Developing Computing Teacher Guidance on GenAI

Generative AI (GenAI) is becoming widely available for use in schools by teachers and students. While many educators appreciate the potential benefits of GenAI for enhancing learning, there are also significant concerns about authorship, authenticity, plagiarism, ethics, biases, and the broader implications of their use in education. For computing teachers in schools, these issues can be even more acute. In this project, we established a working group of practising computing teachers to bring together a range of views and experiences. Initial results of the project led to a booklet for computing teachers on how to use GenAI, illustrating the effectiveness of teacher-researcher partnerships in developing resources for school use. This project will be followed by further work on computing teachers’ actual experience of GenAI in practice.