The TeacherEd AI Garage by Victoria Hedlund (GenEdLabs.ai)

Add things to do with Lesson Planning and pedagogical choices and AI here

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 15:08:53 UTC

Add any way you've used AI to create a bot to practise keys skills or scenarios (think behaviour, SK etc.)

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 15:11:22 UTC

How are you using AI and AT for adaptive teaching?

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 15:12:28 UTC

Add anything to do with AI and partnership here

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 15:13:36 UTC

Add examples of how you are empowering your trainees to be the critical human in the loop

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 15:15:18 UTC

Add anything else here

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 15:15:29 UTC

How are you updating trainees and mentors on digital implications of AI use and safeguarding?

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 15:15:55 UTC

"Choose Your Own Adventure" Behaviour Simulator from Miles Berry

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:26:56 UTC

A text-based bot that presents a scenario (e.g., two pupils fighting in a corridor). Trainees type their exact response, and the bot reacts and gives feedback on their intervention

Guarded Assignment Feedback Bot, from Miles Berry

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:27:29 UTC

Trainees upload their essay draft and the assignment brief. The bot gives deep structural feedback (e.g., "introduce the difference between epistemology and ontology earlier") but has strict guardrails to never give a projected grade

Mock Interview Bot, by Miles Berry

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:28:01 UTC

Trainees upload a specific school job description, and the bot conducts a tailored practice interview

Audio Transcript Analysis, by Miles Berry

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:28:58 UTC

Feed a written transcript of a trainee's taught lesson into an AI to get objective feedback on pupil engagement and whether participation was inclusive

The Hinder box on lesson plan, by Matthew Wimpenny-Smith

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:30:12 UTC

Add a mandatory box to your university's lesson plan proforma: "I've considered how AI tools may support or hinder this plan"

Explicit AI Bans for a timed period for planning, by Pip Sanderson

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:32:04 UTC

Ask trainees not to use GenAI for their weekly lesson planning, forcing them to manually grapple with sequencing learning so they can actually quality-assure AI outputs later in their careers

Prompt comparisons, by Matthew Wimpenny-Smith

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:32:55 UTC

Have trainees generate a lesson using a basic "cold" prompt (e.g., "Year 4 lesson on volcanoes") and compare it against one built using strict pedagogical parameters to prove AI relies on human expertise

Co-Planning Prompts, by Matthew Wimpenny-Smith

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:34:10 UTC

Add specific questions to mentor meeting sheets, such as: "Will the AI enhance or distract from my thinking in this lesson?

"Blue Box" Transparency, by Georgia Aspinox

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:35:17 UTC

Place a blue box on university lecture slides explicitly stating exactly how an AI tool was used to generate that specific content or quote

Attitude Line Graphs, by Pip Sanderson

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:35:51 UTC

Have trainees draw a line graph charting their feelings about AI's potential for good over time (e.g., from Nov 2022 to today) to normalise changing their minds as they learn more

Rename "Hallucinations" to "Tech Fails", by Pip Sanderson

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:36:49 UTC

Challenge industry terminology in seminars by explicitly calling them "tech fails"

Add things here to do with how you help trainees learn what AI actually is or how it works

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:38:15 UTC

Predictive Text Demos, by Miles Berry

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:39:06 UTC

Prove to trainees that "making stuff up is baked into the system" by showing them how LLMs are just advanced predictive text (Markov chains) guessing the next most probable word

Engineered Attachment, by Pip Sanderson

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:39:54 UTC

Explicitly teach trainees that chatbots are engineered to exploit human evolutionary instincts for connection and validation

The "Positive Bias" Prompt, by David Curran

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:40:53 UTC

Instruct the AI with specific dignity-saving parameters, such as: "when a student types the spelling incorrectly, please reply with the correct spelling of the word do not highlight the fact that the student has made a mistake"

Live Subtitles, by David Curran

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:41:16 UTC

Turn on PowerPoint's live subtitle feature, which can even be set to instantly translate your spoken English into another language (e.g., Ukrainian) on the screen for EAL pupils

Dictation with a Mute Button, by David Curran

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:41:51 UTC

Give pupils headsets with an inline mute switch. Teach them to think of a sentence on mute, unmute to dictate it, and immediately mute again so they don't panic while the computer catches up

Bimodal Reading, by David Curran

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:42:22 UTC

Use Immersive Reader so dyslexic pupils or trainees can see and hear the text simultaneously, which aids processing speed

Add specific activities and tasks here that impact pedagogy

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:45:11 UTC

The EQUATE Slider, by Ellie Overland

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:45:56 UTC

Use a radar-diagram tool to evaluate shiny new AI products on their pedagogical value, safeguarding, fairness, cost, operability, and sustainability before adopting them

The 'Hypothetical 9-Year-Old', by Georgia Aspinox

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:46:44 UTC

Use AI to write a story from the perspective of a 9-year-old containing deliberate errors. Ask the AI to mark it in three different ways, and have trainees analyse which version is actually effective feedback

Policy Comparisons, by Ellie Overland

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:47:22 UTC

Give trainees a selection of different school AI policies (from blanket bans to open use) and have them analyse where the "burden of responsibility" lies for using the tech

Use Claude Artifacts, by Georgia Aspinox

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:48:14 UTC

Instead of relying on generic tools, use AI to quickly code interactive, highly specific widgets for a lesson (e.g., a customizable apostrophe quiz that only tests the exact rules you just taught

Add anything that helps your productivity here

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:49:53 UTC

Podcasts and NotebookLM (various)

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:50:56 UTC

Educators like Colin McGill, Beth McClure, and Miles Berry use AI tools like NotebookLM to generate summaries or reviews of academic papers and turn them into audio or podcast formats for staff and students to listen to as pre-reading

Use AI Images to spark discussion, by Ellie Overland

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:52:01 UTC

AI-generated images are used to spark discussion and deepen critical engagement. For example, Ellie Overland generated an AI image of geographical features and asked her trainees to debate, "Is this geography?"

Surfacing Misconceptions

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:53:17 UTC

Prompting AI to generate common misconceptions in subject knowledge, allowing trainees to discuss the educational value and quality of the AI's output

Testing AI Explanations

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:54:00 UTC

Asking AI to explain concepts and actively analyzing where the explanation breaks down to help trainees identify both its utility and limitations

Persona Prompting

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:54:41 UTC

Encouraging trainees to set specific contexts or personas when prompting, such as instructing the AI to "make the mistakes of a 15-year-old," which is useful for modeling bias, assumptions, and marking

Generating and Evaluating Assessments

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:55:38 UTC

Using NotebookLM to generate questions from source material, provide answers, evaluate user-generated answers, and identify student misconceptions based on those answers

Mentor Observation Statements, by Georgia Aspinox

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:56:14 UTC

exploring whether AI can be used to improve the efficiency of mentor assessments against the Teachers' Standards. This involves creating a statement bank that mentors can select from to build progress and observation statements

Reverse-Engineering Prompts, by Kelly Nicklin

GenEdLabsAI — 2026-03-14 19:57:05 UTC

curriculum model session where resources are created using AI, and trainees then work backwards to "unpick" and analyze the prompt that was used to generate them

Difficult parent simulator

2026-03-17 14:35:26 UTC

Simulate challenging conversations with parents using a text-based role playing simulator (e.g. Partyrock) - focus on de-escalation, acknowledging feelings. Staff can collaboratively vibe-refine the prompt based on example experiences.

Bias in Chat or Outputs (3 x 40min activities)

s_tenakov — 2026-03-21 03:17:55 UTC

▪️ Guided reading of a journal article to understand how a research project is constructed by researchers and then communicated to the intended audience.

▪️ Critiquing the research approach (methods, limitations, assumptions) of the authors.

▪️ Understanding bias the researchers uncovered.

▪️ Students experimenting with prompts to see bias of research project/study in action.

Prompting for Accessibility Reducing cognitive load and designing clearer digital tasks

currand — 2026-06-18 09:47:32 UTC

Prompting for Accessibility Reducing cognitive load and designing clearer digital tasks (podcast and video)

currand — 2026-06-18 09:49:48 UTC