Empowering Classrooms with AI: Strategies for Critical Thinking

Discover four flexible, classroom-ready strategies to integrate generative AI in ways that build student agency, critical thinking, and creativity. In this interactive workshop, participants will explore Evaluating AI Outputs, Remixing AI Responses, Enhancing AI Content, and Conversing with AI—frameworks that help students critique, synthesize, improve, and engage with AI-generated content. Attendees will engage in several hands-on tasks adaptable across grade levels and content areas. While strategies are tool-agnostic and work with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and others, the session includes also includes a hands-on activity using Schoolai, with a special focus on how it ensures student data privacy, online safety, and responsible AI use. Whether you''re just beginning or scaling AI integration across a district, you''ll leave with concrete instructional models and classroom-ready resources to lead thoughtful, ethical implementation.