Top AI Applications for Education by Courtney Bennett, Ed.D.

Canva with Magic Design

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 16:41:06 UTC

Canva's AI features help create engaging educational materials instantly. Generate presentation slides, infographics, and worksheets with AI assistance. Perfect for visual learners and making complex topics more accessible.

Gradescope by Turnitin

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 16:41:07 UTC

AI-powered grading assistant that streamlines assessment of assignments and exams. Particularly useful for STEM subjects with its ability to recognize mathematical notation and diagrams. Saves hours of grading time while maintaining consistency.

Grammarly Education

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 16:41:09 UTC

Essential tool for writing feedback and improvement. The AI provides detailed writing suggestions, helps students develop better writing skills, and assists teachers in providing comprehensive feedback quickly.

Khan Academy with Khanmigo

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 16:41:11 UTC

Khan Academy's AI tutor provides personalized learning support 24/7. Helps students work through problems step-by-step and assists teachers in creating customized learning paths. Currently in beta but showing promising results.

Duolingo Max

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 16:41:12 UTC

Enhanced language learning with AI-powered conversations and explanations. The AI adapts to student progress and provides personalized feedback. Excellent for language teachers looking to supplement their curriculum.

Otter.ai for Education

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 16:41:14 UTC

Real-time transcription and note-taking AI that's perfect for lectures and classroom discussions. Creates searchable transcripts and helps ensure accessibility for all students. Essential for hybrid learning environments.

Microsoft Copilot in Education

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 16:41:15 UTC

Integrated AI assistant across Microsoft 365 apps helps streamline administrative tasks, create lesson materials, and analyze student data. Particularly useful for schools already using Microsoft ecosystem.

Diffit

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 16:44:13 UTC

Universal Design for Learning

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 16:45:23 UTC

Magic School AI

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 16:48:37 UTC

Ello

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School AI

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Near Pod

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 16:52:11 UTC

Microsoft Co Pilot

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 16:59:50 UTC

Google Gemini

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 17:01:24 UTC

Audio Pen

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 17:03:06 UTC

Quill Bot

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 17:09:48 UTC

Padlet

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 17:10:35 UTC

Padlet is a free online tool that lets users post and interact with media on a virtual wall. It can be used for brainstorming, sharing ideas, and collaborating.

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 19:08:03 UTC

Magic School Student

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 19:10:09 UTC

School AI Student

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 19:11:11 UTC

Use School AI Spaces to personalize student learning.

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 19:16:30 UTC

AI and Plagarism: Teaching students how to use AI responsibly. Imagine being a high school student who thinks using AI to write essays or research papers is perfectly fine, and maybe skating by with it in high school only to get to college and be kicked out due to plagarism. As educators, it's our responsibility to make sure that our students know AI best practices.

Student Training for Magic Student

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 19:18:54 UTC

MagicSchool for Students is the new student facing AI platform that focuses on building AI literacy for students and unlocks learning opportunities that are not possible without generative AI for schools. This all new Student Facing Certification Course is designed for students to learn how to navigate the MagicSchool for Students platform and utilize AI responsibly.

Helping Students Navigate New Technology Responsibly

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 19:21:46 UTC

Students use a rubric to rate Chat Bot responses

Canva Magic Write

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 19:27:17 UTC

Your first draft. Fast.

Curipod

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 19:30:26 UTC

This website enables teachers to create interactive lessons in minutes using AI. Students can explore various topics, and the AI functionality helps generate customized lessons tailored to their learning needs.

Open AI

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 19:33:02 UTC

This guide comes with several suggested prompts and includes explanations that clarify exactly how ChatGPT works and what its limitations are, and it provides reminders of the importance of verifying information and checking for bias.

Quizizz AI

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 19:34:50 UTC

Create and deliver bell-to-bell curriculum
resources that meet the needs of every student.

Slidesgo

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 19:36:31 UTC

This tool provides access to free templates via Google Slides and now has the AI Presentation Maker. With this new functionality, presentations can be created within minutes. Simply choose a topic; select a tone such as casual, creative, or professional; make changes; and download your presentation.

Eduaide.Ai

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 19:38:28 UTC

This is an AI-assisted lesson-development tool that provides educators with more than 100 resource types to choose from to create high-quality instructional materials. It offers the ability to translate the generated content into more than 15 languages instantly. Educators can generate a syllabus, create discussion prompts, use the “teaching assistant” for help with creating individualized education program plans, write emails, or even compile a list of accommodations for students. Eduaide.AI has a content generator, teaching assistant, feedback bot, free-form chat, and assessment builder.

AI Tool Demo: Making Music with Suno

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 19:40:37 UTC

Have you ever thought that a class assignment would be more engaging if music were involved? A new AI music-generation tool, Suno, lets users turn their original writing into a fully realized song in under a minute—complete with vocals and an instrumental backing in a genre of their choice—and there are lots of applications for the classroom.

Undetectable Ai

bennettc25 — 2025-02-27 19:51:22 UTC

This tool offers teachers a dependable method to ensure the originality of student work.

Read Ai

bennettc25 — 2025-02-28 20:37:31 UTC

Read AI is an AI copilot for wherever you work, making your meetings, emails, and messages more productive with summaries, content discovery, and recommendations.

AI and Special Needs Students

bennettc25 — 2025-02-28 20:43:36 UTC

When it comes to a student’s ability to convey information in a clear manner, sometimes it can be a difficult task to undertake. Special needs students may have this experience more often than most, and it might take more to help them communicate effectively both in and out of the classroom, which is where AI can play a role.

Legal Considerations of AI in Special Pops

bennettc25 — 2025-02-28 20:44:44 UTC

Educators need to be thoughtful and proactive in addressing the potential positive and negative impacts of using AI in special education.

Code Monkey

bennettc25 — 2025-02-28 20:46:02 UTC

CodeMonkey is an AWARD-WINNING online platform that teaches kids real coding languages like CoffeeScript and Python. Children and teenagers learn block-based and text-based coding through an engaging game-like environment.

Teacher Training: Magic School Level 1 Certification Course

bennettc25 — 2025-02-28 20:57:53 UTC

The Level One MagicSchool Certification Course introduces you to MagicSchool and helps you navigate the platform, utilize the tools, and learn best practices for using MagicSchool AI.

DeepSeek AI

bennettc25 — 2025-02-28 21:00:33 UTC

DeepSeek R1 is a new reasoning AI model that was developed in China and launched in January by DeepSeek, an AI company. The open source tool is available for free and is incredibly advanced. AI education experts say DeepSeek R1 has particular implications for educators because of its advanced capabilities, wide accessibility, influence on the overall AI field, and more.

Interactive Simulations for Science and Math

bennettc25 — 2025-02-28 21:02:50 UTC

Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.

How to Avoid Falling Behind the Curve in AI

bennettc25 — 2025-02-28 21:05:39 UTC

Arizona State University professor Andrew Maynard has tips for educators on keeping up with AI developments and harnessing its educational potential in the process.

6 Top FREE EdTech Credentials

bennettc25 — 2025-02-28 21:07:28 UTC

These six free EdTech credentials provide useful professional learning with a credential for teachers in all academic areas and grade level

ClassPad.net

bennettc25 — 2025-03-11 13:46:50 UTC

ClassPad.net is a digital online calculator ideal for educational use.

Tennessee Educational Technology Association

bennettc25 — 2025-03-11 13:55:17 UTC

Individual memberships are free to teachers and available on a yearly basis!