What the book is about
Every staff room now has the same conversation: students are using AI, the news is full of it, and nobody quite knows what a teacher is supposed to do about it. This book answers that question in the most practical way possible — one small, useful idea at a time.
It is written for teachers, not for engineers. No mathematics, no code, no assumed background. Just what these tools are, what they are genuinely good at, where they fail, and how to put them to work in real classroom tasks — lesson planning, question papers, feedback, explanations at different levels for different students — while staying honest about academic integrity.
Who it is for
- 🍎School teacherswho want to save hours a week without compromising their teaching
- 🎓College & university facultyrethinking assessment in a world where students have AI
- 🏫Heads of department & administratorswho need to set a sensible school-wide policy
- 📖Anyone curiouswho has been told AI is complicated and suspects it needn't be
Why I wrote it
I spend my days building AI systems at Accenture and my nights researching how large language models behave across languages for my PhD at IIIT Kalyani. I also spent three and a half years as an Assistant Professor, so I know both sides of this: what the technology actually does, and what a teacher's week actually looks like.
Most writing about AI in education is either marketing or panic. This book is neither. It is what I would tell a colleague over tea.
The Keep It Simple series
This is book one. More are planned in the same spirit — the same plain language, the same practical bent, aimed at a different reader each time. Tell me below which one you would want next.
AI for Teachers
Out 25 September 2026
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Being written in the same series
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OpenQuestions teachers ask
- Who is Keep It Simple: AI for Teachers for?
- School teachers, college and university faculty, department heads and school administrators - anyone who has been told AI is complicated and suspects it needn't be. No technical background is assumed.
- Do I need to know anything about AI or coding to read it?
- No. The book is written in plain language with no mathematics, no code and no assumed background. If a page needs jargon to make its point, the page gets rewritten - that is the Keep It Simple promise.
- Which AI tools does the book cover?
- It is deliberately tool-agnostic. Rather than tying you to one product, it teaches you to choose between the kinds of tool - general AI assistants, document-grounded tools and teacher-specific tools - and then how to instruct them and check their output, so the advice stays useful as products change.
- Is the book available now, and in which formats?
- Yes. Keep It Simple: AI for Teachers was published on 25 September 2026 and is on sale now in 13 Amazon stores including India, the US, the UK, Canada and Australia. Both the Kindle eBook (ASIN B0HJMHKBSK) and the paperback (ASIN B0HJQZHNR5) are available.
- How much does it cost?
- In the US store the Kindle eBook is $2.99 and the paperback is $9.99. Each Amazon store bills in its own currency. The Kindle edition is enrolled in KDP Select, so Kindle Unlimited subscribers can read it at no extra cost.
- Is there a free sample?
- Yes. The first 19 pages - taken directly from the Kindle edition - can be read free in your browser at koushikdeb.com/sample, with highlights, notes and bookmarks, and no sign-up. A PDF download is available too.
- Is it safe to use AI with student work?
- The book treats this seriously. It includes a one-page 'before you paste anything' rule - general information only, check every line - and a full Safety chapter on privacy, AI detectors and high-stakes calls. Your school's policies and your professional judgement always come first.
- Is this part of a series?
- Yes - it is book one of the Keep It Simple series. Further books in the same plain-language, practical style are planned, each aimed at a different reader.
About the author
Koushik Deb
AI Engineer and Tech Lead at Accenture, PhD candidate at IIIT Kalyani researching how large language models behave across English, Hindi and Bengali, and a former Assistant Professor. Three granted patents, twelve publications, thirteen years in industry — and a habit of explaining things without the jargon.
Free AI-for-teachers guides
Not ready for a whole book? Start with one of these. They are free, short, and built on the same Draft, Check, Decide approach.
- 📋A prompt library for teachersFifteen prompts you can copy tonight, each with what to check
- 🗓️Using AI for lesson planningFrom your objective to a checked draft, without losing the lesson
- 🔒Student data and AIWhat never goes into the prompt, and how to anonymise the rest
- ✅The teacher's AI checklistBefore, during and after any AI-assisted task, printable