AI in Education: Teaching and Learning with AI
Use a chat assistant to plan lessons, make materials, give feedback and tutor, while redesigning assessment, protecting learners' privacy and teaching students to use AI well.
Beginner · AI in Industry · about 10 hours · 4 modules · certificate on completion
Taught by Zinhlée Khumàlo, Nkirukà Ezenwà, AI Learning Companions.
About this course
Chat assistants can save teachers hours of planning and preparation, and can help every learner get explanations, practice and feedback. They can also make mistakes, invite shortcuts and put learners' data at risk. This course shows how to get the benefits while keeping your professional judgement in charge. You'll plan lessons and make differentiated materials with an assistant, and check them for accuracy, level and bias. You'll draft feedback against your success criteria and build a Socratic tutor that helps learners think rather than handing them answers, testing it the way learners will use it. You'll redesign assessment for a world where AI can write a passable essay: assessing process, setting clear rules on permitted use, and responding fairly when misuse is suspected, without relying on unreliable AI detectors. Finally, you'll make materials more accessible, follow privacy law and school policy, and teach learners how AI works and how to use it honestly. Each lab produces something you can use in your own teaching, and the course ends with an AI-ready unit of work.
What you'll learn
- Plan lessons and create differentiated materials with an AI assistant, and check them before they reach learners
- Draft feedback and build AI tutors that guide learners to think rather than giving them answers
- Redesign assessments for a world with AI, with clear rules on permitted use and fair responses to suspected misuse
- Use AI to make learning more accessible and inclusive, within privacy law and school policy
- Teach learners how AI works, where it fails and how to use and acknowledge it honestly
Skills you'll gain
Lesson planning with AI, Creating learning materials, AI-assisted feedback, AI tutoring, Assessment design, Academic integrity, Accessibility and inclusion, AI literacy teaching
Tools
Claude or another chat assistant
Before you start
None: this course is for teachers, lecturers, tutors and teaching assistants at any level. You need access to a chat assistant such as Claude, under a plan your school allows. Have a topic you teach in mind for the labs, and your school's AI or data-protection policy if it has one.
Modules
Lesson planning and materials
Plan lessons with an assistant, create worksheets, quizzes and texts at different levels, and check everything before it reaches learners.
- Planning lessons with an AI assistant (12 min)
- Creating materials and resources (12 min)
- Checking AI-made materials (10 min)
- Hands-on lab: Plan a lesson and check its materials
Feedback and tutoring
Draft feedback learners can act on, build AI tutors that guide rather than tell, and test them the way learners will really use them.
- AI-assisted feedback (12 min)
- AI tutors that help learners think (12 min)
- Testing and improving a tutor (10 min)
- Hands-on lab: Build and test a Socratic tutor
Assessment design and academic integrity
See what AI can do with your assignments, set clear rules on permitted use, respond fairly to suspected misuse, and redesign tasks so they show real learning.
- How AI changes assessment (10 min)
- Academic integrity in the age of AI (12 min)
- Redesigning an assignment (12 min)
- Hands-on lab: Redesign an assignment for a world with AI
Inclusion, privacy and teaching students about AI
Use AI to make learning more accessible without widening gaps, follow privacy law and school policy, and teach learners how AI works and how to use it honestly.
- Accessibility and inclusion (12 min)
- Privacy and school policies (12 min)
- Teaching students about AI (12 min)
Project: An AI-ready unit of work
Plan a short unit of three to five lessons on a topic you teach, or would like to teach, using a chat assistant where it helps and your professional judgement throughout. The unit should include lesson plans and checked materials; an accessible version of its key resources; a tested AI tutor or feedback workflow; an assessment designed for a world with AI, with clear rules on permitted use and a rubric; an activity that builds learners' AI literacy; and a privacy note that follows your school's policy or, if it has none, the principles from this course. Use no real learners' names or data.
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