Adobe Expands Free AI Tools for K-12 Education
News|by Gabrielle Alvear|12 August 2024
Adobe has announced new updates to Adobe Express for Education, a free tool designed to enhance creativity and digital literacy in K-12 classrooms. Built by educators for educators, this tool now includes powerful AI and animation features, multimedia presentation capabilities, a new iPad experience, and tools for real-time feedback on creative assignments.
We’ve summarized the updates here, but you can read the full article from Adobe for more details.
The latest updates for Adobe Express for Education
Adobe’s commitment to education aims to make learning more engaging and effective, preparing students with the skills they need for the future.
- Safe AI for Classrooms: Adobe Express for Education uses responsible AI to ensure a safe and collaborative learning environment.
- Enhanced Creativity: Students can now create posters, flyers, brochures, and coloring pages using simple text prompts.
- Real-Time Feedback: A new feature allows teachers to provide individual feedback on creative assignments in real-time.
- Global Reach: Adobe Express for Education is already helping millions of students and teachers worldwide, with over 200,000 teacher certifications and a vast library of templates and activities.
Updates for Classroom Learning with Safe and Innovated Generative AI Solutions
- NEW: Generate Template— From book report posters to club flyers, students can create their very own templates with text prompts and share the templates with others.
- NEW: Adobe Firefly AI in MagicSchool—Students and teachers who use the MagicSchool platform now have seamless access to Adobe Firefly image generation to make their MagicSchool lesson plans, essays and school projects more visual and expressive.
- COMING SOON: Generate Coloring Page— Students can now make their own coloring pages using generative AI prompts and decorate the pages with multicolor and decorative brushes.
Enhancements for Creativity and Student Participation in the Classroom
- NEW: Enhanced Presentations — Students and teachers can now bring music, videos, animations and data charts in their Presentations. They can get started quickly with templates or bring existing Adobe Express assets and projects into Presentations in just a few clicks.
- NEW: Animate characters— Students and educators can easily animate a character’s face and body and incorporate the animations into Adobe Express presentations, videos and more.
- COMING SOON: Assignments — Teachers can create assignments, monitor each student’s progress in real-time and provide live feedback with a new interactive dashboard. This industry-first feature enables teachers to provide one-on-one support for students as they’re working on projects.
- COMING SOON: Adobe Express iPad experience — Students and teachers can use Firefly generative AI, Quick Actions, Presentations and charts inside Adobe Express on iPads for the first time.
The full article also talks about responsible AI and privacy protections featured in the app, including guardrails for appropriate results and a responsible AI and media literacy curriculum.
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