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AI Programs for Schools
Your students are already using AI. The question is whether anyone is teaching them to use it well.
Edison partners with schools to deliver student workshops, teacher professional learning, AI literacy days, and custom programs, grounded in cognitive-science pedagogy and aligned to curriculum frameworks.
- Age range
- Years 7–12
- Duration
- Four options available
- Format
- On-campus or online
- Level
- Institutional
- Cohort
- Up to 25 students per class
- Outcome
- Workshops, student programs, or custom AI learning experiences
At a Glance
What does Edison AI Academy offer schools?
Edison AI Academy partners with schools to deliver its project-led AI curriculum on-site, for students in Years 7 to 12. Schools choose from four formats — a 4-week taster, an 8-week foundations course, a 20-week semester, or a full academic year — and from three delivery models: Edison-delivered, co-delivered with your teachers, or curriculum-licensed for your staff to run independently.
Every partnership includes complete lesson plans, student workbooks, assessment rubrics, a two-day teacher professional-development workshop, parent communication templates, and Australian Curriculum mapping across Digital Technologies and Design and Technologies. Programs follow the Edison Method and end with a student exhibition.
The Learning Engine
How our program assembles into capability.
Edison programs are not a sequence of lessons. They are a learning engine, six parts that fit together to produce thinkers who can build with AI, defend their work, and lead.
Assembly
- 01
Curiosity Core
Students begin with questions, not templates. They learn to investigate problems before reaching for tools, the genuine intellectual engine of the program.
- 02
AI Fluency Layer
Students learn how to use AI systems as thinking partners, research assistants, and creative collaborators, across prompts, models, tools, and workflows.
- 03
Builder Studio
Students move from ideas into prototypes, turning abstract concepts into tangible AI-powered outputs through structured, hands-on experimentation.
- 04
Systems Thinking Ring
Students learn to see the whole system: users, constraints, incentives, workflows, ethics, and impact, the connective tissue that turns parts into outcomes.
- 05
Communication Lens
Students learn to present their thinking clearly, explain how their solution works, defend their decisions, and refine in response to critique.
- 06
Final Prototype Engine
Every module ends with a working prototype that students can demonstrate, explain, and improve, the assembled output of the entire learning engine.
Program Formats
Four delivery formats, one curriculum.
Four delivery formats, from a four-week taster to a full academic year. Each is the Edison curriculum, adapted for school timetables and class sizes.
- F01
4 weeks · 8 contact hours
AI Taster
An introduction to AI — what it is, how to prompt it, the ethics — and one project. Built for enrichment programs, holiday programs, or a trial run.
- AI literacy
- Prompting
- AI ethics
- F02
8 weeks · 16 contact hours
AI Foundations
The full Generalist Bootcamp curriculum, adapted for school delivery — two projects, an introduction to Python, and a showcase event.
- Prompt engineering
- AI tools
- Python basics
- F03
20 weeks · 40 contact hours
AI Semester
Terms 1 and 2 of the Hypergeneralist curriculum — from thinking with AI through to building with Python and APIs.
- AI research
- Python
- AI APIs
- F04
38 weeks · 76 contact hours
AI Full Year
The complete Hypergeneralist program — four terms, six major projects, a capstone exhibition. The gold standard.
- Full AI curriculum
- Capstone
- Portfolio
The challenge for schools
AI is reshaping what students need to learn faster than most schools can adapt.
School leaders we speak with want to act decisively, but they face three structural constraints. Edison exists to dissolve them.
- 01
No internal AI specialist faculty
Most schools lack the in-house expertise to design a credible, defensible AI program from scratch, and the staffing market is thin.
- 02
ChatGPT is not a curriculum
Off-the-shelf tools are useful, but they are not pedagogy, assessment, or progression. Schools need a structured pathway, not just access.
- 03
Parents are watching
Families increasingly evaluate schools on what they are doing about AI. Silence reads as falling behind. Action without coherence reads as performance.
What Edison delivers
A turnkey AI partner faculty, curriculum, materials, assessment.
Four delivery formats. One coherent pedagogy. Calibrated to the depth your school wants to invest in this year.
- 01
Student Workshops
Curriculum-aligned, project-based AI workshops delivered in term-time or as enrichment cohorts, students leave with portfolio artefacts they can demonstrate.
- 02
Teacher Professional Learning
Practical, classroom-ready PD across faculties. Sustained, tool-agnostic, human-centred, designed to build durable AI capability, not single-session hype.
- 03
AI Literacy Days
Whole-school or year-group immersive days that introduce responsible AI, prompting craft, evaluation, and project-based making in one arc.
- 04
Custom School Programs
Co-designed AI learning experiences aligned to your school's strategic priorities, student profile, and curriculum frameworks.
Teacher capability
Close the AI skills gap with recurring, role-based training.
Adoption has arrived; capability hasn't. The binding constraint in every school AI programme is not tool access - it is teacher capability, on a real cadence, in the subject each teacher actually teaches.
87%
of educators and leaders agree
that knowing how to use AI effectively and responsibly matters for students' futures.
77%
of students have no formal training
despite 92% having already used AI for schoolwork. Adoption has outrun capability.
66%
of educators want monthly or quarterly training
not one-off launch events or annual PD days. The cadence in the data is specific.
52%
of students want the same cadence
recurring, in-service AI training built into the timetable, not into a lunchtime club.
Source: Microsoft, AI in Education Report, June 2026.
Edison's teacher AI training
Termly cohorts. Faculty-specific tracks. Classroom-ready every session.
Designed around the operational template validated by the NSF's US$11M award to the Computer Science Teachers Association - multi-day, cohort-based, curriculum-aligned, with a durable community of practice after the intensive week.
- 01
Termly cohorts, faculty-specific tracks
English, Mathematics, Humanities, Sciences and Arts each get their own trajectory - because AI use in each subject looks different, and generic training doesn't stick.
- 02
Curriculum-aligned, classroom-ready
Every session exits with a lesson sequence, prompt library or assessment rubric a teacher can use in their next class. Not concept lectures - working materials.
- 03
Assessment redesign built in
How to design tasks that stay valid when students have AI access, and how to move beyond detection-tool reliance. The take-home essay is under pressure everywhere; this is where schools respond.
- 04
Cohort community, not one-off event
Teachers finish training as members of a durable community of practice - the same design principle behind NSF's US$11M CSTA AI Professional Development Weeks.
Curriculum alignment
Every Edison school program is mapped to recognised curriculum frameworks.
- NESA Digital Technologies syllabus
- General Capabilities, Critical and Creative Thinking
- General Capabilities, ICT Capability
- Emerging national AI curriculum frameworks
- Independent and Catholic sector AI guidance
Schools program
See delivery models, curriculum units, and how Edison fits your timetable.
AI agents
Build working AI agents for real operations.
Edison school partnerships introduce students and teachers to the agent patterns modern teams use — intake, follow-up, reporting, and calm classroom workflow automation.
Agents are taught as composable workflows — clear inputs, guardrails, human review, and outputs your team can trust.
Frequently asked questions
AI Programs for Schools — answers we get asked most.
Partnership enquiry
Enquire for your school.
Tell us about your school and what you're trying to build. A senior Edison faculty member will respond within two business days with a scoped recommendation, indicative pricing, and next steps.
education@edisonacademy.com.au
Sydney · Melbourne · Australia-wide
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