Two AI Sites To Make Teaching Easier

 

Over the past few weeks, I've been exploring two ai sites to see how they work.  One came from my principle and the other just by surfing the internet.  I have used both sites to help prepare for the upcoming week.  I'll explore both of them and let you know what they offer that you can use.

First is Brisk Teaching at https://www.briskteaching.com/ai-tools-for-teachers. This site is set up to work by using a chrome extension. They have a variety of tools one can use in all subjects but there are some you can use in Math. The most obvious ones are the Math serial review and the Math word problems.  When you click on the tool you want to use, a new document shows up in Google Docs with a prompt asking you what you want to do.  You select the item you want and a box shows up asking you what do you want the review on or topic for word problems.  You type in the topic or topics, grade level, number of questions and hit the Brisk key.  Voila, you have your spiral review or word problems which can be shared with students.

In addition, it will create a math quiz on the specific topics in either google docs or google forms.  In addition, you can make the quiz so its multiple choice, short response, or long response.  It does a nice job of creating quizzes. I chose the short response so it created the problem and as part of the problem, it asked the student to explain their thinking, or show their work.  

Furthermore, it can create unit plans, lesson plans, sub plans, RTI plans, and so much more.  I've seen it create a presentation based on a video, article, or other media.  The site does tell you to double check all work because AI can make mistakes.

The other site is the Magic School Plus at https://app.magicschool.ai/tools?_gl=1*1xa2tt2*_gcl_au*MjEwNzA5MjQ3NS4xNzM5MDczMjky*_ga*MTk0ODk1MTk4My4xNzM5MDczMzA2*_ga_CXK67KRY5M*MTczOTA3MzMwNS4xLjAuMTczOTA3MzMwNS4wLjAuMA..*_ga_L9QBJH1R4M*MTczOTA3MzMwNS4xLjAuMTczOTA3MzMwNS4wLjAuMA..  

This also offers a wide variety of tools to make teaching much easier.  I've used it to create a guided notes from a YouTube video, a worksheet on a general topic in math, and a few other things.  When you ask it to create a worksheet on Rate, Time, Distance word problems for Algebra I, it did more than I expected. It began with a fill in the blank vocabulary exercise, 5 multiple choice word problems, and ended with an open ended short answer questions.  In addition, it provided answers at the end. Is easy to cut and paste into a word document.

Furthermore, it has things like creating multiple explanations, questions to Youtube Videos, text levelers, text dependent questions, math word problems, math spiral review, data table analysis, vocabulary based texts, It even provides ideas to make the topic relevant.  This site offers more opportunities to create a variety of math based items than the other one but you have to cut and paste into either google docs or google forms if you use those.  

It has one tool I really like.  If you aren't sure what misconceptions your students will have on a specific topic, you can use the misconception finder, type in finding slope for Algebra I, and it will find them for you and be quite specific.

Of course it has tools to unpack standards, create lesson plans, make unit plans, and so much more. I would recommend you check both sites out to see if you like either and if they offer something you'd enjoy using.  let me know what you think, I'd love to hear.  Have a great day.