Join leading digital education expert Darren Coxon for this exclusive, one-day training session at York College.
The Cybernetic Classmate and Me provides a comprehensive guide to integrating AI into your teaching and leadership practice, maximising its benefits while protecting students and data.
This is a practical, hands-on session exploring how AI can become a genuine teaching and learning partner.
Throughout the day, you’ll explore how AI is already transforming education enhancing efficiency, improving learning outcomes, and supporting teacher wellbeing. Discover how easy-to-use tools can streamline lesson planning, automate administrative tasks, and provide real-time feedback to help you better understand and support learners.
We start with the one skill that underpins everything, treating the prompt as a specification, not a question and the one safety rule that never changes: confidentiality decides the tool.
Importantly, this training will guide you through best practice for deploying AI safely and ethically. You’ll come away with a clear framework for responsible use, including advice on GDPR compliance, student data protection, and how to maintain human-centred teaching values in a tech-enabled world
From there, participants work through immediately usable classroom workflows: building a grounded knowledge base in NotebookLM and turning it into podcasts, video explainers, mind maps, flashcards and quizzes; generating differentiated resources, social stories and readable adaptations; using voice and role play modes for retrieval practice; and quick wins for planning, assessment and reporting. Every workflow is demonstrated live and mapped against data-protection expectations, so participants leave knowing not just what works, but what’s safe to use with which age group.
All prompts are provided as a copy-paste take-home resource.exploring the safe and secure use of artificial intelligence in schools and colleges.
Who should attend?
This session is ideal for:
- Senior leaders and headteachers exploring AI strategy and governance
- Classroom teachers keen to integrate AI tools into daily teaching
- EdTech leads and digital champions supporting school-wide implementation
- FE professionals looking to enhance learner outcomes through innovation
- Safeguarding and data protection leads seeking clarity on secure deployment
Whether you’re just starting your AI journey or looking to build on what you’ve already introduced, this is your chance to gain practical insights, tried-and-tested tools, and expert guidance from one of the UK’s most influential voices in education and technology.
Book now to secure your place.
Book before 30 September to benefit from a 15% discount.
Transform your teaching, protect your learners, and prepare for the future of education with confidence.