EDUCATION TRENDS

The Best AI Tools for Teachers in 2023

17 October 2023/ By Zineb DJOUB

In today’s fast-paced digital age, artificial intelligence is reshaping education. From creating customized content and providing virtual assistance to revolutionizing the way we assess and monitor student progress, AI tools are changing the landscape of education. In this blog post, we will explore some of the best AI tools for teachers, unlocking the potential they hold to inspire, engage, and empower educators and students alike.

AI Tools for Content Creation

There are various AI-powered lesson-planning tools that can support you in creating easily engaging lessons with more customized content for your students. You can also check for students’ understanding and mastery of concepts, by using quizzes, interacting with them, and providing feedback.

Here are the top five free AL content creation tools that will empower your everyday instructions.

# Eduaide. AI

Eduaide incorporates a variety of teaching techniques, resources, and assessments. This free AI tool can help you create different teaching content and customize it according to your student’s learning needs and interests.

The content generator is organized into 6 categories: planning (how to design the lesson), information objects (materials and learning tools), independent practice, cooperative learning, gaming, gamification, questions, and assessments.

Eduaide is accessible in 17 languages—Arabic, Cantonese, Croatian, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and Vietnamese.

# HiLink

HiLink is an AI-powered lesson planning and virtual classroom that aims to support educators in providing high-quality education through technology. Using the chat, you can create your lesson plan and invite your students by sharing its permanent link with them.

Your courses will be kept in one place.

# Twee

This is another AI-powered tool designed specifically for English language teachers. It includes a variety of helpful features for reading, writing, listening, speaking, and grammar activities.

Teachers can create EFL lesson plans. Besides, Twee supports them in creating more personalized teaching content and materials. They can create dialogues, stories, and letters, find interesting discussion questions about any topic, and brainstorm related vocabulary.

In addition, Twee helps create quizzes to assess students’ understanding and mastery of concepts.

 # Curipod

This new platform allows users to create and share interactive educational content. Its slide show presentation style combines polls, word clouds, drawings, and more.

Curipod has various customization features, such as adding text, media, stickers, shapes, and changing slide backgrounds. It also allows content translation into different languages.

Curipod provides a free forever plan, which features a thousand-character AI feedback, email and chat support, infinite Curipods, and limitless participants.

# Brisk

Brisk is an AI-powered Chrome extension that supports teachers to create and deliver engaging lessons. With Brisk, you can speed up course creation with personalized content, and grades, and change the reading levels of news articles.

Brisk also helps you generate quizzes and provide feedback on students’ assignments. To learn more about Brisk, watch this video here.

AI Tools for Teacher Professional Development

Teaching is a life-long learning process. We need to learn on the go. Whether you are studying, conducting research, or simply like to read about the latest research trends, AI can provide you with research assistance.

Further, it can support you to learn whenever you want and hone whatever skills you are interested in.

Here are three important AI tools you need to try to enhance your professional development.

# SciSpace Co-Pilot

If you are conducting research or interested in reading research papers, SciSpace Co-Pilot is of great benefit. This AI research assistance can do a lot to assist you in your research.

SciSpace Co-Pilot offers a free platform for accessing scientific literature, with more than 270 million articles available, 49K+ journals, 4.5K+ conferences, and 27K+ institutions.

You can find research papers faster than before, searching by domain. You can download full-text PDFs for free, discover, follow, and engage with subject experts, and receive personalized article suggestions.

Additionally, SciSpace Co-Pilot gives clear and concise explanations of research papers. You can even address follow-up questions to understand deeply the research paper.

# Class Central

Class Central covers over 2200 artificial intelligence online courses with certificates.

Some examples of these free courses are Introduction to Artificial Machine Learning, ChatGPT Prompt Engineering Course, and Elements of AI.

Courses’ completion duration varies from one course to another. There are those that take 4 weeks, while others can be completed in 10 weeks or more.

# Alison.com

You can find over 4,000 free online courses with certificates and diplomas. So, you can learn and hone your skills in different subjects such as IT, Health, Business, English, Management, Personal Development, sales and Marketing, etc.

Further, Alison.com can help you discover your strengths and weaknesses, assess your mental health, and create your professional resume.

Downloading the app version, you can learn any time for free.

AI for Teacher Personal Development

Our personal development is of great importance to our production and well-being as educators. That is why we should always self-care. Now, this has become much easier with AI.

There are AI tools that can help enhance our productivity and well-being. Using them, we can complete tasks efficiently and effectively, reduce stress and anxiety, and improve our emotional well-being. Below are some examples.

# Notion.AI

Notion.AI is a writing assistant. It can help you find answers to questions, write, brainstorm, edit, summarize, and more.

In fact, Notion.AI has three distinguishing features which are:

Generating new content: Type in the prompt what you want: “I want to write a blog post about AI”. Then Notion.AI will generate content that you can make longer or choose to try again.

Editing existing content: You can edit content that already exists on your Notion page. You can choose from options like Improve writing, Make longer, Make shorter, Fix spelling & grammar, and Change tone.

Summarizing content: Notion AI allows you to summarize selected content or an entire Notion page. If you want a summary of a specific set of content—highlight that content, and then click Ask AI.

Note: Use AI Text converter and Copyleaks to remove plagiarism.

# Easy-Peasy AI

This excellent AI writing tool generates texts, AI images, transcription, emails, social media messages, resumes, blog posts, and more.

With over 90 templates, you can improve your text, generate ideas, and transcribe audio.

So, Easy-Peasy AI is an effective tool to enhance individuals’ creativity and efficiency.

This AI tool supports over 35 languages.

The basic plan offers 10.000 words/month, 90+ templates, and more for $59.88/year. There is an unlimited plan for $240/year with unlimited audio and 100,000 GPT4 words/month and more. You can change your plan at any time.

# Beautiful.AI

If you want to create presentations that stand out, use Beautiful. AI

This AI-powered presentation software is easy to use with a variety of templates. With its automated design feature, you can create a beautiful and professional presentation in minutes.

You need to sign up to try the Pro features for 14 days before purchasing. There are three plans: for individuals ($144/year), teams, and enterprises.

# Vista Create

You can now create amazing designs using AI Tools like VistaCreate. This graphic design AI can edit photos and videos, and design objects (using stickers, shapes, icons, labels, and badges).

There are also other features including scheduling social media content, posting your design directly to social media, making branded designs, and more.

VistaCreate has a free version. Its paid version starts at USD 10.00/month.

# Trevor AI

This is a daily planning app that uses smart time blocking between your task lists and your calendar. Trevor AI is simple to use and free for personal use.

It has a streamlined user experience and a set of AI features that assist you to put your tasks in the best calendar slots.

# Happify

Happify is a mobile and web-based digital intervention designed to help you reduce stress, anxiety, and negative thinking. Its entertaining activities can improve your emotional well-being. These are drawn from evidence-based treatments.

Happify activities include articles, and videos about the science of happiness followed by a quiz, mini-games, and activities which you can do on the app.

# Youper

Youper combines an empathetic chatbot and empirically supported therapy techniques to provide users with digital mental health solutions that are clinically validated.

This app can help you reflect on your thought patterns and behaviours, and understand better your emotions and emotional well-being better.

While the app is free, you need to pay for one of the subscription plans to get access to everything.

To conclude, AI has the potential to greatly benefit educators. It provides invaluable tools that offer teachers innovative ways to engage students and streamline their own growth. However, remember that our intuition and expertise are essential human touch in education. So, think, be creative, and use such tools as support to enhance your teaching and growth.