Gateway AI in EDU Summit

Move beyond automated answers. Discover how to transform AI into a cognitive partner that deepens pedagogical reflection and challenges instructional assumptions. This session focuses on the 'back-and-forth' dialogue — moving educators from simple retrieval to productive struggle — ensuring professional judgment and mission remain at the heart of the machine.

Participants learn how to use and adapt a classroom-tested student-facing AI master prompt so AI becomes a thinking partner — not an answer machine — for student projects. The master prompt is designed to help students build critical thinking skills by guiding them to ask questions, define problems, generate their own ideas, explain their thinking, and revise their work. Participants adapt the prompt for their own grade level, content area, and district-approved AI tool.

Participants learn a simple set of AI Modes and use them to work through a real instructional task. They analyze a sample AI conversation, identify where mode shifts happen, and apply the same process to their own work. Using a short pre-production plan, a live AI conversation, and reflection, participants create a classroom-ready artifact while making their thinking visible — and leave with a workflow they can adapt for student AI use.