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The aim of this project is to provide a practical and accessible framework that empowers secondary school educators to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) works and to confidently guide their students in exploring its applications and ethical implications. By developing a website as a professional learning resource, we seek to support teachers in building foundational AI literacy and integrating AI meaningfully into their teaching practice.
This initiative responds to a growing need in education. While AI tools such as chatbots are becoming increasingly available, many educators lack the confidence or training to use them effectively. At the same time, students are often more digitally fluent and comfortable navigating AI technologies but may have limited guidance in understanding their ethical implications. This digital literacy gap highlights the critical role of educators in connecting technical understanding with responsible and ethical use in classroom settings.
To date, the research supports this need. Gokcearslan et al. (2024) report that chatbots can increase student motivation, enhance language development, and improve learning performance. The Teacher AI Toolbox is designed to support these benefits by providing educators with practical tools and structured activities to introduce chatbots into their teaching. These include curated lesson plans, demonstration videos, classroom-ready templates, and reflection questions that are aligned with sound pedagogical and ethical practices.
Our design is also grounded in international guidance. Drawing on the UNESCO Competency Framework for Teachers (UNESCO, 2024c), the resource incorporates five key dimensions: human centred mindset, ethics of AI, AI foundations and applications, AI pedagogy, and AI for professional development. These dimensions ensure that the site encourages thoughtful, inclusive, and ethical engagement with AI across teaching and learning contexts.
The website is not intended to serve as a formal assessment tool. Instead, it provides a self-guided, reflective learning experience. Each section includes prompts and checklists to help educators monitor their progress and adapt the materials to suit their specific teaching environments. In this way, the Teacher AI Toolbox supports educators as both learners and facilitators of ethical and effective AI use in education.
Contextualizing the Design
Contextualizing the Design
Turvey and Pachler (2016) provide a Problem Spaces framework for addressing the complexities of learning technologies and digital education. The Teacher AI Toolbox is designed to engage with the three core components of this framework, offering a balanced and purposeful resource for educators. It enables teachers to both use and critically engage with the toolbox while reflecting on the evolving impact of AI technologies in educational settings.
A major focus of the learning design is to address the growing use of "generative AI technologies, [which] have the potential to influence teaching and learning processes and methods in an unconventional way and require educators to develop new ways of thinking and keep up with the transformation" (Gokcearslan et. al., 2024, p. 32).
Problem spaces of technology-supported pedagogy, adapted from "Problem Spaces: A Framework and Questions for Critical Engagement with Learning Technologies in Formal Educational Contexts" (Turvey & Pachler, 2016)
Check out the videos below to guide you on how we integrated this framework into our design.
Problem Space #1:
Pedagogy and Learning Design
Problem Space #2:
Teacher Professional Development and Research
Problem Space #3:
Web 2.0 and School Cultures
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