As technology continues to evolve, incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT can enhance classroom experiences and foster critical thinking skills among students.
If you’re starting to wade into AI, I recommend starting with AI Pedagogy Project’s AI Starter Guide and the Large Language Model Tutorial. These guides will help you quickly get up to speed on how generative AI models work and how to start thinking about incorporating them into your classroom.
Then, dive into Arianna Prothero’s “What Is Age-Appropriate Use of AI? 4 Developmental Stages to Know About” to understand how to add AI to early elementary, upper elementary, middle school, and high school curricula.
Prompts for Teachers
AI4ALL
AI4ALL Open Learning offers free curriculum and teacher resources so that educators of any subject can increase access to AI education in their communities. The AI4ALL Open Learning curriculum is interdisciplinary and approachable for people without CS or math backgrounds.
AI for Education Prompt Library
Prompt library for educators to help with lesson planning, administrative tasks, communication, and more.
AI Resources by More Useful Things
Prompts created by Ethan Mollick and Lilach Mollick (Wharton) to help instructors prepare and teach — and prompts that can be used as part of student exercises.
Ready to incorporate AI into your curriculum?
Here are some resources to help you get started in building a spiraling curriculum to teach students about AI.
aiEDU
aiEDU is a non-profit that creates equitable learning experiences that build foundational AI literacy.
AI for Education
Curriculum, prompts, resources, and more for educators interested in using AI in and outside the classroom
AI Literacy Lessons for Grades 6–12 (Common Sense Media)
Quick lessons (20 minutes or less) to give students an intro to AI , its potential risks and benefits, and how to think critically to be ethical and responsible users of AI.
AI Pedagogy Project
The AI Pedagogy Project, created by the metaLAB (at) Harvard and FU Berlin, seeks to demystify AI, encouraging critical engagement and creative AI applications in education.
CRAFT
Classroom-Ready Resources About AI For Teaching (CRAFT) is a co-design initiative from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Free AI literacy resources to help you teach high school students in all subject areas to understand and question Artificial Intelligence.
Critical AI Literacy
Resources by Maha Bali on teaching the elements and dimensions of critical AI literacy.
DAILy Curriculum
The DAILy curriculum, developed by a team of researchers at MIT RAISE, features 4 units for hands-on and computer-based activities on AI concepts, ethical issues in AI, creative expression using AI, and how AI relates to your future.
Day of AI
Developed by a team of researchers at MIT RAISE, these free resources are designed to be taught by educators with little or no technology background. Activities are organized by age group (elementary, middle school, and high school) and can be run in 30-minute to 1-hour time blocks.
MIT AI Ethics Curriculum for Middle School Students
Developed by a team of researchers at MIT RAISE, the AI & Ethics Project has developed an open source curriculum for middle school students on artificial intelligence and its ethical implications.
RAISE Playground
A block-based programming platform that lets anyone use machine learning models, robotics, and AI engines to make projects.
TeachAI
TeachAI, a collaboration between Code.org and other organizations, provides a toolkit for schools working on AI guidance policies.
Teaching AI Ethics
Resource for K-12 teachers on teaching AI ethics, developed by Leon Furze.
Teaching with AI, by Open.AI
Open.AI, the creator of ChatGPT, has published an online guide for educators using generative AI in their classroom—including suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias.