Without a doubt, I provide creative chances to improve and change learning environments.
Experts claim that using artificial intelligence and the knowledge gathered from its use enables educators to design individualised instruction for students.
"Human teachers should largely steer the use of these tools in classrooms, ensuring that it aligns with pedagogical goals and ethical standards and is appropriate for contexts and cultures that vary enormously within as well as across countries," according to a recent report from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
However, the use of this technology in Africa remains extremely low. According to the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law's (CIPIT) State of AI in Africa Report 2023, 12% of AI in Africa is used in education.
According to the paper, "most students in Africa cannot benefit from these tools largely due to a lack of access to internet connectivity and technological infrastructure."
That being said, here are several classroom educational AI tools that will alter education in 2024:
Google Classroom is a free service that allows teachers to manage assignments, communicate with students, and keep organised.
Khan Academy offers free online courses, lectures, and practice in a variety of areas through personalised learning dashboards.
Edmodo is a social learning platform that provides communication, collaboration, and coaching capabilities to educators and students.
Quizlet: Allows teachers to create and share flashcards, quizzes, and interactive games with their students.
Socrative is an assessment application that allows teachers to construct quizzes, quick questions, exit tickets, and space races for their pupils.
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that allows you to easily create, share, and play educational games or trivia quizzes.
Flipgrid is a video conversation tool that lets teachers submit discussion topics and students answer with short films.
Nearpod is an interactive presentation and evaluation tool that helps teachers construct interesting classes using quizzes, polls, and interactive activities.
Google Forms is a survey administration programme that lets teachers build forms for surveys, quizzes, and feedback.
Canva for Education: Educators get free access to premium capabilities for creating compelling images, presentations, and instructional materials.
Microsoft OneNote is a digital notebook that enables teachers and students to take notes, organise material, and work together on projects.
Padlet is a virtual bulletin board where teachers and students can share notes, photographs, links, and videos.
Storybird: Allows students and teachers to create art-inspired stories to improve their creative writing skills.
Piktochart is an infographic and presentation application that allows you to create visually appealing teaching materials.
MindMeister is a mind mapping programme that allows students and teachers to visually organise concepts.
ReadWorks offers free reading comprehension resources and assignments for K-12 instructors.
Project Gutenberg provides over 60,000 free eBooks, including many classic literature titles appropriate for high school curricula.
Edpuzzle: Allows teachers to construct interactive video classes by embedding questions, notes, and quizzes into the videos.
TED-Ed: Offers free instructional movies and tutorials on a variety of topics, developed in conjunction with educators and animators.
Evernote is a note-taking programme that helps teachers and students keep track of their notes, assignments, and resources.
CommonLit is a free collection of reading passages and activities to help students in grades 3 through 12 improve their literacy skills.
Formative: A tool for designing and scoring formative exams in real time.
Grammarly is a writing tool that helps students and teachers improve their writing by checking for grammar, punctuation, and style mistakes.
Otter.ai: Transcription services for lectures, meetings, and interviews assist teachers and students in capturing and reviewing spoken content.
Google's AI drawing tool, AutoDraw, allows you to quickly and effortlessly generate finished drawings.
Desmos is a free graphing calculator and math tool that helps pupils grasp and visualise mathematical topics.
ThingLink enables teachers to create interactive images and movies that include integrated notes, links, and resources.
Mathway is a problem-solving tool that offers step-by-step answers to mathematical difficulties.
NoRedInk: Offers personalised activities and projects to help students improve their writing and grammatical skills.
Zotero is a free programme for managing and crediting research sources, particularly beneficial for high school research projects.
Duolingo is a language-learning programme that provides interactive lessons in a variety of languages.
Newsela: Offers news items and instructional content at various reading levels to help pupils improve their reading comprehension.
Symbaloo is a bookmarking tool that allows teachers to organise and share educational resources with pupils.
Scratch is a coding environment developed by MIT that teaches students programming through interactive projects and games.
Gimkit is a game-based learning tool that allows students to review and learn material through competitive quizzes.
Wakelet: Allows teachers to collect, organise, and share content such as articles, videos, and photographs in an easily accessible way.
Projeqt is an online tool that allows you to create multimedia presentations with live tweets, blog feeds, interactive maps, and more.
MyStudyLife is a planner tool that helps students and teachers organise schedules, assignments, and exams.
Hypothesis: A web annotation tool that enables students and teachers to annotate digital documents collaboratively.
HyperDocs: Interactive and engaging digital lesson plans that enable students to explore and learn on their own.
Remind is a communication platform that allows teachers to send messages to students and parents on homework, reminders, and announcements.
Vocaroo is a simple web application for recording and sharing voice messages, ideal for oral projects and feedback.
Phet Interactive Simulations offers free interactive maths and science simulations to instructors and students.
ClassDojo is a classroom management programme that allows teachers to track behaviour and communicate.
Seesaw is a digital portfolio platform that enables students to record and share their learning progress with teachers and parents.
Loom is a video recording application that allows teachers to make educational films and tutorials.
Blendspace is a platform for developing and sharing multimedia classes and materials with students.
Sutori is an interactive timeline tool that helps teachers design engaging classes and activities.
Mentimeter is an interactive presentation tool that lets teachers construct polls, quizzes, and word clouds to engage students in real time.
Trello is a project management platform that helps teachers and students organise work, assignments, and projects using boards, lists, and cards.
