Teaching & Classroom
Make custom math worksheets for your kid
A parent built a tool with Claude to make worksheets aimed squarely at the math their daughter was stuck on. It worked.
Caution. Double-check the answer key.
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AI for teachers
Teachers can use AI to draft a lesson activity, rewrite a text at another reading level, or turn notes into an update for families. You make the teaching decisions. The tool only prepares a draft.
Keep student names, grades, and ID numbers out of the chat. A tool can help you write the blank version. You fill in the private parts yourself, on your own computer.
Check every fact, date, and reading level before the work reaches a student or a family. If your school has a rule about AI tools, follow that rule.
Use cases
Teaching & Classroom
Write report card comments
A teacher and his wife used ChatGPT to write a batch of report card comments. They made a good starting point, and it even corrected terms they'd used wrongly in the prompt.
Caution. Don't paste student names or private records.
Teaching & Classroom
Redesign assignments so AI can't do them for students
A university professor found AI could do all of his homework assignments. He switched to oral and in-class exams and redid most assignments, keeping the same learning goals.
Work & Operations
Structure a talk or presentation
A speaker used Claude to shape a talk with Patrick Winston's "How to Speak" method. He wrote the content himself and let the AI organize and edit it.
Research & Learning
Have AI teach you anything by quizzing you
A widely shared X post offered a prompt that has ChatGPT ask what you already know, fill in the gaps, and keep quizzing you until you've got it.
Content & Creative
Make custom coloring pages for kids
One parent asks ChatGPT for coloring pages, including whatever characters the kids ask for.
Teaching & Classroom
Create classroom resources for a heritage month
A teacher made Hispanic Heritage Month classroom resources with ChatGPT and shared them free with other teachers.
Caution. Double-check facts about real people.
Teaching & Classroom
Adapt one lesson for several grade levels
A New Zealand teacher gave Gemini the curriculum documents to build an ANZAC Day lesson series, then adapted it for another year group in seconds.
Teaching & Classroom
Mark your child's revision work from photos
A parent photographed their son's revision exercises and had ChatGPT mark them. It was surprisingly accurate, even with messy handwriting.
Life Admin & Home
Plan a kids' soccer practice
A volunteer coach asked ChatGPT for a 45-minute practice plan for 6-year-olds. With small tweaks, it was about 95% ready.
Teaching & Classroom
Find gaps in a lesson plan
One teacher finds ChatGPT's full lesson plans aren't great, but they often mention one or two things the teacher forgot to cover.
Teaching & Classroom
Build a custom essay-marking assistant for revision
A UK teacher built a custom GPT that marks essays in their subject consistently, with feedback students can act on. Students use it to revise too.
Caution. Teachers should review grades that count.
Teaching & Classroom
Make a hands-on number line game for kids
Practicing fractions with the kids, one parent had an AI make a simple interactive number line web page so it felt more hands-on.
Teaching & Classroom
Create grammar practice games for language students
A former ESL teacher points out that ChatGPT is great at making games and exercises that give students varied grammar practice.
Teaching & Classroom
Let students use AI on a take-home exam with documentation
A precalculus teacher allowed AI on a take-home final but asked students to write down how they used it. That led to some useful lessons.
Teaching & Classroom
Design a classroom ethics activity
A high school philosophy teacher used AI to help design an exercise where students decide how to share a limited number of organs among patients.
Life Admin & Home
Ask a school for learning-disability support
A parent gave Claude their son's 35-page psychological testing report and asked for help writing to the school for more support.
Caution. Remove details you don't want shared; share only what's needed.
Teaching & Classroom
Turn a classic science book into kid-friendly lessons
One parent takes classic science books, including one Einstein loved as a child, and uses an AI to pull out the core ideas and update them for their kids.
Travel
Build a hands-on class demo tool
For a class activity, a professor used Claude Code to build a custom blockchain explorer so students had a real example to poke around in.
Travel
Find a home science experiment to teach a concept
A parent asked ChatGPT for a good home experiment to show what entropy is and got an excellent answer.
Research & Learning
Build training for different audiences from your research
Infoxchange, a nonprofit, uploads its research to NotebookLM to build training for four different audiences and to spot information that's missing.
Teaching & Classroom
Give students a math tutor that gives hints, not answers
ASU Prep built a Gemini chatbot that tutors middle and high school students in math. It spots mistakes and gives hints instead of answers.
Teaching & Classroom
Use live translated captions in class
At Pepperdine University, students and faculty speak many languages. Gemini in Google Meet gives them real-time translated captions and notes.
Teaching & Classroom
Grade essays faster with AI feedback
Brazil's Paraná education department uses Gemini to grade student essays and give each student feedback. Grading dropped from 10-15 minutes per essay to under 3.
Caution. Teachers should make final grading decisions; remove student names.
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