MagicSchool AI is one of my most used and favoured platforms for literacy learning within my English studies classes. Educators can use this tool to generate worksheets, multiple-choice quizzes, level texts, produce informational texts, generate rubrics, translate texts, create social stories about events, and even produce a Jeopardy-style game. Furthermore, they can create a student room that provides options that assist students with writing feedback, text summarizers, teacher-created AI bots, sentence starters, and more.
Through this platform, educators can increase efficiency and produce content that can assist students at various levels of understanding. Rather than spending hours generating a text and accompanying worksheets at various levels, MagicSchool AI can produce this within minutes, targeted at a specific grade level, chosen length, and topic. This helps reduce teacher workload and provides more opportunities for teachers to create engaging and accessible lessons for their learners. Furthermore, teachers can also generate and edit rubrics for students, and only need to provide a few sentences of objectives and descriptions, making it easier to simplify complex standards and cut down prep time for various activities.
As educators, it can often be challenging to find a single platform that addresses multiple instructional needs rather than only serving one specific purpose. Many digital tools are designed for narrow functions, such as quiz creation, text generation, feedback, and gaming, but rarely do they combine these features in a way that is both practical for teachers and engaging for students. Another significant challenge lies in ensuring that the content produced is accurate and that students can interact with digital tools in a safe, guided, and supervised environment. Teachers need to feel confident that the tools they introduce in the classroom enhance learning and also protect students’ well-being. Therefore, MagicSchool AI helps address these challenges as it provides teachers with one platform to generate a wide variety of instructional materials and opportunities to differentiate content easily. Furthermore, the teacher-created student room allows students to use AI for educational purposes while being monitored by their teacher, ensuring their safety and understanding of AI in educational contexts. By combining efficiency, practicality, engagement, and inclusivity, MagicSchool AI positions itself as a valuable partner in creating a safe, accessible, and engaging learning experience for all students.
What an interesting app. Alongside your point about vetting for accuracy and relevance, I worry that “all-in-one” platforms can lock us into a vendor’s pedagogical worldview. I see this firsthand while working in Nunavut in different ways but just to illustrate this point: the classic “April showers bring May flowers” simply doesn’t apply when snow often lasts into June across the territory.
This has been a very useful website to create rubrics suited to my needs. It provides the initial backbone of a useful rubric that can be easily modified. Lately, it has been upgraded so that you can change the rubric directly on the site, but it requires an upgraded account.
With the changes in the use of AI in education, I wonder how regulation policies will begin to change for teachers. Will each district start to limit the amount of AI that can be accessible due to privacy concerns? Will there be a creation of their own district-wide AI for teachers’ use that will be where funding goes? Will the public start to consider the fact that teachers’ use of AI in their work is a sign that teachers (as we currently know the profession) are no longer necessary?