Your students are already prompting ChatGPT for homework, generating images for fun, talking to voice assistants without a second thought. For most of us, it hasn’t been that easy to keep up, and it’s hard to guide kids on something you’re still getting comfortable with yourself.
That’s what this section is for. Every month, we’ll cover what’s happening in AI that matters for schools, news and trends in plain language, activities you can run with students, a few interactive games that are genuinely fun to mess around with (and yes, you’ll learn something too), and breakdowns of concepts like how machines learn, what ‘training data’ means, and why these things are showing up in school syllabi. We’ll also get into what ‘AI skills’ actually look like at different ages and how teachers can start building them in themselves and in their students, one step at a time.

Some of it will be practical. Some of it will change how you think about things. And some of it is just fun to know. Either way, the next time someone says “so what’s the deal with AI in education?” — you’ll have a better answer than “it’s complicated.”
More next month