AI for Computing Teachers
20+ practical ways AI can support your teaching in Computer Science and ICT
Quick and actionable guide packed with best-practice techniques, real-world examples and tailored AI prompts to supercharge your planning, resources and professional development.
Updated edition includes AI-related terms and prompt engineering.
Hey ZigZag, show me how to use AI to support my teaching!
Simplify, Enhance, and Innovate
- Upgrade your resources: transform your notes into polished presentations and podcasts, enrich them with examples and glossaries, generate test data, and more!
- Ease your workload: create lesson plans, department policies, and student reports.
- Upskill your team: perfect for INSET days – help colleagues harness AI to enhance their teaching.
A very good comprehensive guide for an experienced computer science teacher exploring the implications of AI for their workload
Everything you need to apply AI:
- Real computing-specific scenarios: complete with analysed AI outputs to help understand the opportunities and limitations
- Customisable AI prompts ready for you to adapt to your context
- Hands-on activities engage students, teachers or CPD sessions
Written by an experienced teacher, programmer, and resource author – with ethics, privacy, and limitations of generative AI in mind.
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What do teachers say about this resource? (12762)
This resource is excellent. It is so informative... I really liked that there were different examples and they link to different elements of the curriculum both KS4 and KS5. This is really useful in order to see how AI would be applicable to all aspects of the curriculum in Computer Science ... certainly will help teachers be able to prepare specific content that will benefit the students and their abilities, it will allow for targetted learning and enhance the development of the students ... the examples that are being used are excellent. This is really good to see what is happening and how it can benefit being used ... Its a very broad resources covering a number of different topic areas and specifications
This is a very good comprehensive guide for an experienced computer science teacher exploring the implications of AI for their workload. It’s clear and consistently supported with practical examples.
A good range of ideas for using AI tools to support teaching and learning. It is useful to focus on Chat GPT and Gemini which are free and some of the most useful tools available at the moment ... I liked the teaching idea on Page 5 asking students to review the output from the AI and critically analyse it ... Using AI helps teachers to generate more creative learning ideas to change things up in the classroom. It also provides scaffolded activities to help students learn. You can specifically ask Chat GPT to create a scaffolded worksheet for a lesson. You can also save preferences in your settings so that it can refer to these whenever you want a new lesson plan created
This AI resource is a beneficial tool for teachers who are starting their journey and those who want to streamline and make their planning for time efficient. The resource is well-structured and offers example practical ways of how AI can benefit teachers and how to make the results you achieve more effective ... One of the key strengths of this resource are the examples of how to use AI to improve you planning of activities and how to maximise its effective use. The inclusion the examples are those that a teacher could use in their day-to-day lesson planning. The examples are meaningful and demonstrate the effectiveness of AI to improve the workload of teachers. The explanations are clear and accessible, making what could be a complex task easier to understand ... This resource develops teachers’ practical knowledge of using AI specifically ChatGPT. This is done by using example tasks from planning, marking and even report writing, demonstrating how some of the ‘paperwork’ task can be improved and help reduce workload, whilst still allowing the personalisation of the results ... The layout is well-organised, with clear headings, diagrams, and a logical flow of information. Examples are well set out and easy to follow and read ... This would be ideal for those setting out of their teaching journey to those who want to keep up to date on new technologies ... this resource offers great value for as a teaching tool. This would be great for ITT though to CPD for experienced staff and teachers who want to embrace the use of AI to improve their workload ... This is a well-designed educational resource that effectively supports teachers in using AI in computer science. This could also be used for other subjects and applied to their curriculum areas
It was good for anyone who has not used AI much before, giving them ideas on how AI can be used to support teaching. It also gave me a few ideas on how I can also use AI to support my teaching ... I had not considered ... flowchart creation and mind map creation using AI ... The provision of examples is good to give teachers better ideas on how they can use AI to support their teaching
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