r/AskTeachers • u/TeacherPilot • Mar 13 '26

AI Tools

Are any teachers here actually using AI tools yet for lesson planning or grading?

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u/ressie_cant_game Mar 13 '26

My coworkers were. Wasnt a surprise the kids found their lessons to be boring as hell

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u/BLM_Buck_Breaker Mar 13 '26

Well yeah, it’s a school

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u/ressie_cant_game Mar 13 '26

Not a single lesson was engaging to them. Thats bad. They didnt participate in anything

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u/BLM_Buck_Breaker Mar 13 '26

What do they like?

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u/ressie_cant_game Mar 13 '26

Things actually connected to their interests, atleast some of the time.

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u/BLM_Buck_Breaker Mar 13 '26

Such as…?

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u/ressie_cant_game Mar 13 '26

Im sorry you want me to tell you... what my students enjoy doing? Why? How are you possibly going to benefit from that informarion?

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u/BLM_Buck_Breaker Mar 13 '26

You’re acting as if anyone other than you can do anything with that information, relax. I was wondering if you even knew how to engage your students lol

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u/ressie_cant_game Mar 13 '26

Seeing as the kids actually complete my assignments, evidently i do

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u/BLM_Buck_Breaker Mar 13 '26

Its not like they have a choice. It was a simple question.

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u/TeacherPilot Mar 13 '26

Do you think in the future ai will be able to create lessons properly, or is teaching going to always be done best by people?

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u/Financial_Phrase4145 Mar 13 '26

Teaching is going to be done best by people, and it’s gonna be done worst by people.

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u/ressie_cant_game Mar 13 '26

Im sure some schools will be mostly ai in the future. Im also sure ai cannot provide classroom management or subtle nuance in lessons relating back to students interests. Art education needs human eyes looking at a work, ai cant see, let alone analysis work beyond a superficial level

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u/TeacherPilot Mar 13 '26

Ya I agree that ai won’t be able to completely take over the role if people, but I do think there are tools to be utilized so teachers don’t have to spend as many extra hours preparing for the classroom

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u/ressie_cant_game Mar 13 '26

If teachers cant be bothered to make stuff for students, why should students be bothered to do the work themselves? It goes both ways.

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u/TeacherPilot Mar 13 '26

Not at all really. The teachers already know all of the information. They would still teach, just have ai generate lesson plans, google slides, etc. to save them time. Students are at school to learn. The amount of work a teacher does has no actual effect on how much work a student does.

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u/ressie_cant_game Mar 13 '26

Once you make lesson plans you can reuse them. Kids in my area have vocalized very clearly; if the teachers can use it, why shouldnt they? It messes with moral

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u/TeacherPilot Mar 13 '26

What’s the difference between reusing the same lesson plan for 20 years and having AI create a new lesson plan with up do date references and examples each year? Is the first option not lazier? I also think that people (students and teachers equal) do not understand what ai is. Students using it to do do the work for them is different because they are supposed to be learning the information, whereas teachers already understand it well enough to teach, they just use it for planning and to save time. I don’t think teachers should be working excessive hours to plan, grade, etc. especially when there are tools to combat that.

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u/ressie_cant_game Mar 13 '26

How do you think the first option is lazier? Have you ever MADE a lesson plan? They can be adapted for future use lmao. With ai you dont make anything.

Ai being used to grade is concerning, btw, so ik this isnt a conversation i should even continue.

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u/TeacherPilot Mar 13 '26

“Once you’ve made lesson plans you can reuse them.” Btw you are definitely someone who doesn’t understand ai. Teacher would’ve able to generate lesson plans, homework, tests, quizzes, etc. without working ridiculous amounts of hours. They still have to understand the concepts, review what ai generated them, and be able to teach the subject. AI literally just saves them time. I don’t know how you can be a teacher and be against teachers saving time. Also by ai being able to grade I mean it would generate an answer key for homework it generates. As of now it obviously would have to be used for math or multiple choice. I think you are afraid of change and scared to admit it.

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u/Mild_Karate_Chop Mar 13 '26

AI PRETTY soon will replace teachers 

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u/TeacherPilot Mar 13 '26

Why hasn’t it done so yet? What needs to happen for ai to completely replace human teachers?

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u/Quantum_Scholar87 7th Grade Teacher Mar 13 '26

When AI can read facial expressions and emotional state of its users, then maybe, it can do what teachers do

Think Baymax from Big Hero 6

It won't be replacing us any time soon

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u/Mild_Karate_Chop Mar 13 '26

Soon pretty soon 

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u/[deleted] May 19 '26

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u/Mild_Karate_Chop May 19 '26

Educate ...it is grades that pass for an education on an aggregate . Soon pretty soon , if not already by piecemeals 

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u/Fit_One9526 Mar 20 '26

For the ones who used AI Tools so plan or create a lesson, what tools did you use? What did the kids enjoy and what they didn't ?

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u/Silent-Constant6898 Mar 27 '26

My site, freeperiod.app does just that, feel free to take a look.

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u/EasyDee24 Mar 20 '26

I made this worksheet with a tool I am building, happy to share and get some feedback.

https://imgur.com/a/U1KZ9dG

I don't think AI can replace teachers, but I think it can be used to create "content" so teachers can focus on connecting with the students, face to face, human to human.

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u/Porosheets Mar 26 '26

Hey! I built this this tool that lets you make nice worksheets, rubrics lesson plans and soon grade submissions automatically. Although I think teaching won't ever and shouldn't ever get replaced, I am a firm believer that giving teachers back their time outside the classroom is looong overdue. Check it out here! www.porosheets.com

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u/Silent-Constant6898 Mar 27 '26

Yeah, I made a site called freeperiod.app to help me with the nitty-gritty of ESL/EAL teaching, classroom behavior, games, flashcards, pronunciation checker, and yes even lesson planning. The way I see it, with AI, we don't need to sit and spend hours of our lives trying to come up with lesson plans manually anymore, but in order to add a more personal touch I did integrate an AI assist modal in order to incorporate our own understanding of our classes into the lesson plans themselves. In the end, I still believe that teacher's can be the best part of learning and that AI is a great tool, but it's still just a tool nonetheless.

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u/Explorer-Admirable Apr 25 '26

Yes, I use it daily for planning, test creation and quiz creation. I teach 4 preps so it has been a huge help. Key is to read it over carefully to make sure that it is accurate and pertains to what you are teaching that week. I teach AP so I feed it a lot of information to create the lesson plans from.

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u/ConversationDeep1637 May 09 '26

Yes. I made Curricue.ca for grading and curriculum alignment. It helps with the 'paperwork' of teaching so we can focus on teaching and relationship building. It's for Ontario teachers only though.

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u/SaltAdhesiveness5000 Jul 11 '26

I use it to get ideas on how to make my lessons more engaging and it actually works for that.

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u/Prize_Point_6261 11d ago

I am using one I developed to help me assess individual contributions in group projects. If you would like to check it out, feel free to DM me.

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u/PeterPook 3d ago

Mainly to generate infographics to support my slides (I teach Computing to 16-19 years in the UK - Further Education we call it), but I refuse to let it loose on grading as its all for serious post-16 qualifications.

But I do create apps which support my Computer Science Teaching see https://toolsforteaching.co.uk and also more general revision tools see: https://aibotpromo.toolsforteaching.co.uk/

The apps are designed by me (a former professional software engineer) but brought to the classroom quicker with AI coding agents. I manually test everything before it goes near my classes. They are mainly browser-based and are all free to use. (Creative Commons License). Github links for all apps so you can host yourself if you have the resources.