Free open course

Five steps to bringing AI into your classroom.

Madlen's training series for teachers, educators and trainee teachers is now live. Walk through the layers of a neural network, fix broken prompts, design your own assignments, clean the data leak out of a prompt and plan a 40-minute AI lesson minute by minute. Learning by doing, not just listening.

5 modules 25+ interactive exercises Self-paced No sign-up required
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Module 1

AI fundamentals

Decide "is this AI?", run a neural network layer by layer, watch how a large language model predicts the next word, and compare five common myths with the facts.

Is this AI? gameNeural network sim.Word predictionMyth cards
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Module 2

Effective prompt writing

See tokens with your own eyes, build your own prompt with a five-component framework, explore nine advanced prompt techniques level by level, and watch a prompt mature across three rounds.

Prompt builder9 prompt toolsIteration stepperRepair exercise
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Module 3

Materials & assessment

Evaluate a tool against five criteria, explore AI's task map for teachers, produce a single learning objective as both a visual and a podcast, then design two different assignments and assess with the AIAS scale.

Tool evaluatorTask mapAIAS toolReady prompts
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Module 4

Responsible and ethical AI use

Clean the data leak out of a prompt, run the "am I allowed to enter this" decision tree, hunt the bias in an output, rank how much scrutiny each task deserves, and generate the AI policy you take to your school.

Leak huntDecision treeBias huntPolicy generator
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Module 5

AI in the classroom

See the AI that answers next to the AI that asks, mark where learning happens in a pupil dialogue, split one objective into three levels, find the gap in your class data and build a 40-minute flow minute by minute.

Dialogue auditDifferentiation builderClass heat mapFlow planner
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Why this course

Teaching how to use it, not just selling it.

Research is clear: the main reason teachers feel frustrated with AI is not the model's limitations, it's the ambiguity of their instructions. Moreover, familiarity with technology doesn't mean using it well; pupils who love AI can score surprisingly low on prompt quality in studies. This course was designed to close exactly that gap.

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K-12 teachers using generative AI
NEA, Microsoft 2025, EdWeek
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Teachers who have received no AI training
Microsoft, 2025 · global
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Output quality gap between novice and expert prompters
Ethan Mollick, Wharton
How it works

Five steps, five questions, five answers.

Module 1
Why AI?
Evidence, concepts and ethics. We open up the technology.
Module 2
How do you talk to it?
Prompt framework, technical foundations and five common mistakes.
Module 3
What do you produce? How do you assess?
The materials pipeline and assignment design in the age of AI.
Module 4
Where do you stop?
Pupil data, data protection, bias, accountability and school policy.
Module 5
How do you use it in class?
Patterns for use with pupils, differentiation and lesson flow design.
What you'll gain from this course

Free, no sign-up, immediately useful.

Completely free

No registration, no payment, no time limit. Open to every teacher, accessible at any time.

25+ interactive exercises

You learn by doing, not reading. Reinforce every concept with your hands on the keyboard.

Evidence-based content

Content grounded in NEA, Microsoft and Wharton research, data, not marketing.

Use it in class tomorrow

Every module ends with tools and prompts you can bring into your classroom the very next day.