Claras: transcribing and querying a YouTube video with AI
It's probably already happened to you. You come across a YouTube video that fits perfectly with your next course, a 52-minute documentary about the First World War, or a lecture a little...
Category: iA
In Les Outils Tice, we have been interested in AI since its beginnings in education. Not to keep up with the enthusiasm, but to answer a simple question: Do these tools really help teachers save time, prepare better, explain better?
Some yes. Others much less. And a few raise questions that it would be a shame to ignore.
What you will find in this category
Practical tests of useful AI tools in the classroom: transcribing an audio, summarizing a YouTube video, generating images for an activity, dictating courses faster. But also articles to understand the context: which generated text detectors really work, how to approach AI with students, which alternatives to ChatGPT are worth knowing.
The look remains the same from one article to another: practical, direct, attentive to the limits, the questions of personal data and the real time that it requires.
Where to start?
Here are some articles to get into the subject:
The best audio transcription tools for teachers: complete comparison 2026 (free & paid)
Do you still spend hours transcribing your lessons by hand instead of using audio transcription tools for teachers? You recorded a lecture, a course, a...
CartaGen: describe what you want to map, AI generates the map
There are days when we would like to see the preparation of a course boiled down to a clear intention. "I want a simple map of the capitals of the G7." "I want to visualize...
Copy Examination. A small free utility for the exam rooms
Room 104, 8.15 a.m., test day. You're standing in front of the board, marker in hand. Academy, session, series, marker of the … test You dictate, the candidates copy as good as they can. Three hands are...
Caramel: Create interactive H5P activities from your documents with AI
Your course PDFs sleep on your hard drive. Rich resources, but often unprocessed due to lack of time. What if you turn them into interactive quizzes in three clicks?...
Figy. Quickly generate flashcards from your course content
Creating effective flashcards takes time. I just tested a simple and free tool that will save you a lot of time from this point of view. This is Figy. This...
Ecosia: an eco-friendly search engine with integrated AI
In the computer room as on personal devices, Google remains the reflex: efficient, fast, familiar. But this reflex also opens up useful questions in the classroom: economic model, data, results bias, impact...
3 alternatives to ChatGPT for education that respect your privacy, your data and …the environment
Generative artificial intelligence is no longer a distant promise: It is already in our classrooms and in our students' school bags. The reflexes are already there and we consult without too much...
Mapify: Easily create mind maps from your educational content
Between textbooks, 45-minute documentaries and YouTube videos, websites and scientific articles, our students are wrapped up in information. The real challenge is no longer to access knowledge, but to...
Logically. An AI tool to facilitate research work and documentary writing
How to overcome the puzzle of research and document management? Between scattered PDFs, citations to find and notes to organize, producing a solid academic work is often a matter of...
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