This lesson provides reflection questions and exercises for students to consider how AI is applied in various real-world scenarios and industries.
Module 2: Getting Creative with AI in the Classroom
📦 Section 6: Optional Resources
Here are a few tools and readings to explore — practical, ethical, and designed for educators.
🛠️ Tools
- ChatGPT — Create, brainstorm, and refine ideas through conversation; ideal for drafting lesson materials or exemplars.
- Microsoft Copilot — Integrates AI directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams to streamline everyday teaching and admin tasks.
- Claude — A privacy-conscious writing and reasoning assistant useful for summarising readings or re-framing prompts for learners.
- Gemini — Google’s multimodal AI; supports text, image, and file-based interaction within a single workspace.
- Perplexity — An AI research companion that provides cited, conversational answers — useful for modelling critical information‑literacy skills.
- DALL·E — Generate images from text prompts to visualise concepts or spark creative classroom discussion.
💬 Tip: Choose one tool and explore it deeply before introducing it to learners — confidence comes from familiarity, not quantity.
📘 Reading and Reflection
- AI in the Classroom — Danny Liu, University of Sydney
- OpenAI Educator FAQ — Guidance for using generative AI responsibly in learning environments
- THISISGRAEME Blog: AI + Assessment Redesign — Why Fighting AI Isn’t the Answer (and what we can do instead)
- Jisc AI Maturity Toolkit — An AI maturity model designed for tertiary education to help you understand organisational readiness and find relevant resources
- Netsafe NZ: Artificial Intelligence — AI, online safety and more: emerging risks and opportunities
🌀 Remember: One new idea, thoughtfully tried, is more powerful than a dozen untouched tools.
🪶 Kaupapa Māori Lens
Te Pūtakenga o te Mātauranga | The Origins and Accountability of Knowledge
All knowledge has origins. Every AI tool emerges from human voices, histories, and decisions — often shaped by those with power and privilege.
Tohutohu | Critical Questions to Ask
Before trusting or using an AI tool, investigate:
- Who created this AI? (Which company, which country, what values?)
- Whose data shaped it? (What voices trained the model?)
- Who is missing? (Which perspectives, languages, or knowledge were excluded?)
- Who benefits? (Who profits from this technology?)
🌱 He Whakaaro | A Thought
AI is a tool for organisation, drafting, and logistics — not for cultural authority.
When it comes to tikanga, whakataukī, pepeha, or any mātauranga Māori, consult kaumātua, experts, and community leaders.
He Kōrero mō te Mana Motuhake o te Raraunga Māori | Māori Data Sovereignty
While cultural knowledge exists online, be intentional about what you share with AI systems. Before uploading recordings, notes from hui, or culturally sensitive information, pause and ask:
- Who has mana over this knowledge?
- Have they given permission?
- Could this data be used in ways that don’t serve our people?
Māori data sovereignty means we control our stories, our kōrero, and our mātauranga. Teaching our ākonga to think critically about this is an act of kaitiakitanga.
Te Whāinga | The Goal
Students should leave knowing more about each other and their culture through tuakana–teina relationships — AI simply clears the space for that connection to happen.