Evaluating AI in Education
“How do I critically assess AI tools and guide students in their use?”
With 36% of teachers receiving no AI training at all, schools face a widening readiness gap. This pathway ensures every educator can evaluate AI tools critically, protect student data, and model the thoughtful technology use we want students to develop.
8 series
2 foundation · 3 applied · 3 electives
AI Evaluation & Integration Certificate
Your Learning Path
The course is composed of the following series. Complete each and personalize your learning by choosing an elective. When you are ready, submit your capstone and coursework to earn your certificate.
F
— Timeless knowledge that grounds everything
Learning LAB
7 partsLearn key learning-science principles, apply evidence-based approaches, and strengthen your pedagogy, confidence, and student outcomes.
Included in this series
AI Essentials for the Teacher
15 partsAI tools may be trained on data—but you're trained in people. That's the real superpower.
Included in this series
A
— Put foundations into practice and apply what you've learned in your own classroom.
AI in the Classroom
13 partsEquip teachers with critical perspectives, foundational knowledge, and simple classroom practices to ensure human agency, student voice, and human dignity remain central in any AI use in education.
Included in this series
AI in Practice: Tools, Ethics, Honest Tradeoffs
Move beyond AI basics to practical classroom applications while honestly confronting the ethical, environmental, and equity tensions of AI adoption — including the contradiction of promoting both environmental responsibility and energy-intensive AI tools.
AI as a Teaching Partner (Workflows)
Master specific AI workflows for the daily work of teaching — lesson planning, material creation, feedback drafting, differentiation, and communication — with a critical eye on quality, accuracy, and when AI output needs human judgment.
E
— You will pick 1 elective(s) that best matches your context and interests!
Teaching Students to think WITH AI (Not Just Use It)
Equip teachers to help students develop the literacies, critical evaluation skills, and productive human-AI collaboration strategies — so students use AI to stretch their thinking rather than shortcut it.
AI for Content Creation and Research
Use AI tools to support teacher professional learning — research synthesis, content curation, resource creation, and keeping up with evidence — while maintaining critical evaluation and academic integrity.
Ethical Deep Dive into AI in Education
Go deep into the ethical dimensions of AI that most PD glosses over — environmental costs (water, energy, carbon), the human labor behind AI (content moderation, data labeling), algorithmic bias in education tools, data sovereignty, and the geopolitics of AI. Develop a personal ethical framework for technology decisions.
Capstone & certificate
Capstone reflection
Review your artifacts, notice patterns in your growth, and describe where you started, what you practiced, and where you are headed.
Where I started
What I learned through practice
Where I'm going
Your certificate includes
Certificate title: AI Evaluation & Integration Certificate
Documented learning and application time
Series completed with competency statements
Alignment with professional teaching standards
A shareable record of your work
Portfolio — cover page, competency map, artifacts, and capstone reflection together describe what you did and what changed in your practice.
AI Evaluation & Integration Certificate
A portfolio-friendly record of your work across our Evaluating AI in Education course.
Build understanding through snacks, materials, and mini-experiments across each series.
Document classroom try-outs and reflections as artifacts you can reuse in a PLC.
Connect research to practice with structured prompts in every learning series.
Earn a certificate title backed by documented hours and completed series.
See how foundations, applied work, and electives add up to one coherent story.
Assemble portfolio pieces—competency map, artifacts, and capstone—for district conversations.
