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AI in your classroom: Tips, tools and ideas for teachers

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The use of artificial intelligence in schools is expanding rapidly. Ben Merritt offers teachers some easy ideas for using AI in the classroom, including tool recommendations and actionable strategies for planning lessons and creating resources
Catching up: Research suggests that 42% of teachers are regularly using AI in their role, compared to 79% of secondary students who regularly use AI

AI is reshaping classrooms, but not in the distant, utopian way you might imagine. Instead, it is here, now, and its potential is immense. If, that is, you learn how to use it properly.

The use of AI by teachers seems to be quietly dripping into classrooms and staffrooms across the country. But generative AI is such a youthful, dynamic area, that we are still learning how much teachers are using it exactly.

Research from the Department for Education (2024) suggests that in 2023 42% of teachers in UK schools were regularly using AI in their role, mostly for creating resources and planning lessons. However, students have sprinted ahead. The same research reports that 79% of secondary students regularly use AI.

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