Resources
Welcome to your AI-powered playground! Here, you’ll discover the best tools and resources designed to supercharge your classrooms with AI. I’ve kept things simple, so you’ll only find the most effective, tried-and-tested materials—no endless lists or fluff to wade through.
Dive in and level up your teaching game!
Useful AI Tools & Platforms
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BRISK AI streamlines teaching by automating tasks like grading, lesson planning, and tracking student progress. Designed for educators, it frees up time for meaningful student engagement while offering personalised insights to adapt teaching strategies and improve outcomes.
Pros: Compatible with Google as a plug-in, great feedback generator and YouTube analysis feature.
Cons: USA based platform, some features don’t apply to UK or IB based settings.There are lots of content options to create so takes a while to navigate and get used to.
CURIPOD is an interactive lesson platform that empowers teachers to create engaging, student-centred lessons with ease. Using AI-powered tools, Curipod generates customisable activities, quizzes, and discussions that promote active learning and collaboration.
Pros: Intuitive and easy to use. Generates lesson plans, content and is one of the more reliable content generating AI platforms.
Cons: Some features sit behind a paywall and the content is best suited to a primary school, lower Key Stage 3 audience.
DIFFIT is an AI-powered platform that helps teachers create differentiated learning materials tailored to the diverse needs and abilities of their students. With Diffit, teachers can generate levelled reading passages, worksheets, and activities that cater to various reading levels, learning styles, and subject areas. The platform simplifies the process of differentiation, ensuring that all students can access content at an appropriate level while maintaining the same learning objectives.
Pros: Great for targeting reading levels and generating vocab worksheets, text analysis and critical thinking materials. Nice feature that links with Google Forms so you can create and share a quiz without making one.
Cons: Quality Control: Some users report that the generated content may not always meet the expected standards in terms of depth, nuance, or accuracy, requiring additional tweaking.
GAMMA.APP. Despite the name, this is not an App but a web-based AI generator. It creates presentations and documents from a prompt really quickly. Simple to use and quick to generate, its a useful tool, and its free!
Pros: Creates content fast and the slide feature generates colourful diagrams and funky layouts.
Cons: The content and wording can sometimes miss the targeted age group so outputs need careful checking, always. Limited free outputs before asked to pay.
QUIZZZ. A useful quiz generating platform that takes any document (PDF, Word, Google Doc etc) and converts it into a quiz. It allows teachers to create customisable quizzes with various question types, including multiple-choice, true/false, and real-time feedback, automatic grading, and detailed performance analytics
Pros: Easy to use. Has access via a free feature. Useful for taking existing documents to create a quiz without you having to input prompts.
Cons: The quiz content is OK, might need a little tweaking to suit your students and setting. The multiple choice feature is similar to ChatGPT version 4 for comparison.
AI GLOSSARY
Navigate the world of AI with ease! I’ve created this free, easy-to-use glossary to help you understand all the key terms and concepts in the ever-evolving world of AI. It looks great on a classroom wall, or tucked into your teacher planner.
Download a free copy here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RFEmlHuxg2J6RIQA-qqUpTJPXDyDAmgu/view?usp=share_link
ORACY CONCEPT CARTOONS
Boost your students' Oracy skills with this free set of concept cartoons! It's designed to spark engaging discussions on key issues surrounding AI and technology. Get your class talking today! Come with instructions and implementation ideas.
Download a free copy here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Eza_o9CFVHbT3BPzhxxkX3zUDqZ48aLu/view?usp=share_link