Flint provides inline writing feedback based on teacher-configured rubrics and guardrails. You set the boundaries for what AI can and can’t do, which prevents the tool from writing for students.

Synthesia is the most discussed avatar tool in education. You pick from 230+ avatars, type your script, and it generates a video with natural lip-syncing in 140+ languages. It can also convert ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. In the early days of microcomputers, killer apps like the spreadsheet ...

Editor’s Note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online ...