DOWNTOWN TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Leon County teachers now have access to Magic School, an artificial intelligence platform that helps develop lesson plans, brainstorm ideas, and create comprehension questions, offering educators a significant time-saving tool while requiring careful oversight.
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The AI platform provides multiple tools, including multiple-choice quizzes, worksheet generators, and text rewriting for improved readability. Teachers say the technology helps them get creative with their lesson planning, but they emphasize it's just a tool that requires professional assessment.
Debra Rice, a Literacy Coach at Godby High School, has found Magic School particularly useful when collaborating with other educators.
"For example, I was working with a black history teacher. He teaches a class of black history. He came to me, and he said, look, I really want to do activities for the entire month," Rice said. "And we came up with several of the activities, but we kind of had to sort through and go, no, that's not going to work. Yes, this is good. But then you take a look at the activities that they that it recommends."
While Rice finds Magic School incredibly helpful, she stresses the importance of reviewing the platform's output carefully.
"It's so important what goes in that prompt because otherwise you'll just have so much information that's actually not beneficial to anyone. Well, it's what goes in the prompt and then scrutinizing what comes out of it," Rice said.
The platform includes various filters for writing feedback and can help create individualized programs to meet each student's needs. It also features Raina, a chatbot that teachers can use to brainstorm ideas.
Leon County Schools chose Magic School because they can control safety parameters, including what information is retained and which tools teachers can access.
"With magic school, if a teacher wants to take their written notes that they've been using for, for a decade and upload them to magic school, it's going to use those notes to, to complete the tasks that the teacher has asked. And then it's going to forget like they were never, like they never were there," a district representative said.
Leon County Schools has not yet announced a timeline for rolling out the student side of Magic School. Officials say they want teachers to become comfortable with the software first, though teachers will have control over which tools students can access when completing assignments.
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