Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resource Library
This resource is an extensive collection of programs and information. Use these resources as a springboard to delve deeper into each topic and curate a diverse information collection.
Why AI is Important for All Students
Why do all students need to understand AI? That’s the first question we asked Charles Randolph in this conversation about why AI matters in the classroom and his own learning journey in the AI Explorations program. Charles is the Senior Instructional Technology Coordinator for Arlington Public Schools in Arlington, Virginia.
Watch the full video to learn why AI instruction is a matter of equity and is essential knowledge for students as they prepare to enter the workforce.
ChatGPT, Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence in Education
What is artificial intelligence? How will it impact education? How can we teach tomorrow knowing this exists … and how can we build for the future while using AI in the classroom?
This mega post is full of ideas. It also touches on the concept of cheating and plagiarism — and what it will mean in an AI-integrated future.
Sample Resources
Get Started in Your Classroom - ISTE & GM
The Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom guides from ISTE and GM provide elementary, secondary, elective and computer science teachers with innovative curricular resources about AI across various grade levels and subject areas. Each guide includes background information and four student-driven projects that directly relate to subject area standards, while providing foundational learning on what AI is, how it works and how it impacts society.
- Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom – A Guide for Elementary Teachers (PDF)
- Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom – A Guide for Secondary Teachers (PDF)
- Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom – A Guide for Electives Teachers (PDF)
- Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom – A Guide for Computer Science Teachers (PDF)
- Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom – A Guide on Ethics and AI (PDF)
AI + Utah Education Network (AI +UEN)
This is a collection of tools that are applicable to anyone, anywhere! Specifically geared towards Utah teachers, UEN supports a diverse toolset for Utah teachers, administrators, and students.
Check the link for a variety of AI by content area, recommended articles, and videos.
ChatGPT and Beyond: How to Handle AI in Schools
While ChatGPT and other AI assistants have captured the headlines, we interact with artificial intelligence every day in our lives. In this post, Christine Elgersma of Common Sense Education lays out current concerns, what AI means for the future, how to handle AI concerns, how to handle ethics involved, other ways to use AI, and more.
Policies and Guidelines
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning
By the U.S. Office of Educational Technology
This report addresses the clear need for sharing knowledge and developing policies for “Artificial Intelligence,” a rapidly advancing class of foundational capabilities which are increasingly embedded in all types of educational technology systems and are also available to the public. This 71-page document addresses building ethical, equitable policies; teaching and learning; formative assessment; research and development; and recommendations.
AI and Education: Guidance for Policy-Makers
By UNESCO
Recommended by Jae Williams, M.P.Ed. @geoscigurl
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to address some of the biggest challenges in education today, innovate teaching and learning practices, and ultimately accelerate the progress toward SDG 4. However, these rapid technological developments inevitably bring multiple risks and challenges. This publication offers guidance for policy-makers on how to best leverage the opportunities and address the risks, presented by the growing connection between AI and education.
Acceptable Use Policy for AI in the ELA Classroom
Rightfully, there is concern that students will plug in assignment prompts into AI Chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google Bard in order to complete their assignments. As EdTech evolves, so do the tools that we use to facilitate teaching and learning. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers a variety of benefits to the English Language Arts classroom, including improved personalization and support for learners. However, we need to ensure that these tools are used responsibly, maintaining academic integrity and the core purpose of English education. Here are some suggested elements to include in your acceptable use policy on your syllabus for your class.
Watch: How to Develop Your Classroom, School, or District AI Policies
How do we confront artificial intelligence from a policy standpoint? How can we have conversations about important AI-related topics to help form these policies over the summer — as we close in on a new school year? Educator AJ Juliani shares several resources that can help guide your efforts. (Links to all resources in the video description.)
Connecting the Classroom to Careers
Connecting the Classroom to Careers Through AI Explorations
It’s important that kids leave our classrooms with real-world knowledge and industry-standard software and technical experience under their belt.
For children growing up right now, AI will undoubtedly be a part of their future lives and jobs. It impacts every field of study in education. So, it’s critical that students understand computational thinking and know how machine learning works.
The Future of jobs report 2023
Video: “What will the future of jobs be like?” It discusses the future of jobs and skills, tracking the pace of change. The video aims to shed light on the pandemic-related disruptions in 2020, contextualized within a more extended history of economic cycles and the expected outlook for technology adoption, jobs, and skills in the next five years.
AI Applications in Various Fields
Five generative AI trends to look for in 2024
By Esther Ajao, TechTarget
The boom will persist as enterprises become acclimated to the technology. More enterprises will start using genAI systems and organizations will incorporate governance measures.
As a year of rapid growth comes to a close, 2024 will be the year of diving deeper into what generative AI and AI technology can do.
Actionable Guides
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence in Schools
WA State adopts generative AI guidelines for schools, and encourages districts to adopt the technology with an eye toward the future
The guidelines note how the technology is already easily accessible to both educators and students and will inevitably impact the learning environment.
The TeachAI Toolkit - Code.org, CoSN, Digital Promise, European EdTech Alliance, and PACE
Serves as foundations for OSPI’s guiding principles on the use of AI in education. This toolkit is designed to help local, state, and national education systems worldwide develop guidance on the responsible use of AI, ensure compliance with relevant policies, and build the capacity of all stakeholders to understand AI and use AI effectively.
Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AIRMF1.0)
By The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
In collaboration with the private and public sectors, NIST has developed a framework to better manage risks to individuals, organizations, and society associated with artificial intelligence (AI). The NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) is intended for voluntary use and to improve the ability to incorporate trustworthiness considerations into the design, development, use, and evaluation of AI products, services, and systems. It also serves as foundations for OSPI’s guiding principles on the use of AI in education.
Planning Guide for AI: A Framework for School Districts
By The AI Lab
Michigan Virtual’s Learning and Research Institute has been tracking the progression of AI for years and now we’re supporting schools in this inevitable technology. Explore our AI Integration Framework, meticulously crafted by Michigan Virtual, designed to assist education leaders in thinking holistically about AI integration. This framework spans crucial considerations across eight key areas, ensuring that you can maximize the potential benefits of AI while minimizing risks.
Go deeper with our Planning Guide for AI, an extension of the framework. This comprehensive guide provides educators with the tools and insights needed to understand their trajectory and progress in AI integration.
K-12 Generative AI Readiness Checklist
By Council of the Great City Schools
This questionnaire is designed to guide K-12 school districts in understanding key factors to consider before
implementing Gen AI technologies.
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) for K-12 initiative (AI4K12)
The initiative is developing (1) national guidelines for AI education for K-12, (2) an online, curated resource Directory to facilitate AI instruction, and (3) a community of practitioners, researchers, resource and tool developers focused on the AI for K-12 audience.
K-12 AI Guidelines
The AI for K-12 guidelines are organized around the 5 Big Ideas in AI. The guidelines will serve as a framework to assist standards writers and curricula developers on AI concepts, essential knowledge, and skills by grade band.
- Big Idea 1 – Perception
- Big Idea 2 – Representation & Reasoning
- Big Idea 3 – Learning
- Big Idea 4 – Natural Interaction
- Big Idea 5 – Societal Impact
AI4K12.org is excited to announce the launch of five new activity resource guides to complement learning objectives outlined in the Big Idea Progression charts.
View Activity Resource Guides for Teaching Artificial Intelligence in K-12 >
Resource Library
YOU AND AI
If you have students asking if they can use ChatGPT (and we’re willing to bet you do), it’s time to do some instruction on artificial intelligence (AI). Blue Apple’s free Timely Topic, You and AI, serves as a great introduction to the transformative power of AI. These four free 15-minute activities will help students understand AI’s potential, and, in particular, how it can help them as students. Do one lesson or do them all!
Disclaimer: ChatGPT requires users be at least 13 years old. Teachers of younger students should follow the suggested modification to utilize this lesson as a whole-class teacher resource.
aiEDU
aiEDU is a non-profit that creates equitable learning experiences that build foundational AI literacy. Whether you have nine weeks or just five minutes, we have an engaging, free curriculum that’s easy to use. Their resources can help inform and education policy-makers, from the classroom to the central office.
Educator considerations for ChatGPT
OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, saw a need for guidance on how the education sector could proceed forward with the existence of ChatGPT. This document is intended to be a starting point for conversations among educators. It includes information about ChatGPT, examples of education-related risks and opportunities, and the importance of disclosing the use of ChatGPT.
MIT RAISE: Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education
RAISE (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education) is a new MIT-wide initiative headquartered in the MIT Media Lab and in collaboration with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MIT Open Learning. It seeks to advance equity in learning, education and computational action to rethink and innovate how to holistically and equitably prepare diverse K-12 students, an inclusive workforce, and lifelong learners to be successful, responsible, and engaged in an increasingly AI-powered society.
Statement from the IB about ChatGPT and artificial intelligence in assessment and education
By International Baccalaureate
Recommended by Stevie Frank @steviefrank and Becky Keene @BeckyKeene
International Baccalaureate was one of the first academic organizations to issue a statement that didn’t condemn the use of ChatGPT and similar AI assistants. Its guidance statement recognizes that it can have a place in teaching and learning, but that students’ work should be their own. It can help guide policy making in schools and school districts.
Ethics
Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
By UNESCO
The General Conference of UNESCO made these recommendations to its member states in 2021 — before ChatGPT was released. It includes values and principles as well as areas of policy action that include ethical impact, data policy, gender, culture, education and research, and more.
Navigating AI bias in the classroom: Tips and experiences
AI is becoming more and more widespread every day. It has its limitations, and it can demonstrate damaging bias in its responses, shining a light on gaps in its dataset.
What can we do? How do we navigate it, and what conversations should we have with our students?
In this live stream with Matt Miller, librarian Jean Darnell (Twitter: @awakenlibrarian) shares thoughts and suggestions. She also discusses how uses AI as a tool to help engage students — and how she uses it in the library.
Additional Reading
Book: The AI Infused Classroom by Holly Clark
Open-source, content-creating AI models are a relatively new addition to the education landscape—and they are the next step for edtech tools. With more than twenty-five years of experience as an educator and as one of the first teachers in the United States to have a 1:1 classroom, bestselling author of the Infused Classroom series, Holly Clark, takes a future-oriented approach to technology integration in education. Through her training and speaking engagements, she equips educators worldwide to effectively use technology, including AI, in their classrooms. And now, with The AI Infused Classroom, she offers a thoughtful, practical guide for navigating the latest iteration of edtech.
Book: The AI Classroom by Dan Fitzpatrick, Amanda Fox, and Brad Weinstein
Are you an educator looking to stay ahead in the ever-changing world of education? Look no further than The AI Classroom, the ultimate guide for navigating the complexities of AI in education. This thought-provoking book provides practical strategies for incorporating AI tools into your teaching practices, while exploring the potential of AI to transform traditional models of teaching and learning. Discover how AI can help you create inclusive and accessible learning environments, personalize learning, reach more students, and get your time back. Let’s unlock the full potential of artificial intelligence and embrace its transformative power to take your craft to the next level!
Funding Opportunities
Remember to research eligibility requirements and deadlines for specific funding opportunities.
Computer Science Teachers Association Grants
Supports professional development & projects
National Science Foundation (NSF): CS in K-12 Programs
Various research & education grants
Google CS First Grants
Supports CS programs for K-12 students
Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI): CS Grants
Grants for Washington schools & teachers