AI Studio: Your AI Apprentice 

Effective AI use mirrors effective teaching. Just as educators design for student agency—balancing structure, feedback, and independence—you’ll learn to do the same with AI. You’ll practice setting clear expectations, guiding outputs, and improving results over time as you train your own AI apprentice.

This studio is designed for experienced educators and intermediate AI users ready to level up high-impact practices with artificial intelligence. Through weekly labs grounded in your real work, you’ll build strong prompting habits, design multi-step workflows, and create a personalized AI system aligned to your voice, goals, and context.

Each week follows a simple MWF studio rhythm:

• Monday — fresh lessons, resources, and challenges
• Wednesday — live Zoom demonstrations and discussion
• Friday — share outcomes, prototypes, and peer feedback

By the end, you’ll better understand AI hype vs. what actually works—and you’ll leave with a working system, a practical resource library, and a new lens for your practice.

Participants may use a provided AI tool or their district-approved platform (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude). All skills are transferable across systems.

Audience: Educators with AI exposure

Brad Hinson is the SEHD’s Director of Technology & Learning and a Senior Instructor in the Learning Design & Technology (LDT) program.  His work centers on emergent technologies, pedagogies, and ecosystems.  With 30 years' experience in digital education, he orients toward hard-fun with hands-on forms of teaching and learning.