How
Educators
Use AI
The Top 5 Use Cases & Most
Popular AI Tools Among
Educators at the
End of 2023
Almost a year after Generative AI
came crashing onto the scene,
more and more educators are
using AI in their day to day work.
Here’s a summary of the current
state of play, based on up to date
research with eduators globally.
Let’s go
Dr Philippa Hardman | Creator of DOMS AI
& host of The AI-Powered Learning Science
Bootcamp
# 5 Task
Automation
One common use case for AI in education is
the automation of repetitive tasks, like
drafting emails, note-taking & summarising
long -form text.
Most popular tools among educators:
ChatGPT: for basic tasks like
text summarisation.
Fathom AI: for recording,
transcribing & theming live
interactions.
# 4 Writing &
Communicating
Many educators use AI daily to co-create
scripts & lesson plans, using AI to mimic
their own or someone else’s writing style
and - often - to translate course materials
into multiple languages.
Most popular tools among educators:
ChatGPT, Bing & Bard: for
writing from scratch or editing
existing text.
Smartcat: for translations.
# 3 Research &
Analysis
In the last three months especially, more
and more educators are using AI to review
and iterate their classes.
They do this by inputting existing
qualitative and qualitative data & working
with AI to analyse & implement it.
Most popular tools among educators:
ChatGPT, Bing & Bard: are the
got-to tools used to analyse
both qualitative & quantitative
data.
Anonymise your
data first!
# 2 Brainstorming
& Ideation
Many educators use AI daily as a sidekick to
give feedback on their work, help them to
generate new and creative ideas and
structure their thoughts.
Most popular tools among educators:
ChatGPT: for brainstorming &
providing feedback on ideas.
Claude: educators love to use
the doc upload function to get
feedback on existing content, e.g.
session plans.
# 1 Content
Creation
By far the most common use case for
generative AI among educators is the
generation of course material, text, images,
videos, images, voiceovers, video/audio
production, etc.
Most popular tools among educators:
ChatGPT4: for general scripting &
content generation.
Dall-E: for image generation.
WellSaid Labs: for creating text-to-
speech voiceovers for video or images.
Synthesia: for creating video.
PS: What Can't
AI Do?
While researching AI uses, I also asked
educators what they have found challenging
while working with AI over the last year.
This quote captures the most common
answer:
“AI is great for streamlining functional parts
of my process, but not great at writing
objectives, suggesting activities etc. When I
work with AI on complex tasks, the
process takes longer and I get a lower
quality output than I do working solo.”
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Dr Philippa Hardman | Creator of DOMS AI
& host of The AI-Powered Learning Science
Bootcamp