Blog Post #4: How MagicSchool Can Be Used as an Adaptive Technology Resource

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Logo for MagicSchool.AI
Image retrieved from https://www.magicschool.ai/

    As technology becomes a more prevalent resource in education, assistive and adaptive technology tools and resources are growing. There are now several online tools available to teachers and students that can make the classroom a space where education can be specifically tailored to the needs of students with disabilities. One such resource is that of the MagicSchool AI operating system.

    MagicSchool AI is an artificial intelligence program that was designed specifically to assist teachers and students and enhance the k-12 learning experience. While the main focus of the operating system is not on accessibility or working as an adaptive tool, many of the AI prompts that MagicSchool offers can be used to make learning more equitable.  

How to Locate, Access, and Use MagicSchool AI
  1. Go to the MagicSchool AI Website
  2. Create a free online account to gain access to the AI system. There are more tools/prompts available if you purchase a subscription, but with the wide variety available for free it isn't necessary.
  3. Once in your account, there are different prompts and resources for teacher and students:
    • Click on "magic tools," and then "teacher tools" in the left sidebar for teacher resources.
    • Click on "magic student," and then "tools playground" in the left sidebar for student resources.
  4. To use an AI prompt/tool, click on the prompt's box, and then read through the directions provided by the website. The prompts that create a written output have an option to translate the output to another language if necessary.
This image is a screenshot of the home page of a free MagicSchool AI Educator account.
Image retrieved from https://www.magicschool.ai/


On their website, MagicSchool provides several resources, available in the "Resources" tab,  that are helpful to those learning how to use their AI operating system. These resources are:
  • Certification Courses
    • MagicSchool offers free online certification courses for using educator tools, using student tools as an educator, using student tools as a student, and using MagicSchool AI as a school district. These courses also teach users how to responsibly interact with AI. 
  • Explanations of Teacher and Student Tools
    • On the MagicSchool Teacher Tools resource page, there are short descriptions of some of the more popular tools available. However, there is also a downloadable Google Sheets master list of all the MagicSchool AI tools that offers a description of the tools, the icon used to represent it in your account, and the name and category of the tool. The tools are organized into separate educator and student tabs.
  • Educator Support Articles
    • There are also several articles available under the "resources" and "support" tabs. The articles are organized into thirteen different topics, with a total of 322 articles currently available. 
There are several tools available to both educators and students that would assist in eliminating the learning gap caused by disabilities and give MagicSchool AI the ability to be labeled as an adaptive technology, but the following are some of the most helpful tools that they provide:
  • Text Proofreader
    • For students with dyslexia and other reading disabilities, proofreading a written assignment is often a daunting task. The text proofreader tool allows students to input their work and receive suggestions on how to revise their writing. The output of suggestions can also be read aloud to the student by clicking the "read aloud" button at the bottom of the page. 
  • Text Leveler
    • The text leveler tool allows a teacher to input a passage or other text and have the reading level of that text adjusted to be higher or lower. This way the content of the passage is the same for all students, but the reading level can be personalized for the students. 
  • Text Translator
    • With the text translator tool, both students and teachers can take any textual resource and change the language of the resource. This is a wonderful tool to make learning equitable for students who are English Language Learners and are experiencing a language barrier. This makes previously inaccessible resources quickly and easily accessible for those students. 
  • Step by Step
    • The step by step tool gives numbered step by step instructions on how to effectively complete tasks. The student chooses their grade level and then writes out what task they are currently working on and the tool breaks it down into bullet pointed, simplified steps. This accommodates the need for "chunking" that many students with disabilities have as hearing all of the directions at one time can be overwhelming. 

References

Magic School, Inc. (n.d.). AI for educators. MagicSchool. https://www.magicschool.ai/ 

Comments

  1. AmberJuly 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM

    Hi Hannah, I love the text translator filter available with Magic School. Reading levels are so complicated from level to level, but students are still able to have discussions about the content no matter their reading level. This can really be a transformative tool in the classroom, because it has the power to take students who did not feel confident in contributing to the conversation due to their reading level and give them the content necessary to be able to contribute to the discussion with insights that might have otherwise been overlooked.

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