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Use this scale in your classroom to let your students know what level of AI use is expected or acceptable for any given assignment.

All students should be provided with a copy for reference (digital is fine), and a printed copy should be on display in classrooms for reference.

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Generative AI Acceptable Use Scale- Student Handout & Classroom Display

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Check out the current draft of our district AI use guidelines and provide feedback regarding its hits and misses.

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AVUHSD Generative AI Use Guidelines for Students and Teachers

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10 Free AI image generators for classroom uses

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Image created with MidjourneyI can’t tell you how much of my life I’ve wasted fishing for images on Google Images. You know what I mean, right?

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Five steps to boosting authentic engagement and reducing students’ overreliance on AI shortcuts.

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5 In-Demand AI Skills Teens Can Learn Today

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5 In-Demand AI Skills Teens Can Learn Today

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5 In-Demand AI Skills Teens Can Learn Today

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Teens can future-proof their careers by mastering five in-demand AI skills—from prompt writing to ethical reasoning—no degree or tech background required.

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Pre-built Gems (prompts) for use with Gemini.

Created by teacher and Google superhero Eric Curts.

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Welcome to EduGems! This is a growing collection of pre-made prompts (“Gems”) for educators to use with Google Gemini.
💎 Although Gemini is free to use, you do need a Google account to use Gems. Learn more about Gemini here bit.ly/curts-gemini
💎 Click on any item below to get details on that Gem,

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NotebookLM allows teachers and students to upload specific source materials like class notes, research articles, or documents directly from Google Drive. They can then use its AI capabilities to ask clarifying questions, generate summaries, create outlines, or build study guides that are grounded only in the provided texts, preventing AI hallucinations from external web sources. This makes NotebookLM an excellent tool for focused research analysis, deeper comprehension of assigned readings, and creating personalized learning aids based entirely on trusted course content.

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Instant Resource Generation: Creates quizzes, lessons, flashcards, or videos from a single prompt, uploaded document (PDF/PPT), website URL, or YouTube link.

AI Enhance/DifferentiationAI Accommodations

AI Auto-Evaluation

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Wayground - The world's most engaging learning platform

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Find and create gamified quizzes, lessons, presentations, and flashcards for students, employees, and everyone else. Get started for free!

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You can use pretty much any AI platform or chatbot to create a rubric, but full-service platforms like Magic School are prepped to do it with less prompting.

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Have AI write a rubric for an assignment you are creating for your class in a table format.

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AI-powered, rubric-based grading tool that focuses on written assignments (essays, extended responses). It provides a first-pass grade and detailed feedback.

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CoGrader | Quality AI Feedback on Writing

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In just 10 seconds, you’ll get detailed, actionable feedback your students will actually use. Spend less time grading and more time doing what you love - teaching!

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The Magic School Student platform allows teachers to launch a secure, controlled "Student Room" containing the Writing Feedback Tool for student use. Teachers customize the tool by uploading the specific assignment prompt and grading rubric, which the AI uses to provide students with instant, personalized feedback on their writing. This shifts the initial burden of revision onto the AI, empowering students to iterate independently while allowing teachers to monitor revision progress through interaction transcripts.

There are a bunch more student tools on there; go check them out!

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Transform your data into compelling visuals with Graphy’s suite of free, professional-grade graph makers. Our AI-powered templates help you build beautiful, interactive charts in minutes—no design skills required

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Graphy enables anyone to become a skilled data storyteller, by radically simplifying the way data is presented and communicated.

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Sora is a text-to-video AI model and social media app developed by OpenAI that generates short video clips from text prompts. It can also extend existing videos, create them from images, and add synchronized audio

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Creating video from text

Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
Read technical report

All videos on this page were generated directly by Sora without modification.

We're teaching AI to understand and simulate the physical world in motion, with the goal of training models that help people solve problems that require real-world interaction.

Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can generate videos up to a minute long while maintaining visual quality and adherence to the user's prompt.

Safety

We'll be taking several important safety steps ahead of making Sora available in OpenAI's products. We are working with red teamers - domain experts in areas like misinformation, hateful content, and bias - who will be adversarially testing the model.

We're also building tools to help detect misleading content such as a detection classifier that can tell when a video was generated by Sora. We plan to include C2PA metadata in the future if we deploy the model in an OpenAI product.

In addition to us developing new techniques to prepare for deployment, we're leveraging the existing safety methods that we built for our products that use DALL·E 3, which are applicable to Sora as well.

For example, once in an OpenAI product, our text classifier will check and reject text input prompts that are in violation of our usage policies, like those that request extreme violence, sexual content, hateful imagery, celebrity likeness, or the IP of others. We've also developed robust image classifiers that are used to review the frames of every video generated to help ensure that it adheres to our usage policies, before it's shown to the user.

We'll be engaging policymakers, educators and artists around the world to understand their concerns and to identify positive use cases for this new technology. Despite extensive research and testing, we cannot predict all of the beneficial ways people will use our technology, nor all the ways people will abuse it. That's why we believe that learning from real-world use is a critical component of creating and releasing increasingly safe AI systems over time.

Research techniques

Sora is a diffusion model, which generates a video by starting off with one that looks like static noise and gradually transforms it by removing the noise over many steps.

Sora is capable of generating entire videos all at once or extending generated videos to make them longer. By giving the model foresight of many frames at a time, we've solved a challenging problem of making sure a subject stays the same even when it goes out of view temporarily.

Similar to GPT models, Sora uses a transformer architecture, unlocking superior scaling performance.

We represent videos and images as collections of smaller units of data called patches, each of which is akin to a token in GPT. By unifying how we represent data, we can train diffusion transformers on a wider range of visual data than was possible before, spanning different durations, resolutions and aspect ratios.

Sora builds on past research in DALL·E and GPT models. It uses the recaptioning technique from DALL·E 3, which involves generating highly descriptive captions for the visual training data. As a result, the model is able to follow the user's text instructions in the generated video more faithfully.

In addition to being able to generate a video solely from text instructions, the model is able to take an existing still image and generate a video from it, animating the image's contents with accuracy and attention to small detail. The model can also take an existing video and extend it or fill in missing frames. Learn more in our technical report.

Sora serves as a foundation for models that can understand and simulate the real world, a capability we believe will be an important milestone for achieving AGI.

Today, Sora is becoming available to red teamers to assess critical areas for harms or risks. We are also granting access to a number of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to gain feedback on how to advance the model to be most helpful for creative professionals.

We're sharing our research progress early to start working with and getting feedback from people outside of OpenAI and to give the public a sense of what AI capabilities are on the horizon.

Sora is able to generate complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and accurate details of the subject and background. The model understands not only what the user has asked for in the prompt, but also how those things exist in the physical world.

The model has a deep understanding of language, enabling it to accurately interpret prompts and generate compelling characters that express vibrant emotions. Sora can also create multiple shots within a single generated video that accurately persist characters and visual style.

The current model has weaknesses. It may struggle with accurately simulating the physics of a complex scene, and may not understand specific instances of cause and effect. For example, a person might take a bite out of a cookie, but afterward, the cookie may not have a bite mark.

The model may also confuse spatial details of a prompt, for example, mixing up left and right, and may struggle with precise descriptions of events that take place over time, like following a specific camera trajectory.

All videos on this page were generated directly by Sora without modification.

Research Leads Bill Peebles & Tim Brooks

Special Thanks Avi Nayak, Bob McGrew, Brad Lightcap, Chad Nelson, David Medina, Gabriel Goh, Greg Brockman, Hannah Wong, Ian Sohl, Jamie Kiros, James Betker, Jason Kwon, Jong Wook Kim, Mark Chen, Michelle Fradin, Mira Murati, Nick Turley, Peter Hoeschele, Prafulla Dhariwal, Rowan Zellers, Sam Altman, Sandhini Agarwal, Sarah Yoo, Spencer Papay, Srinivas Narayanan, Tifa Chen & Wesam Manassra

Elie Georges
Justin Wang
Kendra Rimbach
Niko Felix
Thomas Degry
Veit Moeller

Che Chang
Fred von Lohmann
Gideon Myles
Tom Stasi

External Engagement Alex Baker-Whitcomb, Allie Teague, Anna Makanju, Anna McKean, Becky Waite, Brittany Smith, Chan Park, Chris Lehane, David Duxin, David Robinson, James Hairston, Jonathan Lachman, Justin Oswald, Krithika Muthukumar, Lane Dilg, Leher Pathak, Olga Nowicka, Ryan Biddy, Sandro Gianella, Stephen Petersilge, Tom Rubin & Varun Shetty

Built by OpenAI in San Francisco, California
Published February 15, MMXXIV

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Create engaging content featuring the best generative image, video, and audio in your personal AI studio

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Hedra: Multimodal Generative Content Creation

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Hedra is a next-generation multimodal AI content creation platform for generating engaging video, image, and audio content effortlessly.

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Research Rabbit is a free, online tool that helps researchers conduct literature reviews by visualizing the connections between academic papers and authors.

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"The best thing is that you don't have to go through all the struggle to figure out what words are required for your research and you can just sit back put a link of paper that you already have and start reading."

- A Happy Rabbit

"Having papers suggested that are both earlier and later than those already on my list, as well as the similar papers function, have helped me to find work I would have needed to pore over reference lists for ages to find otherwise. It's a huge time-saver!"

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STORM models the pre-writing stage by (1) discovering diverse perspectives in researching the given topic, (2) simulating conversations where writers carrying different perspectives pose questions to a topic expert grounded on trusted Internet sources, (3) curating the collected information to create an outline.

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Create groups of any size with a single click. Randomize, customize, or group students by attributes. Use groupings right away or save for later. Syncs with Google Classroom for instant rosters.

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Create groups and stay on track during small-group learning. Sign up for free and get started in seconds.

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Packback is an AI-powered discussion platform ideal for AVID classes, as its "Digital TA" provides real-time feedback to students before they post, coaching them to improve the curiosity and clarity of their questions. This process reinforces AVID's WICOR (Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration) skills by encouraging students to think critically and cite evidence. For teachers, the AI assists by automating participation grading based on a "Curiosity Score" and identifying key topics or points of confusion from the discussion.

Subscription paid for by AVID for all AVID elective teachers.

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Packback is an online learning community for students to discuss high-level questions.

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Parlay is an AI-powered instructional platform that helps teachers facilitate meaningful, measurable, and inclusive class discussions

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Parlay is an AI-powered instructional platform that helps teachers facilitate meaningful, measurable, and inclusive class discussions. Join over a million teachers and students. Start using Parlay for free in your class today.

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A 7-part podcast series about the arrival of AI in schools from MIT Teaching Systems Lab.

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TeachLab is a podcast that investigates the art and craft of teaching. There are 3.5 million K-12 teachers in America, and we want to explore how they can become ev…

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Considerations as you implement AI in your classroom.

This guidebook is designed to support

teachers and other school leaders as they

determine what AI policies or guidelines

to craft. Much about the implications of

generative AI in education is still unknown,

making it difficult to provide that guidance –

despite how much it is needed.

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Whether you're starting from scratch or have a vast research library to pull from, use Litmap to find important work on your topic.

Litmaps finds the most relevant articles based on connection, using citations and references

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To get started, simply enter a DOI, Pubmed ID or arXiv ID, a keyword or an author's name into the search box and Litmaps will generate a set of recommended articles for you. Pick an article (or a number of articles) from the list to create a Litmap, which uses your chosen article as the 'seed'.

You can import a collection from Reference Managers to kick start your Discovery. Litmaps supports BibTeX and RIS files. You can even start your search from a pre-existing Litmap.

Litmaps Free limits your number of input articles to 20, whereas Litmaps Pro gives you unrestricted search access.

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8 AI Tools That Can Help Generate Ideas for Your Classroom

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8 AI Tools That Can Help Generate Ideas for Your Classroom

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These educator-tested platforms can help you create instructional materials and develop ideas for lessons—and they require little to no tech savvy.

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8 AI Tools That Can Help Generate Ideas for Your Classroom

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Proactively Limiting the Use of AI in the Classroom

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Proactively Limiting the Use of AI in the Classroom

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By modeling AI, teachers can demonstrate to students the benefits and shortcomings of the technology.

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Proactively Limiting the Use of AI in the Classroom

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An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now

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Every few months I write an opinionated guide to how to use AI , but now I write it in a world where about 10% of humanity uses AI weekly. The vast majority of that use involves free AI tools, which is often fine... except when it isn't. OpenAI recently released a breakdown of what people actually use ChatGPT for (way less casual chat than you'd think, way more information-seeking than you expected). This means I can finally give you advice based on real usage patterns instead of hunches. I annotated OpenAI's chart with some suggestions about when to use free versus advanced models.

If the chart suggests that a free model is good enough for what you use AI for, pick your favorite and use it without worrying about anything else in the guide. You basically have nine or so choices, because there are only a handful of companies that make cutting-edge models. All of them offer some free access. The four most advanced AI systems are Claude from Anthropic, Google's Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Grok by Elon Musk's xAI. Then there are the open weights AI families, which are almost (but not quite) as good: Deepseek, Kimi, Z and Qwen from China, and Mistral from France. Together, variations on these AI models take up the first 35 spots in almost any rating system of AI. Any other AI service you use that offers a cutting-edge AI from Microsoft Copilot to Perplexity (both of which offer some free use) is powered by one or more of these nine AIs as its base.

How should you pick among them? Some free systems (like Gemini and Perplexity) do a good job with web search, while others cannot search the web at all. If you want free image creation, the best option is Gemini, with ChatGPT and Grok as runners-up. But, ultimately, these AIs differ in many small ways, including privacy policies, levels of access, capabilities, the approach they take to ethical issues, and "personality." And all of these things fluctuate over time. So pick a model you like based on these factors and use it. However, if you are considering potentially upgrading to a paid account, I would suggest starting with the free accounts from Anthropic, Google, or OpenAI. If you just want to use free models, the open weights models and aggregation services like Microsoft Copilot have higher usage limits.

Now on the hard stuff.

If you want to use an advanced AI seriously, you'll need to pay either $20 or around $200 a month, depending on your needs (though companies are now experimenting with other pricing models in some parts of the world). The $20 tier works for the vast majority of people, while the $200 tier is for people with complex technical and coding needs.

You will want to pick among three systems to spend your $20: Claude from Anthropic, Google's Gemini, and OpenAI's ChatGPT. With all of the options, you get access to advanced, agentic, and fast models, a voice mode, the ability to see images and documents, the ability to execute code, good mobile apps, the ability to create images and video (Claude lacks here, however), and the ability to do Deep Research. They all have different personalities and strengths and weaknesses, but for most people, just selecting the one they like best will suffice. Some people, especially big users of X, might want to consider Grok by Elon Musk's xAI, which has some of the most powerful AI models and is rapidly adding features, but has not been as transparent about product safety as some of the other companies. Microsoft's Copilot offers many of the features of ChatGPT and is accessible to users through Windows, but it can be hard to control what models you are using and when. So, for most people, just stick with Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT.

Just picking one of these three isn't enough, however, because each AI system has multiple AI models to select. Chat models are generally the ones you get for free and are best for conversation, because they answer quickly and are usually the most personable. Agent modelstake longer to answer but can autonomously carry out many steps (searching the web, using code, making documents), getting complex work done. Wizard models take a very long time and handle very complex academic tasks. For real work that matters, I suggest using Agent models, they are more capable and consistent and are much less likely to make errors (but remember that all AI models still have a lot of randomness associated with them and may answer in different ways if you ask the same question again.)

For ChatGPT, no matter whether you use the free or pay version, the default model you are given is "ChatGPT 5". The issue is that GPT-5 is not one model, it is many, from the very weak GPT-5 mini to the very good GPT-5 Thinking to the extremely powerful GPT-5 Pro. When you select GPT-5, what you are really getting is "auto" mode, where the AI decides which model to use, often a less powerful one. By paying, you get to decide which model to use, and, to further complicate things, you can also select how hard the model "thinks" about the answer. For anything complex, I always manually select GPT-5 Thinking Extended (on the $20 plan) or GPT-5 Thinking Heavy (if you are paying for the $200 model). For a really hard problem that requires a lot of thinking, you can pick GPT-5 Pro, the strongest model, which is only available at the highest cost tier.

For Gemini, you only have two options: Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Pro, but, if you pay for the Ultra plan, you get access to Gemini Deep Think (which is in another menu). At this point, Gemini 2.5 is the weakest of the major AI models (though still quite capable and Deep Think is very powerful), but a new Gemini 3 is expected at some point in the coming months.

Finally, Claude makes it relatively easy to pick a model. You probably want to use Sonnet 4.5 for everything, with the only question being whether you select extended thinking (for harder problems). Right now, Claude does not have an equivalent to GPT-5 Pro.

If you are using the paid version of any of these models and want to make sure your data is never used to train a future AI, you can turn off training easily for ChatGPT and Claude without losing any functionality, but at the cost of some functionality for Gemini. All of the AIs also come with a range of other features like projects and memory that you may want to explore as you get used to using them.

The biggest uses for AI were practical guidance and getting information, and there are two ways to dramatically improve the quality your results for those kinds of problems: by either triggering Deep Research mode and/or connecting the AI to your data (if you feel comfortable doing that).

Deep Research is a mode where the AI conducts extensive web research over 10-15 minutes before answering. Deep Research is a key AI feature for most people, even if they don't know it yet, and it is useful because it can produce very high-quality reports that often impress information professionals (lawyers, accountants, consultants, market researchers) that I speak to. Deep Research reports are not error-free but are far more accurate than just asking the AI for something, and the citations tend to actually be correct. Also note that each of the Deep Research tools work a little differently, with different strengths and weaknesses. Even without deep research, GPT-5 Thinking does a lot of research on its own, and Claude has a "medium research" option where you turn on Web Search but not research.

Connections to your own data are very powerful and increasingly available for everything from Gmail to SharePoint. I have found Claude to be especially good in integrating searches across email, calendars, various drives, and more - ask it "give me a detailed briefing for my day" when you have connected it to your accounts and you will likely find it impressive. This is an area where the AI companies are putting in a lot of effort, and where offerings are evolving rapidly.

I have mentioned it before, but an easy way to use AI is just to start with voice mode. The two best implementations of voice mode are in the Gemini app and ChatGPT's app and website. Claude's voice mode is weaker than the other two systems. Note the voice models are optimized for chat (including all of the small pauses and intakes of breath designed to make it feel like you are talking to a person), so you don't get access to the more powerful models this way.

All the models also let you put all sorts of data into them: you can now upload PDFs, images and even video (for ChatGPT and Gemini). For the app versions, and especially ChatGPT and Gemini, one great feature is the ability to share your screen or camera. Point your phone at a broken appliance, a math problem, a recipe you're following, or a sign in a foreign language. The AI sees what you see and responds in real-time. It makes old assistants like Siri and Alexa feel very primitive.

Claude and ChatGPT can now make PowerPoints and Excel files of high quality (right now, Claude has a lead in these two document formats, but that may change at some point). All three systems can also produce a wide variety of other outputs by writing code. To get Gemini to do this reliably, you need to select the Canvas option when you want these systems to run code or produce separate outputs. Claude has a specialized artifacts section to show some examples of what it can make with code. There are also very powerful specialized coding tools from each of these models, but those are a bit too complex to cover in this guide.

ChatGPT and Gemini will also make images for you if you ask (Claude cannot). Gemini has the strongest AI image generation model right now. Both Gemini and OpenAI also have strong video generation capabilities in Veo 3.1 and Sora 2. Sora 2 is really built as a social media application that allows you to put yourself into any video, while Veo 3.1 is more generally focused. They both produce videos with sound.

As many of you know, my test of any new AI image or video model is whether it can make an otter using Wi-Fi on an airplane. That is no longer a challenge. So here is Sora 2 showing otter on an airplane as a nature documentary... and an 80s music video... and a modern thriller... and a 50s low budget SciFi film... and a safety video, and a film noir... and anime... and a 90s video game cutscene... and a French arthouse film.

I have been warning about this for years, but, as you can see, you really can't trust anything you see online anymore. Please take all videos with a grain of salt. And, as a reminder, this is what you got if you prompted an AI to provide the image of an otter on an airplane four years ago. Things are moving fast.

Beyond the basics of selecting models, there are a few things that come up quite often that are worth considering:

Hallucinations: In many ways, hallucinations are far less of a concern than they used to be, as newer AI models are better at not hallucinating. However, no matter how good the AI is, it will still make errors and mistakes and still give you confident answers where it is wrong. They also can hallucinate about their own capabilities and actions. Answers are more likely to be right when they come from advanced models, and if the AI did web searches. And remember, the AI doesn't know "why" it did something, so asking it to explain its logic will not get you anywhere. However, if you find issues, the thinking trace of AI models can be helpful.

Sycophancy and Personality: All of the AI chatbots have become more engaging and likeable. On one hand, that makes them more fun to use, on the other it risks making AIs seem like people when they are not, which creates a danger that people may form stronger attachments to AI. A related issue is sycophancy, where the AI agrees with what you say. The reasons for this are complicated but when you need real feedback, explicitly tell the AI to act as a critic. Otherwise, you might be talking to a very sophisticated yes-man.

Give the AI context to work with. Though memory features are being added, most AI models only know basic user data and the information in the current chat, they do not remember or learn about you beyond that. So, you need to provide the AI with context: documents, images, PowerPoints, or even just an introductory paragraph about yourself can help - use the file option to upload files and images whenever you need, or else use the connectors we discussed earlier.

Don't worry too much about prompting "well": Older AI models required you to generate a prompt using techniques like chain-of-thought. But as AI models get better, the importance of this fades and the models get better at figuring out what you want. In a recent series of experiments, we have discovered that these techniques don't really help anymore (and no, threatening them or being nice to them does not seem to help on average).

Experiment and have fun: Play is often a good way to learn what AI can do. Ask a video or image model to make a cartoon, ask an advanced AI to turn your report or writing into a game, do a deep research report on a topic that you are excited about, ask the AI to guess where you are from a picture, show the AI an image of your fridge and ask for recipe ideas, work with the AI to plot out a dream trip. Try things and you will learn the limits of the system.

I started this guide mentioning that 10% of humanity uses AI weekly. By the time I write the next update in a few months, that number will likely be higher, the models will be better, and some of the specific recommendations I made today will be outdated. What won't change is the fact that people who learn to use these systems well will find ways to benefit from them, and to build intuition for the future.

The chart at the top of this post shows what people use AI for today. But I'd bet that in two years, that chart looks completely different. And that isn't just because AI changed what it can do, but also because users figured out what it should do. So, pick a system and start with something that actually matters to you, like a report you need to write, a problem you're trying to solve, or a project you have been putting off. Then try something ridiculous just to see what happens. The goal isn't to become an AI expert. It's to build intuition about what these systems can and can't do, because that intuition is what will matter as these tools keep evolving.

The future of AI isn't just about better models. It's about people figuring out what to do with them.

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An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now

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Understanding How AI Works Makes It More Effective in Lesson Planning

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A teacher’s discernment is the most critical component of using generative AI tools to assist with developing lessons.

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AVUHSD students have access.

Test Preparation: Students can access personalized, adaptive practice problems and full-length practice tests for exams like the ACT/SAT, with the AI tracking progress and suggesting areas for review.

Overcoming Roadblocks: Students use the 24/7 chat for instant help when they get stuck on late-night homework, preventing them from giving up.

Writing Feedback: The On-Demand Essay Review provides quick, structured feedback on writing mechanics and content, acting as a valuable revision step before submission.

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Document Upload & Analysis: Users can upload PDFs, DOCX, TXT, or CSV files directly to the chat interface. Claude will then read, analyze, and answer questions based only on the content of that document.

Advanced Summarization

Conversational Editing & Feedback: Students can paste paragraphs of an essay or research draft and prompt Claude to analyze it for clarity, logical structure, or evidence quality, acting as a critical writing partner.

"Learning Mode" (Educational Focus): When used in an educational context, Claude can be prompted to ask Socratic questions (e.g., "What evidence supports your conclusion?") instead of giving direct answers, guiding students toward independent critical thinking.

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Adobe Express is an all-in-one content creation application that simplifies high-level design, photo editing, and video production. The platform is offered completely free for all K-12 teachers and students and is designed with safety and educational use in mind.

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DALL-E is a powerful generative AI model developed by OpenAI that creates complex, high-resolution digital images based on simple, descriptive text prompts.

Text-to-image generation, concept blending, visual storyboarding, etc.

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Free AI image generator. Free AI art generator. Free AI video generator. 100+ models and styles to choose from. Train your personalized model. Most popular AI apps: sketch to image, image to video, inpainting, outpainting, model fine-tuning, real-time drawing, text to image, image to image, image to text and more!

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Nano Banana is an artificial intelligence image generating and editing tool created by Google.

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Meet Gemini, Google's AI assistant. Get help with writing, planning, brainstorming, and more. Experience the power of generative AI.

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Step Guide core is feature that functions as an in-built, on-demand math tutor. When a student gets stuck on a problem, the StepGuide breaks the complex problem down into multiple, bite-sized steps with instructions, helping them reason through the solution without just giving the answer.

Offers adaptive practice and gap identification.

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Quizizz — The world’s most engaging learning platform

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Find and create gamified quizzes, lessons, presentations, and flashcards for students, employees, and everyone else. Get started for free!

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Goblin Tools is a suite of simple, free, AI-powered micro-tools designed specifically to combat task paralysis and cognitive overload, which are central challenges for students with EF deficits (like ADHD).

Magic ToDo: Breaks down large, overwhelming tasks (like "Write term paper") into a sequential list of small, actionable steps.

The Compiler: Takes a chaotic "brain dump" of scattered thoughts and notes and organizes them into a clear, prioritized list of to-do items.

The Judge: Analyzes any piece of written text to determine and explain its perceived emotional tone and intent.

The Formalizer: Rewrites text to change its communication style or tone (e.g., making it more polite, concise, professional, or accessible).

The Estimator: Provides a realistic time prediction for how long a specific task will take to complete.

The Professor: Gives a quick, simple crash course or step-by-step explanation of any given topic.

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All devices with the same username and password will synchronise lists. Your list is encrypted on your devices using your username and password. It can not be seen or decrypted by admins or anyone who doesn't have your credentials. Synchronization is not instant, it can take a few seconds for your changes to come through on other devices.

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Use these prompts with any Gen AI platform to create custom outputs. AVUHSD's preferred platform is Gemini, as it does not track or use our students' data.

Remember, the more detail and feedback you give, the better your results.

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We have a variety of prompts to help you lesson plan and do administrative tasks with GenAI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, and Perplexity.

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All-in-one platform with over 60 tools to generate lesson plans, differentiated text, rubrics, and standards-aligned assessments.

Free & paid versions.

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MagicSchool.ai - AI for teachers - lesson planning and more!

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Join over a million teachers saving hours of time using the #1 AI Platform for Education, MagicSchool, to help lesson plan, differentiate, write assessments, write IEPs, communicate clearly, and more!

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Turn your lessons into visual stories with Prezi AI, designed to keep every student’s attention from start to finish.

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Prezi AI for education | Create AI-powered presentations

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Transform how you teach and learn with Prezi AI, an AI-powered presentation tool built for educators.

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Beyond transcription, these tools provide instant summaries, key concepts as bullet points, and sometimes even translations, streamlining the review process for exams.

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Transform your spoken words into instant, accurate text and handy voice notes. Whether you want to write content with your voice or capture and instantly summarize meetings, SpeakApp has you covered.

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SpeakApp AI transcribes speech to text using advanced AI. Record voice notes, meetings, lectures. Get instant transcription, summarize, rewrite, or translate into multiple languages.

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hese tools (often used via a browser extension) record and then immediately generate a summary, key decisions, or a list of action items after the lecture ends.

Ten free summaries/month.

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Captures real-time transcriptions directly in the browser. It does not require an "AI bot" to join the meeting, which can be less disruptive.

10 free summaries/month.

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Helping the world's most modern companies communicate better

Speech-to-text transcription

Tactiq is a free online transcription tool that lets you save transcriptions from your online meetings from Google Meet, Zoom and MS Teams. Transcribe meetings, highlight key parts, and share transcripts with teams in one click.

Simply install Tactiq and enable speech-to-text transcription in your next meeting.

#1 Chrome Extension

Most popular Chrome Extension for meeting transcriptions.

2M+ meetings per month

Tactiq helps trancribe millions of conversations every month.

How it works

Start a meeting

Tactiq pops up as soon as you start a new meeting in Browser.

Transcribe live

See a transcript in real-time and highlight important moment.

View & search

Jump directly to what you're looking for across all meetings.

Meeting transcription top features

SAVE TRANSCRIPTS

Live speech-to-text for online meetings

Tactiq speech-to-text extension automatically saves the live transcript from your meetings. Export to Google Doc, Notion, Slack or PDF.

SEARCH TRANSCRIPTS

Find specific meeting insights in seconds

Find exactly what you need to do by searching speech-to-text transcripts. Identify key priorities, customer questions, team action item, or project requirements to ensure accurate execution.

ANNOTATE TRANSCRIPTS

Collaborate better with meeting summaries

Turn long & heavy speech-to-text transcripts into digestible summaries and highlights in one click. Annotate key meeting parts to make information more accessible to teams. Share ideas, discuss feedback, and comment with follow-up questions.

Summarize speech-to-text with AI in seconds

Follow-up with teams to ensure alignment

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Google's Gemini AI can automatically "Take notes for me," providing a summary and action items in a Google Doc.

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AI for Meetings & Video Conferencing | Google Workspace

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Ditch unproductive meetings. Google Meet’s AI features boost productivity with noise reduction, real-time translation, streamlined collaboration, and more.

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Transcribes lectures and discussions in real-time. Students who struggle to listen and write simultaneously can focus on the content, knowing they have a full, searchable transcript to review later.

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Provides direct, computed answers to complex factual and mathematical questions in subjects like physics, engineering, and calculus.

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Wolfram|Alpha: Making the world's knowledge computable

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Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. For math, science, nutrition, history, geography, engineering, mathematics, linguistics, sports, finance, music...

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Students take a picture of a homework question (especially math or science) and the app provides step-by-step explanations and links to concepts and videos.

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Official Socratic by Google Help Center where you can find tips and tutorials on using Socratic by Google and other answers to frequently asked questions.

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Automatically converts uploaded notes, lectures, or text into flashcards and quizzes using natural language processing (NLP).

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Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.

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Just need to create a quick bibliography?

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.
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Available for Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS

Just need to create a quick bibliography? Try ZoteroBib.

Collect with a click.

Zotero automatically senses research as you browse the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story from the New York Times or a book from a library? Zotero has you covered, everywhere.

Organize your way.

Zotero helps you organize your research any way you want. You can sort items into collections and tag them with keywords. Or create saved searches that automatically fill with relevant materials as you work.

Cite in style.

Zotero instantly creates references and bibliographies for any text editor, and directly inside Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs. With support for over 10,000 citation styles, you can format your work to match any style guide or publication.

Stay in sync.

Zotero can optionally synchronize your data across devices, keeping your files, notes, and bibliographic records seamlessly up to date. If you decide to sync, you can also always access your research from any web browser.

Collaborate freely.

Zotero lets you co-write a paper with a colleague, distribute course materials to students, or build a collaborative bibliography. You can share a Zotero library with as many people you like, at no cost.

Rest easy.

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Zotero | Your personal research assistant

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Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

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This is the one you're students are using to reword each other's work and finish their Edmentum classes in record time.

It paraphrases, summarizes, rewrites, and humanizes.

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Suno is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to create complete, realistic songs from simple text prompts

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Create stunning original music for free in seconds using AI. Make your own masterpieces, share with friends, and discover music from artists worldwide.

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Classroom-Ready Resources About AI For Teaching (CRAFT)

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Classroom-Ready Resources About AI For Teaching (CRAFT)

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Free resources to help you teach high school students in all subject areas to understand and question Artificial Intelligence.

From Stanford.

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In this lesson, students compare AI and human-generated texts to analyze the affordances and limitations of large language models. They'll score, guess origins, and discuss differences, then decide which aspects to adopt or avoid in their writing. The lesson culminates in a discussion of what aspects of the AI-generated writing students should emulate in their own writing and what aspects they should avoid.

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Overview

Chatbots like ChatGPT that are built on generative artificial intelligence technologies - a set of algorithms that can "generate" content based on a large dataset - have captured the world's imagination. Reactions to this great leap forward have ranged from enthusiastic to alarmed.

This technology is evolving rapidly and to keep up we must understand its powers and perils. Generative AI can help us automate mundane tasks or supercharge our online searches, but it could also be weaponized to create and spread disinformation at a dizzying pace.

AI will impact the digital landscape in ways we have yet to imagine. But we do know that news literacy skills and knowledge - like checking your emotions before you share content, consulting multiple sources or doing a quick reverse image search - will be more vital than ever.

That's why we've created this hub of resources to help you make sense of how to navigate this emerging field of technology all while continuing to practice and hone your news literacy skills. We'll update content regularly, so be sure to add this to your bookmarks.

About AI and chatbots

'A certain danger lurks there': how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI - The Guardian, July 25, 2023

The history of the chatbot: Where it was and where it's going - Information Age, July 25, 2023

Age of AI: Everything you need to know about artificial intelligence - TechCrunch, June 28, 2023

History Of ChatGPT: A Timeline Of The Meteoric Rise Of Generative AI Chatbots - Search Engine Journal, June 4, 2023

Explained: What is generative AI, the technology behind OpenAI's ChatGPT? - Reuters, March 17, 2023

A simple guide to the expansive world of artificial intelligence - Popular Science, Feb. 5, 2023

Education and AI

Government and society perspectives

Is it possible to regulate artificial intelligence? Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales not confident - BBC, Sept. 20, 2023

Convergence: Artificial intelligence and the new and old weapons of mass destruction - Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, Aug. 18, 2023

OpenAI leaders call for regulation to prevent AI destroying humanity - The Guardian, May 24, 2023

- Future of Life Institute, March 22, 2023Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights - The White House, Oct. 17, 2022

What Bing chatbot says about becoming news-literate

Recently, NLP founder Alan C. Miller asked Microsoft's AI-powered search tool Bing an important question. "How can we create a more news-literate America?" He got the following, and to our thinking, correct response with footnotes to relevant sources:

"The News Literacy Project is a nonpartisan education nonprofit building a national movement to create a more news-literate America. They define news literacy as the ability to determine the credibility of news and other information and to recognize the standards of fact-based journalism to know what to trust, share and act on1. They have an ambitious four-year strategic plan to transform their singular mission into a national movement. You can join them in their mission by visiting their website2. I hope this helps!"

Couldn't make it to the webinar? Check out the recording.

NLP resources for everyone

Build your knowledge base

Fact-checked viral rumors that teach you how to evaluate information

AI-generated content distorts events in Gaza - Oct. 26, 2023

Biden didn't call for new military draft. It's an AI video - Oct. 20, 2023

A robot playing pickleball? Manipulated sports video goes viral - Sept. 20, 2023

AI-images of LeBron, Biden fuel bubbling 'Barbie' culture war - July 26, 2023

AI image generator fabricates 'archival' Bigfoot photo - July 7, 2023

Fake AI image used to push salacious falsehood about Trump - June 21, 2023

DeSantis ad uses AI images of Trump and Fauci - June 8, 2023

Fabricated images of explosions near White House, Pentagon shake stock market - May 22, 2023

AI image generators stirrup trouble for horse history - May 18, 2023

No, migrants are not being given costly smartphones after arriving in the U.S. - May 18, 2023

AI-generated image shared as 'evidence' Stanley Kubrick directed staged moon landing - May 3, 2023

AI-generated clip of Biden calling Trump 'idiot' goes viral - April 24, 2023

Hillary Clinton did not endorse Ron DeSantis for president - April 13, 2023

No, those Trump mug shot images aren't real - April 6, 2023

Image of Julian Assange in prison is AI-generated - April 5, 2023

Fake white shark: Synthetic images capitalize on recent sightings - March 30, 2023

Pic of pope in puffy jacket produced by AI fools many online - March 28, 2023

These images of Trump being arrested are fakes generated by AI - March 20, 2023

NLP's podcast about how news literacy affects your life

Infographics you can download and share

Develop skills to identify fabricated content

Stay up to date on news literacy trends and topics

Subscribe to RumorGuard alerts for the latest viral rumors and help push back against misinformation in real time.
Subscribe to Get Smart About News , NLP's weekly newsletter, and receive updates related to news literacy and journalism as well as the tools to be a savvy information consumer.

NLP resources for educators

E-learning platform with foundational news literacy lessons

NLP's national network of news literacy educators

Join NewsLitNation, NLP's national network of news literacy educators, where you can exchange best practices with peers and enjoy perks and incentives for your classroom.

NLP's free weekly newsletter for educators
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Subscribe to The Sift , NLP's weekly newsletter for educators. Every Monday during the school year, read about news literacy trends and latest examples of misinformation, and receive ideas for discussing them in the classroom.

Other educator resources

Keeping up with the field

NLP on AI

AI tool can detect distress in overburdened hospital workers - Healthcare ITNews, Oct. 25, 2023

AI-created child sexual abuse images 'threaten to overwhelm internet' - The Guardian, Oct. 25, 2023

New Global AI Council Pioneers Insights To Shape The Future Of Artificial Intelligence - Forbes, Oct. 19, 2023

How AlphaFold and other AI tools could help us prepare for the next pandemic - Nature, Oct. 11, 2023

More than 40% of labor force to be impacted by AI in three years, Morgan Stanley forecasts - CNBC, Oct, 2, 2023

Image generators

The best AI art generators in July 2023 - BBC Science Focus, July 10. 2023

People left disturbed after AI creates images of human-shaped animals - Unilad, June 12, 2023

Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See? - The New York Times, April 8, 2023

How to Spot an AI-Generated Image Like the 'Balenciaga Pope' - Time, March 28, 2023

AI-generated images can fool people. Here are tips to identify them - AFP Fact Check, March 27, 2023

Levi's to use AI models to 'increase diversity and sustainability' - Mashable, March 25, 2023

Microsoft Adds DALL-E AI Image Generator to Bing - Gizmodo, March 21, 2023

Earlier news reports

Chatbots

Enough Talk, ChatGPT-My New Chatbot Friend Can Get Things Done - Wired, Sept. 21, 2023

This driverless car company is using chatbots to make its vehicles smarter - MIT Technology Review, Sept. 14, 2023

AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government-and Making Everyone Nervous - Wired, Sept. 11, 2023

How to talk to an AI chatbot - The Washington Post, Aug. 31, 2023

Chatbots as Accurate as Ophthalmologists in Giving Advice - Medscape, Aug. 25, 2023

AI chatbots become more sycophantic as they get more advanced - NewScientist, Aug. 18, 2023

Snapchat's 'creepy' AI blunder reminds us that chatbots aren't people. But as the lines blur, the risks grow - The Conversation - Aug.18, 2023

ChatGPT leans liberal, research shows - The Washington Post, Aug. 16, 2023

What happens when thousands of hackers try to break AI chatbots- NPR, Aug. 15, 2023

Artificial intelligence

What the Luddites Can Tell Us About Artificial Intelligence - Time, Sept. 26, 2023

Outcry in Spain as artificial intelligence used to create fake naked images of underage girls - CNN, Sept. 20, 2023

MSN Publishes Heartless Obituary For NBA Player Likely Written By AI - Forbes, Sept. 14, 2023

Bizarre AI-generated products are in stores. Here's how to avoid them. - The Washington Post, Sept. 14, 2023

I.R.S. Deploys Artificial Intelligence to Catch Tax Evasion - The New York Times, Sept. 8, 2023

Video: Fareed looks at the brave and frightening world of AI - CNN, Sept. 3, 2023

How artificial intelligence will affect the elections of 2024 - The Economist, Aug. 31, 2023

AI's next target: often-stressful salary negotiations - Axios, Aug. 25, 2023

I'll take real human beings for 600, Alex - The Day, Aug. 23, 2023

The dangers of AI in the 2024 elections - Marketplace, Aug. 18, 2023

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AI and chatbots present opportunities and challenges for society and the information landscape, making news literacy more critical than ever.

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UNESCO: AI and the future of education: disruptions, dilemmas and directions

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AI and the future of education: disruptions, dilemmas and directions

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This long read article is based on a talk delivered by Stefania Giannini, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education, at Digital Learning Week on 2 September 2025 in Paris, France

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AI for Presentations with Google Slides | Google Workspace

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Craft impactful presentations faster using Gemini in Google Slides AI tools. Learn about AI-powered design, data visualization & more!

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Designed for a middle school audience.

A new free, gamified learning experience designed by the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and Google Research seeks to teach teens about the technologies of today, including artificial intelligence. The game, called AI Quests, transforms learning about how AI works into a problem-solving journey, where students collect data, build models, and understand how decisions they make influence the AI models.

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AI Quests: A game-based learning experience for middle schoolers (11-14) on AI. Code-free quests use real Google projects to solve societal issues.

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Checks for more than just grammar, offering suggestions on tone, clarity, and word choice, acting as a personal editor.

QH pays for premium accounts for all staff and students.

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Grammarly is now free! But only on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge browsers.

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Grammarly's free writing app will make sure your messages, documents, and social media posts are clear, mistake-free, and impactful.

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Students can quickly generate unique images or text drafts for presentations, posters, or digital projects.

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Gamma | Best AI Presentation Maker & Website Builder

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Browse a variety of unique, engaging projects for high school students. Choose what’s right for your classroom from our mix of independent and teacher-led projects in a variety of subjects.

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An introduction to AI for students.

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Quick, grab-and-go lessons to help your students think critically about AI and its impact.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the world we live in. From using generative AI for schoolwork to dealing with misinformation and befriending AI chatbots, students have a lot to consider when it comes to this ever-evolving technology.

This collection of quick lessons (20 minutes or less!) provide an introduction to AI and help address its social and ethical impacts. Through these lessons, students will:

Understand what AI is and how it works

Consider some of its potential benefits and risks

Think critically about how we can be responsible and ethical users of AI

ChatGPT and Beyond: How to Handle AI in Schools

Here's what educators can do as artificial intelligence evolves.

Free Resources to Explore and Use ChatGPT and AI

Get an educator-focused approach to information, concerns, and uses for artificial intelligence.

Transforming Education with AI: What Educators Need to Know

Lessons and Tools for Teaching About Artificial Intelligence

Help your students understand the impacts and uses of AI.

ChatGPT: To Ban or Not to Ban?

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AI Literacy Lessons for Grades 6-12 | Common Sense Education

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Quick, grab-and-go lessons to teach your students how to be ethical and empowered users of artificial intelligence.

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AI Course for Educators — AI for Education

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This FREE 2-hour, hands-on course is designed to help educators get started using ChatGPT to save time, engage students, and implement AI responsibly. Self-Paced | Online

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This comprehensive resource is designed to help educators teach students at all grade levels how to critically evaluate and verify information generated by artificial intelligence tools.

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Generates multiple-choice, open-ended, or matching questions from any text or link, often aligning them to common learning standards.

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Uses AI to simplify the grading of paper-based and digital assignments. It groups similar answers together so you can grade them all at once, even for open-ended responses.

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Grade groups of similar answers at once. For some question types, Gradescope AI automatically forms groups for you to review.

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Grade your existing paper-based assignments in half the time and see exactly what your students learned, for free.

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An AI assistant from Khan Academy that uses their trusted content to help with lesson outlines, activity generation, and writing first drafts of things like student progress reports.

Free for teachers.

Check out their AI Writing Coach: https://www.khanmigo.ai/writingcoach

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Meet Khanmigo: Khan Academy’s AI-powered teaching assistant & tutor

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Khanmigo, built by nonprofit Khan Academy, is a top-rated AI for education. Save time on prep, tackle homework challenges, and get personalized tutoring.

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Generates interactive lessons and presentations with AI, which include built-in polls, word clouds, and drawing tools to boost student engagement.

Includes CAASPP and ELPAC test prep.

Free & paid versions.

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Generate lessons with AI

Plan and deliver interactive lessons on any topic - with help from AI

I am teacher of 15 years who, until recently, has delved no more deeply into tech in the classroom, and here I am encouraging colleagues to come on in and see Curipod in action and leading CPD sessions. To top it off, I'm spending my evenings playing on my iPad to see how many new lessons I can create, and what new features have been added that week. The time saved, and the improvement in my lesson materials, is tangible.
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Join the growing movement of teachers using Curipod to make interactive lessons filled with creativity, reflection and critical thinking

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Takes any topic, article, or YouTube video and generates customized learning materials at multiple reading levels. Free and paid versions.

One year free for first-year teachers: https://web.diffit.me/first-year-teachers

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Broader coverage, at lower cost. Cost effective alternative to replace expensive and underused supplemental curriculum subscriptions.

Eliminate low quality content. A trusted, quality alternative to ad-hoc sourcing and online marketplaces for teachers filling curriculum gaps.

Bring your core to life. Translate, scaffold, differentiate and extend your core curriculum to make it "just right" for all students.

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Broader coverage, at lower cost. Cost effective alternative to replace expensive and underused supplemental curriculum subscriptions. Eliminate low quality content. A trusted, quality alternative to ad-hoc sourcing and online marketplaces for teachers filling curriculum gaps. Bring your core to life. Translate, scaffold, differentiate and extend your core curriculum to make it "just right" for all students.

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A Chrome/Edge browser extension that works within Google Docs and other sites. Use it to instantly differentiate text, create quizzes from any webpage, or generate feedback.

Free & paid versions.

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Brisk Teaching is the #1 AI-powered Chrome extension , helping you automate your workload without adding to it.

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Provide Instant AI-Powered Personalized Feedback

Give personalized feedback and ensure high-quality feedback on every assignment, from the first to the last. Brisk's four feedback styles - Targeted Comments, Glow & Grow praises, Rubric Criteria, and actionable Next Steps - simplify your feedback routine.

Create AI-Driven Curriculum, Lesson Plans, Quizzes, and More with Ease

Say goodbye to the endless challenge of crafting engaging and relevant instructional materials. With just a few clicks, you can quickly generate rigorous quizzes, comprehensive lesson plans, detailed rubrics, captivating presentations, effective interventions, and much more, streamlining your preparation process.

Inspect and Assess Student Writing with AI Tools

We've taken AI detection to the next level. With the 'Replay' feature, you can see exactly how your students put together their assignments, with a video of their whole process from beginning to end.

Easily Adjust Reading Levels and Translate Texts with AI

Ensure every student can access classroom materials. With just a few clicks, instantly convert any online text into a Google Doc that's either simplified for different reading levels and/or translated into another language.

AI-Powered Professional Tools That Educators Deserve

Brisk is a free AI-powered Chrome extension that helps busy teachers save time directly within the tools they already use, like Google Docs, Slides, YouTube, and web articles. Quickly create instructional materials, share feedback, evaluate student writing, and adjust or translate texts - all without leaving your current workspace. With Brisk, the days of toggling between apps are over, freeing up more time for what you love: teaching.

Prep for the week in seconds with the Create Menu

No matter what grade level or subject area you teach, you can create, personalize, and differentiate curricular materials, lesson plans, quizzes, IEPs, rubrics, and more with the click of a button.

Using Google? Brisk integrates seamlessly with Google workspace. Google docs and forms created with Brisk can be instantly assigned in Google Assignment and Google Classroom. No copy and paste needed.

Drastically reduce time spent grading with feedback in Brisk

Leave feedback for students in four ways: ✨ Glows & Grows, 🎯 Targeted, 📏 Rubric Criteria, and 🪜 Next Steps.
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Brisk's unparalleled 🎯 Targeted Feedback tool instantly crafts Google Doc comments aligned with your rubric and standards, guiding students precisely where they need to revise. (Premium Feature

Inspect writing to understand the evolution of student work

Wondering how students revised their work? With Brisk you can watch a step-by-step playback of your students' revision history, including their copy and paste actions.

Brisk also leverages a cutting-edge AI-detection model to estimate the likelihood of AI writing. This gives you a starting point to facilitate conversations around academic honesty and dishonesty.
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Level educational materials to meet students where they're at

Have you encountered a resource that doesn't match your classroom's reading level? Brisk takes content from any Google doc, article, or website and converts the material into a document that is suitable and leveled for your students. Brisk will simplify complex ideas, shorten lengthy sentences, adjust the word choice, and so much more.

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"This is amazing!!! The story is great and this saved me hours of work!"

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"Just saved me loads of time and a massive headache."
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"Love the glows and grows!"
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Trusted by Over 200,000 Educators

"Brisk Teaching is an incredible AI tool. It serves as a blueprint for instant student feedback - which you can edit on the spot. If this would have come out years ago, more teachers would likely be feeling way less burnout. You can tell this is a product made by teachers for teachers. They thought of everything. If you're a teacher and haven't tried this tool, do it."

"I just have to say, Brisk is the gift that keeps on giving.to my classroom. I have used it almost every day... As a teacher who left teaching because of burnout and came back because I missed the classroom so much, your tool has made my job SO MUCH MORE MANAGEABLE, and has allowed me to give such quality feedback to my students in SECONDS! As an ELA teacher, this is life saving. Truly."

"As a Language Arts teacher, one of the hardest parts of my job is providing enough meaningful feedback for my students. Brisk has allowed me to provide way more specific and actionable feedback for my students. It has also helped me to see more elements of quality that I had previously overlooked in my students' work. The ease of access with Brisk is also a huge bonus. I can use this tool in all of the different platforms that my students use. I can't wait to see future versions - that will continue to help me provide the feedback that my students need."

"This is truly brilliant, the best product I have ever seen in my teaching career of 25 years."

Middle School Teacher
Queens College Taunton

"What petition do I need to sign or group do I need to join in order to get premium BRISK FOREVER? This targeted feedback is ridiculously accurate and has already saved me hours . Anyone not using this is, let's be honest, crazy."

"I didn't have to learn Brisk, it's so intuitive. It figured out what I wanted, and it didn't take any extra time."

Nicole L.
English Teacher
Derry, New Hampshire

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Brisk is a free AI-powered Chrome extension that helps busy teachers save time directly within the tools they already use, like Google Docs, Slides, YouTube, and web articles. Teachers use Brisk as a Targeted Feedback Generator, AI Presentation Maker, AI Quiz Maker, AI Lesson Plan Generator, AI Rubric Generator, Letter of Recommendation Generator, IEP 504 Template Maker, and so much more.

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 The Age of De-Skilling: Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?

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 The Age of De-Skilling: Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?

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Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?

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AI for Educators from Stanford (YouTube playlist)

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AI for Educators from Stanford (YouTube playlist)

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In this series, Stanford faculty share their experiences and perspectives on artificial intelligence (AI) and learning as they respond to questions from educ...

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From Matt Miller, an edu blogger. This section of his website showcases various creative applications of AI platforms. He also offers an email newsletter highlighting new tools and uses for tech

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Ed tech, creative teaching, less reliance on the textbook.

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A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature

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Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool

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Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.

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Students upload PDFs, web articles, or complex text to instantly generate a summary, key points, or a summary "flashcard."

10 free summaries; paid subscriptions available.

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All the tools for faster reading and more productive research. Go beyond article summaries with a tool that supports you every step of your research journey.

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Provides concise, direct answers to complex questions with clickable, inline citations from its sources (often better for factual verification than general chatbots).

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Microsoft Copilot is a powerful, general-purpose AI assistant that integrates large language models (like the latest GPT models) with real-time web search and creative tools. The core chat, search, and image generation capabilities are available for free to anyone with a personal Microsoft account.

The full Copilot Chat experience is accessible for free via the Copilot website, the mobile app, and the Microsoft Edge browser.

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Microsoft Copilot is your companion to inform, entertain and inspire. Get advice, feedback and straightforward answers. Try Copilot now.

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An online social learning platform for annotating text, video, and audio content – motivating students to ask questions, share insights, and build a learning community.

Perusall uses AI for automatic scoring, discussion prompts suggestions, and a “confusion report” that summarizes students questions.

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Perusall | Increase student engagement, participation, and collaboration

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Would you like your students to be engaged? Perusall, a free social annotation platform, increases student engagement with your favorite course content.