AI tools are everywhere. You turn a corner and a new tool is cresting the hill with promises to solve all of your problems. AI tools can be a great help to classrooms. Giving teachers back time, automating tasks, and enabling more accessible learning opportunities. With each promise for good, educators have to carefully consider the costs. How are the tools using student information? How are students interacting with the AI tools? What checks and balances are embedded?
This blog will walk you through 12 powerful reasons why educators choose Seesaw as their trusted and secure AI tool. There are of course many reasons beyond these 12, but we will let you discover those on your own after falling in love with our tools.
1. It’s Part of a Trusted Tool
Teachers already rely on Seesaw as a classroom cornerstone for communication, student portfolios, and learning engagement. Seesaw’s AI features are thoughtfully embedded within this safe and familiar platform. This means educators can access helpful automation without having to learn a new tool, wasting precious classroom minutes.
2. It’s Easy to Use, Just Like Seesaw
Seesaw’s AI-powered features are designed with simplicity in mind, just like the rest of Seesaw! Whether it’s quickly translating a message into 100+ languages, or getting suggested assessment questions through the Question Assistant, the experience is seamless and intuitive. There’s no learning curve or technical complexity, just benefits to classrooms around the globe.
3. Students’ Information Is Secure
Seesaw’s commitment to data privacy is industry-leading. AI features are built with student protection at the core. Data is never used to train AI models without explicit consent. Seesaw ensures every AI application aligns with strict safety, privacy, and abuse prevention policies, so educators can confidently get the most benefit from Seesaw.
4. Students Never Interact Directly with AI
Unlike tools that put generative AI directly into the hands of students, Seesaw ensures that young learners never engage directly with AI systems like chatbots or text generators. Instead, every AI-enhanced experience in Seesaw is mediated by a teacher, creating a protective buffer that maintains security and developmental appropriateness.
5. There’s Always an Adult in the Loop
AI in Seesaw never operates on its own. Whether it’s translating messages or suggesting questions, there’s always an educator reviewing and deciding how and when to use the content. This “adult in the loop” approach ensures Seesaw’s AI features support, and not replace, teacher judgment.
6. It Was Designed for Elementary Learners
Many EdTech products are designed for older students. They have complex user interfaces that allow for complicated and robust work products. When they are asked if they have a solution for elementary students, they will often retrofit this interface for younger students and more often than not it is not the ideal solution. Seesaw is different. From the beginning, we were built for elementary classrooms. Our intentional design is reflected in our AI tools. Building safe, purposeful, and helpful tools for elementary classrooms is what we do best.
7. Educators Stay in Control with Human Edit and Override
Teachers always have the final say. Any content generated by AI, like an assessment question or reading fluency score, can be edited or overridden. This ensures that technology serves its role as assistant and not director. For example, if an automatic reading score doesn’t reflect a student’s true performance, the teacher can adjust it based on context.
8. Safety, Privacy, and Abuse Prevention Are Built In
Seesaw’s AI applications don’t just meet safety standards, they exceed them. Every use of AI undergoes a rigorous review process aligned with Seesaw’s privacy policies. Abuse prevention systems and clear safeguards are in place to protect all users, especially young learners.
9. Consent Is Respected
Unlike some platforms that use data by default to improve their AI. User data is never used to develop, train or fine tune third party AI models. Before using any customer data to train proprietary AI models, Seesaw will get your explicit consent. This gives schools and families peace of mind and transparency, and aligns with Seesaw’s core values around maintaining student safety and family trust.
10. Seesaw’s AI Is Designed to Save Teachers Time
Time is a teacher’s most valuable resource and Seesaw’s AI is designed to protect this precious resource Whether it’s automating tedious transcription for reading fluency assessments, helping scaffold instruction with Read-with-Me tools, or suggesting formative questions aligned to curriculum goals, Seesaw’s AI gives teachers more time to teach, reflect, and connect.
11. It Makes Learning More Accessible
From language translation to audio narration, Seesaw’s AI features break down barriers to access for students and families. Multilingual families can stay in the loop with machine-translated messages. Emerging readers can benefit from highlighted audio support. With AI, Seesaw extends its mission of equitable learning further than ever.
12. AI Tools Were Designed with Curriculum Experts
When building educational tools, it is important to ensure these tools will have impact. The AI tools in Seesaw are co-designed with curriculum experts with decades of experience. This collaboration ensured the tools designed fit into classrooms, schools, and districts with more purpose.
Making a Thoughtful Choice
AI tools certainly promise many things. Time back, less work, better achievement and so on. These benefits need to be carefully weighted against the safety, ease of use, and overall direction of the company. Seesaw is a trusted partner which is why Seesaw is your trusted and secure AI tool.
