Using AI wisely: literacy, prep, student use and integrity, policy, bias, and rethinking assessment.
You cannot make good decisions about AI in your classroom without understanding what it actually is and is not.
Open workshop →WorkshopThe clearest win for AI in schools right now is not with students, it is with teacher workload.
Open workshop →WorkshopStudents are already using AI.
Open workshop →WorkshopA clear, shared AI policy prevents the confusion of every teacher making up different rules and every student guessing.
Open workshop →WorkshopSome of AI's clearest benefits are for students who face barriers: translating, simplifying or leveling text, reading aloud, and giving every student patient, on-demand support.
Open workshop →WorkshopAI can help draft feedback and speed up grading, but handing judgment to a tool that cannot truly understand student work is risky.
Open workshop →WorkshopBeyond policing AI, there is a bigger opportunity: teaching students to use AI as a tool for learning, a thinking partner, a tutor, a thing to critique, in ways that build their skills rather than replace them.
Open workshop →WorkshopWhen AI can write a passable essay or solve a problem set in seconds, some traditional assignments no longer tell us what a student actually knows.
Open workshop →WorkshopAI tools are powerful but far from perfect, they make things up, reflect biases in their training, and raise real ethical questions.
Open workshop →WorkshopGenerative AI now creates images, audio, and video, not just text, and these tools open creative and instructional possibilities alongside real questions about authenticity, bias, and ethics.
Open workshop →WorkshopAI tutoring and adaptive learning tools promise to personalize practice for every student, and some genuinely help, but they are not magic, and they do not replace teaching.
Open workshop →WorkshopStudents use AI constantly, but few understand what it actually is, how it learns from data, makes predictions, and gets things wrong.
Open workshop →WorkshopThe quality of what AI gives you depends heavily on how you ask.
Open workshop →WorkshopAI tools sound confident even when they are completely wrong, inventing facts, sources, and details that do not exist.
Open workshop →WorkshopThe worry about AI is that students use it to avoid thinking.
Open workshop →WorkshopDifferentiating for a wide range of learners is one of teaching's hardest and most time-consuming challenges, and AI can genuinely help, adapting texts to reading levels, generating tiered tasks, and creating scaffolds in a fraction of the time.
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