Educators carry two jobs at once. Outward: office hours, feedback on drafts, assessment design, and holding the bar for academic integrity and critical thinking. Inward: your own writing, your own research, your own reading.
Both are your job. Neither waits for the other to finish.
Most AI guidance for educators treats the tools as classroom time-savers. Most AI guidance for researchers ignores the classroom entirely. If you occupy both roles — and most educators do — you've been handed two separate conversations and left to reconcile them yourself.
This guide reconciles them.
Inside: Five tools that support your dual-role
Consensus, Perplexity, Claude, MagicSchool, and Curipod
A starting prompt for every tool, ready to use
Where each tool gets its information, and why that determines what you can responsibly do with it
An honest note on where each one falls short
A one-page reference: which tool for which task
Designed by Marinka Swift, PhD, applied linguist and founder of Focus on Language, LLC. The AI for Educators curriculum — three courses, twenty-one modules — is licensed by UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education.