Exploration Archives

  • AI for Active Learning (Sept 2025)

    Exploration Document
    In this Exploration, you are a teacher using the AI to provide you with ideas and suggestions for activities you can use with your students in your classroom.

  • AI for Alternative Assessment (Nov 2025)

    Exploration Document
    In this Exploration, you will work with a frontier LLM of your choice to create AI-resistant alternative assessments to improve upon—or even replace—assessment methods that are less likely to be useful in the AI age.

  • AI for Critical Thinking (Feb 2026)

    Exploration Document
    The two prompt frameworks below aim to help learners leverage AI to complete specific educational tasks while also pushing them to do the work and the thinking by themselves. Each set of prompts will guide learners to generate two chatbots to work with simultaneously: one that will act as your tutor through the steps of your process and another that will demand you think critically about your own learning and thinking throughout.

  • AI for Differentiation & Personalization (Jan 2025)

    Exploration Doc
    Choose a topic from your course and use the following prompts to help your students understand the topic and develop their skills in your course.

  • Discipline Specific Explorations (Feb 2025)

  • AI for Engagement (May 2025)

    Exploration Doc
    This Exploration is designed to help you find a creative and engaging way to present your course material.

  • AI for Feedback (March 2025)

    Exploration Doc
    This exploration includes a collection of prompts, follow-ups, and reflections in an attempt to maximize the potential of using AI to give feedback on student work.

  • AI for Instructional Design (Sept 2026)

    Exploration Doc
    One of the biggest concerns we hear from teachers about AI lesson design is that the outputs are often boring and uninspiring. It usually takes quite a few questions and responses before you get something unique and engaging. As such, we designed this two-part Exploration for you to first provide context about your teaching style and your classroom before you ask for unit plans, materials, activities, and assessments.

  • AI for Interdisciplinary Instruction (March 2026)

    Exploration Document
    This exploration asked educators to work with a team in real time to co-design an interdisciplinary assignment of their choosing.

  • AI for Intervention (Jan 2026)

    Exploration Document
    For this Exploration, we’re testing the extent to which LLMs can support teachers as they intervene when students encounter challenges. First, choose a student situation from your classroom where you're seeing academic or behavioral challenges. Then, use the prompts below to develop intervention strategies and prepare communication with learning specialists, parents, or students.

  • AI Live (Summer 2026)

    AI for Alternative Assessment LIVE
    AI for Intervention LIVE
    For these explorations, educators worked LIVE. These two prompts are meant to be used with a group in real time, leading to hands-on exploration and lively discussion.

  • AI for Lesson Design (Sept 2024)

    Exploration Doc
    Choose a topic from your course and use the prompts below to prepare/augment a lesson plan or unit plan.

  • AI for Metacognition (Nov 2024)

    Exploration Doc
    Explore the possibilities of using Artificial Intelligence to support learners in developing metacognitive skills (not just what to learn, but how to learn).

  • AI Out Loud (Dec 2025)

    Exploration Document
    For this Exploration, we’re asking you to put yourself in your student’s shoes and complete a two-part Exploration where you (as the student) prepare for an oral assessment (e.g. discussion/debate, presentation, etc.) in a class.

  • AI for PD (April 2026)

    Exploration Document
    In part 1 of this Exploration, you will work with the LLM of your choosing to design PD for yourself based on something you’re passionate about or would like to learn more about. In part 2 of this Exploration, you will partner with the LLM of your choosing to design a PD experience for your team (department, division, grade-level team, etc.).

  • AI for Prompting and Meta-Prompting (Oct 2025)

    Exploration Document
    Who understands LLMs (Large Language Models) well enough to write excellent prompts? LLMs themselves! Get ready, this one is going to be ‘meta.’ AI for Prompting and Meta-Prompting is a broad “umbrella exploration” that helps with every use-case.

  • AI for Research (April 2025)

    Exploration Doc
    For this Exploration, your task is to see how effective AI can be in helping students learn how to research.

  • AI as Tutor/Student (Oct 2024)

    Exploration Doc
    This exploration has two parts - AI as Tutor and AI as student - to help you consider how students can use AI tools to build understanding of content, demonstrate their knowledge, and engage in higher order thinking by taking on the role of teacher.

  • AI for Vibe Coding (May 2026)

    Exploration Document
    In this exploration, you will experiment with building a web-based tool (or web-app) that would be helpful to you and/or your students. You will be building with code but you won’t be programming in the traditional sense; instead you are the Software Architect.on goes here