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ELE Activity Packets

Print-ready handout packets for Gen AI literacy, digital citizenship, and media literacy, from kindergarten through college, plus professional learning for teachers, coaches, and leaders. Every packet runs with no devices: cut-apart cards, card sorts, worksheets, readings, and a facilitator key on the last page. Packets are also available in Spanish and Vietnamese.

Each one comes from the TCEA ELE Activity Bank, where you'll find the full facilitator guide, step-by-step directions, and alignment to the TCEA Essential Learning Expectations, TEKS, ELPS, and UDL.

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Grades K–2 9 packets

Gen AIGrades K–2

Ask Two

A confident robot helper says things that are sometimes right and sometimes wrong, and children become learning owners by checking each answer in two places before they believe it.

35 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, worksheet, checklist) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipGrades K–2

Kind Clicks

Children sort online messages into kind clicks and stop-and-tell moments, turn unkind words into kind ones, and practice asking a trusted grown-up for help.

30 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, cut-apart cards, worksheet) · no devices needed

Gen AIGrades K–2, 3–5

News From the Future Circle

Young learners hear friendly pretend news about helpers that might exist someday, draw or act out one helpful thing and one tricky thing, and vote on a class rule for the helper.

30 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, worksheet) · no devices needed

Digital citizenshipGrades K–2

Private or Share?

Children walk to a red, yellow, or green "traffic light" to sort personal information, then practice what to say when a game or talking computer asks for it.

25 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, cut-apart cards, worksheet) · no devices needed

Media literacyGrades K–2

Real, Pretend, or Changed?

Young detectives move, wiggle, or freeze to decide whether a picture or story is real, pretend on purpose, or changed to look real, and learn to ask a grown-up when they can't tell.

30 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, checklist, worksheet) · no devices needed

Gen AIGrades K–2

Robot Guesses

Children train a pretend robot with picture-word cards and discover that AI makes guesses from patterns, and that a guess can be wrong.

30 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, worksheet) · no devices needed

Digital citizenshipGrades K–2

Screen Time, Green Time

Children sort everyday activities, notice how their bodies and feelings respond to sitting still and to moving, and make a family balance plan, learning that screens aren't bad and choices matter.

30 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, organizer, worksheet) · no devices needed

Digital citizenshipGrades K–2, 3–5

Smart Speakers, Smart Choices

Children role-play with a pretend talking speaker to learn that voice helpers listen for a wake word, may keep what they hear, answer by guessing, and sometimes need a grown-up instead.

35 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, card sort, worksheet) · no devices needed

Media literacyGrades K–2

Who Made This?

Children discover that every picture, video, song, and game was made by someone for a reason, and practice asking "Who made this, and why?"

30 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, worksheet, checklist) · no devices needed

Grades 3–5 12 packets

Media literacyGrades 3–5

Ad or Info?

Students sort mock posts, videos, and headlines into ads, information, and clickbait, hunt for persuasion tricks, and then create an honest, clearly labeled ad of their own.

40 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, checklist, worksheet) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipGrades 3–5

Credit Where It's Due

After their own doodles get "borrowed" without credit, students learn to credit creators, ask permission, and write an honest note whenever AI helped with their work.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, reading, worksheet) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipGrades 3–5

Digital Footprint Trail

Teams follow a trail of paper footprints left online by a fictional fourth grader, piece together what a stranger could learn about him, and plan the footprints they want to leave.

40 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · no devices needed

Digital citizenshipGrades 3–5

Digital Notebook Detectives

Students rescue a classmate's messy pretend drive, invent a naming and folder system, use version history to recover lost work, and catch what an AI summary of their notes left out.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, reading, worksheet) · hybrid

Gen AIGrades 3–5

Garbage In, Garbage Out

Students write instructions for a classmate "robot" who follows them exactly, discover why vague prompts get surprising results, and build a recipe for clear prompts they can use with AI and with people.

40 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, worksheet, organizer) · no devices needed

Gen AIGrades K–2, 3–5

News From the Future Circle

Young learners hear friendly pretend news about helpers that might exist someday, draw or act out one helpful thing and one tricky thing, and vote on a class rule for the helper.

30 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, worksheet) · no devices needed

Gen AIGrades 3–5, 6–8

Next Word, By Hand

Students build a paper "word-guessing machine" from sentence cards, watch it invent a confident false fact about a lake, and find out why a longer prompt helps but never makes a chatbot know things.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · no devices needed

Digital citizenshipGrades 3–5

Password Power & Secret Keepers

Students rank passwords from weak to strong, build silly-but-strong practice passphrases, and sort tricky moments into keep it secret, share with a trusted grown-up, or tell a grown-up now.

40 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, card sort, worksheet) · no devices needed

Digital citizenshipGrades 3–5, 6–8

Phish Tank IRL

Teams sort fourteen texts, emails, and game-chat messages into safe, scam, or check-another-way, and learn why AI-polished scams make spelling mistakes a useless clue.

40 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, checklist, worksheet) · no devices needed

Media literacyGrades 3–5

Photo Detective

Students investigate described photos that were cropped, edited, or made with AI, and learn two fact-checker moves that work better than staring: Stop, and Find better coverage.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipGrades K–2, 3–5

Smart Speakers, Smart Choices

Children role-play with a pretend talking speaker to learn that voice helpers listen for a wake word, may keep what they hear, answer by guessing, and sometimes need a grown-up instead.

35 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, card sort, worksheet) · no devices needed

Digital citizenshipGrades 3–5

Team Tech Choices

Teams plan a real group project by matching each job to the right tool, or no tool at all, defending their choices, and setting goals they can track together.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · hybrid

Grades 6–8 14 packets

Gen AIGrades 6–8, 9–12

AI Study Buddy Contract

Students sort AI uses that build learning from ones that replace it, then write a SMART goal, a personal AI contract, and an honest-use log they keep for two weeks.

55 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, worksheet, organizer) · hybrid

Gen AIGrades 6–8, 9–12

Bias in the Machine

Students read six mock AI outputs through different perspectives, find who is stereotyped or missing, and rewrite the prompts to fix it.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, organizer, worksheet) · no devices needed

Gen AIGrades 6–8, 9–12

Community Problem Pitch

Teams use the engineering design process to solve a real school or community problem, invite AI to critique their ideas, reject what doesn't hold up, and pitch a solution with a record of what changed.

110 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, worksheet, rubric) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipGrades 6–8, 9–12

My Digital Safety Plan

Students work through real-world sharing dilemmas, audit account security and privacy habits, and write a personal safety plan they explain to a family member.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, checklist, worksheet) · hybrid

Gen AIGrades 3–5, 6–8

Next Word, By Hand

Students build a paper "word-guessing machine" from sentence cards, watch it invent a confident false fact about a lake, and find out why a longer prompt helps but never makes a chatbot know things.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · no devices needed

Digital citizenshipGrades 3–5, 6–8

Phish Tank IRL

Teams sort fourteen texts, emails, and game-chat messages into safe, scam, or check-another-way, and learn why AI-polished scams make spelling mistakes a useless clue.

40 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, checklist, worksheet) · no devices needed

Media literacyGrades 6–8, 9–12

Presentation Makeover

Teams rescue a cluttered slide deck, making it clear, accessible, honestly sourced, and upfront about AI images, then pitch the revised version in 60 seconds.

55 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, checklist, rubric) · hybrid

Media literacyGrades 6–8, 9–12

Primary Source vs. AI Summary

Students read a clearly fictional 1911 letter, then catch an AI summary that changes dates, invents a quote, turns a rumor into a fact, and erases the neighbors who helped.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, organizer) · no devices needed

Media literacyGrades 6–8, 9–12

Real, Fake, or Generated?

Students hunt for the classic clues of AI-made images and cloned voices, discover how often those clues mislead, and learn to check the source instead.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipGrades 6–8, 9–12

Remix Rights

Students sort real-world remix decisions using copyright, Creative Commons, and fair use, then write credit lines that include honest notes about AI help.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, cut-apart cards, worksheet) · hybrid

Media literacyGrades 6–8, 9–12

Signal to Headline Lab

Students turn a true present-day tech trend into a plausible future headline and lede, then trade and fact-check each other's work for accuracy and clickbait.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, worksheet, checklist) · hybrid

Media literacyGrades 6–8, 9–12

Spreadsheet Sense-Making

Students turn a lunch survey into a spreadsheet or paper grid, compute counts and averages, build an honest chart, then catch and fix charts (and an AI chart suggestion) that mislead with a truncated axis or a cherry-picked range.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (organizer, reading, worksheet) · hybrid

Media literacyGrades 6–8, 9–12

The Feed Game

Students play a card-based recommendation engine by hand and watch their feed shrink to a few topics, then design ways to take it back.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · no devices needed

Digital citizenshipGrades 6–8

What Your Map App Knows

Students plot a fictional teen's Saturday from location clues on a town map, discover how much a trail of pings reveals, weigh safety against privacy, and write a location settings checkup plan.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (organizer, cut-apart cards, worksheet) · no devices needed

Grades 9–12 22 packets

Gen AIGrades 6–8, 9–12

AI Study Buddy Contract

Students sort AI uses that build learning from ones that replace it, then write a SMART goal, a personal AI contract, and an honest-use log they keep for two weeks.

55 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, worksheet, organizer) · hybrid

Media literacyGrades 9–12

Algorithm Autopsy

Students dissect the design features of a fictional social app, trace how each one shapes attention and belief, and redesign the feed for people instead of engagement.

75 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, reading, worksheet) · no devices needed

Gen AIGrades 6–8, 9–12

Bias in the Machine

Students read six mock AI outputs through different perspectives, find who is stereotyped or missing, and rewrite the prompts to fix it.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, organizer, worksheet) · no devices needed

Digital citizenshipGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Cart Check: Shopping and Money Scams Online

Before they tap "Buy," students check the storefront, the deal, the reviews, and the payment method, and they practice exactly what to do if a purchase goes wrong.

55 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, card sort, worksheet) · hybrid

Gen AIGrades 6–8, 9–12

Community Problem Pitch

Teams use the engineering design process to solve a real school or community problem, invite AI to critique their ideas, reject what doesn't hold up, and pitch a solution with a record of what changed.

110 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, worksheet, rubric) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Data Trail Audit

Teams read an AI study app's privacy policy like investigators, map where their data could travel, and choose settings and habits that shrink their trail.

65 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, cut-apart cards, organizer) · hybrid

Media literacyGrades 9–12

Deepfake Election Desk

Student newsroom teams race a deadline to decide which election-week tips are real, which are synthetic, and which they simply can't confirm yet.

70 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, rubric) · hybrid

Gen AIGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Disclose It

Students sort real-feeling academic integrity dilemmas across courses, then write honest AI-use disclosures and process logs they would stand behind.

55 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, worksheet, checklist) · no devices needed

Gen AIGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Hallucination Hunt

Students trace every claim and citation in a polished AI research brief and discover which ones lead somewhere and which ones lead nowhere.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, cut-apart cards, organizer) · hybrid

Gen AIGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Human + AI Studio

Students create a short piece with AI as a prompt partner, log every suggestion they keep, change, or reject, and defend their human choices in a studio critique.

90 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, rubric) · hybrid

Media literacyGrades 9–12

Is This Health Advice Real?

Students check influencer clips, supplement ads, forum posts, and a chatbot answer about wellness by reading laterally, then decide when a question belongs with a trusted adult or clinician.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipGrades 6–8, 9–12

My Digital Safety Plan

Students work through real-world sharing dilemmas, audit account security and privacy habits, and write a personal safety plan they explain to a family member.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, checklist, worksheet) · hybrid

Gen AIGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Personal Learning Coach, With Guardrails

Students write custom instructions that turn an AI chatbot into a coach that makes them think, then stress-test it and judge it by evidence, not vibes.

90 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, worksheet, organizer) · digital

Gen AIGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Policy Makers

Student teams research, draft, and pitch an AI and technology-use policy proposal to a mock board, and must pass the same five-question check real leaders use.

180 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, worksheet, rubric) · hybrid

Media literacyGrades 6–8, 9–12

Presentation Makeover

Teams rescue a cluttered slide deck, making it clear, accessible, honestly sourced, and upfront about AI images, then pitch the revised version in 60 seconds.

55 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, checklist, rubric) · hybrid

Media literacyGrades 6–8, 9–12

Primary Source vs. AI Summary

Students read a clearly fictional 1911 letter, then catch an AI summary that changes dates, invents a quote, turns a rumor into a fact, and erases the neighbors who helped.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, organizer) · no devices needed

Media literacyGrades 6–8, 9–12

Real, Fake, or Generated?

Students hunt for the classic clues of AI-made images and cloned voices, discover how often those clues mislead, and learn to check the source instead.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipGrades 6–8, 9–12

Remix Rights

Students sort real-world remix decisions using copyright, Creative Commons, and fair use, then write credit lines that include honest notes about AI help.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, cut-apart cards, worksheet) · hybrid

Media literacyGrades 6–8, 9–12

Signal to Headline Lab

Students turn a true present-day tech trend into a plausible future headline and lede, then trade and fact-check each other's work for accuracy and clickbait.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, worksheet, checklist) · hybrid

Media literacyGrades 6–8, 9–12

Spreadsheet Sense-Making

Students turn a lunch survey into a spreadsheet or paper grid, compute counts and averages, build an honest chart, then catch and fix charts (and an AI chart suggestion) that mislead with a truncated axis or a cherry-picked range.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (organizer, reading, worksheet) · hybrid

Media literacyGrades 6–8, 9–12

The Feed Game

Students play a card-based recommendation engine by hand and watch their feed shrink to a few topics, then design ways to take it back.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · no devices needed

Gen AIGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Who Owns the Output?

In a structured academic controversy, students argue both sides of an open question: is it fair for AI tools to learn from artists' work, and who gets credit for what they make?

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, cut-apart cards, worksheet) · no devices needed

Higher education 8 packets

Digital citizenshipGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Cart Check: Shopping and Money Scams Online

Before they tap "Buy," students check the storefront, the deal, the reviews, and the payment method, and they practice exactly what to do if a purchase goes wrong.

55 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, card sort, worksheet) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Data Trail Audit

Teams read an AI study app's privacy policy like investigators, map where their data could travel, and choose settings and habits that shrink their trail.

65 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, cut-apart cards, organizer) · hybrid

Gen AIGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Disclose It

Students sort real-feeling academic integrity dilemmas across courses, then write honest AI-use disclosures and process logs they would stand behind.

55 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, worksheet, checklist) · no devices needed

Gen AIGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Hallucination Hunt

Students trace every claim and citation in a polished AI research brief and discover which ones lead somewhere and which ones lead nowhere.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, cut-apart cards, organizer) · hybrid

Gen AIGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Human + AI Studio

Students create a short piece with AI as a prompt partner, log every suggestion they keep, change, or reject, and defend their human choices in a studio critique.

90 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, rubric) · hybrid

Gen AIGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Personal Learning Coach, With Guardrails

Students write custom instructions that turn an AI chatbot into a coach that makes them think, then stress-test it and judge it by evidence, not vibes.

90 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, worksheet, organizer) · digital

Gen AIGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Policy Makers

Student teams research, draft, and pitch an AI and technology-use policy proposal to a mock board, and must pass the same five-question check real leaders use.

180 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, worksheet, rubric) · hybrid

Gen AIGrades 9–12, Higher Ed

Who Owns the Output?

In a structured academic controversy, students argue both sides of an open question: is it fair for AI tools to learn from artists' work, and who gets credit for what they make?

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, cut-apart cards, worksheet) · no devices needed

Professional learning 53 packets

Teachers & librarians 21 packets

Gen AITeachers, Librarians, Coaches

Bias Detectives

Teams compare paired AI outputs where only a name, a language, or a pronoun changed, then run their own fair tests and propose fixes before AI output reaches students.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipTeachers, Librarians

Circles, Not Screens: Relationships in a Digital Classroom

Teachers sit in a real community circle about group chats, AI companions, and sleep, then plan their own circle, co-create agreements, and rehearse what to say when a student tells them something online went wrong.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, reading, worksheet) · no devices needed

Gen AITeachers, Faculty, Coaches, Librarians

Co-Creation, Not Substitution

Educators sort real classroom and faculty tasks along a human-to-AI spectrum, co-create something with AI while keeping their own thinking visible, and write the disclosure and syllabus statements that make the line clear to students.

75 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, worksheet, reading) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipTeachers, Librarians

Does This Need a Screen?

A fast, argument-starting card sort where teachers decide which classroom tasks are best unplugged, which earn their screen time, and where AI adds value, and have to say why.

20 minutes · 2 handouts (card sort, checklist) · no devices needed

Media literacyTeachers, Librarians

Evidence Before Tools

Teachers take apart a tech-heavy lesson, name the evidence of learning first, and rebuild it so every tool, or no tool, has to earn its place.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, organizer, worksheet) · hybrid

Gen AITeachers, Librarians, Coaches, Leaders

Explain It to Grandma

Educators draft 90-second, jargon-free explanations of AI concepts and test them live on colleagues playing a skeptical grandparent, a second grader, or a school board trustee.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, worksheet, rubric) · no devices needed

Gen AITeachers, Coaches, Leaders

Feedback Partners: Peer Review in the Age of AI

Teachers run a glow-grow-question peer review on two AI-assisted drafts, questioning the AI's suggestions as hard as the writer's, then adapt the protocol for their own students.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, organizer, worksheet) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipTeachers, Librarians

Kind by Design

Teachers rewrite prickly class messages, co-create norms for digital spaces the way students would, and work through what to do when a student's closest confidant is an AI companion chatbot.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, reading, organizer) · no devices needed

Media literacyTeachers, Librarians, Coaches

Lateral Reading Relay

Teams race to verify viral claims and an AI-written summary by leaving the page, not staring harder at it.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipTeachers, Coaches, Librarians

LMS Tidy-Up: Courses Students Can Find Their Way Through

Educators run a student-eye findability test on a messy mock course, then tidy their own with consistent modules, one home for due dates, accessible files, and a check on any AI-generated materials.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, organizer, checklist) · hybrid

Gen AITeachers, Coaches, Librarians

Personalization with Guardrails

Teachers design AI-supported versions of one reading task for different learners, then judge every version against the same learning target, a fact check, and a privacy line.

70 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, cut-apart cards, rubric) · hybrid

Media literacyTeachers, Librarians

Real, Remixed, or Made Up?

A gallery walk through ten mock viral posts (deepfakes, cheapfakes, out-of-context photos, and a few real ones) that teaches teachers to check where media came from instead of squinting for glitches.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · hybrid

Gen AITeachers, Librarians, Coaches

Ripple Out: A Futures Wheel for Learning

Tables take one plausible future headline about AI in school, map its ripples out three rings deep, and then work backward to what they should start doing this semester.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, worksheet) · no devices needed

Digital citizenshipTeachers, Librarians, Leaders, Staff

Screens at School, Screens at Home: A Family Conversation

Families sort everyday screen moments by purpose, learn in plain language what the Texas phone law does and doesn't cover, and start a family media agreement that fits their own home.

40 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, reading, worksheet) · no devices needed

Gen AITeachers, Librarians

Seminar on a Machine's Answer

A fishbowl Socratic seminar where the "text" is a chatbot's confident, partly wrong answer, and the chatbot's second answer is worse, so teachers practice the questions that make students think instead of accept.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, cut-apart cards, worksheet) · no devices needed

Gen AITeachers, Librarians

The AI Critic Tank

Teams design a solution to a local community problem by hand, invite an AI chatbot to tear it apart (as critic, never author), decide which critiques to accept, disclose the AI's role, and pitch to a panel.

90 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, rubric) · digital

Gen AITeachers, Librarians, Coaches, Faculty

The Human Language Model

Educators become a tiny language model with paper slips and a cup, and discover firsthand why fluent AI text can be confidently wrong.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, organizer, cut-apart cards) · no devices needed

Gen AITeachers, Librarians

The Prompt Ladder

Teachers climb eight rungs of prompts for the same classroom task, predict each mock AI output before reading it, and weigh what every added detail gains and what it costs.

45 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, reading, organizer) · no devices needed

Gen AITeachers, Librarians, Coaches

Verify the Bot

Science teachers split confident AI explanations into checkable claims, verify each with two independent sources, and leave with a 15-minute workshop to teach the routine to colleagues.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, organizer, worksheet) · digital

Digital citizenshipTeachers, Librarians

What Do My Apps Know?

Teachers read a mock app privacy policy the way a 12-year-old would, then audit the real tools in their own classroom and decide what to keep, change, or replace.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, checklist, organizer) · digital

Gen AITeachers, Librarians

Whose Story Is Missing?

Teachers audit eight mock AI-generated images and texts for who shows up, who doesn't, and who gets flattened, then fix one with human judgment and Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

60 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, checklist) · hybrid

Instructional coaches 17 packets

Digital citizenshipCoaches, Teachers, Leaders, Staff

After the Rumor

A campus team digs past blame to the root causes of a fictional viral rumor and AI-edited image incident, then writes the trust and AI-use norms it will hold itself to next time.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, organizer, worksheet) · no devices needed

Gen AICoaches, Teachers, Librarians

Co-Plan in 20

A timed, listening-first protocol a coach and teacher use to redesign one upcoming lesson so students verify an AI answer or evaluate a source, and turn in proof that they did.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, reading, worksheet) · no devices needed

Media literacyCoaches, Librarians

Coach-to-Coach Microteaching

Coaches plan and deliver 10-minute micro-PD sessions on one digital literacy move, get protocol-based peer feedback, and revise before a teacher ever sees it.

90 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, worksheet, rubric) · hybrid

Gen AICoaches, Teachers, Faculty, Leaders

Did the AI Help?

Educators pick apart a fictional "it worked!" report, then design a small, honest classroom inquiry that could actually show whether an AI-supported task improved learning.

75 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, reading, worksheet) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipCoaches, Librarians, Leaders

Four-Lens App Review

Teams vet three fictional classroom apps through four lenses (learning value, privacy, accessibility, AI transparency) and turn the verdict into a pilot a teacher can actually run.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, rubric, worksheet) · hybrid

Media literacyCoaches, Teachers, Librarians

Hype Check Showcase

A tech showcase remix: teachers rotate through emerging-tech stations, including AI and synthetic media, and have to separate the vendor's claim from the learning evidence before they give a verdict.

75 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · digital

Media literacyCoaches, Librarians, Leaders

Journal Club by Design

Coaches experience a research journal club as learners, reading a practice article with a skeptic's eye, then design their own PD series around real teacher needs and adult learning principles.

90 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, cut-apart cards, worksheet) · hybrid

Gen AICoaches, Teachers, Librarians

Looking for the Checking

A looking-at-student-work protocol that asks one question of a class set: did students actually verify what the AI told them, and how can we tell?

45 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, rubric, organizer) · no devices needed

Digital citizenshipCoaches, Teachers, Leaders, Staff

Never Paste This

A fast sort and a de-identification drill so data teams know exactly what student information must never go into an AI tool, and how to ask the question they need without it.

25 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, reading, checklist) · no devices needed

Gen AICoaches, Teachers, Leaders

Norms for the AI Era

A PLC builds trust first, then sorts real shared-planning dilemmas and drafts its own norms for AI use: disclose it, check it, and never put student data in a prompt.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, card sort, worksheet) · no devices needed

Gen AICoaches, Leaders, Librarians

PD Menu Makeover

Coaches take apart a one-size-fits-all AI PD day and rebuild it as a choice menu, grounded in a real needs assessment, adult learning principles, and teaching strategies that already work.

75 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, card sort, organizer) · no devices needed

Digital citizenshipCoaches, Teachers, Leaders

Student Voice Data Dive

Coaches and teachers design a short, privacy-safe student survey on devices, AI, and wellbeing, then read returned results with Notice-Wonder-Next and act on what students said.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (checklist, reading, organizer) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipCoaches, Leaders

The Coaching Agreement

A coach and principal analyze a coaching-time audit together, including the drift that AI and tech rollouts cause, and write a one-page agreement before the coaching cycle begins.

55 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, organizer, worksheet) · no devices needed

Gen AICoaches, Teachers

The Shallow Answers Coaching Cycle

Coaches role-play a full listen, co-plan, model, measure, adjust cycle on one familiar problem: students finish the digital work but say very little.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, reading, organizer) · no devices needed

Gen AICoaches, Teachers, Librarians

Tool Tryout Lab

Instead of a demo and a vote, teacher teams test an emerging AI feature inside a GRITS lesson-study loop, watch students rather than the tool, and decide from student evidence.

90 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, rubric, organizer) · hybrid

Gen AICoaches, Leaders

Two Drafts of Feedback

Coaches score a human-written and an AI-drafted feedback note on the same lesson transcript, then set the ground rules for when AI belongs in observation, if it belongs at all.

50 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, checklist, card sort) · hybrid

Gen AICoaches, Leaders

Wait Time on the Record

Coaches code a consented, timestamped classroom clip for questioning and wait time, test an AI summary against the timestamps, and write feedback a teacher can act on tomorrow.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, organizer, checklist) · hybrid

School leaders, faculty & staff 15 packets

Gen AILeaders, Teachers, Faculty, Coaches

AI Ethics Case Court

Educators put fictional AI uses in grading, proctoring, detection, and monitoring on trial, then issue rulings with conditions that could become real policy.

70 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, worksheet) · no devices needed

Digital citizenshipLeaders, Staff, Librarians

Designing a Family AI & Digital Citizenship Night

Campus teams design a family event where parents and kids try things together, check what AI tells them, and go home with conversations to have, not just rules to follow.

90 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, worksheet, reading) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipLeaders, Staff

From Platform Pick to Community Story

A selection committee weighs three fictional math platforms on evidence, assessment data, accessibility, and privacy, then tells families the honest story of the choice in plain language, in more than one language, with a real way to talk back.

90 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, organizer, worksheet) · hybrid

Gen AILeaders, Faculty, Coaches

From Values to Guidance: Drafting a Campus AI Statement

Leadership teams start with what they value, sort draft clauses, and write a one-page generative AI guidance statement that people can actually follow.

75 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, card sort, worksheet) · hybrid

Gen AILeaders, Coaches

Headlines From Year Three

Leaders write the success story and the failure story of their own AI or tech initiative three years out, then run a pre-mortem on the failure so they can build guardrails before launch.

70 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, organizer, worksheet) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipStaff, Teachers, Leaders

Inbox to Impact: Professional Digital Communication

Staff revise five realistic messages to families and colleagues for clarity, kindness, privacy, accessibility, and translation, and learn to review an AI-drafted message before it goes out.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, checklist, organizer) · no devices needed

Gen AILeaders, Coaches, Teachers

Instructional Rounds for Digital Learning

Leadership teams run a full rounds protocol on five written classroom vignettes, noting only what students do with technology and AI, then find patterns and name the next level of work for teachers, coaches, and themselves.

75 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, card sort, organizer) · no devices needed

Media literacyLeaders, Staff

Is That Really Our Principal? A Synthetic Media Crisis Tabletop

A fake audio clip of the principal spreads through parent groups on a Friday night, and the leadership team has two hours of game time to verify, respond, and rebuild trust.

70 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, checklist) · no devices needed

Media literacyLeaders, Coaches

Look-Fors That Look for Learning

Leaders sort walkthrough notes, practice on three classroom vignettes, and rebuild their technology observation tool so it captures evidence of learning instead of counting devices.

90 minutes · 3 handouts (card sort, reading, rubric) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipLeaders, Coaches, Teachers

Minutes With a Purpose: A Screen Time Audit

Teams audit a fictional district's school-device minutes by purpose, not just by total, and draft grade-band guidance that protects unplugged time and asks for evidence of learning.

70 minutes · 3 handouts (organizer, card sort, worksheet) · hybrid

Media literacyLeaders, Coaches, Faculty

Read the Dashboard Before It Reads You

Leaders take apart eight mock dashboard panels, including an AI-generated "insight," to practice asking what the data shows, what it can't show, and who could be harmed by a hasty conclusion.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (cut-apart cards, organizer, checklist) · hybrid

Digital citizenshipLeaders, Coaches

The Five-Question Rollout Check

Leadership teams role-play the planning meeting for a campus-wide platform rollout and discover that the questions that matter most come after "should we buy it?"

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, cut-apart cards, organizer) · no devices needed

Gen AILeaders, Librarians, Coaches, Teachers

The Glass Box Checklist

Teams interrogate a fictional AI vendor's glossy fact sheet, sort the questions that actually matter, and build a transparency and accountability checklist they can use on real tools.

60 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, card sort, checklist) · hybrid

Media literacyLeaders, Faculty, Coaches

Two Grade Levels? Vendor Claims vs. Evidence

Leaders trace an AI product's headline result back to the study behind it, read the terms of service line by line, and design the local pilot that would actually answer "Does it work here?"

75 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, card sort, organizer) · digital

Digital citizenshipLeaders, Staff, Faculty

Who Gets Left Out? Mapping the Digital Divide

Leaders walk a proposed homework-and-AI-tutor initiative through the lives of ten fictional families, map every barrier they hit, and turn the map into policy.

75 minutes · 3 handouts (reading, cut-apart cards, organizer) · no devices needed