Most of the conversations around artificial intelligence (AI) tools are often business-focused, but there is huge potential for AI to drastically improve our education systems. This is one of the most effective tools teachers can have at their disposal and often relieves them of administrative burden. These technologies will not replace teachers, but rather allow them to devote more time to teaching students.
AI is growing rapidly in the education sector and is becoming a multibillion-dollar global marketplace. This rapid growth is due to its ability to transform many aspects of teaching and learning processes. AI can create immersive virtual learning environments, produce ‘smart content’, ease language barriers, fill the gaps between learning and teaching, create tailored plans for each student and much more.
Many innovative companies are creating AI tools to achieve these results. Let’s take a look at some of the best AI tools for education:
1. Gradescope
What is Gradescope?
The Gradescope AI tool allows students to evaluate each other while providing feedback, which often takes a long time without AI technology. Gradescope relies on a combination of machine learning (ML) and AI for easier assessment, which saves time and energy.
By outsourcing these tasks, teachers can focus on the more important ones. Gradescope can be used by the teacher to assess paper exams and online homework, as well as to prepare projects in one place.
Here are some of the main features of Gradescope:
- AI-assisted and manual question grouping
- Extension of time specific to students
- Assessing with the help of AI
- Increased efficiency and fairness
2. Fetchy
Fetchy is a generative, AI-based platform designed specifically for educators. It enables teachers to unleash their full teaching potential. They aim to achieve this by simplifying and streamlining the myriad of tasks faced by educators, including creating engaging lessons, generating newsletters, creating professional emails, etc. Using the power of AI, Fetchy enables educators to improve their teaching methods, optimise time management and make confident and informed decisions.
Fetchy specializes in customizing the generated language to meet the demands of educators. By not having to formulate complex prompts, Fetchy is easily useful to educators. When using Fetchy’s customized solutions, educators can expect relevant outcomes tailored to their specific educational requirements.
- Generate lesson plans
- View history from multiple lenses/points of view
- Find mathematical or scientific experiments
3.Nuance
Located in Burlington, Massachusetts, Nuance provides speech recognition software that can be used by both students and faculty. The company’s Dragon Speech Recognition product can transcribe up to 160 words per minute, helping students who find it difficult to write or type. The tool also supports verbal commands to navigate documents, which is essential for students with accessibility requirements.
Dragon offers many more features, including the ability to dictate lesson plans, curricula, worksheets, reading lists, and more at a rate three times faster than writing. It does this while achieving 99% accuracy.
Here are some of the main features of Nuance’s Dragon:
- Accessibility features supporting verbal commands
- Vote to evaluate the performance of students
- Dictate classwork with 99% accuracy
The 10 best AI tools for education can be found HERE.
Source: European Digital Skills & Jobs Platform
