Teach smarter with AI for teachers
Lesson planning, marking, keeping the curriculum up to date and still giving every pupil the attention they deserve. The workload in education is high and your time as a teacher is precious. The call for efficiency and innovation is loud, and technology is playing an increasingly important role in it. No wonder you're asking: “is there AI for teachers?”
But what if there really were a personal teaching assistant that could help you with time-consuming tasks, without you having to be a tech expert? Artificial intelligence is that assistant. Forget the complicated stories: we'll show you 3 surprising and practical applications of AI that you can explore to make your work easier and your lessons even more interactive.
Application 1: Create lesson modules in record time with your own cloned voice
You'd like to make more online lesson videos or audio instructions. Ideal for the ‘flipped classroom’ approach or for helping pupils who need extra support. Recording all those voice-overs, however, is an enormously time-consuming and sometimes awkward job.
Meet ‘voice cloning’. Imagine this: you type a complete script for a lesson video on the French Revolution, and a computer then reads it out in your own familiar voice. This is possible by letting an AI ‘learn’ your voice once, based on a few audio clips. You can create a complete library of online learning materials surprisingly quickly. Consistent, clear and in your own voice, without having to re-record for hours because of a slip of the tongue. Of course, this does require some knowledge of how to train your voice clone correctly and ethically, because the quality and security of your digital voice are naturally extremely important.
Application 2: Explain complex topics visually
Some subject matter is simply hard to explain with just words on a board. A visual aid or a quick, reliable source check can then make the difference between confusion and understanding.
There are free, accessible tools that can help with this. This is just the tip of the iceberg:
- Napkin AI as a visual sparring partner Think of it as a digital notepad that thinks along with you. You type in your loose ideas or key concepts and the AI helps you see the connections. The result is a clear, visual mind map or diagram. Perfect for making complex relationships, in a history lesson or in biology for example, visual and easy to understand for your class.
- Perplexity as a research assistant Preparing a lesson and need to look something up quickly? Instead of getting lost in Google, you ask Perplexity a direct question. You get a summarised answer and, very importantly in education, the tool immediately shows the sources it has used. This speeds up your research enormously and helps you check the reliability of the information.
From individual tools to a school-wide vision
The applications above are a fantastic taste of what AI makes possible for you as an individual teacher. But if you want to make a real impact as a school or educational institution and structurally improve the quality of education, using separate, free tools is often not the most sustainable or secure route.
Then bigger, strategic questions come up. How do you make sure AI is used ethically and responsibly within the school walls? How do you safeguard the privacy of sensitive pupil and teacher data? And how do you develop a broadly supported, school-wide vision on AI that genuinely improves education, rather than just shifting work around?
Those are the strategic issues we help organisations with. If you're a school or educational institution and would like to know more about how to use AI ethically, responsibly and purposefully, you can request a no-obligation BE Digital Scan. We analyse your needs and help you draw up a safe and sustainable AI strategy for the future.