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Elevate Educator - Explorer (AI)

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  • Classroom teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators learn to use AI in their roles supporting students, teachers, and school systems.

    Upon completion of this module, you'll be able to:

    • Explain what AI can and can't do using clear, tool-focused language that avoids treating AI like a person.
    • Analyze the difference between AI-generated outputs and human judgment in common educator scenarios.
    • Categorize tasks into three buckets: appropriate for AI support, appropriate with human oversight, or not appropriate for AI use.
    • Plan integrity norms, including verification, privacy, and transparency, when AI is involved in educator work.
    • Design simple explanations of AI use that keep responsibility visible for students, colleagues, and families.

    ISTE Standards for Educators:

    • Educator - Analyst
    • Educator - Designer
    • Educator - Learner
    • Leaders - Equity and Citizenship Advocate
    • Leaders - Visionary Planner UNESCO Standards for Educators:
    • Application of digital skills
    • Curriculum and assessment
    • Organization and Administration
    • Pedagogy
    • Teacher professional learning
    • Understanding ICT in education
  • Educators learn to use AI responsibly by building accurate mental models and a simple reflection routine.

    Upon completion of this module, you'll be able to:

    • Document an AI-supported decision using a short, repeatable decision log.
    • Analyze outcomes over time and identify one pattern that suggests an adjustment.
    • Select one adjustment that increases learning quality, integrity, privacy, or trust.
    • Design a short explanation that communicates what the system did and what the educator decided.
    • Design simple explanations of AI use that keep responsibility visible for students, colleagues, and families.

    ISTE Standards for Educators:

    • Educator - Leader
    • Educator - Learner
    • Educator - Collaborator
    • Educator - Designer
    • Educator - Facilitator
    • Leaders - Empowering Leader

    UNESCO Standards for Educators:

    • Application of digital skills
    • Pedagogy
    • Teacher professional learning

    UNESCO AI Competency Framework:

    • AI foundations and applications
    • AI pedagogy
    • AI for professional development

Syllabus

  • Know where to leverage AI in your classroom
    • Introduction
    • What is AI, really?
    • Build an accurate mental model of AI
    • Keep responsibility visible in AI-supported decisions
    • Apply judgment to AI use
    • Module assessment
    • Summary
  • Build a reflective AI practice over time
    • Introduction
    • When outcomes change over time
    • Use reflection to learn from AI decisions
    • Build a reflective AI practice over time
    • Share reflection-based decisions
    • Module assessment
    • Summary

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