TOP AI TOOLS
2024
AI Tools for Lesson Planning
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MagicSchool
MagicSchool provides a comprehensive suite of tools to help teachers streamline lesson planning, including Unit and Lesson Plan Generators tailored to various subjects and grades, and suggestions for objectives, activities, and assessments. Additional features include a Syllabus Generator, Rubric Generator, Academic Content Generator for original resources, Conceptual Understanding and Common Misperception Generators, and a YouTube Video Question Generator, among others.
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Eduaide
Eduaide is another powerful teaching assistant that offers an AI-driven lesson plan generator with tools for quick and effective lesson planning. The Content Generator and Lesson Seed allow teachers to input topic, grade level, standards, and keywords to generate detailed lesson plans, including objectives and activities. Additionally, Eduaide enhances active learning with Project Based Learning activities, essay reviews with “mistake-ridden” essays for student critique, and supplemental worksheets for further engagement.
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ChatGPT
ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is a versatile general AI chatbot for creating lesson plans and activities tailored to various subjects, topics, and grade levels. It supports individual student needs and can develop comprehensive unit plans with learning goals, essential questions, and more. ChatGPT facilitates a wide array of lesson ideas including group activities, role-playing, experiments, and labs. It also generates discussion questions, problem sets, quizzes, and suggests practical projects for deeper issue understanding.
The newest, fastest, and most advanced model is GPT-4o and is free to use, though some features may not appear immediately.
AI Tools for Quiz Building & Grading
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Quizgecko
Quizgecko is an AI-generated quiz builder and grader that can craft a variety of question styles, including multiple-choice, true or false, short essay answers, and fill-in-the-blanks. In addition, teachers can set quizzes to match specifications, such as time limits and randomized questions. Quizgecko also features automatic grading and insightful reports. It’s also easy to share quizzes, and they can be exported in text or csv formats.
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Quizizz
Quizizz is a popular quiz platform that offers special AI-infused features. With Quizizz, teachers can create create gamified quizzes and interactive lessons and students can access questions and answers on their own devices. In 2023, Quizizz introduced Quizizz AI Enhance (beta), a personalized teaching assistant to help teachers customize their Quizizz activities.
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Gradescope
Gradescope by Turnitin is an all-encompassing platform that simplifies creating, distributing, grading, and analyzing educational assessments. It uses AI for automated grading and supports diverse assignment types like PDFs, online tasks, programming, and bubble sheets. It also allows for grouping and collective grading of similar responses, accelerating the grading process, and enabling quick feedback. Sold to schools, not individual teachers.
AI Tools for Essay Grading & Feedback
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Feedback Studio: Robust Features
Feedback Studio by Turnitin offers a rich array of feedback tools for teachers to provide efficient, meaningful feedback. It includes "QuickMarks" for common comments, written and voice-recorded remarks, automatic grammar checks, and the ability to annotate directly on submissions. Features also include text highlighting, shared remarks for common issues, rubrics for criterion-focused feedback, and both general and audio feedback. Sold to institutions, not individual teachers.
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AI Grader: Grade, Check, Evaluate
Smodin's AI Grader employs artificial intelligence to assess essays, focusing on plagiarism, grammar, readability, and content. It handles both short answers and extensive writings, providing constructive feedback and improvement suggestions, alongside readability checks. Additionally, Smodin features an AI paragraph rewriter, plagiarism and content detection tools, and a citation generator for MLA and APA formats, enhancing academic writing and research processes.
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Class Companion
Class Companion is an AI tool designed to assist teachers in evaluating student writing, offering immediate feedback and suggestions. It facilitates the creation of assignments, submission of student work, and AI-driven feedback provision, including hints and tips for improvement. The tool aids in pinpointing areas needing enhancement, focusing on clarity and coherence in student writing. It's versatile across all subjects with written components, capable of grading, tracking progress, and generating reports, making it suitable even for AP-level assignments.
AI Tools for Math & Science Teachers
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MagicSchoolAI
MagicSchool.ai is a comprehensive AI-driven tool for teachers, offering a Math Story Word Problem tool that transforms problems into puzzles and Math Spiral Review to generate a problem. For science teachers, the Science Lab Generator is a special MagicSchool.ai offering. By inputting specific criteria, the tool provides a structured lab plan, which can then be adjusted based on classroom needs. Other tools include Three Dimensional Science Assessment Generator and the 5E Model Science Lesson Plan Generator.
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Sizzle
Sizzle, developed by former Meta AI VP Jerome Pesenti, is an AI-based learning app focusing on math. It acts as a tutor chatbot, guiding users step-by-step through math equations and word problems. Unique features include "Try a Different Approach" for alternative solving methods, "Give Me Choices" for multiple answers, and "Answer with a Photo" for image uploads. Sizzle can even interpret poor handwriting and provide definitions, enhancing the problem-solving experience.
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Khanmigo
Khanmigo, developed by Khan Academy, is an intelligent tutoring system offering personalized learning experiences. It interacts with students via voice or text, comprehending their queries and needs to provide relevant content, exercises, feedback, and motivation. The Khan Academy was founded by Sal Khan, who began tutoring one of his cousins in mathematics and created short math lessons in the form of videos.
AI Tools for English and History Teachers
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Twee
Twee AI enhances English education by providing tools for dynamic lesson content creation. It enables educators to generate questions, tailored exercises, and quizzes based on specific texts. Twee excels in creating engaging activities, vocabulary exercises, and grammar challenges. It also offers dialogue construction, collocation identification, and video-based features to foster discussions and homework inspiration, making it a comprehensive resource for teaching and learning English.
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Diffit
Diffit is an AI-powered educational tool designed to help teachers create personalized learning materials. It can adjust readings to suit different reading levels, ensuring content is accessible for all grades. Teachers can find content by topic or question and set a desired reading level. Diffit generates tailored resources, including worksheets, summaries, vocabulary exercises, and various question types, all of which can be edited and copied. This saves time and ensures inclusive learning.
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Parlay
Parlay, an AI-powered tool, enhances class discussions on various topics or texts by offering features like secret identities and peer feedback. It includes analytics on student engagement and allows teachers to explore or create discussion topics using the AI-assisted Parlay Genie. Teachers can set up online or live discussions, choose courses, and use Parlay's assessment tool to evaluate and feedback on student participation and responses.
AI Tools for Teacher Presentations
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Gamma
Gamma is an AI-powered platform that helps you create beautiful and engaging presentations, webpages, and documents. You simply input some text and Gamma takes care of the formatting and design work. It will provide a text outline for your slides that you can edit before it actually produce the slides. You can also customize your content with themes, templates, fonts, colors, and animations. Gamma can also incorporate multimedia elements.
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Curipod
Curipod is essentially an AI presentation tool for creating interactive lesson activities on any topic.Curipod allows teachers to use polls, word clouds, open questions, drawings, and Q&A to capture the student voices and spark their curiosity. Teachers can make their own slides in Curipod, or upload their existing presentations.Curipod also generates AI features such as lesson hooks, discussion questions, personalized feedback, and more.
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SlidesAI
SlidesAI is is an Add On to Google Slides to help you create professional slideshows. SlidesAI is easy to install and the slideshows you add to Google Slides are editable. SlidesAI includes a specific Educational category and can provide you with relevant themes, photos, text, graphics, icons and more to match your topic and style. SlidesAI generates up to 10 slides based on your text input and its Magic Write AI features can help you find images, paraphrase sentences, and locate citations.