Are there any AI startups working on educator-side assistant AI?

Charlotte1 · September 9, 2024, 4:24pm

I have been teaching science for the past 20+ years but I still feel that I am still young enough to know and appreciate how to use tech in the classroom.

Most times I have been using AI to help me make multiple versions of my assessments, generate practice problems, lesson plans, creative ideas for activities, etc.

It is convenient but it takes a lot of work learning how to get the system to generate what I exactly need.

I believe soon enough it might be the norm, especially in the “arms race” of AI use by students vs teachers. AI actually helps in other ways like generating redox reactions that I have never considered before in my life. Shortly, the situation might escalate and all teachers will use it eventually.

I desire a system that could grade my free response questions. I guess that someone is working on that right now because even though there will be an initial revolt, most teachers secretly dream of not having to do the grading.

In addition, I believe there is money to be made with a system that is one-stop shopping for educator needs. I know Flint, but I don’t need AI to analyze my lessons. I want them to help with the backend stuff so I have more time to focus on actual teaching.

If that company exists and they are looking for consultants, I will appreciate to be considered.

Emma1 · September 9, 2024, 4:31pm

Are you looking for something like magicschool.ai?

Charlotte1 · September 9, 2024, 4:32pm

I am going to check it out and see if it is worth it.

Kathy · September 9, 2024, 4:34pm

I can confirm to you that magicschool.ai is awesome because I have firsthand experience. Anything you need to do digitally or planning, it will do it for you with varied levels of classroom difficulty. Just check it and I assure you that you wont regret it.

Barbara1 · September 9, 2024, 4:36pm

Charlotte1:

I have been teaching science for the past 20+ years but I still feel that I am still young enough to know and appreciate how to use tech in the classroom.

Most times I have been using AI to help me make multiple versions of my assessments, generate practice problems, lesson plans, creative ideas for activities, etc.

It is convenient but it takes a lot of work learning how to get the system to generate what I exactly need.

I believe soon enough it might be the norm, especially in the “arms race” of AI use by students vs teachers. AI actually helps in other ways like generating redox reactions that I have never considered before in my life. Shortly, the situation might escalate and all teachers will use it eventually.

I desire a system that could grade my free response questions. I guess that someone is working on that right now because even though there will be an initial revolt, most teachers secretly dream of not having to do the grading.

In addition, I believe there is money to be made with a system that is one-stop shopping for educator needs. I know Flint, but I don’t need AI to analyze my lessons. I want them to help with the backend stuff so I have more time to focus on actual teaching.

If that company exists and they are looking for consultants, I will appreciate to be considered.

Class Companion might be what you are looking for. It is a tool that uses AI to grade and give feedback. In addition, it can use rubrics you have created, or help generate one.

It has a feature that allows students to dispute feedback if they think it is incorrect, which I think is absolutely awesome.

Charlotte1 · September 9, 2024, 4:38pm

Thanks for this suggestion I will surely check it out and have an experience.

Hudson · September 9, 2024, 4:40pm

Charlotte1:

I have been teaching science for the past 20+ years but I still feel that I am still young enough to know and appreciate how to use tech in the classroom.

Most times I have been using AI to help me make multiple versions of my assessments, generate practice problems, lesson plans, creative ideas for activities, etc.

It is convenient but it takes a lot of work learning how to get the system to generate what I exactly need.

I believe soon enough it might be the norm, especially in the “arms race” of AI use by students vs teachers. AI actually helps in other ways like generating redox reactions that I have never considered before in my life. Shortly, the situation might escalate and all teachers will use it eventually.

I desire a system that could grade my free response questions. I guess that someone is working on that right now because even though there will be an initial revolt, most teachers secretly dream of not having to do the grading.

In addition, I believe there is money to be made with a system that is one-stop shopping for educator needs. I know Flint, but I don’t need AI to analyze my lessons. I want them to help with the backend stuff so I have more time to focus on actual teaching.

If that company exists and they are looking for consultants, I will appreciate to be considered.

Have you ever tried llamaedu? It is worth checking because it has a teacher AI assistant feel to your planning

Theodore · September 9, 2024, 4:42pm

Charlotte1:

I have been teaching science for the past 20+ years but I still feel that I am still young enough to know and appreciate how to use tech in the classroom.

Most times I have been using AI to help me make multiple versions of my assessments, generate practice problems, lesson plans, creative ideas for activities, etc.

It is convenient but it takes a lot of work learning how to get the system to generate what I exactly need.

I believe soon enough it might be the norm, especially in the “arms race” of AI use by students vs teachers. AI actually helps in other ways like generating redox reactions that I have never considered before in my life. Shortly, the situation might escalate and all teachers will use it eventually.

I desire a system that could grade my free response questions. I guess that someone is working on that right now because even though there will be an initial revolt, most teachers secretly dream of not having to do the grading.

In addition, I believe there is money to be made with a system that is one-stop shopping for educator needs. I know Flint, but I don’t need AI to analyze my lessons. I want them to help with the backend stuff so I have more time to focus on actual teaching.

If that company exists and they are looking for consultants, I will appreciate to be considered.

You can check out EnlightenAI. It has the ability to grade with feedback and will suggest gap-closing activities after identifying student needs on an assignment.

Jane · September 9, 2024, 4:48pm

Charlotte1:

I have been teaching science for the past 20+ years but I still feel that I am still young enough to know and appreciate how to use tech in the classroom.

Most times I have been using AI to help me make multiple versions of my assessments, generate practice problems, lesson plans, creative ideas for activities, etc.

It is convenient but it takes a lot of work learning how to get the system to generate what I exactly need.

I believe soon enough it might be the norm, especially in the “arms race” of AI use by students vs teachers. AI actually helps in other ways like generating redox reactions that I have never considered before in my life. Shortly, the situation might escalate and all teachers will use it eventually.

I desire a system that could grade my free response questions. I guess that someone is working on that right now because even though there will be an initial revolt, most teachers secretly dream of not having to do the grading.

In addition, I believe there is money to be made with a system that is one-stop shopping for educator needs. I know Flint, but I don’t need AI to analyze my lessons. I want them to help with the backend stuff so I have more time to focus on actual teaching.

If that company exists and they are looking for consultants, I will appreciate to be considered.

CK-12 actually offers the AI tutor Flexi and integrates AI into a lot of other features they offer.

I always encourage my students to use it rather than chatGPT because I won’t have to worry about inappropriate responses. In addition, it is absolutely free, you can just go there and try it out.

Evans · September 9, 2024, 4:55pm

Any reason why you guys don’t trustChatgpt anymore?

Johnstone · September 9, 2024, 4:57pm

The main reason is that it just takes some time to train it to write good AP chemistry free response questions.

In addition, I have to debug my prompts to get better responses that match my goals

Washington · September 9, 2024, 5:00pm

Charlotte1:

I have been teaching science for the past 20+ years but I still feel that I am still young enough to know and appreciate how to use tech in the classroom.

Most times I have been using AI to help me make multiple versions of my assessments, generate practice problems, lesson plans, creative ideas for activities, etc.

It is convenient but it takes a lot of work learning how to get the system to generate what I exactly need.

I believe soon enough it might be the norm, especially in the “arms race” of AI use by students vs teachers. AI actually helps in other ways like generating redox reactions that I have never considered before in my life. Shortly, the situation might escalate and all teachers will use it eventually.

I desire a system that could grade my free response questions. I guess that someone is working on that right now because even though there will be an initial revolt, most teachers secretly dream of not having to do the grading.

In addition, I believe there is money to be made with a system that is one-stop shopping for educator needs. I know Flint, but I don’t need AI to analyze my lessons. I want them to help with the backend stuff so I have more time to focus on actual teaching.

If that company exists and they are looking for consultants, I will appreciate to be considered.

I recently tried prototyping automated essay grading with GPT 3.5 and it worked fairly well with just prompt engineering. It actually gave a compliment sandwich with qualitative feedback and also gave a score based on rubrics.

For Mathematics or Chemistry, I love using Python or perhaps an RAG to make sure the answers are correct, but this is all very possible right now.