CAS AI Zone
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an increasingly visible part of everyday life. From tools that generate text and images to systems that recommend content or analyse data, AI technologies are influencing how people learn, work and communicate.
In education, AI presents both opportunities and challenges. Teachers are exploring how AI tools can support planning, feedback and resource creation, while learners are encountering AI-powered systems both inside and outside the classroom. This raises important questions about AI literacy, academic integrity and the knowledge and skills young people need for the future.
This page brings together resources and professional learning to support educators in understanding and engaging with AI in education. Whether you want to explore how AI works, consider its implications for teaching and learning, or support learners to think critically about AI systems, these materials provide a starting point.
Through CAS you'll find guidance, resources, events and community discussions to help you navigate the evolving role of AI in schools and colleges.
What's New in AI at CAS
Keep up to date with our latest Resources, Events, and News highlights for AI:
- Smart Tech Safer Choices - Explore AI in daily life & digital assistants for Safer Internet Day (Ages 7–11)
- Catherine's AI Literacy Appendix - This document maps the key AI messages to the RSHE curriculum statements
- AI Policy Template - updated to reflect more aspects of AI
- How to use AI responsibly - updated for Safer Internet Day for secondary
- Evidencing the Digital Skills & AI Benchmark of the CQF for secondaries - 26th Mar 4.15pm
- Inclusive tools to help all students, every subject & age - 19th May 4.15pm
Join the CAS AI Community
Curious about how artificial intelligence is shaping the future of education? Whether you're just starting out or already using AI in your classroom, the CAS AI Community is the perfect place to connect with like-minded educators.
This community is a space to explore the role of AI in teaching and learning, share classroom experiences, access trusted resources, and take part in thoughtful discussion about the opportunities and challenges AI presents. From practical tools to policy implications, we cover it all.
AI Resources
Common Sense Education's AI Literacy lessons
Common Sense Education's self guided AI foundation courses for teachers 1
Common Sense Education's self guided AI foundation courses for teachers 2
Raspberry Pi Computational Thinking summary
Raspberry PI: The Effects of anthropomorphisation on students' mental model of AU
This CAS event explored how teachers can use Microsoft Copilot to support planning, assessment, and classroom activities. It highlighted practical prompting strategies and explains how thoughtful use of AI tools can help teachers save time while still applying their professional judgement.
Getting the most out of Copilot
A recap of the CAS community meeting exploring Google AI tools—Notebook LM, AI Studio, and Gemini—and how they can support teaching, planning, and student learning.
AI Studio & NotebookLM for All Ages: Google Education AI
A practical recap of the "CAS AI - Brisk" community meeting, showcasing how teachers can use the Brisk Chrome extension to create interactive, differentiated AI-powered classroom resources.
Enhance Your Teaching with Brisk: Free tools to use
We'll Cover Smart Document Analysis: Transform how you review and update internal policies, curricula, and teaching materials.
Google NotebookLM: practical applications for educators and school leaders
To get the most out of a chatbot, you need a strong foundation in 'prompting' skills. Anyone can pose questions to ChatGPT - but much of the power of AI chatbots lies in their ability to take direction.
Mastering AI Chatbots: How to Write an Effective Prompt
In this session James Kuht MBE will do a quick run-through the basics of AI, before getting hands-on. You’ll switch over to your favourite Large Language Model (Gemini, chatGPT, Claude or Bing recommended) to run through some hands-on applications of AI - learning some handy tips and tricks for getting the most out of these tools.
Hands on AI Masterclass from a former CTO
Tig Williams will be joining us to talk about how to use AI for productivity. How can it help with planning lessons/assessments? Which AI tool is best to use?
A recap of the CAS community meeting exploring Google AI tools—Notebook LM, AI Studio, and Gemini—and how they can support teaching, planning, and student learning.
Navigating the EU AI Act - what does it mean for educators?
A recap of the 'Developing and Implementing an AI Strategy in Schools' meeting, covering key discussions on AI literacy, governance, and strategic implementation for schools.
Developing and Implementing an AI Strategy in Schools
In this session, Laura Knight will explore the opportunities and challenges of using artificial intelligence (AI) in education. It will showcase examples of innovative AI applications in schools and provide practical inputs and takeaways about policy and practice.
In this workshop, we'll investigate how Large Language Models (LLMs) can support teachers in providing rapid, detailed feedback on student examination responses.
Can LLMs reliably mark responses to exam questions?
Introduction to our exciting new resource, AI Adventure: Explore, Create, Innovate.
Introducing AI to Primary Education and KS3
Explore the use of Large Language Models for evaluating free-text responses to questions. Can an LLM be effectively deployed to achieve the level of assessment provided by an experienced teacher?
Can AI be used to mark accurately, fairly and consistently?
Jonathan O'Donnell and Hazel Hatch cover current AI tools Harris Federation approach to effective prompts Exploring the following use cases (the pros and cons) Creating MCQ Create exam questions and mark scheme Model answers Marking student work Identify misconceptions Create questions in lessons Use of AI in NEA Ways to identify AI use How to mitigate the risk
Catch up on our VEX Robotics primary meeting, exploring for programmable robots and free online tools can enhance primary computing through hands-on and virtual learning
An online session exploring the use of LLMs for teaching text-based programming. Specifically, we explore the use of LLMs to explain programming error messages.
Teaching programming with LLMs
In this AI community launch event, Jane Waite and Ben Garside will present the work they have been doing over the past 18 months in developing their understanding of AI education and some of the research and design principles that went into the design of an introductory unit of work on AI for KS3 called Experience AI.