Edison AI Academy · For Schools
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
- Flexible · 4–38 weeks
- Format
- On-campus or online
- Level
- Institutional
- Cohort
- Up to 25 students per class
- Outcome
- Workshops, student programs, or custom AI learning experiences
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.
Partner with Edison to bring rigorous, responsible AI education into your school community.
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.
Edison's For Schools program brings the academy's research-backed, project-led AI curriculum directly into your school.
This is not a lesson on prompting ChatGPT. Students learn to think critically about AI, to build responsibly with it, to evaluate its output with rigour, and to communicate their ideas with confidence. Every session follows the Edison Method; every week produces a portfolio artefact; every program ends in a student exhibition.
Three delivery models — Edison-delivered, co-delivered, or curriculum-licensed — let a school choose how much to run itself. Every program maps to the Australian Curriculum across Digital Technologies and Design and Technologies.
- What this program is
Partner with Edison to bring rigorous, responsible AI education into your school community.
- Who it is for
Principals, curriculum leaders, innovation leads, heads of STEM, heads of digital learning, and future-focused schools.
- What students build
Sustainable, evidence-informed AI capability across students and teachers
- What students learn
Edison delivers structured student programs, teacher professional learning, AI literacy days, and bespoke programs, built around case-based learning, rotating studio roles, and prototype-first modules.
- How students are taught
Small cohorts of Up to 25 students per class, mentor ratio 1 Edison facilitator : 12–16 students. Edison runs on case-based learning, rotating studio roles, prototype-first modules, and parent and leadership showcase.
- Final outcome
Workshops, student programs, or custom AI learning experiences
The Edison Learning Engine
How a 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.
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
Artefact One AI project
- 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
Artefact Two AI projects and a showcase
- 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
Artefact Coded AI projects
- 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
Artefact Full portfolio and capstone
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.
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.
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
Students learn with the tools modern builders actually use.
Edison school partnerships use the tools modern AI-native classrooms actually use, across literacy, collaboration, and teacher workflow.
Category
AI Literacy
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
- Microsoft Copilot
Category
Classroom Collaboration
- Google Workspace
- Miro
- Notion
Category
Teacher Workflow
- NotebookLM
- Canva
- Microsoft Copilot
Tools evolve. Edison teaches the durable thinking, choosing the right tool, combining tools well, and switching when a better tool emerges.
AI Programs for Schools — answers we get asked most.
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.
partnerships@edisonacademy.com.au
Sydney · Melbourne · Australia-wide
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