Top 10 AI Prompts and Use Cases and in the Education Industry in Colombia

Colombia's classrooms are at a crossroads: Meta's app-embedded chatbots - the Luzia bot students call “Lucia” on WhatsApp - put powerful generative AI in the pockets of rural learners, and teachers report polished, AI-generated essays even as exam performance slips (read the reporting on Meta's impact in rural Colombia).

Policymakers and regional experts warn that without reliable internet, teacher training, and clear safeguards, AI will widen existing gaps; the IDB urges equity-first, teacher-centered strategies to turn hype into real learning gains.

Used well, generative AI can personalize lessons and cut routine workload; used poorly, it becomes a shortcut that undermines critical thinking. Practical upskilling - like Nucamp AI Essentials for Work bootcamp registration - can help educators and school staff learn prompt design and safe, classroom-ready workflows so technology complements teachers instead of replacing them.

Bootcamp	Details
AI Essentials for Work	15 weeks; practical AI skills, prompt writing, workplace applications; early-bird $3,582 - syllabus: AI Essentials for Work syllabus

“When I assign homework, students just use AI.” - Chemistry teacher María Intencipa, quoted in Rest of World

Selection focused on real classroom impact in Colombia: tools had to advance equity and low‑connectivity access, put teachers at the center, align with national strategy, and scale through practical training.

To build the Top 10, entries were screened against priorities surfaced at the IDB's “From Hype to Reality” convening - equity first, teacher‑led models, and clear policy frameworks - and cross‑checked with Colombia's fast‑moving Day of AI rollout and CONPES 4144 commitments to boost AI literacy and teacher training; attention was also paid to on‑the‑ground signals, like Meta's Luzia bots reaching rural WhatsApp users and reshaping homework norms.

Preference went to prompts and use cases that reduce prep time, support localized pedagogy, and can be taught to educators via short units and train‑the‑trainer models, so a rural teacher with limited bandwidth can still adopt them responsibly.

For full context, see the IDB report and Day of AI coverage linked here.

Criterion	Why it mattered (source)
Equity & connectivity	IDB: access gaps; Rest of World: Luzia on WhatsApp
Teacher-centered	IDB: teachers at the heart of strategy; Day of AI: teacher training
Policy & scale	CONPES 4144 / Day of AI national rollout

“When I assign homework, students just use AI.”

Gemini is already reshaping how teachers prepare targeted lessons and remedial supports - especially where Google Workspace is in use - by auto-generating differentiated lesson drafts, quizzes and step‑by‑step remediation for students who need extra practice; educators report that what used to take hours can now be produced in minutes, freeing time to work directly with learners.

Built‑in Classroom features and teacher‑created “Gems” let Colombian schools tap multimodal, localized supports (NotebookLM study guides, audio overviews and shareable Gems) so materials can be grounded in classroom documents and adapted for Latin America's curricula and languages; analytics and rubric generation also help spot students who need early intervention.

For practical how‑tos and classroom examples, see Google's Gemini in Classroom announcement and this hands‑on EdTech Magazine review of Gemini for K–12 educators.

Feature	Why it matters for schools
30+ Classroom AI tools	Quick lesson drafts, quizzes and differentiated materials for busy teachers (no extra apps).
Gems & NotebookLM	Custom, shareable AI agents and grounded study guides that can be localized with class materials.
Student access & analytics	Minors can use education features with privacy controls; dashboards flag students needing support.

“Sometimes in learning, the cycle of tasks and feedback can seem like a meandering road.” - Giovanni Benincasa, Chicago Public Schools

Nolej positions itself as a practical bridge from teacher materials to interactive courses, and Colombian educators exploring AI-driven syllabus work will find the promise hard to ignore: the French startup - covered in Campus Technology's pre‑launch report - lets users transform a single PDF or video into +15 ready‑to‑use learning activities, from quizzes and games to interactive videos and chatbots, then export them as SCORM, H5P or directly into Moodle with a new plugin.

That workflow can cut prep time and make localized, ICFES‑aware adaptations easier to share across schools, while built‑in privacy and on‑premise/EU options help institutions protect student data; Nolej also highlights accessibility tools like FALC and a Dys add‑on for inclusive design.

For Colombian districts balancing limited teacher time and strict exam alignment, Nolej's “content‑to‑course” approach - trusted by 170,000 users across 20+ countries and available with a free trial - offers a fast path from classroom documents to assessments, review chatbots and exportable modules that plug into existing LMSs.

Feature	Why it matters for Colombian classrooms (source)
+15 ready‑to‑use activities (quizzes, games, chatbots)	Turns teacher content into interactive lessons and review tools, reducing prep time (Nolej)
Import/export & Moodle plugin (SCORM, H5P)	Creates LMS‑ready packages that integrate with school platforms and standards (Nolej)
Privacy, on‑premise & accessibility features	Supports data protection and inclusive design important for district adoption (Nolej)

Learn more at Nolej's site and see Campus Technology's coverage, or read how generative AI speeds lesson planning for Colombia here.

Canva's Magic Write and the broader Magic Studio suite are an easy, high‑leverage way for Colombian teachers to turn curriculum goals into polished, student‑ready materials fast: Magic Write drafts lesson outlines and activity prompts, Magic Media generates visuals and animations, and Magic Design converts a few keywords into finished slides - helpful when prep time is scarce and ICFES alignment matters.

With Canva for Education free to K–12 teachers and students and over 90 million educators already using the platform, schools can tap a library of templates, multilingual translation, built‑in polls/quizzes and a free “AI in the Classroom” certification to boost staff confidence (see Canva AI tools for educators and practical Magic Write lesson‑planning tips).

For districts wanting quick wins, these features mean a teacher can iterate a draft, add accessible visuals and export a collaborative slide deck in minutes - so lesson planning stops being a bottleneck and becomes a space for creativity instead of paperwork; see how generative AI speeds content creation for Colombian classrooms.

Feature	Classroom benefit
Magic Write	Generates lesson plans, outlines and activity prompts to reduce prep time
Magic Media & Magic Design	Creates visuals, animations and slide decks from keywords
Canva for Education	Free access, 1M+ templates, multilingual tools and AI PD for teachers

Khanmigo brings a conversational, always‑available tutor and teacher assistant that Colombian schools can study as they pilot classroom AI: students get step‑by‑step hints and guided questioning when they're stuck, while teachers tap tools that draft lesson hooks, create rubrics, translate family emails and generate quick question banks - free for teachers and designed to cut prep time so more minutes go to live instruction.

Built on GPT‑4 and layered on Khan Academy's standards‑aligned content, Khanmigo's district program adds dashboards, rostering and rollout support for school systems that want measured adoption rather than ad‑hoc use; for cash‑strapped districts the model of free teacher access plus optional district partnerships offers a practical path to scale.

For Colombian contexts where late‑night homework and patchy connectivity meet high‑stakes exams, Khanmigo's “on‑demand nudges” can turn a lonely, stalled problem into a learning moment - if paired with teacher training, privacy safeguards and local alignment.

Explore Khanmigo teacher tools and free resources for teachers or Khan Academy district partnership options and rostering to see how a conversational tutor might fit local workflows and ICFES‑aligned practice.

Feature	Why it matters (source)
Always‑available tutor	Personalized, step‑by‑step help when students are stuck (Khanmigo learners page - personalized tutor for students)
Free teacher tools	Generates rubrics, activities and translations to reduce prep time (Khanmigo teacher tools - free resources for educators)
District partnerships	Dashboards, rostering and implementation support for scaled, safe rollout (Khan Academy district partnerships and implementation support)
Powered by GPT‑4	LLM model enables explanations and worked examples but requires oversight (Khan Academy support documentation)

“By facilitating misconceptions where students are struggling with certain answers, Khanmigo will push and ask them guiding questions to get them to come to the conclusion on their own.” - Dave Zatorski, Vice Principal, Newark Public Schools

Gradescope offers Colombian educators a practical way to speed grading, sharpen consistency, and turn assessment into instruction: its dynamic, rubric‑first workflow lets teachers build or refine rubrics on the fly and apply the same feedback across many students, while AI‑assisted grouping surfaces common errors so patterns become teachable moments (imagine scanning and instantly sorting hundreds of student graphs into clusters).

It handles handwritten work, code, bubble sheets and online responses, supports multi‑grader teams with “Next Ungraded” navigation to avoid overlap, and includes annotation tools and reusable comment banks to make feedback both faster and more meaningful - see Gradescope's detailed guide to rubrics for instructors and a case study on how Gradescope revealed deeper insights into student thinking.

For Colombian classrooms juggling large cohorts, high‑stakes exam alignment and limited prep time, these features can free teachers to act on real data rather than guesswork, helping pinpoint misconceptions and focus live instruction where it matters most.

Feature	Classroom benefit
Dynamic rubric grading	Faster, more consistent scoring with reusable feedback
AI‑assisted grouping	Automatically groups similar answers so common errors are easy to review
Flexible submission formats	Accepts scanned handwritten work, code, and online responses for STEM and language tasks

“By allowing instructors to scan and automatically group hand-written exam answers, instructors can provide detailed, individual feedback to students in large courses without needing to look at every individual question and exam. Gradescope allows instructors to automate the initial organizing work of grading to focus their time on improving student outcomes.” - Timothy Sheaffer

For Colombian classrooms juggling English-access gaps and tight prep schedules, Duolingo Max's GPT‑4 features - Explain My Answer and interactive Roleplay - offer a low‑friction way to practice real conversations and get instant, contextual feedback that reads more like a patient tutor than a quick correction; Duolingo's announcement explains how those two AI features deliver personalized explanations and scenario practice across 188 countries (Duolingo Max GPT-4 “Explain My Answer” and “Roleplay” features announcement).

Complementing that on the teacher and district side, DeepL's neural machine translation shines at quickly turning documents, presentations and worksheets into accurate, format‑preserving translations - handy when a principal or teacher needs a ready‑to‑share PowerPoint or a bilingual family letter without a day of reformatting (DeepL neural machine translation for preserving document formatting and translations).

Together, these tools can turn awkward, stalled practice into richer speaking drills and make curriculum materials portable across languages - imagine a lesson plan uploaded in the morning and a polished, bilingual slide deck in the afternoon, ready for tomorrow's class.

Open-source super‑resolution models like Real‑ESRGAN and Lucataco‑Real‑ESRGAN offer a practical, low‑cost pathway for Colombian schools, museums and district archives to restore and digitize aging photos, scanned textbooks and low‑quality satellite images: Real‑ESRGAN's GAN‑based upscaling preserves texture and detail so a faded 1950s classroom snapshot can become a crisp, printable image for a history lesson, while Lucataco's variant adds artifact removal and face‑preserving tweaks useful for family photos or portrait archives.

These tools work both in code (see a hands‑on Real‑ESRGAN setup guide) and through no‑code platforms that simplify deployment, letting IT teams or creative teachers batch‑process images without writing models from scratch.

Limitations matter - very compressed originals can still be challenging and large batches need compute - but for digitization drives, local heritage projects or upgrading visuals for ICFES‑aligned materials, ESRGAN workflows unlock content that was otherwise unusable.

Learn more about Real‑ESRGAN's image‑enhancement workflow and Lucataco‑Real‑ESRGAN's no‑code integration options to see which route fits your school or district needs.

Feature	Why it matters for Colombian classrooms
Real‑ESRGAN image enhancement guide	Restores low‑resolution photos and scanned pages for use in lessons and local archives
Lucataco‑Real‑ESRGAN artifact removal processor	Artifact removal and texture enhancement - better results for portraits and historical documents
No‑code platforms	Simplify batch processing so schools without ML teams can scale digitization projects

Synthetic Data Vault (SDV) offers Colombian schools and districts a hands‑on way to run analytics without exposing real student records: the SDV ecosystem supports single‑table, multi‑table and sequential/time‑series models that can synthesize realistic rows or related tables so data teams can test dashboards, train models or share examples while keeping personal information protected (SDV official documentation).

Built‑in tooling and companion libraries - like SDMetrics and empirical differential‑privacy checks - let IT leads measure disclosure risk before sharing synthetic sets, an important control for districts working under tight data‑protection rules (SDV privacy documentation).

Benchmarks tell a pragmatic story: SDV is flexible and open, but independent comparisons have found it can trail some commercial alternatives on fidelity (for example, a single‑table experiment reported SDV at ~52.7% vs.

MOSTLY AI at ~97.8%, and multi‑table tests showed larger gaps), so Colombian adopters should pair SDV with rigorous evaluation to balance utility and privacy (benchmark comparison details by Mostly AI).

The practical payoff is clear: districts can iterate analytics and compliance workflows on convincing, non‑identifiable data instead of locking down real records - turning a legal headache into a safe sandbox for improvement.

SDV Feature	Why it matters for Colombian classrooms (source)
SDV single‑table, multi‑table & sequential models (official site)	Generate tabular, relational or time‑series synthetic datasets for testing analytics and models without using real student data (SDV)
Privacy & Evaluation (SDMetrics, Empirical DP)	Measure disclosure risk and apply privacy metrics before sharing synthetic data with partners or researchers (SDV docs)
Mostly AI benchmark comparison - SDV vs. Mostly AI (single‑table)	Independent tests show fidelity tradeoffs vs. commercial SDKs, so evaluate synthetic quality for high‑stakes analytics (Mostly AI blog)

TutorAI for Critical‑Thinking Projects and Simulations imagines an AI partner tuned to Project‑Based Learning (PBL) realities in Colombia: instead of replacing the teacher, it scaffolds inquiry, nudges teams toward measurable milestones, and generates formative prompts that keep projects aligned with curricular targets and real community needs.

Grounded in the PBL practices that guide Colombian schools - designing authentic driving questions, structuring collaboration, and building ongoing reflection - a TutorAI could help students break a big, messy problem into right‑sized tasks, draft interview scripts for community research, and propose evidence‑based next steps so classroom ideas become tangible impact (think the Mission Team app that teaches children with Down syndrome to navigate traffic).

For districts scaling PBL across many teachers and limited prep time, this kind of assistant would act like an on‑demand coach that preserves student voice while supporting assessment and showcases; see the practical PBL framework and starter strategies at Columbia's CTL and on Edutopia for real Colombian classroom examples and design cues to adapt AI responsibly to local contexts.

“Getting students engaged with learning is a top priority to combat rising issues with drug abuse, school dropouts, and many other issues.” - Gabriel Enrique Diago Méndez

Kahoot! is a practical, low-friction way for Colombian teachers to turn review sessions into lively, standards‑aligned practice: its AI-driven study tools can scan notes or PDFs and instantaneously generate flashcards, practice tests and classroom kahoots so a teacher short on prep time can still run a focused, interactive review; Kahoot!'s own research even points to performance gains

by a full letter grade

in meta‑analyses of quiz‑game use.

For geography and biodiversity units - think Amazon ecosystems or South America maps - ready‑made quizzes and National Geographic–curated kahoots bring local content into a familiar game format, while features like Learn mode, group study and the Lobby Soundtrack

Focus Edition

help set a productive pace.

Schools piloting AI prompts for lesson prep can use Kahoot! to rapidly prototype question banks, gamify ICFES‑style practice, or run peer study tournaments that move students from passive recall to quick application; explore Kahoot!'s study toolkit and sample Khanoots on the Kahoot! study page or browse National Geographic's Kahoot! collections for classroom-ready topics.

Getting started with AI in Colombian classrooms means choosing small, high‑impact first steps that respect local constraints: begin with Pillar 2 from the SREB K‑12 guide - use AI to streamline teacher workflows (class newsletters, group configurations, quick lesson drafts) so classroom time can focus on instruction and critical thinking; the SREB guide explains how those low-risk experiments build confidence before moving to personalization or ethics work, and practical how‑tos can be found in the SREB practical guide for educators: how to start using AI in your classroom.

Pair pilots with clear privacy rules, teacher PD and ICFES‑aligned prompts so tools support standards rather than shortcut them, and consider formal upskilling - like Nucamp AI Essentials for Work bootcamp - to teach prompt design, safe workflows and prompt evaluation.

Start small, evaluate fidelity, and scale what saves hours of prep and improves learning - so a rushed evening of planning becomes a 20‑minute edit and a tested practice ready to share across schools.