Generative AI arrived in education faster than the guidance did, and it’s now in use on both sides of the classroom. This workshop covers the ethical and security considerations institutions face, as well as academic misconduct, then shows how to implement AI tools, various use cases, and prompting methods staff can apply to their ongoing work.
AI for Institutions: Exploring ethical, safe and effective AI use is our workshop for schools, districts, colleges and universities. It covers the ethical and security considerations of institutional generative AI use, including deployments inside and outside the classroom, and then moves to the tools, use cases and prompting methods staff can use in their own work. It runs between two to four hours, online or in person.
The session opens with the considerations that make institutional AI use different from ordinary workplace use. Institutions hold student records, assessment data and staff information, and they carry obligations around academic integrity that a business doesn’t. We work through the ethical and security implications of generative AI against those specific conditions rather than in general terms.
From there, the workshop separates classroom deployments from those outside it. The two raise genuinely different questions: what AI use is appropriate in student work and how it’s assessed, versus how staff can use these tools for planning, correspondence, reporting and administrative load. Many institutions have a position on the first and nothing at all on the second.
The remainder covers the tools themselves, realistic use cases for an education setting, and prompting methods staff can apply immediately. We will customize content to your institution wherever possible, and we set the two-to-four-hour range with you based on group size and how much of the session is devoted to your questions.
We have worked with universities, secondary schools and education-sector events across British Columbia, in roles ranging from delivering workshops to alumni and staff, co-hosting a two-day event at a university, to serving as subject-matter experts for student projects and judging and mentoring at a regional science fair. That range matters as AI affects all levels of education.
Take a look at some of our engagements below, and explore how your organization could benefit
from a workshop engagement or a broader AI literacy initiative.
Tell us about your institution and who needs to be in the room, and we’ll agree scope, length and format on a short call before anything is booked.
Our mission is to help Canadians learn, adapt and succeed with AI. Schools, colleges and universities are where most Canadians will meet these tools first, which makes the people teaching in them the ones it matters most to equip.
