AI Literacy for Educators: Implementing the Massachusetts Framework

IGC 706

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This course builds the foundational AI literacy Massachusetts educators need to navigate a rapidly changing technological landscape with confidence and ethical clarity. Grounded in DESE's 2025 AI Guidance for K–12 Educators and the five core principles of equity, transparency, academic integrity, human oversight, and student data privacy, participants examine how artificial intelligence works, evaluate AI tools against a structured framework, and develop a personal AI teaching philosophy and classroom policy.

Explain how generative AI works at a conceptual level, including capabilities, limitations, and distinctions between types of educational AI tools.
Apply DESE's five core AI principles as a consistent evaluative lens for tools, practices, and classroom policy decisions.
Conduct a structured evaluation of AI tools appropriate for K–12 use, analyzing bias, privacy, cost, accessibility, and instructional value.
Develop a personal AI teaching philosophy grounded in professional values and aligned to DESE's Generative AI Policy Guidance (2025).
Draft a classroom AI use policy in accessible language for students and families, aligned to DESE's regulatory guidance.