AI doesn’t observe a person, explain their behavior, or write their support plan for you. It helps you prepare an activity, make an adapted handout, find a passage in the facility’s program plan, and format your written work, with no names at all.
AI helps social educators with tasks such as “Prepare an educational activity plan,” “Make a visual schedule,” and “Rewrite a document in plain language.” Start with a single task, in Claude: allow 15 minutes the first time, and always review the result before you use it.
For each task: how it goes today, then with the tool. And the time it takes the first time.
Claude · Word file, in the conversation
TodayThe workshop idea is there, but the plan you owe your supervisor, with goals, schedule, and budget, has been waiting for three weeks.
With ClaudeAn activity plan in Word, with schedule, supplies, alternatives, and an empty observation grid.
Canva · “Canva AI”
TodayFor a person who doesn’t read or who finds change unsettling, hearing the day described out loud isn’t enough, and the picture schedule gets cobbled together in the evening.
With CanvaA printable picture schedule that you adjust with the person.
Claude · An attached file, in the conversation
TodayThe house rules and the welcome booklet are written for the administration, not for the people who need to understand them.
With ClaudeA plain-language version, side by side with the original, to test with the people concerned.
Also
Gemini Notebook · “Chat” panel
The exact passages, dated and cited, to use in a project or to discuss in a meeting.
Superwhisper · Custom mode, “Local” model
A factual, ordered note, written in the facility’s software, without your voice leaving the computer.
Claude · Word file, in the conversation
An empty template with its guiding questions, which you fill in yourself outside the assistant.
Claude · Word and Excel files, in the conversation
A trip plan in Word and a budget in Excel, to check and present to management.
DeepL · Translate text
A practical message in the family’s language, with the English version alongside.
A table of five possible outings, with the link to each place’s website so you can check everything.
What to check
Describe a typical group, never a young person or an adult who could be recognized. The assistant’s ideas are general: you are the one who knows what suits this group, on that day.
Prepare an educational activity planClaude · Word file, in the conversationThe prompt to copy
Help me prepare an activity plan for [the group: for example six teenagers aged 13 to 16 living in a children’s home, eight adults in a group home]. Activity: [cooking workshop, forest outing, cooperative game, writing workshop]. Educational goals set by the team: [for example waiting your turn, seeing a task through, speaking up in the group]. Duration: [1 hr 30 min], staff: [2], budget: [amount]. Write: the minute-by-minute schedule, the supplies, the role of each staff member, two alternatives if the group loses interest, the safety points, and an empty grid for noting what we will observe. Don’t suggest any goal for a particular person: that is our work as a team.
In Nova, “My path” starts from your level: one next step at a time.
The first moves, with free tools.
In your jobRewrite a document in plain language
In your jobFind a passage in the facility’s program plan
In your jobPrepare an educational activity plan
In your jobDictate your observations after a shift
For a team: everyone moves forward in their own job. You see the team’s progress, never one person’s activity.
It prepares an activity plan, the file for a trip, or the outline of a written report, and gives you a real Word or Excel file. Always from a typical group, with no names and no individual situations.
Recommended planFree to start. Pro, $20 per month ($17 per month if billed yearly).
A picture schedule, an instruction in pictograms, the poster for the facility’s party: clean materials, without spending your evening on them.
Recommended planCanva Free, €0: up to 20 AI uses. Then: Canva Pro, €110 per year, for one person.
You add the facility’s program plan, the house rules, and the best-practice guidelines: it answers from those documents alone and shows the passage.
Recommended planFree: 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook, 50 questions per day.
Dictation that can run entirely on the computer: with a “Local” model, neither your voice nor your text leaves the device.
Recommended planFree, $0: dictation with on-device Whisper models. For the other local models and file transcription: Pro, $8.49 per month.
To write a practical note to a family that reads little English, with the English version alongside.
Recommended planFree: 50,000 characters per month. Then: Individual, €7.49 per month, billed yearly.
To plan an outing: places, their group rates, and their accessibility, with the link to each place’s website.
Recommended planFree: 3 “Pro” searches per day and 1 “Research” report per month. Then: Pro, $20 per month (€22 on the French App Store).
Prices taken from the vendors’ official pages, dated on each tool page. These subscriptions are not included in Nova. Brands are named to identify the tools. No affiliation.
Nova recommends 6 to start with: Claude, Canva, Gemini Notebook, Superwhisper, DeepL, and Perplexity. All of them can be used for free to get started.
It prepares an activity plan, the file for a trip, or the outline of a written report, and gives you a real Word or Excel file. Always from a typical group, with no names and no individual situations. The plan to choose: Free to start. Pro, $20 per month ($17 per month if billed yearly).
With “Prepare an educational activity plan,” in Claude (Word file, in the conversation). Allow 15 minutes the first time. An activity plan in Word, with schedule, supplies, alternatives, and an empty observation grid.
No. Nova is software, not an accredited training provider: it issues no diploma or certification. It costs €19 per month for one person, and €129 per month for a team of up to ten people.