Free AI Literacy Courses and Resources for Teachers

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A short list of free, reputable places to learn about AI as a teacher, or to find ready-made AI literacy lessons. Links checked October 2026 — providers may change their offerings.

Courses for your own learning

• Generative AI for Educators with Gemini — Grow with Google. Free, self-paced course of about two hours with practical classroom use cases.
• AI 101 for Educators — CodeAI (formerly Code.org). No-cost, go-at-your-own-pace course for K–12 teachers on understanding and teaching with AI.
• AI Fluency for Educators — Anthropic Academy. Free course on using AI assistants such as Claude thoughtfully in teaching.
• OpenAI Academy — OpenAI. Learning hub with a “teach and learn with AI” track and educator events.

Lessons and classroom resources

• CRAFT — Stanford Graduate School of Education. Free, classroom-ready AI literacy resources for high school teachers.
• AI literacy lessons for grades 6–12 — Common Sense Education. Short, ready-to-teach lessons on AI, bias, chatbots and more.
• MIT RAISE — Massachusetts Institute of Technology. K–12 AI resources including the Day of AI curriculum.
• AI Pedagogy Project — metaLAB at Harvard. Free guides and assignments for critical and creative uses of AI in education.

Prompting

• Prompt Engineering Guide — DAIR.AI. Free guide to prompting techniques, from basics to advanced.
• Our own prompting guide for teachers, with Indian classroom examples.

Most of these resources are designed for international classrooms. Adapt examples to your students’ language and context — and check each platform’s privacy terms before asking students to sign up.