Best AI Tools for Teachers in 2024

The world of AI is developing in unprecedented speed. Here is in Educators Technology, we have had the chance to experiment with various Educational AI tools and platforms and in this post, I curated for you what I think are some of the best AI tools for teachers in 2024.

Here is our curated collection of the best AI tools for teachers in 2024:

1. MagicSchool

Eduaide is a platform that offers teachers an AI-powered workspace where they can create educational materials, automate administrative tasks, and generate targeted feedback. Eduaide offers access to an extensive list of AI tools that includes over 150 tools that help teachers with things such as assessment, content creation, lesson planning, creating interactive activities, gamifying learning, teacher parent communication, educational resources management, and many more.

2 Brisk Teaching

AI Chrome extension that allows you to create engaging educational materials from online resources including YouTube videos and web content. You can also use it to grade students assignments, design presentations, create lesson plans and classroom activities and many more.

3. Curipod

Curipod turns any document or presentation into an interactive lesson ready to use in your classroom. The process to generate a lesson is simple and easy. You can either type in the topic of your lesson and add as much details as you can and let Curipod generate a lesson or you can upload a document or presentation and use it as a basis for your lesson.

4. Almanack

Almanack is another excellent AI-powered platform for teachers and educators. You can use it to easily generate engaging lesson plans complete with different instructional resources including slides, videos, worksheets, rubrics, in-classroom activities and games, and many more. Almanack offers an AI generator for almost any teaching task from creating worksheets and rubrics to generating feedback and report card comments. The process is simple and easy and all you have got to do is to select your course and lesson and let AI do the rest. Of course, you can always (and you should) edit and customize any AI-generated content before you use it with your students.

5.Twee

Tweet is an AI-powered platform that is designed specifically for teachers. Twee offers access to numerous AI tools that cover the following categories: reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar, and vocabulary. Using these tools will enable you to create interactive activities and engaging learning exercises from generating discussion questions, designing creative writing tasks, to developing grammar and vocabulary exercises.

6. Eightify

Eightify is a powerful AI tool that allows you to generate instant summaries of YouTube videos. Not only that, you also have the option to choose the format of your summary. For instance, the Q&A feature generates a summary in the form of question and answer. The list feature, on the other hand, helps you generate a summary of the video content in the form of key points arranged in a bullet list.

7. Diffit

Diffit is an AI-powered platform that allows you to create a wide variety of engaging resources for any topic or lesson. The way Diffit works is simple and easy: type in your topic, select a grade level and, if applicable, choose standards then click on generate. Diffit instantly generates instructional resources adapted to your students grade level. You can edit the generated materials to suit your teaching needs then export them as a printable documents, as Google Slides, or as a PDF.

8. NotebookLM

Powered by Google’s Gemini 1.5, NotebookLM does an amazing job summarizing research papers, synthesizing information across difference sources, and generating concise reports. NotebookLM even offers an audio overview feature which summarizes the content of uploaded sources in the form of audio podcast hosted by two AI agents. This feature offers a fresh and engaging way to absorb complex information, perfect for multitasking or passive learning.

9. Edcafe

Edcafe is an educational platform that offers a wide variety of powerful AI tools to help teachers streamline their workflow and enhance their students’ learning. Some of these AI tools include: a lesson plan generator to create structured and ready-to-teach lessons based on any topic or uploaded material; a flashcard creator for building engaging vocabulary sets; and an AI-powered quiz generator that allows teachers to design assessments from sources like YouTube videos, documents, or web pages.

10. Napkin AI

Napkin AI is an AI tool to help you create beautiful visuals and illustrations. You can use Napkin to design illustrations for your content, for instance turn data in your research paper into visual representations such as flowcharts, mind maps, infographics, images, and more. While Napkin AI is a text to image tool but it differs from the popular text to image platforms out there (e.g., Midjourney, Dall-E, and Leonardo) in that it does not require any prompts. All you need to do is copy and paste your text into its canvas and hit the bue button to start generating visuals from different sections in your documents.

11. Elicit

Elicit is an AI tool that is especially useful for researchers. It combines multiple powerful features into a single platform. You can use it to easily search for and find relevant research papers, generate structured summaries of research papers in a table format, upload papers and instantly extract key data and insights from them, and many more. Elicit will help you during your entire research process, from brainstorming ideas for research topics to finding gaps in the literature to finally finding materials for your literature review.

12. Canva AI

The popular design platform Canva has integrated a wide range of AI features that makes it super easy to create and share beautiful visuals. These include Magic Design, Magic Edit, Magic Write, translations, beat sync, add draw in real time, magic eraser, animations, styles and layouts, magic presentation, and many more.

13. Vidnoz AI

Vidnoz AI is an AI-powered video platform that enables you to create a wide range of videos from instructional tutorials to explainer video presentations. Vidnoz AI offers various templates to choose from. You can also use avatars to give your video a unique feel. Other things offered by Vidnoz include the ability to add voiceovers, subtitles, instantly download, and more.

14. Eduaide

15. Speechify

Speechify is an AI text to speech tool. It offers a huge collection of human-like voices and is available in numerous languages. Speechify includes the voices of numerous celebrities from actress Gwyneth to the famous YouTuber MrBeast. Simply type in your text and have it read to you by the voice of your choice. Speechify is available as an online tool and as an app for Mac, iPhone/iPad, and Android. It is also available as a Chrome extension allowing you to have the text content of any source (e.g., web page, PDF, books, articles, emails, etc) read to you on the go.

16. Fireflies

Fireflies is a powerful AI note taker. It allows you to record your meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and many other platforms. It doesn’t just stop at recording; it also transcribes these recordings in real-time, providing you with searchable, editable notes that integrate seamlessly into your workflow.

17. Eduaide

Final thoughts

I hope you have found this collection helpful. I know the selection is subjective but it’s based on hands-on experience and thorough exploration of tools that genuinely make a difference in the classroom. While these tools may not cover every need, they represent a diverse range of features and functionalities that can inspire and empower teachers in 2024. If you have other favorites or tools you’d like to recommend, feel free to share— I’m always eager to explore new possibilities!

Best AI Tools for Teachers in 2024