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Developing AI Ethics in the Classroom

Beck Tench
July 2025 | Center for Digital Thriving

The Graidients 1.0 tool, developed by the Center for Digital Thriving housed at Harvard Graduate School of Education, proposes a framework that invites conversations about the ethics around artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom. The framework asks students and teachers to work collaboratively to brainstorm ethical ways to use AI with specific assignments and projects. Teachers and students first think about the possibilities of AI use for the assignment or project. Then, the co-constructed considerations are mapped onto the Graidients tool, which displays a “gray area” along a scale of unacceptable to acceptable AI use. Teacher educators, teachers, and students may find this tool useful in facilitating nonjudgmental dialogue about evolving technology in the classroom. This tool has potential in educator preparation programs to serve as an example of scaffolding ethical AI use and guidelines within syllabi and classrooms.

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