Professional development · AI Foundations for Educators
Teaching How Computers Think — grades 3-5
5.0 contact hours · 5 modules · Asynchronous, self-paced, online
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Learning objectives
What a participant can do afterwards
- Define automation, machine learning, and generative AI in student-safe language.
- Identify and correct common myths about AI capabilities.
- Produce a one-page Classroom AI Literacy Statement for grades 3-5.
Module agenda
300 contact minutes, itemised
| Module | Title | Components | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What this curriculum actually claims | Overview, Walkthrough, Practice | 60 |
| 2 | Teaching Units 1 and 2 without a computer | Overview, Walkthrough, Practice | 60 |
| 3 | The hard conversations | Overview, Walkthrough, Practice | 60 |
| 4 | Assessment and AI use in your classroom | Overview, Walkthrough, Practice, Check | 60 |
| 5 | Your first two weeks | Overview, Walkthrough, Artifact, Reflection | 60 |
| Total | 300 minutes (5.0 contact hours) | ||
Required artifact
Module 5 — Your first two weeks
Participants produce a dated pacing plan for their own class: a day-by-day table across the first two weeks with real dates, the materials and evidence for each period, the adaptations their roster needs, and a written AI-use rule. It is specific enough that a covering colleague could teach from it.
Format and provider
- Provider
- Schoolhouse
- Format
- Asynchronous, self-paced, online
- Version
- v1.0 · as of 2026-08
- Contact hours
- 5.0