AI Resources

Discover hands-on activities, videos, and guides to help families explore AI together. Learn how to support your child’s curiosity, build digital literacy, and understand the role of AI in learning.

Google Blog: The Keyword

The Keyword is Google's official blog for families to discover the latest safety tools, educational resources, and product updates for navigating the digital world safely and productively.

Google

Video: What is AI? A Guide for Parents

A friendly introduction to AI concepts designed specifically for parents and caregivers.

Common Sense Education

Article: “Teens Turn to Chatbots for Emotional Support” American Psychological Association

AI chatbots and smartphones are redefining youth friendships; psychologists study impacts.

American Psychological Association

AI Literacy Toolkit for Families

Common Sense Media and Day of AI offer a free toolkit with videos and activities for families and educators to explore AI together, fostering age-appropriate conversations and digital skills.

Common Sense Education

Explore creative challenges, games, and projects that bring AI to life. Learn how artificial intelligence powers the tools you use every day, and how you can design the technology of tomorrow.

FCPS PlayLab “Seize the Moment” Challenge

The FCPS Student AI Innovation Challenge, a partnership between FCPS DIT, Amazon, and Playlab, is a competition where high school students in FCPS create AI-powered solutions to real-world problems using the Playlab platform,

PlayLab, FCPS DIT, Amazon

Explore the Exciting World of AI

Discover the exciting world of AI with the Raspberry Pi Foundation's new Code Club Projects! Play a cheese-chomping game using a webcam and Scratch Lab's facial recognition. Test your AI knowledge with a quiz.

National Geographic Kids

DIT Upskilling Academy

The FCPS DIT Career Academy with Coursera allows interested FCPS High School students to access the full contents of the Coursera Career Academy. This academy offers over 50 Professional Certificates from the world's leading companies.

FCPS DIT + Coursera

BrainPOP: Artificial Intelligence

Watch a BrainPOP video to discover how computers use artificial intelligence to learn and solve problems, then test your skills with activities like a quiz and a creative coding challenge.

Brain Pop

Access professional learning, classroom tools, and examples of AI in action across FCPS. Discover how educators are using artificial intelligence to enhance instruction, streamline work, and inspire student innovation.

ISTE+ASCD Membership

FCPS Staff receive a free ISTE+ASCD membership through our partnership and Lighthouse Schools program. ISTE+ASCD provides AI professional development, empowering educators globally to safely use AI in learning and prepare students as future AI designers and problem-solvers.

ISTE+ASCD Membership

DIT: AI in FCPS on Atlas

The AI in FCPS Atlas page, curated by FCPS DIT School Technology Innovation Partners, offers professional learning resources including videos, graphics, training links, and a discussion board for sharing use cases, for staff in FCPS.

FCPS DIT

DIT Hour of Learning

The DIT Hour of Learning is a curated series of one-hour learning experiences presented by the FCPS Department of Information Technology (DIT) and our learning partners.

FCPS DIT + Partners

Lighthouse Schools on Atlas

FCPS Lighthouse Schools, a program by the Chief Information Technology Office in partnership with ISTE+ASCD, pilots new practices and technologies in select schools. Its aim is to measure impact, scale successful innovations across the division, with resources available through FCPS DIT and ISTE+ASCD partnership.

FCPS DIT

Featuring highlights from School Board sessions, our AI presentations, and AI-focused podcasts.

Education AI Policy Exploration

This collection provides school leaders with resources for developing AI policies, including a panel discussion from education leaders on policy adoption.

AI for Education

Dr.Reid January 7th FCPS Artificial Intelligence Update

Artificial Intelligence Update from School Board Meeting

FCPS

Podcast: CTRL + Learn + Grow

In this inaugural episode, FCPS CITO Gautam Sethi hosts a discussion with Superintendent Dr. Michelle Reid and AI Education Trailblazer Dr. Babak Mostaghimi, following their FCPS Board Work Session on AI's role in education.

FCPS DIT

Webinar: Four Priorities for Human-Centered AI in Schools

This webinar focused on promoting human-centered AI adoption in educational settings, introducing four priorities for schools: augmentation, literacy, design and vision.

AI for Education