Beyond the Machine: Teaching with PURPOSE in the Age of AI
A practical framework for deciding when and how to use AI in class
- Chapter 1 : Technology Arrived Before the PlanLecture 1:Welcome to Beyond the MachinePrivateLecture 2:BTM 1.1 – The shift has already begunPrivateLecture 3:BTM 1.2 – Ms. Taylor's yearPrivateLecture 4:BTM 1.3 – Meet PURPOSEPrivateLecture 5:BTM 1.4 – What would you do? The toggle that was already onPrivateLecture 6:Download: Chapter 1 slidesPrivateLecture 7:Download: PURPOSE at a Glance worksheetPrivateLecture 8:Chapter 1 quizPrivate
- Chapter 2 : Purpose and Understanding: Start With the LearningLecture 1:BTM 2.1 – Name the learning goal before the toolPrivateLecture 2:BTM 2.2 – Looking inside the box: what it does, what it can't, how it decidesPrivateLecture 3:BTM 2.3 – Five questions about student dataPrivateLecture 4:BTM 2.4 – What would you do? The reading tool everyone lovesPrivateLecture 5:Download: Chapter 2 slidesPrivateLecture 6:Download: Tool Snapshot worksheetPrivateLecture 7:Chapter 2 quizPrivate
- Chapter 3 : Responsibility and Planning: You Stay in ChargeLecture 1:BTM 3.1 – AI drafts, you decidePrivateLecture 2:BTM 3.2 – Planning the rolloutPrivateLecture 3:BTM 3.3 – Telling parents before they askPrivateLecture 4:BTM 3.4 – What would you do? The placement listPrivateLecture 5:Download: Chapter 3 slidesPrivateLecture 6:Download: Rollout Plan and Parent Letter worksheetPrivateLecture 7:Chapter 3 quizPrivate
- Chapter 4 : Optimization and Safety: Use It Well, Keep Students SafeLecture 1:BTM 4.1 – Optimization: using it well, in context, with a human in the loopPrivateLecture 2:BTM 4.2 – Spotting over-reliance earlyPrivateLecture 3:BTM 4.3 – The rules that protect students, in plain languagePrivateLecture 4:BTM 4.4 – What would you do? The essays that sounded the samePrivateLecture 5:Download: Chapter 4 slidesPrivateLecture 6:Download: Classroom AI Norms worksheetPrivateLecture 7:Download: Classroom AI Norms poster, Grades K–5PrivateLecture 8:Download: Classroom AI Norms poster, Grades 6–12PrivateLecture 9:Chapter 4 quizPrivate
- Chapter 5 : Evaluation and Fairness: Is It Working, and for Whom?Lecture 1:BTM 5.1 – What to look at beyond test scoresPrivateLecture 2:BTM 5.2 – Three kinds of bias you can actually noticePrivateLecture 3:BTM 5.3 – Keep, adjust or stopPrivateLecture 4:BTM 5.4 – What would you do? The reading tutor that works for mostPrivateLecture 5:Download: Chapter 5 slidesPrivateLecture 6:Download: Evaluation Log worksheetPrivateLecture 7:Chapter 5 quizPrivate
- Chapter 6 : Putting PURPOSE to WorkLecture 1:BTM 6.1 – Case study: the essay grader that rewarded lengthPrivateLecture 2:BTM 6.2 – Walkthrough: one tool, all seven stepsPrivateLecture 3:BTM 6.3 – Your PURPOSE plan (capstone)PrivateLecture 4:Download: Chapter 6 slidesPrivateLecture 5:Download: PURPOSE Plan worksheetPrivateLecture 6:Final quizPrivate
Course Description
A new AI tool showed up in your inbox this morning, with no training attached. For most teachers, that is the norm. This course gives you what the rollout skipped: a clear, seven-step way to decide whether a tool belongs in your classroom, how to use it well, and how to explain it to the parent who asks.
It's built on the PURPOSE Framework from Beyond the Machine: Purpose, Understanding, Responsibility, Planning, Optimization, Safety and Evaluation. Six chapters of lessons drawn from real classrooms, "What would you do?" scenarios, a quick quiz after each chapter, and ready-to-use tools: printable worksheets, a slide deck per chapter for your staff meeting or PLC, and classroom AI-norms posters for K–5 and 6–12. You'll finish with a completed PURPOSE plan for a tool you actually use.
For K–12 teachers, instructional coaches and campus leaders. About 3.5 hours, self-paced.
People first. Technology second.
Jessica Maddry
Jessica Maddry has spent 20+ years in classrooms, school leadership and international schools, including seven years leading EdTech procurement and privacy vetting. She is a doctoral candidate researching AI policy in underserved K–12 districts, a CertNexus Certified Ethical Emerging Technologist, and the author of Beyond the Machine: Teaching with PURPOSE in the Age of AI.
She founded Ink & Integrity to give educators the frameworks and tools to make technology decisions they can stand behind. Practitioner-built. Research-reviewed.
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Highlights
- Name the learning goal an AI tool should serve before you adopt it
- Find out who owns student data and where it goes
- Keep your professional judgment in charge of decisions about students
- Plan a rollout with a non-AI option and a parent note
- Spot bias and over-reliance, then decide to keep, adjust or stop
