Unit 04

AI for instructional design

In teaching, AI matters most when it improves clarity, response speed, and support for learner diversity.

Learning goals

  • Integrate AI into lesson planning, materials, assessment, and feedback.
  • Understand appropriate role boundaries for AI in teaching.
  • Design one teachable AI-supported activity.

Key ideas

AI usually adds value in teaching not by replacing instructors, but by shortening preparation time, improving feedback turnaround, and enabling more flexible support.

Teachers should ask which part of the process they want AI to accelerate and which part must remain under human judgment.

Visual cases

TeachWise AI cover

This cover helps frame AI not only as a tool, but as a teaching support system that shapes classroom workflow.

AI content workflow

The workflow image supports discussion of lesson preparation, differentiated materials, and feedback drafting.

Activities

Activity 1: Lesson breakdown

Break one class session into introduction, explanation, activity, and assessment, and identify where AI can help.

Activity 2: Feedback generation

Use AI to draft feedback on student work, then refine it into a classroom-ready version.

Task

Submit an AI-supported learning activity design with goals, flow, AI use, and teacher checkpoints.

Further viewing

This unit works well with channel videos that demonstrate teaching use cases, course design support, and the division of labor between AI drafts and the teacher's final judgment.