- 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
- Apply the AILit Framework to school scenarios, identifying decision domains, forming domain-first questions, and using reflection loops to guide safeguards, communication, and responsible AI use.
Upon completion of this module, you'll be able to:
- Analyze an AI-related scenario and identify the primary decision domain using the TeachAI framework.
- Select a domain-aligned question that clarifies responsibility before choosing a tool.
- Design a short explanation that uses the framework language to support shared understanding across roles.
- Plan one safeguard or integrity norm that aligns with the domain and scenario.
ISTE Standards for Educators:
- Educator - Analyst
- Educator - Designer
- Educator - Facilitator
- Educator - Leader
- Educator - Learner
- Educator - Collaborator
- Leaders - Connected learner
- Leaders - Empowering leader
- Leaders - Equity and citizenship advocate
- Leaders - Systems designer
- 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
UNESCO AI Competency Framework:
- A human-centered mindset
- AI foundations and applications
- AI pedagogy
- Educators learn to use AI, generative AI, and Microsoft tools to personalize learning, automate tasks, and provide insights for education.
Upon completion of this module, you'll be able to:
- Describe generative AI in the broader context of AI in terms of how these systems work and what they can do.
- Explain what a large language model (LLM) is and the basics of how it works.
- Use generative and summative capabilities of LLMs (generate text, expand from main points, condense into main points, answer questions based on given text, etc.).
- Summarize potential impacts.
- Explain how AI can be used to improve learning outcomes, reduce educator workload, and increase learner engagement.
- Explain how the use of AI can help make learning more accessible and inclusive.
ISTE Standards for Educators:
Educator - Designer
Educator - Learner
UNESCO Standards for Educators:
Application of Digital skills
Organization and Administration
Understanding ICT in Education
UNESCO AI Competency Framework:
A human-centered mindset
Ethics of AI
AI foundations and applications
AI pedagogy
AI for professional development
- This module is designed to introduce educators to the powerful AI tools that Microsoft offers to educators and learners for free.
Upon completion of this module, you'll be able to:
- Use AI tools to streamline workflows and focus more on teaching
- Use AI tools to provide detailed feedback and personalized learning experiences
- Create engaging lesson plans and interactive lessons with the help of AI tools
- Use AI tools to improve coding skills
- Use AI tools to develop learners' future-ready skills
ISTE Standards for Educators:
Educator - Designer
Educator - Facilitator
Leaders - Systems Designer
UNESCO Standards for Educators:
- Understanding ICT in Education
UNESCO AI Competency Framework:
A human-centered mindset
Ethics of AI
AI foundations and applications
AI pedagogy
AI for professional development
- 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
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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
- Understand the AI Literacy Framework, in partnership with ISTE+ASCD
- Introduction
- Introduction to the AI Literacy Framework
- Understand the AI Literacy Framework
- Use the AI Literacy Framework to clarify decisions
- Use shared language to support better AI decisions
- Module assessment
- Summary
- Empower educators to explore the potential of artificial intelligence
- Introduction
- Introduction to AI
- Generative AI
- Large language models
- Use AI-powered image generation capabilities effectively
- AI in education
- AI tools for educators and accessibility
- Module assessment
- Summary
- Embark on your AI journey with free AI tools from Microsoft Education
- Introduction
- Bring opportunity to schools with AI tools
- Work efficiently with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
- Unlock learners' full potential with Learning Accelerators
- Save time with Microsoft Teams for Education
- Build AI literacy and digital citizenship with Minecraft Education's AI Foundations
- Maximize class preparation time with Khanmigo for Teachers
- Improve coding skills with GitHub Copilot
- Get started with AI tools in school
- 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