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Arman Jaffer, Founder and CEO, Brisk Teaching. said “We launched Brisk as a Chrome Extension because AI is supposed to speed up digital tasks, not complicate them. With digital tasks happening in over 100+ applications, it was essential to meet teachers where they are – right within the tools they use and rely on every day.”

As the adoption of AI in education continues to grow, we’re witnessing a shift in attitudes. What was once viewed with skepticism—particularly when tools like ChatGPT first hit the scene—is now being embraced by teachers as a way to enhance both their own productivity and the learning experience of their students.

Teachers are increasingly using A.I. tools themselves, both to save time on rote tasks and to outsource some of their most meaningful work, like grading essays and tutoring struggling students.

“The existing edtech stack as we know it, which is around 140 different tools that the average teacher in the U.S. uses in a given school year, is not ready for AI,” Brisk’s CEO and founder, Arman Jaffer, said in an interview. “We’re trying to build the AI-native edtech stack.”

Educators experimenting with generative AI tools like Brisk say the technology helps free up mental bandwidth by streamlining routine tasks and simplifying lesson planning.

Unlike many other AI tools, Brisk Teaching is a Google Chrome web extension. Once you have it installed in your browser, you can use it on any content you access, like web articles, PDFs, YouTube videos, and Google Docs. This is an AI tool that follows you everywhere you go, making it easy and practical to use.

Brisk Founder and CEO Arman Jaffer and other education leaders are interviewed about AI’s potential to streamline fragmented ed-tech systems, emphasizing the importance of coherent integration, teacher empowerment, and human oversight to ensure AI adds real value to teaching and learning.

Brisk Founder and CEO Arman Jaffer and other ed-tech leaders are interviewed about the importance of rigorous teacher-led testing and curated data in developing effective AI tools for the classroom, highlighting Brisk’s ongoing partnership with Leanlab to ensure continuous impact research.

"For Bacon, who is entering her 24th year of teaching, AI isn’t just a gadget, but a tool that can be used to regain a work-life balance and help relieve pressure. Although there are reasons to be skeptical of AI in teaching, Bacon argues that these tools “could be the difference between this being the three [to] five year thing or a lifetime career.”'