been teaching for a while and thinking about trying different ai presentation tools. some faculty use the zoomable canvas ones and students perk up but im wondering if thats just novelty. the zoom thing seems cool in theory. show the big picture then zoom into details but does that actually help students retain info?

some of these ai presentation tools have ai built in too. generate decks from prompts or upload lesson plans. sounds useful for saving time but im suspicious of ai content quality. basically wondering if this style is worth learning or if i should stick with whats familiar. for people who use ai presentation tools do you see better engagement?

We’ve spent the last two years developing a specialized learning platform focused on reading comprehension for middle schoolers, and the underlying pedagogy is incredibly solid.

When we tested the core curriculum in a controlled environment with a few beta classrooms, the academic results were fantastic, proving that our core methodology actually works.

However, now that we are rolling it out to broader school districts, we are hitting a massive wall with actual user adoption and daily active usage in the classroom.

The feedback from educators is honestly pretty brutal; they say the teacher dashboard is way too cluttered, and it takes them too many clicks just to assign a simple module or check a student's progress.

On the student side, the cognitive load of navigating the interface is distracting them from the actual learning material, causing engagement and completion rates to drop significantly after the first week.

We tried tweaking the layouts and menus internally over the summer, but my co-founder and I are backend developers and former educators, so we honestly have no idea how to build a truly intuitive user experience.

I'm at the point where I know we need to bring in professional app design services to completely overhaul the front-end and user flows before we lose our upcoming district renewals.

For those of you building in the edtech space, how do you find UI/UX designers who actually understand educational accessibility, cognitive load, and classroom workflows, rather than just agencies that build flashy consumer apps?

This subreddit is lousy with sloppy pitches and AI magical thinking. So consider this an anti-pitch. If this exists, I want to find it and use it. If it doesn’t exist, I want to make it. I want there to be a robust, glossy, full color interactive online catalog for mature free software in every category that outlines the capability that competes with top dollar commercial and SaaS packages. I want the price list to be built on infrastructure that adjusts as nonprofit organizations and school districts provide what they already own and then outputs what training they need to find or what bullet points they need in job descriptions to implement.

Basically, when school districts and orgs say they would rather invest in people than software, I want them to conveniently know what that means. Here’s a badass demo environment that shows the best of what a fully open environment can look like, pick what you want to use and we’ll give you a list of what kind of people you need to hire/train, what hardware you need, and how much of those licensing costs you can plow back into the mission.

It’s not AI. It just makes smarter computing investments easier to make.

My school has asked me to create and teach a new AI elective for students aged 13–15, and I'm currently planning the curriculum from scratch.

I'd like the course to focus on practical, useful AI skills rather than just the theory behind how AI works. My goal is to help students become confident, responsible users of AI and give them skills they'll actually use in school and later in life.

For those of you who work in AI, education, or both:

• What topics do you think are essential for teenagers to learn?
• What practical AI skills will be the most valuable over the next 5–10 years?
• Are there any topics that are overhyped or not worth spending much time on?
• If you were designing a semester-long AI course, what would you definitely include?

I'm looking for ideas from people with different backgrounds, so I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks!

I can't remember the name, but I remember that the colors had names like Strawberry and Cotton Candy and Bubble Gum, which the program spoke aloud in a very childish voice, and it was pre-loaded with scenes and drag-and-drop clipart of animals and other objects. It also had some kind of functionality where you could type in narration and create story pages. Very similar to Storybook Weaver, but I don't think it actually was Storybook Weaver. They had it on the PCs in the kids section at Chapters when it first opened in the mid- to late 90s.

(If this isn't the best sub to ask in, please point me in the direction of a better one!)

Hey everyone! I am a software developer. I couldn't find a proper English grammar-teaching app on the market to improve my English. Now, I want to build that platform myself. I have a draft version of the app's functionality; it's based on research (spaced repetition, interleaving, etc.) .But I need help building the curriculum of the project, basically a cofounder for a percentage of the project

I am looking for a person who:
- has experience in building an American English learning curriculum
- is interested in evidence-based language acquisition techniques (processing instruction, meaningful output-based instruction)

It would be great if you know any second language, so we can build the app targeting that language first.

If you’re interested, feel free to DM me or leave a comment here to get a DM. I will share the current state of the app and the future plans.

Edit after the admin's message:

Scope of work - design curriculum and lessons for grammar learners; it needs to cover levels from A1 to C1.

Intended pay - I am offering a percentage of the project for the work - 10%. If the project gains attraction, then it would bring a lot of money, if it doesn't, then we both don't earn anything. 10% might seem low, but I am planning to develop the app and market it on my side, and also involve more people in the project in the future and give them a percentage of the app as well. If the project becomes profitable, let's say it will bring 1M$ per year, then the 10% roughly will be 200K-300K$, so I think it's a great offer.

I teach physics and engineering and I'm trying to settle on a more efficient teaching "stack" and I hope to be able to consolidate as much as possible into the fewest apps, sites, extensions, etc. as possible.

I'd love to take advantage of AI, automations, and possibly an app or site to act as my dashboard. I know many use notion, and I'm trying to learn to use it, but I'm struggling with the learning curve.

I've began using Obsidian with some success and find it easier to learn to use. I'm also looking to buy an NAS so that I can store all of my content on the NAS to free up space on my laptop and provide access from my iphone.

I'm curious what others use in their "stack"?

FYI: I usea macbook pro, iphone, google workspace for education, and Powerschool(SIS).

half my job as a district tech coordinator isnt even tech anymore. Its chasing down chromebook acceptable use policies that look like they were chewed by a golden retriever

Our central office is so obsessed with physical signatures for liability but they just refused to renew our enterprise signature licenses because "budget". Gotta love it when they approve 50k for new interactive flat panels no one asked for but cut funding for basic admin tools

last week I literally gave up. spent my weekend building a barebones parent portal just to keep my own sanity, wired it up to the Xodo Sign API to auto-generate the agreements and blast them to the parent directory.

tbh the hardest part now is getting parents to actually open their emails instead of ignoring them. but at least my desk doesnt smell like stale lunchables from the returned forms anymore. District IT really is just 10% networking and 90% surviving bureaucracy

I am a math tutor in California and many of my sessions are online. Does anyone know of platforms that allow tutors to stream handwritten notes and diagrams in real-time directly from their iPad or tablet?

I use NotebookLM and Gemini to create teaching materials for school lessons and for students. Aside from Google and the ship, what AI would you recommend I use? If there's one with a specific feature you can demonstrate, I'd consider purchasing it. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Anthropic, one of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence companies, is launching a version of its AI-powered assistant Claude for teachers, entering a race by technology companies to infuse AI into education.

Anthropic boasts that its product can incorporate academic standards from all 50 states, and teachers can use it to help devise lesson plans, personalize instructional materials to students, and harness data to improve instruction, according to a company news release.

Claude for Teachers joins Google, OpenAI, and Khan Academy — among others — in marketing AI products specifically to K-12 educators. The new product launched Tuesday and is available for free for verified educators in the U.S. It will also be piloted in Detroit Public Schools Community District for a study on educator well-being and practice.

Claude’s formal arrival into the classroom comes during a complicated moment at the intersection of technology and education. The American Federation of Teachers, the Trump administration, and Bill Gates have all encouraged educators to adopt AI. But a parent-led uprising against technology’s classroom presence is simultaneously gaining momentum, prompting some of the nation’s largest school districts to rethink how much time students spend in front of screens, as well as the contracts they’ve signed with huge players in ed tech.

Drew Bent, education lead for Anthropic, said that teachers using Claude’s educator product could, for example, pull in a student’s past assessment data and assignment data, along with past lesson plans, and ask Claude to build lesson plans for individual students based on that data — all while they’re sleeping.

In developing Claude for Teachers, Bent said Anthropic staff often heard that while teachers are already using AI to generate lesson plans, the plans generated were often detached from the content teachers actually needed to address. Anthropic’s tool will help teachers save time and toil less to improve student outcomes, he said.

“There’s a lot of evidence of what works well for teachers in terms of aligning with high-quality instructional materials, formative assessments, differentiated instruction,” he said. “But of course, if you have 30 students in your class, you’re not able to do all of that.”

Bent said Detroit was already using other Claude products, and in a “human-centric” way that impressed Anthropic, leading to the pilot program in the district that will start next school year. Anthropic will train teachers at a handful of schools in Claude for Teachers, and evaluate how the product may shape teaching practices in the district.

While AI companies have been eager to cement the technology’s status as a classroom staple, tech giants likely have a long way to go to quiet skeptics. Student-facing AI has raised questions about cheating and so-called cognitive offloading, a reference to the reliance on AI to complete tasks instead of using critical thinking skills.

Bent emphasized that Anthropic is focusing largely on teachers, and that most K-12 students can’t access the company’s Claude assistant, due to an age restriction for anyone under 18.

Daniel Buck, a research fellow at the right-leaning think tank American Enterprise Institute, argued in a March blog post that if teachers outsource work to AI, “don’t be surprised when classroom community and academic outcomes rapidly deteriorate.”

Skeptics have also raised questions about student privacy in using AI, such as the risks they run when entering personal information into large language models such as Claude.

Anthropic is working with the American Federation for Teachers on aligning the product’s privacy practices with what the labor union has said will become a “gold standard” in best practices around safety, according to the news release.

Among the privacy features in Claude for Teachers: It won’t use conversations between the AI assistant and teacher accounts to train its AI, student information will be protected in a manner built to comply with the federal law governing student privacy, and privacy terms of service are written without jargon so teachers can understand what they’re signing up to use.

“It’s important that Anthropic is committing to these principles in their new Claude for Teachers — a tool designed by and for educators to assist them instructionally and hopefully give them more time for the human relationships at the heart of learning,” wrote AFT President Randi Weingarten in the company’s press release.

Weingarten has been walking a tightrope when it comes to AI. She’s called for a complete ban on student-facing AI in elementary grades while promoting teacher training in the technology. Just a day before calling for the ban, she toured a Newark school to witness Khanmigo, an AI chatbot from Khan Academy, in action.

While AFT is working with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic on privacy standards and AI training for educators, it is notably not working with Google, which has also developed its own AI training geared to teachers.

Utah’s state education board recently made a deal with the tech giant to bring Google’s AI, Gemini, to every K-12 school in the state, promising personalized instruction tools for educators.

It’s not yet clear whether one AI product reigns supreme in schools, but more teachers overall are using AI. Around 61% of teachers surveyed by Education Week reported in 2025 that they use the technology in some capacity, compared with 32% in 2024.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2026/07/14/anthropic-launches-claude-for-teachers-as-ai-companies-battle-for-classrooms/

How much classroom screen time should K-12 students be exposed to?

That's a question policymakers and school district leaders are debating far more frequently than they were just a few years ago.

Facing growing pressure from parents and educators, schools are increasingly being asked to justify when — and why — students use digital devices in the classroom.

At least six states — Utah, Iowa, Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia, and Maine — approved classroom screen-time legislation this year, and roughly twice as many considered bills that ultimately did not pass.

Districts aren't waiting for states to act. Many are developing their own guidelines. Late last month, the Los Angeles Unified School District adopted one of the country's most restrictive policies, imposing grade-specific daily and weekly screen-time limits from elementary through high school.

The implications extend well beyond classroom practice.

If this trend continues, it could reshape how districts evaluate ed-tech products, instructional materials, and future technology investments. For education companies, proving a product improves learning may no longer be enough. They may also have to prove it's worth the screen time.

Is this a temporary backlash, or the beginning of a lasting shift in how districts evaluate classroom technology?

https://marketbrief.edweek.org/regulation-policy/the-next-challenge-for-k-12-ed-tech-proving-classroom-screen-time-is-worth-it/2026/07

What do you think about this?

https://nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/new-york-humanoid-robot-teacher-salamanca-school-district

Starting this fall, Salamanca High School will deploy a humanoid robot and avatar teaching assistant. The female robot, named Sally, will have a “lifelike appearance” with silicone skin and long brown hair, Kiguel said in an interview with New York Focus. It will be stationary in a seated position but have a wide range of upper-body movements and facial expressions.

Students will use a unique identification code when interacting with the robot during class, allowing it to access their learning data and provide personalized support based on their past communication with the avatar, Kiguel said. “They’ll be able to say, ‘Hey, I’m student number 1234,’ and then the robot will be like, ‘Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that conversation?” 

“This deployment in a working school district represents a landmark moment for both ai and humanoid robotics,” said Andrew Kiguel, ceo of Realbotix, which is currently building the robot. “Salamanca marks the beginning of a new era where humanoid robots and intelligent ai assistants become standard tools in stem education.” 

It seems like most edtech companies are going through layoffs or hiring freezes in response to declining district demand. It's an extremely tough time for the industry, but some companies must be growing even in this environment. Who is coming through this stronger?

The brilliant mind hive of Reddit noted that MagicSchool was not doing great.... a year ago. Just recently the brand popped back up here due to layoffs, so I was curious if there were any past warning signs on here. Yep.

So, brilliant Redditors - who is next?

Hi everyone!

I teach first grade and I'm looking for resources to improve how I track learning outcomes. Currently, I use Google Sheets and have a different sheet for each subject area with the student names on the left and the learning outcomes across the top, then I have used conditional formatting for each cell to have them different colours for different numbers (1-4), and also write observations/anecdotal notes inside if needed.

I find it's okay, but not so helpful for times when different outcomes are being assessed/observed on the same day (so I need to keep scrolling back and forth or switching tabs) or when I need to find everything for one student in one place. Does anyone have ideas of how I can streamline this so that it's more user friendly?

For tutors in countries where students heavily use WhatsApp, would you find it helpful to have a platform that lets your students engage with content via WhatsApp?

I know in some places, students use WA as a convenience tool, and in other places that are mobile first, students almost exclusively use their phones for online studying. These are the places I’m wondering if a platform linked to WhatsApp could be useful?

Recommendations on the best apps for catalouging, organizing students and lesson plans and materials.

Currently I have been using a seperate file for each student with notes, Google Docs and Excel.

I primarily teach Business, Medical, Intermediate to Advanced English and Fluency Training, and in most cases the classes are adjusted to the individual student's industry, specialty and goals. So, in general I'm not really able to use the same lessons with every student.

I also create a lot of my own learning materials. Some general, some specialized topics.

Most of my Intermediate level General English students I use textbooks with, so this is much simpler than the specialized classes.

Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks

I heard that they had a large laid off today. Is the AI bubble bursting?

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some honest career advice from people working in EdTech, Learning & Development, and the social impact space.

I have two Master's degrees (Social Work with HR specialization, and Public Policy & Sustainability) along with 3+ years of experience across NGOs in research, program strategy, training, counseling, curriculum development, and implementation in the education sector. I can work with tools Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Advanced Excel, Power BI, Slack, Zoom Canva, Claude, Notion etc.
I have bachelors in Human Development & Family Studies and my experience with NGO involved working with 5 education institutes and almost 1500 students across K-12, vocational training center & nursing college.

For almost a year, I've been applying for roles such as:

• Strategy & Operations
• Learning Design
• Learning/Student Success Coach
• Program Management
• EdTech and Development sector roles

One pattern has been consistent:

• I regularly clear resume screening.
• I often make it to the 3rd or 4th round of interviews, assessments, or case studies.
• I receive positive feedback during the process.
• Yet I don't end up receiving the final offer.

I've also received a few offers, but they were significantly below the level of responsibility and compensation I'm aiming for.

At this point, I'm trying to understand what I'm missing.

Is there a common reason candidates reach the final rounds repeatedly but don't convert?

Is it positioning, storytelling, interview performance, experience gaps, portfolio, salary expectations, or something else?

I'd genuinely appreciate any advice from hiring managers, founders, recruiters, or professionals who've experienced something similar.

I'm not looking for encouragement as much as honest feedback, even if it's difficult to hear. If there's a blind spot I'm missing, I'd much rather know it now than continue making the same mistake.
While I am not working, I am seriously craving some work & people to learn with, from similar background. So I would really appreciate if I could connect on regular basis.

Also let me know if your company have some opportunity for me. I am open to any location in India and also remote jobs.

Thank you in advance!