AI at work
Teachers
The best use of AI for a teacher is the preparation nobody sees: the plan for Thursday’s period, the same worksheet at three levels, kind and specific feedback on forty notebooks. Done well, it gives you back an evening. The teaching itself stays yours.
NotebookLM (Gemini Notebook): Full Tutorial for Teachers
Science, AI and Technology for Teachers
Every feature, shown on one real primary science unit from start to finish: upload the material, then plan, quiz, slides and audio from it (2026, 20 minutes).
Three tools to learn first
Everyday tools from Google, on the phone you already have. Learn these three and most of this page follows.
Gemini Notebook
formerly NotebookLM
Upload the JKBOSE chapter, your own notes and a past paper. Ask for a lesson plan, a quiz, flashcards, a mind map and a slide deck — all built only from what you uploaded. An audio overview in Hindi, Urdu or English lets students listen to the chapter as a short conversation.
Open Gemini NotebookGemini
with Canvas
In Canvas, ask for a presentation on the topic and send it to Google Slides to edit; or ask out loud for five questions at three levels.
Open Gemini- Works offline
Gemma on your phone
in Google AI Edge Gallery
Plan in a school with no internet: it runs on your phone with the data off.
Open Gemma on your phone
New to these? Start with the short guide to all three, with a tutorial in Hindi and a note for Jio users.
Three things to try this week
- 1
A whole unit from the chapter, in Gemini Notebook
Upload the JKBOSE chapter (a PDF or photos of the pages) and your own notes. Everything it makes is built only from them — so it follows your book, not someone else’s.
In the notebook chat: Plan a 40-minute lesson for Class 7 from this chapter, for 45 students, with no projector and no internet: a goal in one line, an opening question about life in Kashmir, one activity with paper, three check questions and 15 minutes of homework. Then in Studio: Slide deck · Quiz · Flashcards · Mind map · Audio overview (in Hindi, Urdu or English).
Check: Click the source numbers to see which page each point came from, and read every quiz answer yourself. Then ask: could I run this in my room, with my time and my children?
- 2
One worksheet, three levels
The same topic for the child who is struggling, the one in the middle and the one who is bored — with an answer key.
Make a worksheet on [topic] for Class [n] at three levels: Level 1 with hints and simple numbers, Level 2 at the textbook level, Level 3 with one question that makes them think. 5 questions each. Then give an answer key with the working shown.
Check: Solve every question yourself before you photocopy it. AI answer keys are wrong more often than you would expect — especially in maths.
- 3
Feedback a child will read
Type or paste a student’s answer — no name — and ask for feedback you would be happy to say to their face.
Here is a Class 8 student’s answer to the question “[question]”. Give feedback in three short sentences: one thing done well, one thing to fix, and one next step. Warm and specific, no marks. [paste the answer, with no name]
Check: You decide the mark, not the AI. And read the feedback as the child would — if it sounds like a machine, rewrite it in your own words.
In Kashmir
Plan with AI at home, teach without it in class
- Only 8,550 of J&K’s 24,228 schools have an internet connection (UDISE+ 2025–26, told to the Lok Sabha in August 2026). So the useful habit is to prepare on your phone the evening before, and walk in with a plan, a printout or a blackboard outline.
- JKBOSE syllabi follow NCERT closely, but AI assumes CBSE unless told. Always say “JKBOSE”, the class and the chapter title — or paste the chapter’s headings.
- AI writes usable Urdu; its Kashmiri is still poor. Kashmir AI Research has found that current models still translate Kashmiri poorly — so for Kashmiri, write it yourself and use AI only for the English or Urdu version.
- From 2026–27, AI and computational thinking are being introduced from Class 3 nationally. AmanahVale’s Class 6–10 books are open to read in the library, with a teacher’s page for every lesson for staff.
Keep the trust
Plan with AI, check every fact, and tell students exactly when they may use it.
Students are already using AI for homework they do not understand — and some teachers are using AI to mark it. Then a machine marks a machine, and nobody learns. The fix is not a ban; it is a clear rule for each task.
- Use the AI Assessment Scale: for each task, say the level — 1 No AI, 2 AI for planning, 3 AI as a collaborator, 4 Full AI, 5 AI for exploration — and write it on the worksheet.
- Mark what the child understands, not what they handed in: two questions out loud about their own work tell you more than any AI detector.
- Never paste a child’s name, photo, marks or anything that identifies them into a chatbot.
The rules, in a line each
- DPDP Act (2023): a child’s data needs a parent’s consent, and tracking or profiling children is not allowed.
- Your school’s or department’s own AI rules come first — ask for them, and if there are none, the AI Assessment Scale is a sound place to start.
Tools
Examples to try, not recommendations. Where the data is sensitive, prefer the ones that keep it on your own computer.
For planning and writing
Built for teachers
- MagicSchool
Ready-made teacher tools: lesson plans, rubrics, levelled texts, report comments.
- Brisk Teaching
A browser extension that works on the page you already have open — feedback, levelled versions, quizzes.
Open — use and adapt
- AI Assessment Scale Open source
Five levels from “No AI” to “AI exploration”, to set the rule for each task. Creative Commons, translated into 30 languages.
- AI Fluency for Educators Open source
A short course on teaching with AI, co-written by university teachers, Creative Commons licensed.
- AmanahVale for teachers
A self-paced AI course for you, and the Class 6–10 AI books for your students.
Open to teachers in India
- Khanmigo for teachers
Khan Academy’s teaching assistant — lesson plans, rubrics, quizzes — open to every teacher in India, in English and Hindi.
- Gemini in Classroom
Thirty-plus AI tools inside Google Classroom for schools on Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals, which government schools in India can join.
- Canva for Education
Canva’s full design and AI tools for verified school teachers and their students.
Slides, diagrams — and one for the children
- Gamma
A whole presentation from a topic or your notes, exported to PowerPoint or Google Slides.
- Napkin
Paste a paragraph from the chapter and get it back as a diagram or flowchart for the board.
- Read Along by Google
For your students: a reading tutor that listens as a child reads aloud in Urdu, Hindi or English. Works offline, on a basic phone.
Watch next
Exposing India’s Broken Education System After ChatGPT
Varun Mayya
Indian students and teachers, interviewed, on how both sides are quietly relying on AI — and what that does to learning (2025, 27 minutes).
From Lesson Plans to Slides & Infographics: NotebookLM for Teachers
Professor Cubs
The short version: your existing lesson plan in, a slide deck and an infographic out (4 minutes).
Go further
- The AI Assessment Scale — the five levels explained
Leon Furze, Mike Perkins and colleagues
Why a scale works better than a ban, with examples at every level.
- Only 8,550 of J&K’s 24,228 schools have internet access
Kashmir Life
The August 2026 Lok Sabha figures behind “plan at home, teach offline”.
- Kashmir AI Research
AmanahVale
Why machines still struggle with Kashmiri — and how a class can help fix it.