TEACHERS WORKSHOP  ·  2026
AI in Learning
Amjad Ali EM
Founder & CEO, EventHex
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01 WHY NOW

Change used to take centuries.
Now it takes years.

Every jump in human history has arrived faster than the one before it.
Agriculture
~10,000 years
to spread
Printing
~500 years
Industry
~250 years
Internet
~30 years
AI
happening now
Changes that once took centuries now happen within decades.
The next decade will bring 2–3× the change of the past thirty years.
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02 A COMMON MISUNDERSTANDING

AI is not new.
You have used it for years.

The term was coined in 1956. It has been quietly working in your pocket for a decade.
Spam filter
Sorting your inbox since 2004
Google Search
Ranking every result you see
YouTube suggestions
Deciding what plays next
Google Translate
Malayalam ↔ English, instantly
Face unlock
Recognising you in a moment
Fraud alerts
Your bank watching for theft
Keyboard suggestions
Guessing your next word
Camera portrait mode
Separating you from the background
WHAT CHANGED
IN 2022
It learned to create — and to understand ordinary language.
Before that you needed to be a programmer. Now you type a sentence.
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03 THE TERM YOU KEEP HEARING

What is Generative AI?

AI that produces new content — text, images, audio, video — instead of only analysing or choosing from content that already exists.
EARLIER AI  ·  IT CHOSE
Sorted your mail into folders Picked which video to show next Predicted the next word you type Answered yes or no, this or that
GENERATIVE AI  ·  IT MAKES
Writes a story that has never been written Draws a picture that did not exist Speaks, sings, makes video Answers with something new every time
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04 THE ENGINE INSIDE

LLM — Large Language Model

The engine that runs every chat tool you will see today. Three words, each one worth knowing.
LARGE
Trained on an enormous amount of text
More than any person could read in a hundred lifetimes.
LANGUAGE
It works in words, not numbers
Which is why you instruct it in plain Malayalam or English — not in code.
MODEL
A pattern machine
It learned which word usually comes next. Predicting, not knowing.
The app is not the model.
ChatGPT is the app you open. GPT is the engine inside it — like a car and its engine.
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05 THE ONES PEOPLE ACTUALLY USE

Common LLMs today

Application
Company
LLM model
ChatGPT
OpenAI
GPT
Gemini
Google
Gemini
Claude
Anthropic
Claude
Copilot
Microsoft
GPT
Llama Chat
Meta
Llama
Notice Copilot runs on OpenAI's engine — the app and the model are not always from the same company.
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06 KNOW THE SHAPE OF THE TOOL

Brilliant at some things.
Blind to others.

HAND IT OVER FREELY
Writing, rewriting, simplifying Many versions, quickly Translating and explaining Formatting and organising Ideas, activities, questions
NEVER TRUST IT BLINDLY
Knowing what is true — it predicts, it does not know Your syllabus, your board, your children Quran & hadith references from memory Arabic & Malayalam text inside images Judgement about a child
“A student who has read every book in the library — but has never left the room, never met a person, never seen a school.”
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PART TWO
Prompting
The art of instructing AI
You control exactly one box in this picture. The model is fixed. The answer is a consequence.
PROMPT
what you ask
→
AI
MODEL
COMPLETION
what you get back
←
The quality of the completion is decided by the quality of the prompt.
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07 WHERE MOST PEOPLE GIVE UP

A prompt is simply what you ask

Bad prompt, bad material. That is not the machine's fault.
WHAT MOST PEOPLE TYPE
“Make a worksheet”
WHAT WORKS
“Grade 4 Arabic worksheet, 12 family words, Arabic with Malayalam meanings, 3 activity types, one A4 page, plus answer key”
Make a worksheet
Sure — which subject, which class, and how long?
Grade 4 Arabic, 12 family words, Arabic + Malayalam, 3 activity types, one A4 page + answer key
Here is your worksheet
Instruct it like a substitute teacher on day one — because that is exactly what it is.
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08 THE ONE SLIDE TO KEEP

The prompt recipe

ROLE + CLASS + TOPIC + LANGUAGE + FORMAT + RULE
ROLE
“You are a Grade 5 Moral Science teacher”
CLASS
“for 10-year-old children”
TOPIC
“topic: honesty”
LANGUAGE
“in simple Malayalam”
FORMAT
“a story of 200 words + 5 questions”
RULE
“no difficult words, no violence”
“You are a Grade 5 Moral Science teacher in Kerala. Write a story of 200 words for 10-year-old children on the value of honesty. Simple Malayalam. Everyday school setting. Then give 5 discussion questions. No violence, no frightening scenes, no difficult words.”
All six parts. One ordinary paragraph. That is the whole skill.
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09 NEVER ASK ONCE AND GIVE UP

The follow-ups do most of the work

It is a conversation, not a vending machine.
01
“Make it simpler.”
“Make it harder.”
Three levels in six words — the whole next section, in one follow-up.
02
“Give me 3 more versions.”
Never settle for the first answer.
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“Now make it a worksheet.”
Same content, new format, no retyping.
Three words of follow-up beat a perfect first prompt.
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PART THREE
Personalised
learning
Everything around us already adapts to the person. Your shopping app. Your music. Your video feed.

Classrooms are the last place still running on one size fits all.
Shopping
Shows what you would buy
Video
Plays what you would watch
Music
Knows your taste by now
Learning
One worksheet. Forty-five children.
This is the biggest thing AI brings to a classroom — and the reason it matters more than any time saved.
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10 WHAT ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL COSTS

One class. Forty-five children.
Three different speeds.

TOO FAST
Finished in five minutes
Bored, and quietly switching off. Needs something harder.
TOO SLOW
Still on question two
Needs more time and simpler words — not less attention.
LOST EARLIER
Did not understand the instruction
Needs it explained a different way, not repeated louder.
You know exactly who each of them is. What you do not have is time to make three worksheets by tomorrow.
Same objective. Different route. That is all personalisation means.
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● LIVE DEMO ONE PAGE, THREE LEVELS

A page you already have
→ three worksheets

STEP 01
Photograph the page
Your own textbook. Your phone.
→
STEP 02
Upload & ask
“Make a worksheet with an answer key”
→
STEP 03
“Easier version”
“Harder version”
Thirty seconds.
EASIER
Fewer questions · one worked example · simpler words
STANDARD
The class worksheet as you planned it
HARDER
Thinking questions · one challenge task
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11 BEYOND THREE WORKSHEETS

Six ways it reaches one child

01
Re-explain, three different ways
When one explanation does not land — a story, an everyday example, a picture
02
Match the reading level
The same chapter rewritten for a child two years behind — without leaving them out of the lesson
03
Unlimited extra practice
Ten more sums, ten more sentences — for the child who needs twenty, not five
04
A remedial plan for one named child
“He confuses these four letters — give me a two-week practice plan”
05
Enrichment for the fast ones
A project to chew on, not more of the same worksheet
06
A home-support note for parents
Exactly what to practise at home, in ten minutes a day
Forty-five children used to mean one worksheet. It can now mean forty-five starting points.
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12 THE DIVISION THAT NEVER CHANGES
AI can make the material.
Only you can decide who needs which one.
AI does not know that a child has been quiet this month for a reason. It does not know who is bright but careless, or who needs encouragement rather than correction. It has never watched a face change when something finally makes sense.
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PART FOUR
Making the
material
Written, visual, activity-based, audio. Everything you currently make by hand — and a few things you never had time to make at all.
Written
Worksheets, papers, stories
Visual
Charts, comics, infographics
Activity
Games, quizzes, role play
Audio & video
Pronunciation, nasheed, decks
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13 WRITTEN MATERIALS

What it can write for you

01
Worksheets
Matching, fill-in-the-blanks, true/false, picture naming — with a separate answer key, laid out for one A4 page
02
Question papers
Mark split, mixed difficulty, model answers. Unit tests in four minutes instead of an evening
03
Moral stories
One per value, in a Kerala school setting children recognise, with five discussion questions that make them think rather than recall
04
Glossaries
Arabic ↔ Malayalam ↔ English, with an example sentence for every word, as a printable table
05
Lesson plans
Objective, warm-up, main teaching, activity, closure, homework — timed to your actual period length
06
Rubrics & report remarks
Four-level rubrics, and remarks that name a strength before an area to work on. The December week, saved
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14 ACTIVITY-BASED & GAMIFIED

Material children do, not just read

Ask for the phrase “needs only a blackboard and paper” and you get things that work in a real crowded classroom.
GAMES
Classroom games
Vocabulary races, word-building relays, “find the mistake” rounds, memory games for Arabic letters
QUIZ
Quiz & team rounds
Rapid-fire, buzzer rounds, team scoring — a full quiz written with an answer key in two minutes
ROLE PLAY
Role play & skits
Short scripts for a value — honesty, kindness to parents — with parts for six children
POINTS
Gamified units
Turn a chapter into levels, points, badges and a class leaderboard — printed, no app needed
PUZZLES
Puzzles & word searches
Crosswords, word searches, riddles built from this week's vocabulary
HANDS-ON
Treasure hunts & stations
Clue cards around the room, group station tasks, sorting activities with cut-outs
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15 VISUAL MATERIALS

What it can draw for you

01
Charts & posters
Adab charts, wudu step sequences, prayer times, alphabet displays — for the classroom wall
02
Infographics
A whole chapter as one picture — steps, comparisons, timelines a child can read at a glance
03
Comic strips
A moral story in four panels, speech bubbles left empty so you write the Malayalam yourself
04
Colouring & cut-out sheets
Line art for primary classes, flashcard cut-outs, sorting cards — unlimited, on any topic
05
Mind maps & revision sheets
The whole chapter on one page for upper primary revision week
06
Display boards & certificates
Ramadan, annual day, Independence Day — plus name tags, badges and award certificates
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16 THE MOST PRACTICAL SLIDE TODAY

It cannot write Arabic or Malayalam
inside a picture

WHAT THE MACHINE PUTS IN THE IMAGE
ا ل ٱ س ر ه‎
Letters disconnected · wrong forms
WHAT YOU TYPE IN CANVA
الأسرة
Correct, every letter
STEP 01
Generate the picture
Say “no text at all”
STEP 02
Open Canva
Free for teachers
STEP 03
Type the text yourself
You control every letter
STEP 04
Print
Correct, every time
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17 AUDIO, VIDEO & YOUR OWN WORK

Sound, slides — and help for you

FOR THE CLASS
Arabic pronunciation practice — text to speech, repeated as often as a child needs Nasheed and rhyme audio for memorising vocabulary Short explainer videos from a script you approve Presentation decks for the smart classroom — built from your lesson in minutes
FOR YOU, AT TEN AT NIGHT
“Give me 20 ways to open a lesson on this topic” “Explain this in simpler Malayalam for a 9-year-old” “Draft a polite reply to this parent” “Summarise this circular — and tell me what I must do”
Twenty lesson openers: nineteen will be useless. One will be good — and that one was worth it.
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PART FIVE
The three you
will actually open
Everything so far works in any chat tool. These are the three worth having on your phone — and each is here for a different reason.
ChatGPT
The all-rounder. Writing anything — worksheets, papers, stories.
Claude
Connects to verified sources — the one that solves the accuracy problem.
NotebookLM
Answers only from your textbook. Google, free.
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● LIVE DEMO NOTEBOOKLM

Upload your chapter.
It answers only from that.

Every other tool answers from everything it ever read — which is where invention comes from. This one reads only what you gave it, and shows you the page.
01
Quiz with an answer key
Every answer cited back to the page it came from — you can check it in ten seconds
02
Flashcards, study guide, mind map
One click each, straight from the chapter you uploaded
03
Audio overview — 80+ languages
Two voices discussing your chapter like a radio programme. Children can listen on the way home
04
Video overview
A narrated slideshow of the chapter — three per day on the free plan
Try it once with a chapter you know well — so you can judge the quality yourself before trusting it with one you don't.
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18 THE WORD YOU NEED TO KNOW

Hallucination

When AI states something confidently and fluently that is simply not true — and cannot tell you it has done so.
Not a bug. A consequence of what it is: a machine that predicts the next word rather than knowing the answer.
TYPICAL
An invented ayah reference
A real surah, the wrong verse number — or words that exist nowhere
TYPICAL
A book or hadith that does not exist
With a plausible author and a confident tone
TYPICAL
A statistic it made up
“Studies show 63%…” — no study, no 63
Ilm has always travelled with an isnad — a chain you can check. AI has none. So it may draft; it may never authorise.
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19 HOW YOU FIX IT

Skills, connectors, MCP

Three words you will meet the moment you go past plain chat. All three are simple.
SKILL
A job you train once
Your instructions, your templates, your rules — saved. Then one line runs the whole thing, your way, every time.
CONNECTOR
A plug to a real source
Switch one on and the AI stops answering from memory and starts fetching — from Canva, from Drive, from a verified Quran source.
MCP
The standard behind the plugs
Remember the drawer full of chargers, then USB-C? MCP is USB-C for AI. One shape, everything connects.
Without a connector
Answers from memory — where hallucination happens
→
With a connector
Goes and fetches the real thing, and names the source
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● LIVE DEMO A VERIFIED QURAN SOURCE

mcp.quran.ai

Official, from the Quran Foundation — the people who run quran.com. Free, nothing to install, works on a free Claude account.
WHAT IT SERVES
Verified Quran text, multiple recitation variants 50+ translations across 30+ languages Tafsir from 15+ classical and modern scholars Word-by-word morphology and search
https://mcp.quran.ai
ASKED: “WHICH AYAH IS ABOUT KINDNESS TO PARENTS?”
SURAH AL-ISRA · 17:23
“And your Lord has decreed that you worship not except Him, and to parents, good treatment…”
Sahih International  ·  quran.com/17/23
It did not remember the verse. It fetched it — and named the source.
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20 ONE MORE CONNECTOR & AN HONEST NOTE

Canva closes the loop

CANVA CONNECTOR
“Make an A4 flashcard sheet for these 12 Arabic words”
The design lands in your Canva account, editable. You type the Arabic correctly. You print.
The problem from slide 21 — now one instruction.
WHAT DOES NOT EXIST YET
Every Quran, hadith and tafsir tool is built for a scholar or a programmer Nothing knows your textbook Nothing handles Malayalam properly
Not one is built for a teacher preparing tomorrow's Grade 4 class. That gap is real — and buildable. Tell me what you need.
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21 NON-NEGOTIABLE

The red lines

01
Never take an ayah, hadith or reference from AI memory
Verify it — mushaf, an authentic collection, or a connector that fetches it for you
02
No depiction of the Prophet ﷺ, prophets or companions
Silhouettes, calligraphy, architecture, symbols. AI will generate it if asked — so do not ask
03
Faces and living beings — your institution's norm
Decide before you generate, not after you are looking at a picture you like
04
Never enter a student's name, photo, marks or family details
That data leaves your phone
05
Every material passes your eye before it reaches a child
You are the last check. That has not changed
06
AI does not know your syllabus — adapt everything
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22 DON'T TRY EVERYTHING

Your start ladder

TOMORROW
One prompt. One worksheet.
For a class you are actually teaching — not a test question.
THIS WEEK
Photograph one textbook page
Make three levels. Give the right one to the right child.
THIS MONTH
Add the Quran connector
And try NotebookLM on one chapter you know well.
THIS TERM
One AI-made material a week
Shared in your department group. Forty teachers = forty materials.
Stop asking “what can AI do?”
Ask what you make by hand every week. That list is your answer.
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THANK YOU
AI makes the material.
You make the teacher.
Amjad Ali EM  ·  Founder & CEO, EventHex
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