Planned Agenda — Workshop 1: Using AI for STEM

8:30

You Do 5 min

Icebreaker: Drop It in Chat

What's one thing you've tried with AI — or one thing you're curious about? No wrong answers.

8:35

Admin 5 min

Pre-Survey

Quick pre-survey while we get everyone settled.

→ Open Pre-Survey

8:40

Listen Contextualize 5 min

The CRAFT Cycle & Where AI Lives

Quick intro to the CRAFT framework (C→R→A→F→T) — today's session IS one, and you'll learn to build your own. Plus: where AI actually shows up in STEM careers right now.

8:45

You Do Contextualize 10 min

Brainstorm: AI in Your World

In the shared doc, add to the table: Where have you (or your students) encountered AI in a STEM context? Star anything that surprised you in someone else's entry. Be ready to share one highlight.

→ Open Shared Doc

8:55

You Do Reframe 3 min

Poll: What Do You Believe About AI?

Vote honestly — no judgment here. We'll look at the results together.

8:58

Listen Reframe 5 min

Myth-Busting: An Engineer's Take

We'll look at the poll results and reframe the big myths. Spoiler: AI is a co-pilot, not an autopilot.

9:03

You Do Reframe 12 min

Breakout: Your Biggest AI Concern

In small groups, discuss: What's the #1 barrier to using AI in your classroom? (Admin policy? Student misuse? Your own comfort?) Capture the group's top concern and one possible reframe in the shared doc.

9:15

Break 10 min

Break #1

Stretch, refill coffee. Check chat for a terrible AI-generated STEM dad joke.

9:25

Listen Assemble 10 min

I Do: Prompt Engineering Demo

Watch the same prompt entered into ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini side-by-side. Pay attention to prompt anatomy: role, task, constraints, format. Notice what's different across platforms.

9:35

You Do Assemble 15 min

Guided Practice: Your First Engineered Prompt

Using the prompt template in the shared doc, write a prompt for YOUR subject and grade band. Enter it into any LLM. Paste the result into the shared doc and note: what's good, what's wrong, what's missing?

→ Open Prompt Template

9:50

You Do Assemble 25 min

Breakout: Cross-Platform Prompt Lab

In your group, take the same base prompt and each enter it into a different LLM platform. Compare results in your group's shared doc section. Discuss: Which gave the most useful output? What did you have to fix? Prepare one "aha" and one "uh-oh" for share-out.

10:15

You Do Assemble 5 min

Share-Out: Ahas & Uh-Ohs

Each group shares their best "aha" and worst "uh-oh" from the cross-platform comparison.

10:20

You Do Assemble 25 min

Build: Customize Your Lesson Template

Open the STEM lesson template. Pick the standards frameworks that match your discipline — CSTA, NGSS, CCSS Math, CCSS ELA, ISTE, or others — using the searchable picker (search by keyword, no need to memorize codes). Then use your prompt engineering skills to populate it for your specific classroom. Use any LLM. TAs are circulating — flag us if you get stuck. Finished early? Try: differentiation tiers, rubric generation, or a parent communication draft.

→ Open Lesson Template

10:45

Break 10 min

Break #2

Browse the resource website while you stretch.

→ Resource Website

10:55

Listen Fortify 3 min

Setup: Side-by-Side AI Outputs

Three platforms, one prompt — let's see what happened.

10:58

You Do Fortify 20 min

Spot the Difference: AI Output Audit

Look at the displayed outputs. In the chat and shared doc, call out: factual errors, hallucinated standards, wrong grade levels, vague assessments, copy-paste filler. This is the engineering trust-but-verify mindset. Sneak preview: Workshop #2 goes deep on verification with the "Check the Machine" protocol.

11:18

You Do Fortify 5 min

Quick Audit: Your Own Lesson

Go back to the lesson you built. Find one thing the AI got wrong or one thing you'd need to fix before using it. Note it in the shared doc.

11:23

Listen Transfer 5 min

CRAFT Debrief: What Just Happened?

Let's walk through today's session and name each CRAFT phase as we experienced it. You just lived a C→R→A→F→T cycle.

11:28

You Do Transfer 15 min

Design: Your Own CRAFT Lesson Sketch

Pair up. In 10 minutes, sketch a rough lesson for your classroom that follows C→R→A→F→T. It doesn't have to be perfect — just map one idea per phase. Share your favorite phase with the whole group in the last 5 minutes.

11:43

You Do 7 min

Explore: Resources

Everything is yours to use: prompt library, lesson templates, platform comparison cheat sheet.

11:50

Admin 10 min

Post-Survey & Closing

You are now an AI-equipped STEM educator. Go break things and learn from them.

→ Open Post-Survey

Using AI for STEM: Lessons & More