First Steps
Ready to begin? These concrete first steps will help you start integrating AI into your educational practice with confidence, starting today.
Choose One AI Tool
Pick a single, free AI tool (ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini) and commit to exploring it for one week. Don't try to learn everything at once.
Try the CRAFT Framework
Write your first educational prompt using CRAFT: set Context, assign a Role, define the Action, specify Format, and set Tone.
Generate a Lesson Component
Ask AI to create one element of an upcoming lesson: discussion questions, a warm-up activity, or review quiz questions. Compare the output to what you'd create manually.
Review and Adapt
Critically evaluate the AI output. What's useful? What needs changing? What did it get wrong? This review process is essential to building AI literacy.
Share Your Experience
Discuss your experiment with a colleague. What surprised you? What worked? What didn't? Collaborative reflection accelerates learning.
Research shows that structured first steps with reflection lead to sustained AI adoption. Unstructured exploration often leads to frustration and abandonment.
Before your first step, establish your values. What role do you want AI to play in your teaching? Having a clear philosophy guides every decision that follows.
Just start. Your first prompt will be terrible, and that's perfect. By your tenth prompt, you'll wonder how you ever taught without AI assistance.
The first step is always the hardest — and the most important. In every industry I've helped transform, the early movers didn't wait for permission or perfection. They simply began.
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