strategies to maintain student engagement."
Plan transitions and time allocations: "Structure a 50-minute lesson on [topic] with time allocations, transitions between activities, and strategies to maintain student engagement."
Algin with curriculum standards: "Analyze this lesson plan and suggest how it aligns with [Texas TEKS] standards. Highlight any gaps and provide modifications to better align with the standards."
Algin with curriculum standards: "Analyze this lesson plan and suggest how it aligns with [Texas TEKS] standards. Highlight any gaps and provide modifications to better align with the standards."
Simplify for substitute teachers: "Simplify this lesson plan on [topic] for a substitute teacher. Provide clear instructions, key objectives, and essential activities to ensure the lesson runs smoothly."
Simplify for substitute teachers: "Simplify this lesson plan on [topic] for a substitute teacher. Provide clear instructions, key objectives, and essential activities to ensure the lesson runs smoothly."
Create engaging homework assignments: "Using this lesson plan on [topic], generate a homework assignment with two multiple-choice questions, one short-answer question, and a creative task for students to apply their learning."
Create engaging homework assignments: "Using this lesson plan on [topic], generate a homework assignment with two multiple-choice questions, one short-answer question, and a creative task for students to apply their learning."
Include cross-curricular connections: "Suggest cross-curricular activities for a lesson on [topic], integrating themes from math, science, history, and language arts."
Include cross-curricular connections: "Suggest cross-curricular activities for a lesson on [topic], integrating themes from math, science, history, and language arts."
Design formative assessments: "Based on this lesson plan for [topic], suggest five formative assessment strategies to gauge student understanding during the lesson."
Design formative assessments: "Based on this lesson plan for [topic], suggest five formative assessment strategies to gauge student understanding during the lesson."
Incorporate real-time updates: "Search the web for recent developments on [topic] and incorporate the latest research or news into a [45-minute] lesson plan that includes discussion and interactive activities."
Incorporate real-time updates: "Search the web for recent developments on [topic] and incorporate the latest research or news into a [45-minute] lesson plan that includes discussion and interactive activities."
AI Tools for Creating Lesson Plans
AI Tools for Creating Lesson Plans
AI Tools for Creating Worksheets
AI Tools for Creating Worksheets
AI Presentation makers
AI Presentation makers
AI Chrome extension that turns online content into educational materials, including slides, directly in your browser, with Brisk Teaching.
AI Chrome extension that turns online content into educational materials, including slides, directly in your browser, with Brisk Teaching.
Provide detailed slide outlines with ideas and questions to develop into full presentations using other AI tools with Eduaide AI.
Provide detailed slide outlines with ideas and questions to develop into full presentations using other AI tools with Eduaide AI.
More AI Tools for Educators
More AI Tools for Educators
Create interactive content with glossaries, quizzes, games, interactive videos, and crosswords with Nolej.
Create interactive content with glossaries, quizzes, games, interactive videos, and crosswords with Nolej.
Ways to Use Canva Code in Your Teaching
Ways to Use Canva Code in Your Teaching
Canva code is a new AI-powered feature that lets you turn simple text prompts into dynamic, interactive designs. No coding is needed.
Canva code is a new AI-powered feature that lets you turn simple text prompts into dynamic, interactive designs. No coding is needed.
- Click on Canva AI from the homepage.
- Select Code for Me to start using Canva Code.
- Enter your text prompt to generate a widget or tool.
- Refine the results with follow-up prompts.
- Click Use in a Design or copy the code to share or embed.
What Can You Create with Canva Code?
What Can You Create with Canva Code?
- Interactive worksheets with drag-and-drop or fill-in-the-blank activities.
- Clickable historical timelines with expandable dates, images, and event summaries.
- Educational games.
- Visual simulations to explore abstract or complex concepts.
- Classroom management tools like responsive timers and visual tools for quizzes, brain breaks, or routine learning.
- Interactive presentations with mini-quizzes.
- Self-checking, interactive quizzes.
- Clickable concept maps and diagrams that reveal information on hover or click.
- Learning trackers for students to track goals, progress, and habits quickly.
- Custom classroom websites.
AI Trust You - Provides a structured way for students to document their use of AI in their assignments while giving teachers a framework to guide and monitor AI use in key assignments.
AI Trust You - Provides a structured way for students to document their use of AI in their assignments while giving teachers a framework to guide and monitor AI use in key assignments.
Stanford research done with the Laguna Beach Unified School District middle and high school students revealed that both students and teachers felt uneasy about AI, leading to a negative culture of guilt and policing around its use. The goal of the AI Trust You add-on is to "flip the script" by fostering open dialogue, creating a common language, and encouraging integrity around AI usage.
Stanford research done with the Laguna Beach Unified School District middle and high school students revealed that both students and teachers felt uneasy about AI, leading to a negative culture of guilt and policing around its use. The goal of the AI Trust You add-on is to "flip the script" by fostering open dialogue, creating a common language, and encouraging integrity around AI usage.
For Teachers: Select from the four AI technique categories—Content Creation, Content Understanding, Research Assistance, and Audio-Visual Generation—to specify how students are allowed to use AI on a particular assignment. The add-on generates a clear assignment guideline text for students, so expectations are transparent.
For Teachers: Select from the four AI technique categories—Content Creation, Content Understanding, Research Assistance, and Audio-Visual Generation—to specify how students are allowed to use AI on a particular assignment. The add-on generates a clear assignment guideline text for students, so expectations are transparent.
For Students: They will select the AI tool they used (e.g., ChatGPT) and identify the techniques and the percentage of their work that was AI-assisted. The add-on then creates a citation for students to include in their assignments, documenting how AI was used. Free plan.
For Students: They will select the AI tool they used (e.g., ChatGPT) and identify the techniques and the percentage of their work that was AI-assisted. The add-on then creates a citation for students to include in their assignments, documenting how AI was used. Free plan.
Free, Personalized, Just-In-Time Writing Feedback
Put feedback directly in students’ hands creating self-driven reflection and critical thinking with this free Google Docs extension called Level Up. It’s designed with a simple, game-like format and aims to support—not replace—the writing process. Free, Personalized, Just-In-Time Writing Feedback
Students receive formative feedback as they write, not just after submitting.
Promotes deeper engagement with ideas, not just surface-level edits.
Feedback is adjustable—students can choose what kind of support they want.
Built to support the writing process in real-time, not replace it.
Co-designed and tested in real classrooms with both teachers and students.
Informed by research on how students respond emotionally to academic feedback.
This creation from Alice Keeler is an add-on for Google Sheets to help you to create lesson plans, rubrics, quizzes, teacher newsletters, student feedback, write a song, etc... in a fully transparent and customizable way. Since Educator AI Toolkit runs locally on your Google Sheets, it is not only easy to find (in your Google Drive), it shares zero data back to the developer.
More Resources
More Resources
- AI Literacy Framework for K-12 Students
- Student AI Literacy and TCEA ELEs Alignment Taxonomy
- The Effect of ChatGPT on Students' Learning Performance, Learning Perception, and Higher-Order Thinking: Insights from a Meta-Analysis
- How I'm Using AI Bots with My Writing Classes
- Unlocking AI: A New Ally for Supporting Students
- Google Is Rolling Out Its Gemini AI Chatbot to Kids Under 13
- Attribution 4 AI - Icons to share how AI was used in a particular project.
- Google AI Studio - This is a Google Cloud console tool for rapidly prototyping and testing generative AI models. Test sample prompts and design your own prompts. You can upload videos, images, and entire books and ask it to pull content from a video.
- Brisk Teaching: AI Assistant for Teachers - Install the extension and get immediate access to over 20 built-in tools including creating curriculum, rubrics, lesson plans, quizzes, sub plans, math word problems, teacher exemplars, state practice tests, and more. Use it to give targeted feedback, differentiate lessons, and tackle everyday teaching tasks. Free and paid plans. The Brisk extension has a feature called "Inspect Writing" for Google Docs. It will show in a time lapse type of view any copy and pasting and how many edits were done etc. It's a bit easier to quickly see the edits than using the version history. And it's included in the free resources.
- Flint - An AI platform that can be used to quiz students and provide personalized feedback. Free for up to 80 users.
- En.app - Find books by vibe, mood, or even vague descriptions.
Flexi from CK12 - Another free AI tool. Using the Ask Flexi prompt screen, students can ask questions and see examples of how to solve common math problems or learn more about science topics. It is text-based, so no illustrations or videos are included unfortunately. No login is required to use this feature; for other tools that they offer, a free registration is required.
For students younger than 13 who need a safe chatbot to use, try Byte by CodebreakerEDU which is designed for younger children (although it works fine for older students, too).
- NotebookLM from Google - Powerful and free personalized learning tool. Users create a Notebook using multiple sources like PDFs, websites, and videos and can interact with and learn from the uploaded content to generate study guides, tables of contents, timelines, briefing documents, and audio overviews. And this week, they released both an Android and an IOS app.
- Create individual study guides
- Dive deeper into notes
- Hear an audio podcast about the content
- Completely sharable
- Upload any PDF, Doc, Slide, or web link
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