I embrace the advent of Gen AI because the prevalence of such tools empowers me to plan and design lessons that are tailored to my students’ needs more efficiently and effectively.

I relish examining the multitude of tools and capitalising on different tools to cater to my students’ multiple intelligences (visual, auditory, verbal). As such, this write-up will explore the use of Diffit, Magic School AI, Wave.Video, among other tools.

First up, you may want to join FB groups “AI for teachers” and “AI tools for teachers” to connect with like-minded educators who have had first-hand experience solving the problems that perturb you. It provides their tried-and-tested insights on which AI tools work for which purposes. Being involved in this vibrant community will offer you shortcuts to accelerate your learning in AI.

Secondly, since exemplary lessons take time to plan, zooming out to define your pedagogical problem is important. Do this even if time is scarce and you have a million things to do.

Next, implementing a fun multisensory approach is imperative to boosting the memory recall of our students, so the right AI tools will unleash their potential.

After taking into account all these considerations, you are ready to kick some ass. Say you want to create a video out of your text. You can try Pictory, which offers you three videos for a free trial. To optimise these three videos, it is vital that you remember to apply AI voice-over. I forgot to do so for one video, which kinda defeated the purpose of using this text-to-speech platform in the first place.

Kapwing is another text-to-speech video platform you can try. Similarly, it only offers three free videos for your trial. If you wish to create unlimited videos, Wave.video will be your generous benefactor. However, please note that it doesn’t come with an AI voice-over.

If you wish to create PPT slides, you should give Gamma(https://gamma.app) a try. You can either convert your existing notes to slides or test your prompt engineering skills and generate slides based on your curated prompt. Either way, the slides are pretty decent, so you just need to edit them to suit your students’ needs. My main beef with Gamma is that the font size is a tad small, but I will choose to use it any day.

On the other hand, if you need to create worksheets, Diffit is a great platform for you. You can paste your text and click on ‘Generate Resources’. And Poof! It will generate definitions, MCQs and short-structured questions for you. Not only that, you can click on ‘Printable Doc’ and export the worksheet to Google Docs, after which you can edit it to cater to your students’ needs.

Similarly, Magic School AI is an awesome platform if you need to generate short-structured comprehension questions. Click on “Text Dependent Questions”, paste your text, and state the kinds of questions you will need. Usually, I indicate that I want 5W1H questions because my students are not paper at answering inferential questions yet. Magic School AI will also generate the answers along with the questions, so it’s a timesaver through and through.

Last but not least, Gemini is a great tool if you need to generate explanations for your students. Just type in your question, answer and detractors and get it to explain why the detractors are not the most appropriate choice. I do this sometimes and forward the explanations to my students. It saves me time trying to think about how to convince them in regard to why they have picked the wrong choice.

So, these are the Gen AI tools I have utilised so far. How about you?