AI for Educators

The highest-value, lowest-risk use: producing the resources that currently cost you evenings.

3 lessons · 18 min

1. 1.1Lesson resources, properly briefedYou can brief a tool so its first draft of a resource is usable with your class, and catch the subject error in it before thirty students copy it down9 min
2. 1.2Differentiation and inclusionYou can produce three versions of one task that differ in the support they offer rather than the thinking they demand, with no student identifiable in the prompt4 min
3. 1.3The admin around the teachingYou can turn a plan you have already written into a parent-facing summary and a cover lesson, and say which part of a report comment you still have to write yourself5 min

Where AI helps with the volume, and where handing it over damages the thing feedback exists to do.

3 lessons · 20 min

1. 2.1Rubrics and modellingYou can write a rubric in language a student can act on, then test it on two real scripts before anyone else sees it10 min
2. 2.2Feedback: the part to keepYou can run whole-class feedback and comment restructuring without a single script leaving your room, and state which parts of marking may not be assisted at all5 min
3. 2.3Assessment that survives AIYou can redesign one unsupervised task so that a competent chatbot answer to it would score badly5 min

A defensible position to hold with a class, and a straight answer about detection tools.

3 lessons · 19 min

1. 3.1What detectors are actually worthYou can hold a defensible line when a detector flags a student, and run the conversation that a score cannot replace5 min
2. 3.2Giving students a position they can useYou can state a per-task AI position students can actually follow, and run the exercise that makes a class distrust a generated reference list4 min
3. 3.3Data protection in a school contextYou can decide in one pass whether something about a student may go into a tool, and rewrite it so that the answer becomes yes10 min