The SEE Framework
A Practical Guide to Building Safe, Ethical, and Effective Generative AI Literacy
The SEE Framework is a practical resource for educators, school leaders, and learning designers who want to build GenAI literacy in their communities. It provides a structured overview of what GenAI literacy is, why it matters, and recommendations for how to develop it across age ranges and adult learning contexts. It is grounded in research and refined through our direct work with schools, districts, and organizations
THE THREE LENSES
Safe, Ethical, & Effective - applied together
At its core, the SEE framework is the application of three “lenses” to GenAI use. These lenses can be applied individually and brought together through safe, ethical, and effective practices. These components are interconnected, not sequential steps. They are developed together, work in concert, and reinforce each other.
Safe
Protecting yourself and others from potential harms while maintaining human agency, judgment, and healthy boundaries with GenAI tools.
Protecting data privacy and security
Maintaining a healthy balance with AI tools
Evaluating GenAI risks before acting
Keeping humans in the decision seat
Effective
Ethical
Engaging with tools in ways that are fair, honest, and mindful of broader impacts — on classmates, colleagues, communities, and society.
Disclosing GenAI use transparently
Upholding academic and professional integrity
Avoiding harmful use and seeking consent
Understanding societal impacts
Producing outcomes that reflect the best of human thinking — combining expertise, creativity, and judgment with what GenAI can do.
Deciding intentionally when to use GenAI
Bringing your own thinking to every interaction
Using prompting and context-setting strategies
Evaluating and refining outputs
THE THREE LENSES
This workshop is ideal for educators, support staff, instructional coaches, and administrators seeking a practical, responsible starting point with Generative AI. For the best learning experience, we ask participates to have a laptop.
Foundational Understanding
Establish a common understanding and shared vocabulary for GenAI, debunk common misconceptions, and trace the evolution of GenAI.
How to Prompt with GenAI
Apply our 5S Framework and Prompt Library for Educators to craft effective prompts with practical, hands-on examples.
Responsible & Ethical Use
Explore academic integrity, policy alignment, and safe classroom adoption. Protect personal information, spot inaccuracies and biased outputs, and learn how to navigate ethical gray areas with confidence.
Hands‑on Tool Practice
Guided activities using tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, CanvaAI, and NotebookLM expand your organization’s digital toolkit in ways that support your mission and goals.
Designed for
Educators & Leaders
Hands-on
Active Learning
In-Person
or
Virtual
What Educators Say
AI for Education has trained over 500k educators globally and worked with more than 500 academic institutions across K12 and Higher Education, including some of the largest school districts in the U.S.
"Thank you for a fabulous session today. You expertly navigated a complex topic and created raving fans along the way – each noting ways in which they can imagine leveraging their newly acquired skills and insights to improve their practice. It was truly a highlight for our school with regard to Professional Development in my 13 years here.”
– Patrick Sillup, Head of School
Malvern Preparatory School
Featured Resources
The below are included in the workshop and drawn from the wealth of free resources available to help educators explore the safe, ethical, and effective use of GenAI in their classrooms.
Extend Your Learning
Want to build your capacity to support local AI adoption? Our 6‑week online course equips your trainers and coaches to lead AI literacy PD across your organization using a train‑the‑trainer model.
Our Additional Workshops
Frequently Asked Questions
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Mixed groups work well. We’ll provide examples and practice activities relevant to classroom teachers, specialists, coaches, and administrators.
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No. This workshop is designed as a good starting point for those who want to build their AI literacy or develop a common understanding across their organization.
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Yes. Most of the institutions we work with have individuals with a range of experiences using AI. One of the benefits of this workshop is it develops a common understanding and shared vocabulary about AI that you can build upon.
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We do not promote any specific tools. We can run hands-on activities with the free version of commonly available tools. If you have organization‑approved tools, we’ll tailor activities to use those.
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We facilitate this workshop both in-person and virtually. The in-person workshop is ~3 hours in length. The virtual workshop is divided into two 90-minute sessions. For the best learning experience, we ask participants to bring a laptop for hands-on activities.