Ed-Tech: Generative AI Tools
Artificial Intelligence a Tool to Enhance Lessons and Lighten Workload
Artificial Intelligence is at the forefront of many professions, education included. Our learners will be using AI for the rest of their lives. It is something they will need to interact with for future job skills. Why not start modeling best practices now.
Here are a few selected educator generative AI platforms that enhance learning and lighten the workload.
It should be noted like all content, whether a resource made by a publisher or a generative AI platform it is the duty of the educator to screen the content before using it, you are the teacher, you know your students best, practice caution and discretion when integrating any resources into your lessons.
Humy.ai - Transform History & Social Studies Education with AI
If you teach history, social studies, geography, anthropology or any of the social sciences Humy.ai is the generative AI tool for you. This platform enables users to chat with AI bots that take on the personality of famous historical figures from all over the world. Imagine a grade 4 student chatting with Meriweather Lewis about the Oregon Trail, or a grade 6 learners asking Napoleon about his conquests in France, all of this is possible and much more. Humy AI is not limited to just historical figures, but allows learners to chat with specialized bots for math, science, English, computer programming to name a few. Even just for fun they could have a conversation with Santa Claus. Humy.ai can be accessed with a mobile device as Hello History. There are both paid and free plans for educators (Humy.ai, 2024).
Curipod - Spark curiosity with interactive lessons
If you are familiar with Nearpod, Curipod is very similar, but the artificial intelligence feature can generate the interactive slides for you. With a few clicks of a button educators can prompt the generative AI platform to create a activities and lessons on a variety of subjects. It offers to create lessons that promote phonics and writing skills, test prep, bell-ringers and exit tickets. It further offers to create ELA, science, foreign language, social studies and math lessons with a focus on either reviewing content, fluency practice or teaching a new skill. What differentiates this from other AI generative platforms like MagicSchool.ai, is the interactive nature of the slides learners join with an invite code similar to Kahoot or Blooket, but once in they can vote, draw, drag and drop and so much more to demonstrate their understanding of the content. It further provides live feedback and enables educators to view live data of learner engagement. (Curipod, 2025).
AI for Educators | MagicSchool
If you are unfamiliar with MagicSchool.ai it is one of the first generative ai platforms for educators. It provides a large toolbox for teachers to leverage artificial intelligence to create rubrics, informational texts, leveled readers, IEP plans, slides and even teacher jokes. The functionality of this ai platform is vast and applicable for many daily teacher tasks. My personal favorite is the informational text function where educators can enter in a topic, grade level, standards and amount of text required from one paragraph to two pages for the platform to create the learner friendly content for you. Using this informational piece you could enter it into the generative questions feature for the platform to produce ready to use selected-response and constructed-response questions based on the information text. An absolute must for saving time and empowering learners with a variety of content, knowledge and information (MagicSchool AI, n.d.).
Diffit. ai
In classrooms around the world no one learner is the same, every student functions and operates on a different level. With Covid-19 online learning the gap between learning and standards only grew. Diffit.ai is a differentiation tool that empowers educators to enter a given text, Diffit will then produce the same standard aligned text, but at different reading levels. This aims to enhance learner understanding of the content of lessons. Think of it as a much more advanced leveled reader creator. Do you have learners in your classroom who need content in another language, in international schools around the world content is generally in English, however there is a need for learners to at times read content in their native language, Diffit.ai’s language translation feature is there to help. Diffit also provides structured reading activities and produces student ready facing documents making the content creation as easy as a few clicks for educators empowering them to give feedback and attention during instruction (Diffit, n.d.).
References
Curipod. (2025). Curipod: Spark curiosity with interactive lessons. https://curipod.com/
Diffit. (n.d.). Diffit.ai. https://web.diffit.me/
Humy.ai. (2024). Humy.ai: Transform history & social studies education with AI. https://www.humy.ai/
MagicSchool AI. (n.d.). AI for educators | MagicSchool. https://www.magicschool.ai/
