AI for students
Helping students use AI well
Talks and programmes for students and parents on AI literacy, metacognition and study skills that hold up in an AI world.
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Your students are already using AI.
What matters is how well they use it, and whether anyone has helped them think clearly about it.
Most schools have put their energy into staff. Yet it is students who sit the exams, write the personal statements and start their first jobs, and many are working out AI on their own.
These sessions speak to students directly. They are built on how thinking and learning work, so they stay useful whichever tool is in the news this term. The aim is that students keep doing the thinking, and use AI to sharpen their own work.
Parents are facing the same questions from the other side of the kitchen table. Sessions for them run separately, so families can talk it through from a shared understanding.
What the sessions cover.
Using AI as a study partner, and knowing when it becomes a shortcut.
AI literacy
Where the line of academic integrity sits, and what universities and exam boards now expect.
Thinking about your own thinking when AI can do some of it for you.
Metacognition
How to use it and still do the thinking yourself.
What the research says about how learning sticks.
Evidence-informed study skills
How to revise in ways that work, which are often not the ways that feel productive.
Why AI literacy is becoming a signal universities and employers look for.
Careers in an AI world
And what that means for the choices students make now.
Three formats.
Most sessions suit Year 10 and above. Parent sessions can be paired with any student talk.
Talks
To a full year group or the whole sixth form.
Workshops
For smaller groups, more hands-on.
Programmes
Sessions spread across the school year, so the habits have time to form.
AI and the thinking student.
My talk for senior students runs for about 45 minutes and covers:
- What AI is and isn’t. A pattern-matcher that sounds confident even when it is wrong, and carries the bias of the data it learned from.
- Deepfakes, data and trust. What to check before sharing a clip, and why to treat AI like a public space, not a private notebook.
- What AI really costs. Its energy and water use, weighed against the other habits and everyday things we hardly think about.
- Academic integrity. The question is not “Did you use AI?” but “Who did the thinking?”, and whether you could defend the work without it.
- Revision that works. Attempt first and check second, explain a topic to AI before asking it anything, ask it to catch you out, and use it to find the harder question.
- AI and your future. What universities and employers now expect, and why using AI well is becoming part of what they look for.
- Why judgement stays human. AI can support a decision, but people check, decide and take responsibility.
Students leave able to use AI without handing over their thinking, and able to tell when they are doing one or the other.
Students leave with a one-page card of these habits. Download the card, free
Our students grow into increasingly independent thinkers in the Sixth Form, so it was invaluable for them to hear expert guidance on using AI thoughtfully to support and streamline their learning, without cutting the learning process short.
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José led an engaging and thought-provoking session on AI literacy, ethics and integrity, exploring what AI is, how it works, and crucially how it may be used to enhance, but should never replace, human learning and judgement. Students were invited to consider and discuss how they might question the validity of the content that AI generates, such as requesting a verified source, or cross-referencing against information they receive in lessons. Our students grow into increasingly independent thinkers in the Sixth Form, so it was invaluable for them to hear expert guidance on using AI thoughtfully to support and streamline their learning, without cutting the learning process short. Huge thanks to José for such an insightful and timely discussion!