Understand
What AI actually is, how it works under the hood, and where that differs from the hype.
AI 101 for Educators
CodeAI's free, self-paced course that starts you on the path to digital fluency, and to teaching it with confidence. Understand AI so your students can too.
Updated for 2026
Refreshed content reflects how AI is showing up in classrooms today.
Self-paced
Move through on your schedule. Start today, finish over a weekend or a semester.
Free
No cost; no district approval needed to get started.
Made for this moment
Self-paced
Move through on your schedule. Start today, finish over a weekend or a semester.
Updated for 2026
Refreshed content reflects how AI is showing up in classrooms today.
Free
No cost; no district approval needed to get started.
Digital fluency, for the people teaching it
Most educators are being asked to have an opinion on AI before anyone's taught them how it works. This course closes that gap. Not with another tool tutorial, but with building digital fluency so you can understand, direct, question, and create with AI in your own practice and classroom.
Understand
What AI actually is, how it works under the hood, and where that differs from the hype.
Direct
How to put AI to work deliberately in your own planning and teaching, instead of letting it drive.
Question
How to spot bias, evaluate outputs, and know when to trust an AI tool and when not to.
Create
How to build AI into original lessons and assessments, not just bolt it onto what you already do.
Direct
How to put AI to work deliberately in your own planning and teaching, instead of letting it drive.
Question
How to spot bias, evaluate outputs, and know when to trust an AI tool and when not to.
Create
How to build AI into original lessons and assessments, not just bolt it onto what you already do.
What's covered
Five modules, about an hour each — roughly five hours to work through in total.
Suggested order is built for teachers new to AI, but every module stands on its own, so jump to what your classroom needs first.
Introducing AI for Educators
What AI is, and what it's already changing about your role. You'll come away able to name the real benefits and risks in a school setting, and describe why digital fluency — not just AI use — is the goal for you and your students.
60 min
Understanding AI
The foundational concepts: what AI is, how large language models actually work, and the misconceptions worth unlearning first.
60 min
Transforming Teaching with AI
Where AI can genuinely support your practice — planning, communication, reflection — and how to write and refine prompts that get you something worth using.
60 min
Bringing AI to the Classroom
The AI Literacy Framework, and how to bring AI to your students in ways that support diverse learners, protect academic integrity, and hold up under real assessment.
60 min
Ensuring a Responsible Approach to AI
Misinformation, bias, and data privacy: how to spot them in AI outputs, respond to them, and model responsible use for your students.
60 min
AI 101 for Teachers
Discover the groundbreaking world of artificial intelligence (AI) and its transformative potential in education with our foundational online learning series for teachers.
Presented by
See the 2023 video series that started it all
While it’s now an entire professional development course, AI 101 started as a video series featuring Code.org, ETS, ISTE, and Khan Academy. The self-paced course above is the best and fastest way to build digital fluency — these sessions are here for additional perspectives on the topics covered in the course.
Presented by
Fireside Chat with Sal Khan and Hadi Partovi
Pairs with Module 1: Introducing AI for Educators
Two of the people shaping how AI shows up in schools, talking through the tension of the moment — including the parts nobody agrees on yet.
Demystifying AI for Educators
Pairs with Module 2: Understanding AI
The long-form version of "how AI actually works" — useful if Module 2 left you wanting more before you move on.
Companion guide:
Transforming Learning with AI
Pairs with Module 3: Transforming Teaching with AI
A closer look at where AI and pedagogy genuinely reinforce each other, for when you want more than the module's prompt-writing practice.
Companion guide:
Bringing AI to the Classroom
Pairs with Module 4: Bringing AI to the Classroom
More detail on evaluating AI tools and using AI for student assessment, if you want a second pass before you bring any of this to your students.
Ensuring a Responsible Approach to AI
Pairs with Module 5: Ensuring a Responsible Approach to AI
This session focuses on teaching about AI, evaluating and utilizing AI educational tools, and leveraging AI for student assessment.
Companion guide:
More ways to learn about AI
Slide deck
Large Language Model Prompts for Educators
Tools for getting the best possible output from LLMs like ChatGPT, from beginner to advanced. Includes starter prompts for those just dipping their toes in, as well as advanced tools for those looking to maximize their potential.
Video series
How AI Works
These lessons supplement the How AI Works video series. Each lesson is paired with a single video from the series, diving-deeper into the concepts introduced in the videos.
Curriculum
AI Curricula
Explore our broad range of artificial intelligence (AI) curriculum offerings that explore the impacts, applications, and ethics of AI. Available for different grade levels and diverse needs.
Student tool
ETS’s Criterion Interactive
This AI-powered writing platform coaches learners through five critical phases of the writing process: Prepare/Plan, Write, Revise, Edit, Reflect, providing iterative feedback throughout.
Educator course
AI Explorations for Educators
This 15-hour online course from ISTE guides K-12 educators on the essentials of AI for teaching and learning. The course is offered three times per year and is fully asynchronous with the ongoing support of an expert instructor.
Educator tool
Khanmigo
Khan Academy’s artificial intelligence powered teaching aid, Khanmigo, allows teachers to stop spending time on prep tasks they don’t love, and give them more time focusing on what they do love—teaching.
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