AI Essentials takes you from the basics of Artificial Intelligence to the mechanics of machine learning. Explore the brain-inspired logic of neural networks and discover how scalable intelligence allows AI to use your prompts ot suggest solutions for global challenges. You will also have access to a student and teacher AI toolbox designed to keep you informed about current AI tools for teaching and learning. This module will help you gain practical skills and the frameworks needed to incorporate AI in ways that extend your learning and ideas. It is your comprehensive starting point to the world of intelligent technology.
AI Essentials
The AI Toolbox
The JASON Learning AI Toolbox is a curated collection of the current artificial intelligence tools available for K-12 education, featuring parallel resource guides designed specifically for educators and students.
Whether you are an educator looking to streamline lesson planning, grading, and differentiation or a student seeking support with homework, research, and studying, the AI Toolbox puts the right tools at your fingertips with clear descriptions, current pricing, and real classroom examples.
Target Audience:
Grades4-12
Key Concepts and Vocabulary:
AI tools, differentiation, generative AI, prompt
Welcome to AI
Step into the dynamic world of Artificial Intelligence. This module is your entry point into how machines “think”, learn, and interact with the world around them. We move beyond science-fiction tropes to look at the math and logic powering today’s most rapidly evolving technology.
- Stage 1: Defining AI
- Stage 2: AI Models
- Stage 3: The Ethics of AI Use
- Stage 4: AI and Gaming
- Stage 5: Portfolio Project
Target Audience:
Grades4-12
Key Concepts and Vocabulary:
artificial intelligence, algorithm, bias, chatbot, ethics
How Machines Learn from Experience
This hands-on learning module takes you inside the science of machine learning, from training a model to decoding how neural networks think. Investigate real-world applications across medicine, climate, agriculture, and transportation. Through experiments, data analysis, and ethical debate, build the technical understanding and critical thinking skills to not just use AI but to question, evaluate, and imagine what it should do next.
- Stage 1: Defining Machine Learning
- Stage 2: Understanding Neural Networks
- Stage 3: Industry Applications of Machine Learning
- Stage 4: Project Portfolio
Target Audience:
Grades4-12
Key Concepts and Vocabulary:
generative AI, machine learning, models, neural networks, supervised learning, training data, unsupervised learning
Included Materials
Each mission in AI Essentials includes:
- An Educator Guide with implementation strategies, pacing, and differentiation support
- Hands-on activities and experiments that build technical understanding
- Access to the JASON Learning AI toolbox with a parallel guide for teachers and students
- A culminating Portfolio Project to assess student learning
- Career connections
