Since the initial outburst of artificial intelligence a few years back, the world of AI has grown exponentially; multitudes of tools, summarizers, and AI art creators are ripe for utilization. Although poisoned by novelty and rushed jobs, the industry remains an excellent and fascinating utensil for efficiency and enhancement.
AI for YouTube
A large slew of YouTube AI summarizers exist on the internet. Determining which is the best depends on the student and the type of video. Although I have not seen or used them all, my key takeaways and use of different types of summarizers led me to my three favorites, which are listed below.
Notegpt.io provides not only notes but a transcript, access to customizable flashcards, and a “mindmap” which I thought was cool. Here I had notegpt summarize and explain a TedTalk I found on YouTube. Notegpt also works on school computers and wifi.
Google’s Gemini, unfortunately blocked by the district admins, is my second favorite summarizer. Gemini stands out as it has complete access and control over YouTube’s API (Google owns YouTube), meaning it has easier access to transcripts, descriptions, similar videos, and channels. In using Gemini to summarize videos, I noticed that the UI was more user-friendly, but was confined to the text prompts and was unable to provide visual flashcards and mindmaps like notegpt. In all, I would highly recommend Gemini if able to work off your own account on a personal computer.
Summarize.tech is short, sweet, and simple. It summarizes 5-minute blocks and provides timestamps for those blocks. I like summarize.tech because of its ease; if I am watching a video that needs summarizing, I need only type summarize.tech/YouTubeLink, with no in-between steps. Other websites share this feature, but of the ones I’ve seen, I’ve liked summarize.tech the best.
AI for teachers
“Magic School”
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Follow this link to see how I asked it to generate a news article on Putin, and then asked it to generate questions regarding the article. The information was accurate, concise, and relevant to the prompt.
Here I utilized Magic School’s worksheet generator to analyze my own article on Putin and create a relevant series of multiple-choice, open-ended, and fill-in-the-blank questions. Here I utilized the Text Scaffolder Tool on my article, which breaks a more complicated text down, defining complicated terms and providing comprehension questions that assist with understanding.
From creating presentations to Jeopardy games based on provided information, Magic School has an extensive array of helpful tools that teachers and students alike should take advantage of.
Nonetheless, the rapture of artificial intelligence, and the tools that come with it, must be approached with caution and an understanding of its capabilities. Magic School itself instructs users to use the 80/20 rule:
“View AI-generated content as a starting point to create draft materials (roughly 80% of the way there) that you then complete with your professional review and revisions for the last 20% of the effort.”
Multiple choice questions should be revised and fact-checked. Students should know that artificial intelligence was utilized in the creation of the assignment. “Credit where credit is due,” as the saying goes.
AI Art/Presentations
Did you know that our school emails give us access to the ENTIRE Adobe suite? From Photoshop to Lightroom Classic to AI art, Adobe has it all.
The Adobe Art software provides full control over lighting, photo references, the visual intensity/strength of styles, and many other features that make it, in my opinion, one of the best AI art producers out there. More than that, this software is that of a paid website—with quick, unlimited access to servers.
prompt: hyper-realistic river with a wise old man fishing on the side
note: I changed the styles, lighting choices, and angles on the Adobe Art
customizable settings.
*like isn’t this image just insane
For presentations:
The title of best integrated and highest quality presentation maker powered by artificial intelligence goes to SlidesGo. SlidesGo provides control over tone, theme, and style. All you must do is provide the topic and description, and SlidesGo does the rest. Although Canva also supports AI presentation, it more powers specific additions and customizations to pictures and blocks within the slides. Of the two, go with Canva if you’d prefer to take the lead on the design and development, and would like AI to supplement your work. Go with SlidesGo AI if you’d prefer the opposite; to instead supplement the presentation. SlidesGo also offers smooth integration into Google Slides, which is pleasing to teachers and other students who may want easy access to a shared presentation. Here is a presentation made entirely with SlidesGo, and none of my edits. My only prompt was “Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution,” and SlidesGo did the rest.
The ultimate tool, artificially powered presentations are an extremely powerful addition to both students’ and teachers’ repertoires. That is to say, convenience begets laziness; that, and one of the most dreaded words in academics: plagiarism. When making these presentations assisted by AI, students must credit the website they used just as one would credit learned academic journals. It’s imperative that students do not attempt to pass off all the work as their own when supplementing their work with artificial intelligence, else you are cheating yourself and those believing in your industry. Additionally, students should come to agreements with teachers over the extent to which AI might be used in the classroom, or at the very least be clear with the efficacy of AI, its uses, capabilities, and its effect on your presentation’s potency.