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AI Resources

This page serves as a destination for educators, administrators, and other school community members seeking reliable resources to build their understanding of artificial intelligence and consider its role in K–12 education. Here, you’ll find materials for learning and teaching about AI, additional reading on its educational applications and implications, and tools that can be explored with appropriate safeguards and oversight. Whether you’re building foundational knowledge, planning professional learning, or supporting classroom instruction, these resources offer information and practical materials for engaging with AI in thoughtful, responsible, and learning-centered ways.

  • Common Sense AI Literacy Lessons Grades 6-12
    Common Sense AI Literacy curriculum is comprised of concise instructional modules designed to introduce students to the foundational principles of artificial intelligence. Through critical analysis of its societal and ethical ramifications, students will be equipped to evaluate both the utility and the potential hazards of this evolving technology.
  • Code.org's "How AI Works" Resources
    This page provides a series of short videos and accompanying in-classroom lessons that introduce students to how artificial intelligence works and why it matters.
  •  International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)'s AI Exploration for Educators
    This page includes links to The Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom guides from ISTE and General Motors that provide elementary, secondary, elective and computer science teachers with innovative curricular resources about AI across various grade levels and subject areas.
  • MIT Responsible AI for Social Empowerment (MIT RAISE) AI Literacy Units
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology's RAISE initiative developed a wide range of learning units for K-12 AI Literacy. 
  • Stanford Graduate School of Education's Classroom-Ready Resources About AI for Teaching (CRAFT)
    CRAFT is a collection of co-designed free AI Literacy resources about AI for high school teachers, to help students explore, understand, question, and critique AI. CRAFT intentionally pursues a multidisciplinary approach so educators with a variety of discipline backgrounds can teach about AI.
  • TeachAI Webpage
    The TeachAI initiative, of which the New Jersey Department of Education is a participant, provides best practice guidelines for policymakers, education leaders, classroom educators, parents, and companies offering valuable insights on incorporating AI in primary and secondary education curriculum standards, courses, tools, assessments, and professional learning.
  • Google's Quick Draw Application and Quick Draw Dataset Explorer
    An application that recognizes your drawings using AI. Quick Draw also provides the full datasets used by the AI algorithm, which is a powerful example of how training data is used for AI systems. These datasets can also be explored.
  • Google's Teachable Machine
    Use the camera or microphone on your device to train a machine through AI to see or hear something and predict what it is. This is a good application to use as an introduction to machine learning.
  • Notebook LM
    A research assistant that synthesizes your uploaded documents, such as PDFs and web links, to help summarize information and generate insights. Acting as a personalized expert, it allows you to ask questions, create study guides, and turn your sources into engaging multimodal formats.
  • OpenAI's ChatGPT 3.5, Anthropic’s Claude,  Google’s Gemini
    A chatbot that generates text in response to user-created prompts in a conversational format. The free version, 3.5, can be accessed with registration. This version is only trained on data from up to 2021.
  • AI Quests
    A game-based learning experience for middle schoolers (11-14) that teaches students about AI and its real-world uses.

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Disclaimer

The resources provided on this webpage are for informational purposes only. All resources must meet the New Jersey Department of Education’s (NJDOE) accessibility guidelines. Currently, the NJDOE aims to conform to Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1). However, the NJDOE does not guarantee that linked external sites conform to Level AA of the WCAG 2.1. Neither the Department of Education nor its officers, employees or agents specifically endorse, recommend or favor these resources or the organizations that created them. Please note that the Department of Education has not reviewed or approved the materials related to the programs.