AI in EdTech: How to Plan and Validate Your Lessons with AI?
It is high time we acknowledge that artificial intelligence (AI) plays a substantial role in education. Besides, it comes with the promise to tackle some of the prime challenges in education today. Furthermore, it can not only revolutionise teaching and learning practices but also accelerate momentum towards the Education 2030 Agenda.
What is the importance of AI-Enabled tools in global education technology (EdTech)?
First, it has the promise to tackle some of the prime challenges in education today including inclusion and equity. Second, integrating these tools into education solves the problems arounds highly tailored teaching experiences, adaptive subject delivery, and immediate feedback processes. Third, it can be used to cut down on administration, releasing teachers from mundane tasks and granting them to focus more on education and supporting their students. Finally, AI has penetrated education, revolutionising the way one learns and teaches, spanning from student engagement to teaching styles.
AI-enabled tools can be used in education, for example, Smart Sparrow, Century Tech, and DreamBox. These tools can create tailored learning experiences and provide student improvement lesson plans by adapting in real-time.
What is the current state of EdTech market and the future trends?
The EdTech market size was valued at USD 105.48 billion in 2021 and USD 142.37 billion in 2023. It is projected to reach USD 436.68 billion by 2030, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.10% during the forecast period (2022 to 2030).
There are few prominent trends shaping the future of the EdTech market. First, the COVID-19 pandemic hastened the acceptance of online learning, with many students and educators directing to digital platforms to continue education without disruptions. As the world adjusts to new AI technologies in hybrid education, a mix of both online and offline learning seems to be predicted to become the norm.
Second, AI has made floods in the EdTech space, with ChatGPT being one of the most famous disruptors. ChatGPT, a large language (learning) model, has the competency to revolutionise tailored teaching styles, helping with creating lesson plans and validating it, and also enhance problem-solving across various subjects. It can help both teachers and students.
Third, immersive technologies like augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are ready to change how educators can adopt different teaching styles. These cutting-edge tools offer simulated experiences that can enhance the teaching experience with appropriate lesson planning, particularly in fields like science and technology.
It is worth observing that these trends are subject to shift as the field of EdTech continues to advance rapidly.
What are some of the AI-enabled tools in Ed Tech?
It is important to note that attributes such as tailored learning options, simple integration with your existing teaching practices, and the capability to track and evaluate students’ progress are necessary when choosing an AI tool for lesson planning and validation. These are some of factors that will help you as an educationalist to be more successful. There are numerous tools available for AI-enabled lesson planning. Education Copilot, LessonPlans.ai, ChatGPT, QuillBot, Google Gemini, Lex.page, Auto Classmate, and Curipod are to name some of them.
Education Copilot
It is ideal for creating quality, structured lesson plans for any subject, lesson, or concept.
Lesson Planning: At the kernel of Education Copilot is the AI lesson planner which can create lesson plans, presentations, and more. For example, proposing or outlining activities, resources, and assessments that align with your learning objectives.
Validation: You can easily to align or validate your lesson plans to your educational specifications and goals. This ensures that your roadmap meets the needs of your students and is aligned with the standards and objectives of your curriculum.
It offers an additional of more than 10 tools that can be used to create a variety of educational materials, further helping in the planning and validation process.
LessonPlans.ai
It is ideal for creating high-quality lesson plans designed to help teachers.
Lesson Planning: It creates complete lesson plans with engaging activities and resources. When teachers provide a detailed description of the lesson they want to create, the AI creates a tailored plan to their needs. It is quite simple and almost instant. In addition, teachers can then easily customise and adapt the AI-generated plan before using it in class.
ChatGPT
It is a Large Language Model capable of answering questions, helping with tasks, and generating creative content. Therefore, it can be used for crafting conversational educational content.
Lesson Planning: It can generate a general or specific lesson plan with learning objectives and activities depending on the details provided. You can also make ChatGPT use personas to create lesson plans. Then you can customise the plan to suit your needs.
Validation: It can help ensure your lesson plans meet learning objectives and align with curriculum standards by using techniques like prompting i.e. by using extremely specific language.
QuillBot
It is designed to improve writing processes and well-known for its paraphrasing capabilities. However, it also offers a range of AI writing tools and generative capabilities that can be beneficial in an educational context.
Lesson Planning: It can help teachers save time creating lesson plan materials such as worksheets, and assessments. For example, teachers can add a assessment outline into the tool, and it will swiftly generate alternative but more engaging and unique content.
Validation: Its grammar checker tool can be used to proof-read that is specifically useful when creating lesson plans. Thus, ensuring your content is clear, precise, and professional.
Google Gemini
Google Gemini previously known as Google Brad is in a family of multimodal large language models. It can understand, operate across, and combine distinct types of information including text, image, audio, and video, therefore can be used in the educational setting.
Lesson Planning: It can supply you with ideas for shaping lesson plans. You can ask it to generate a detailed lesson plan tailored to your needs like ChatGPT by providing the necessary details.
Validation: It can help make sure your lesson plans meet learning objectives and align with curriculum standards by using techniques like prompting i.e. by using extremely specific language.
Lex.page or Lex
It combines a word processor editor with enhanced AI to help you write quicker, better, and more structured.
Lesson Planning: It can help you in creating ideas and content for your lesson plans. The ‘AI Feedback’ option help brainstorm ideas, and revise content. This can be specifically useful when you are having a writer’s block.
Validation: The ‘AI Feedback’ option also provides suggestions on your draft, helping you ensure that your lesson plans are clear, precise, and professional. You can collaborate with your colleagues and request your lesson plans be reviewed in real-time.
Auto Classmate
It is designed to help teachers in enhancing student learning by providing a collection of AI tools that can be used to supplement human creativity creating collaborations, and helpful and significant learning opportunities.
Lesson Planning: Its AI-Powered Lesson Plan Generator helps you to create highly tailored, revisable, and exclusive lesson plans. It is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 that will transform your content creation methods for your lesson plans.
Validation: It allows you to easily align or validate your lesson plan with state standards with a button click (Align this Lesson to State Standards?). This ensures that your lesson plans meet the needs of your students and are aligned with the standards and goals of your curriculum. In addition, the Lesson Plan and Activity Forecast Tool predicts two possible outcomes each for positive and negative, permitting to review the merits and especially the demerits of your lesson plans. This helps planning for all possible scenarios. Furthermore, suggestions are proposed on how to prevent negative outcomes.
It offers a wide range of extra tools including AI-Powered Instructional Coach, an Activation and Engagement Activity Generator, and a ‘Would You Rather’ Question Generator that can be used to boost your lesson plans and materials. It also has a list of ‘Coming Soon’ tools of which Lesson Enrichment Toolkit looks promising.
Curipod
It is designed to help teachers in creating interactive lesson plans and delivering them. It uses presentation elements like polls, word clouds, drawings, Q&As, and others, to offer an interactive experience for both teachers and students.
Lesson Planning: Its proprietary AI is a game-changer for lesson planning which the teachers can then customise. It offers free lessons that other teachers have created, which you can use for motivation.
Validation: Content generation is aligned or validated against grades 1st to 12th/13th (country depended) and for professional development, covering diverse subjects. You can collaborate with your colleagues and request your lesson plans be reviewed in real-time.
Takeaway
The above-mentioned AI tools can substantially lower your time and workload required for lesson planning and validation. However, the helpfulness of these tools may change based on your own requirements and environments. For your own benefit, you should continually consider your own requirements as a priority when choosing an AI tool for lesson planning and validation.
Boost Your Teaching Game with the Perfect EdTech AI Tools for Lesson Planning and Validation!
For more intricate or specialised use cases that involve higher levels of complexity, it may be necessary to develop custom-tailored solutions.
About the Author:
Rosemary J Thomas, PhD, is a Senior Technical Researcher at the Version 1 AI Labs.
