MagicSchool. The iA revolution in education

Last updated on 29 August 2023

The coming school year will see a significant breakthrough of the artificial intelligence revolution in education. This is a certainty. And if you still doubt it, take a look at MagicSchool.

This is one of the first services to clearly position itself as an artificial intelligence tool for teachers and educators. An iA education that is frankly impressive and already fully operational when it is still in the running-in phase. Look at the coming revolution.

MagicSchool, an iA education for all teachers

MagicSchool brings together in the same interface no less than 40 powerful iA tools that want to help teachers be more efficient. Take the plunge and sign up. At the moment it is free.

The platform offers A set of modules for the school based on artificial intelligence, ready for use. Just follow the instructions, answering the specific questions that will help the tool design a multitude of elements: tailor-made exercises, innovative lesson plans, individualised assessments, activity ideas, and many more.

With each use, you will be asked to specify the level of the class where you are teaching; MagicSchool will then take this data into consideration to offer you answers adapted to the level of the students. The platform allows for personalisation from kindergarten to grade 4.

Do you need a detailed course plan focusing on a specific point in the programme? Set the goals you aspire to achieve, and MagicSchool will provide you with a ready-to-download document in seconds.

Would you like to design a turnkey quiz with relevant explanations for each answer? All you need to do is provide the theme and the number of questions you want.

The wealth of AI-based modules already available on MagicSchool is impressive and meets a wide range of needs. I have selected three that deserve a try to give you an idea:

Explain a concept with iA

You have difficulty explaining a concept or idea in any subject. Ask MagicSchool to help you. Fill in the concept and level of your students, MagicSchool will provide you with several explanations and a whole series of analogies to make the explanation more meaningful.

Another module also allows you to get experiences to be done by your students to help them better understand the idea.

Testing a student’s individual level in a subject or point of the programme

Enabling greater individualisation of education is one of the promises of iA in education. This module provides a detailed questionnaire commented and corrected to perform a test of a student’s achievements on any subject or skill.

Create a reading quiz automatically with the iA

This module saves a lot of time to complete a reading questionnaire. Copy paste the studied text and ask MagicSchool to automatically generate questions about the text. Practical.

In the moose modules that you will also find in MagicSchool, I liked a tool to create plans for lessons and activities in 🏀 sport. This can be useful in this year when there is going to be a lot of talk about Olympic Games at school.  Original also a module that allows to create a newsletter for parents in just a few clicks and even a joke generator to make you the "coolest" 😎 teacher

When you register on the platform, the site operates exclusively in English. You can ask your questions in French, but expect an answer in English. Fortunately, there is good news: MagicSchool incorporates a translation feature that can convert AI-generated documents into more than a dozen languages. The French versions of the replies are perfectly precise.

Best of all, the creators of the platform announce the imminent arrival of a fully French-speaking interface being deployed (for the moment the translation of the interface is somewhat approximate ). To switch to this interface in French click on the button at the top right of the application.

An iA assistant specialized in pedagogy

Beyond the various modules mentioned above, MagicSchool also puts at your disposal a “conversational agent” called Raina, capable of dialogue in natural language. Do not hesitate to ask for their skills to develop your classroom ideas, explore the best pedagogical approaches or even develop effective behavioural management strategies or any other general advice. As always with iA, the more accurate your questions are, the better the answers will be.

Take a little test with Raina who speaks French. It is quite bluffing.

In the end, this AI platform for education is far from perfect and quickly shows its limits, but it shows what artificial intelligence will gradually bring to the teaching profession.

The platform is free for teachers at the moment. The creators have specific plans for schools.

I look forward to your feedback in the comments of this first life-size education iA with the MagicSchool Platform. The creators of the platform took care to clarify their vision: provide teachers with a virtual assistant and not replace them.

Moreover, all the modules offered are marked as follows: ‘The content generated is for suggestion only; always use your professional judgment’. It goes without saying but it still goes better by saying it.

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