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Summer AI Series: Teaching Students to Use AI Ethically and Effectively

July 08, 2025 • SREB • Season 1 • Episode 28

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In this final episode of season one, Ashley Shaw and guest Leslie Eaves, SREB’s director of project-based learning, explore Pillar 4 of SREB’s Guidance for the Use of AI in the K12 Classroom: ethical and proficient student use of AI.

Ashley and Leslie discuss why it's not enough for educators to simply use AI—we need to help students use it responsibly, too. From media literacy to writing support to prompt engineering, this episode explores the skills students need to succeed with AI now and in the future.

🧩 Topics include:

What “proficient AI use” really looks like in K-12
The importance of digital citizenship and ethical conversations
Why schools should create teams to help create AI policies - and include students and teachers on those teams

🗂️ Resources:

Also available on YouTube if you prefer video
Download the free report: https://www.sreb.org/publication/guidance-use-ai-k-12-classroom-0
Get the free AI checklist: https://www.sreb.org/publication/ai-tool-procurement-implementation-and-evaluation-checklist

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