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12 Fabulous AI Tools for Productivity

AI tools are transforming how teachers work, offering exciting opportunities to streamline time-consuming tasks and focus more on what you love most about teaching. Whether you need to translate content for multilingual learners, differentiate materials for students with different learning needs, design eye-catching infographics to explain complex concepts or generate lesson plans tailored to your curriculum, AI tools can serve as your collaborative partner in lesson planning and preparation. The best part is that these tools don't replace your expertise and creativity—they amplify it, giving you more time to connect with students, provide personalized feedback, and engage in the meaningful interactions that make teaching so rewarding.

Grades K-12

On-Demand OK2Ask - Interactive Lessons with Canva’s AI Magic Tools

Transform your instructional materials with the power of Canva's AI Magic tools! This hands-on workshop will teach you how to leverage AI-powered features like Magic Design, Magic Write, and Magic Edit to efficiently create engaging learning resources.

Grades 5-12

Illuminate

Use Illuminate to create podcast-style discussions from articles, PDFs, or websites to enhance student learning and help weaker readers and multilingual students. Share this tool with families to use as a learning aid with their students.

Grades K-12

Teacher's Buddy

Teacher's Buddy offers AI tools just for teachers. The free plan includes ten tools that create lesson plans, generate stories and poems, and adapt coursework for neurodiverse students. Select an age group and choose from the available tools.

Grades K-12

TeacherServer AI Tools

TeacherServer is your hub for AI tools that will help you save time and increase efficiency. Each category contains dozens of tools, such as lesson plan generators, standards navigators, and assessment generators.

Grades K-12

Padlet TA

Padlet TA is a helpful assistant for creating educational work documents, and most tasks don’t require registration. Options include tools for lesson planning, worksheet creation, text-leveling, image creation, random groupings for stations, and more.

Grades 5-12

Creatify

The Creatify AI Shorts tool helps teachers and content creators generate engaging educational videos. With AI-powered editing and customizable templates, you can quickly make visual aids to explain concepts, introduce lessons, and more.

Grades K-5

Gruvy Education

Use AI features to create customized in-class activities that align with specific learning goals or activites that adapt in real time based on student responses. Teachers can generate personalized quizzes, interactive games, and more.

Grades 6-12

yEd Live

yEd Live offers tools to create diagrams from scratch or using ChatGPT. Open the sample diagram to view the different types, or enter a prompt to generate a new diagram. Use the editing tools to change colors and add information.

Grades K-12

Lesson Plan Generator

Use this AI tool to create structured, customized lesson plans in just a few clicks. Fill out details like grade level, subject, and lesson topic, and the generator will provide a plan that aligns with Bloom's Taxonomy and helps meet diverse needs.

Grades 6-12

Quizgecko

Transform virtually anything into quizzes, flashcards, and podcasts; provide step-by-step solutions to questions; and enable participants to chat directly with a PDF document. Use the search feature to find the site's library of editable activities.

Grades 6-12

Visualize Free

Visualize Free is a data visualization tool that allows you to create interactive charts, graphs, and dashboards, making complex data more accessible and understandable. Use this tool to help students visually analyze and present data in all subjects.

Grades 6-12

Presentations.AI

Presentations.AI is designed to help teachers quickly create visually appealing and engaging presentations using AI-driven design and layout suggestions. The platform includes customizable templates, easy-to-use editing tools, and more.

This Week at TeachersFirst

We invite you to attend our OK2Ask and Google Mania workshops this week! We’re also sharing a related post from our Infusing Technology Blog. Finally, we’re sharing a paid opportunity to join our team as a part-time contributor. Read the details below!