"AI isn’t just for tech experts – it’s for every student”

How one teacher is bringing AI to life in the classroom with Experience AI

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Amy Eels, a secondary school teacher based in Bournemouth, is on a mission to integrate artificial intelligence into everyday learning. To achieve this goal, she joined one of Parent Zone’s Experience AI training events to learn how to introduce the programme in her classroom. 

After years of using Be Internet Legends resources in her school, Amy was confident that Experience AI would offer the same high-quality, accessible support, this time to tackle one of the most complex and fast-evolving topics in tech.

“We used our Year 8s as guinea pigs,” she explains. “It’s a completely new area, and many teachers wouldn’t even know where to start. But the structure was solid, the content was engaging and the students were into it.”

A practical way to teach a complex topic

For Amy, what stood out was the training’s clarity – as well as the resources. With six well-paced lessons and an easy-to-follow structure, Experience AI gave her the confidence to dive into topics like classification and machine learning and learn alongside her students.

“I’m not an AI expert,” she says, “but I learned so much. The lesson on image classification really stood out. I loved how hands-on the website activities were. It kept the students engaged, and it kept me learning too.”

Making space for safe conversations about AI

One of the core challenges Amy wanted to address was how students were beginning to use AI tools independently, often without fully understanding the risks.

“We talk about safety online all the time, but AI adds a whole new layer. There’s concern around cheating, misuse, or trusting what you see online. Experience AI helped open up those conversations in a structured, positive way.”

Beyond the student experience, she appreciated how the programme covered some of the wider concerns around AI tools – while remaining pro-tech in its approach. 

Adapting for real classrooms – and real students

Amy found the programme easy to adapt to her school’s environment.

Her school’s move towards becoming paperless meant switching some worksheet activities to whole-class, board-based sessions. That flexibility, along with the accessible, jargon-free resources made it ideal for both computing specialists and teachers less confident with tech.

“This isn’t just for one type of school or one type of teacher. It’s pitched at the right level for a range of year groups and experience levels. That’s what makes it so usable.”

Looking ahead

With plans to reuse the materials and embed AI more deeply into the school curriculum, Amy sees Experience AI not just as a resource, but as a catalyst for a wider mindset shift.

“It’s a reliable, off-the-shelf scheme you can trust and it actually works in a busy school setting. For a topic as big and fast-moving as AI, that’s rare.”

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Bring Experience AI to your classroom

Book your free training at parentzone.org.uk/ExperienceAI

If you’d like to talk to the team or share your school’s experience, contact: programmes@parentzone.org.uk