Bradley Peterson teaches 7th-grade English literature to students at home via Zoom. Several online sites allow English speakers to make money teaching without a degree.

To combat the sense of pointlessness around teaching and AI, I’m making two major changes to the “point” of my English class this year.

We periodically ask students to make slide presentations using PowerPoint or Google Slides to give them practice with developing visual aids (see the Home Culture activity later in this section). We ...