Checking in with aiEDU’s Trailblazers

Year two of aiEDU’s Trailblazers Fellowship — which builds AI Readiness with a cohort of school teachers from across the U.S. — is underway. 

Teachers met in November and this month to engage in discussion, implement aiEDU’s curricular products, and look at ways to improve their classrooms’ AI Readiness. 

In November and December, Trailblazer fellows engaged in peer video review protocols, sharing their instruction and classroom plans with each other. 

A meeting of aiEDU’s Trailblazer fellows

aiEDU has identified strategies for teachers to strengthen facilitation of their materials to cultivate AI Literacy and build AI Readiness, and to support teachers in building the concepts into their curriculum. 

Mandy Johnson, a Year 1 fellow and a teacher at Cambridge Virtual Academy in Anaheim Union High School District, said the discussion was particularly valuable because fellows were able to hear from Connor Mulvaney, a teacher at Polson High School in Polson, Montana, who is in the second year of aiEDU’s Trailblazers fellowship. 

“I appreciated getting to see Connor's (a Year 2 Fellow’s) example and the discussion,” Johnson said. 

Mulvaney shared a video of how he used aiEDU’s AI snapshots in his AP Computer Science Principles Class.

The Trailblazers cohort will meet again early next year. 

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