Practical AI for Teachers: From Concepts to Classroom Practice

Target Audience:

Teachers, academic researchers, and education technology practitioners.

Objectives:

• Gain a solid understanding of foundational AI concepts relevant to education

• Explore practical use cases of AI in real classroom settings

• Engage in hands-on activities to experience AI tools directly

• Develop actionable ideas for integrating AI into educational practice

✅ Workshop Schedule (A half day)

13:00 – 13:45 | AI Essentials for Teachers

• Introduction to the goals and structure of the workshop

• Understanding AI basics and history

• The current state of AI in education worldwide

• AI tools and services

13:45 – 14:30 | Practice 1: Let’s be students: solving assignments

• Purpose:
  • Explore the AI tools students can use and discover what they can do with AI.

• How to carry out:
  • Each participant will be shared with homework examples by subject or their own assignments(?) and practice solving them using AI tools.

🔹 Break Time (14:30–14:50)

14:50 – 15:50 | Practice 2: Evaluate the assignments and design a new assignment for future classes.

• Purpose:
  • Understand the challenges of identifying an AI-generated assignment and of evaluating student assignments.
  • Explore the AI tools available to teachers and discover their potential in education.

• How to carry out:
  • Each participant will use AI tools to grade Practice 1 assignments from their peers.
  • Each participant will design a new assignment intended for use in their future classes.

15:50–16:30 | Sharing session: Ideas for future homework creation.

• Each participant will present the assignment they designed and explain why it is a well-designed task.

📌 Required Materials

• A laptop for each participant

• Wi-Fi access