A Teacher's Guide to Using AI

Whether you're curious about artificial intelligence, skeptical of it, or somewhere in between, you've seen how AI is changing how students write, create, access information, make sense of the world, and interact with others. Mandates about AI are reaching districts and schools across the country. Meanwhile, teachers are under enormous pressure to respond. You might find yourself asking, How do I use AI? or Should I embrace AI or resist it?  But perhaps the most important questions are:  When should we use AI? When should we not?  What can AI make possible, and what might it take away from the heart/art of teaching and learning? Meenoo Rami's A Teacher's Guide to Using AI is a practical, balanced, and deeply affirming guide to answering the questions above.  Understanding AI needs to come before adopting it, and that is what A Teacher's Guide to Using AI can help you with. Rather than treating AI as an inevitable solution or a threat to be feared, educator and technology leaderMeenoo Rami helps you to trust your professional expertise and make informed decisions about . . . whether, when, and how AI can genuinely strengthen teaching and learning what AI is, what it can and cannot do, and how it can spread misinformation, reproduce bias, collect data, and affect creativity if, when, and how AI can be used to save time, plan instruction, adapt materials, communicate with caregivers, analyze student work, and provide feedback how AI may shortcut thinking, weaken relationships, or interfere with the productive struggle that learning requires how to help students use AI responsibly, protecting their voices, curiosity, and academic integrity navigating classroom expectations, school policies, equity concerns, and the ethical questions AI introduces Timely, immediately useful, and packed with real-world classroom examples, this book offers teachers knowledge and confidence to use AI with purpose, question it with clarity, refuse it when necessary, and protect what matters most: human connection, meaningful learning, and teachers' and students' agency.…