AI in the Classroom: ChatGPT and Beyond

Generative AI is changing how teachers plan, how students write and how schools think about assessment. This course gives you a clear, practical understanding of tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and education-specific AI apps. You will practise prompting for lesson planning, creating differentiated materials and generating feedback, and you will design learning activities in which students use AI critically. We also cover AI ethics, data protection under the GDPR and the EU AI Act, school AI policies and how to talk to parents. Participants leave with prompts, activities and a draft AI guideline for their school. Suitable for teachers of all subjects in secondary education and for school leaders; no technical background needed.

Participants will be able to use generative AI tools effectively and safely for planning, differentiation and feedback, design classroom activities that develop students' critical AI literacy, and contribute to an AI policy for their school.

Methods: hands-on labs with AI tools, prompt engineering exercises, case discussions, design of classroom activities, visit to an Estonian school using AI, policy workshop. Assessment: portfolio of prompts and activities, peer review of a designed AI-supported lesson, final presentation, daily self-assessment.

Course handbook, prompt library for teachers, activity templates, AI policy template, EU AI Act and GDPR summary for schools, access to selected AI tools during the course (free tiers), reading list. Participants bring a laptop.

25 hours of training, course materials, certificate of attendance, Europass Mobility and Learning Agreement support, old town guided tour, visit to a digital innovation hub, coffee breaks, pre-departure info pack.