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AI Tools (new addition to the toolkit)

This category features recommended AI-powered platforms, utilized through their free plans, to support both instructional delivery and student learning. The primary goal is to safely and ethically integrate AI to foster essential skill development, creativity, and professional efficiency.

For Students: Building Foundational AI Literacy

These tools provide learners with safe, free, and age-appropriate opportunities to cultivate core AI literacy skills. Students will actively practice abilities such as crafting effective prompts and confidently interacting with AI applications. This engagement encourages creativity, critical thinking, and iterative experimentation within meaningful, curriculum-aligned contexts.

For teachers: Enhancing Instructional Design and Efficiency

For teachers, these platforms streamline instructional design and significantly boost professional efficiency. They effectively assist with lesson planning, curriculum structuring, content creation, and research-driven innovation. By directly supporting adaptive and personalized learning approaches, these tools prove invaluable for both maximizing dynamic classroom engagement and improving professional effectiveness.

Teacher Support AI Tools

These platforms help teachers save time on content creation, curriculum planning, and professional communication, allowing them to focus more on direct student interaction.

BAIR

In-house, custom-built platform (free): Generates tailored lesson ideas, quizzes, and presentations aligned with school curricula, streamlining resource creation.

Gemini (in Google Classroom)

Provides 30+ AI tools integrated into Google Classroom. Features Guided Learning (adaptive tutoring) and generates specialized content like rubrics, differentiated texts, vocabulary lists, and question prompts. Supports accessibility and multimodal learning with built-in audio functionality.

Custom Gems (Google Gemini)

Allows teachers to quickly build and deploy tailored AI assistants (called 'Gems') based on specific learning needs or tasks. These custom bots can serve as specialized subject-matter experts, quiz masters, or brainstorming partners for both teachers and students.

NotebookLM (by Google)

Acts as a smart research assistant where teachers can upload learning materials to generate summaries, extract discussion questions, create study guides, and produce Audio and Video Overviews (podcast-style content summaries) and much more to support personalized learning and provide multimodal support/ differentiated content.

Brisk Teaching (Chrome extension)

Free Chrome/Edge Extension (20+ tools): Forever free for Educator package. This tool focuses on efficient resource creation, generating rubrics, presentations, leveled text, podcasts and feedback directly within Google Workspace tools (Docs, Slides, Classroom). It dramatically speeds up the creation and customization of curriculum-aligned resources.

Perplexity AI

An advanced research assistant that not only summarizes complex topics but also provides source-linked responses for fact-checking. It supports teachers in generating high-quality discussion prompts, enriching classroom resources, and exploring supplementary materials with greater reliability. Advisory: Outputs should be treated as starting points—always verify accuracy and adapt content before use.

FigMake

Figma Make is an AI-powered design and prototyping tool that allows students and teachers to instantly generate app mockups, interactive prototypes, and creative visual designs using simple text prompts. It supports hands-on learning by enabling rapid idea visualization, collaboration, and experimentation—making it ideal for design thinking, UI/UX projects, and digital creativity in classrooms.

Student Use AI Tools

These AI tools help students build foundational AI literacy, including crafting effective prompts and engaging with AI applications. They encourage creativity, critical thinking, and experimentation, offering safe, free, and age-appropriate platforms where learners can practice, create, and explore AI-driven outputs connected to the curriculum. Students must critically engage with the AI's output and adapt it to their needs

NotebookLM (Google)

Students upload notes to generate study guides, quizzes, concept maps, and summaries, directly improving research skills, comprehension, and independent

Research & AI Literacy
Middle & Above

Gemini Gems

Students can take advantage of pre-made Gems, like a “Career Guide” or “Brainstormer,” to explore new ideas and academic interests. For greater productivity and efficiency, especially in higher grades, they can also design their own Gems to handle repetitive tasks such as editing or writing assistance, while simplifying prompts with clear instructions, context, and style.

Productivity and Learning Enhancement
Middle & Above

ChatGPT (Study Mode)

Helps students understand complex concepts through step-by-step guidance and interactive questioning, promoting problem-solving, reasoning, and self-directed learning.

Research & Guided Learning
Upper Primary and above

Canva AI (Magic Studio)

Provides simple AI tools to quickly generate visually appealing content (images, videos, presentations) from text prompts, allowing students to focus on clear

Creativity & Design
Primary and above

Scratch + AI Extension

Enables students to code interactive games and stories with AI features, enhancing computational thinking, logic, and AI reasoning skills in a visual environment.

Creativity & STEM Learning
Primary – Middle

Google AutoDraw

Transforms rough sketches into polished digital illustrations, fostering visual creativity, digital art skills, and confidence in expressing ideas visually.

Creativity & Design (Art)
Early Years (EY) – Primary

Google Earth + AI Projects

Students explore real-world datasets (climate, population, biodiversity) on maps, building geospatial thinking, data literacy, and inquiry-based research skills.

STEM & Geography
Upper Primary & Above