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At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSROOM.

Here are the latest:

Chronicle helps you create presentations, and has a generous free option.

Mini Tool AI has a collection of free AI tools.

Do a run-through of your presentation with SlideFlow.

Vikitorek provides Wikipedia entries as summaries for children.

Picit.ai is a photo-editor. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Online Photo-Editing & Photo Effects.

ScholarQuiz…quizzes you on any topic and Learnogram does something similar.

“There should be a way for students to alert teachers if the grading is too harsh or inconsistent.” —- it seems to me that there is something wrong if the teacher is dependent on students to tell them if a grading system isn’t accurate

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM

Part 2: AI-Powered Language Speaking Practice: An Extensive Review of Top Tools for Learners is from Tom Daccord.

Brain Activity Is Lower for Writers Who Use AI. What That Means for Students is from Ed Week. Here’s an excerpt:

But if participants wrote essays on their own first, and then used AI to write on the same topics, the results changed. This group of writers showed an increase in brain activity.

“What it could potentially tell us is that timing could be very important for when you integrate these tools,” said Nataliya Kosmyna, a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab and the lead author of the paper.

If writers spend time thinking about their topic and collecting their thoughts before turning to generative AI, it’s possible that they could benefit more from using the tool, she said. “Maybe now you can ask questions, go back and forth. You have your opinions on the topic, you can prompt in different directions.”

The paper is a preprint, meaning it hasn’t yet been peer reviewed and published in an academic journal. And the researchers only worked with a small sample of participants, all of whom were undergraduate students, graduate students, or university employees.

Still, the findings could offer important clues about when generative AI use might short-circuit the learning process—and when it might actually deepen students’ thinking.

I’m adding it to A Beginning List Of Different Types Of Guidance Educators Are Giving Students About AI Use In Their Classes.

This is my opinion of all the AI announcements Google recently made, and you can see the links to them following this post:

Google going all out today w/tons of announcements about new AI edu products.As usual,they’ve struck out w/ most,tho these SAT practice tests might b helpful 2 some. But does world really NEED more SAT practice tests?—https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/education/practice-sat-gemini/

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 21, 2026 at 3:09 AM

New ChromeOS tools to support classroom collaboration

New security and AI detection features for Google Workspace for Education

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