On Friday, 6 March 2026, I had the pleasure of running a workshop with the teaching staff at Prospect North Primary School in Adelaide. Our focus for the session was the safe and effective use of Generative AI in education.

This school is located in the inner-northern suburb of Prospect, about 5 km from the centre of Adelaide, South Australia. The school serves a diverse and multicultural community, with many students coming from a range of cultural and language backgrounds. With around 380 students enrolled, the school emphasises student agency, inquiry learning, and real-world problem solving, helping students develop skills such as communication, collaboration, digital literacy, and resilience.

Throughout the workshop, teachers were encouraged to capture their key takeaways and reflections by creating a digital portfolio using Adobe Express which has been provided to them centrally by the South Australian Department for Education. It was a great way to document their learning as we went.

I also showed them how to use some of the AI features within Adobe Express to make short animated video content.

We explored the difference between AI and Generative AI, unpacking what these terms actually mean in practice. From there, we had some really thoughtful discussions about the opportunities AI presents in a primary school setting, as well as some of the challenges and considerations that come with using these tools responsibly.

We worked through a Gen AI use survey to help understand gen AI use by the teaching staff over the past 6 months and compared some of the results with the national study I did earlier this year.

We looked at

• ways that gen AI tools are being used by the teachers
• the effect of gen AI tools to help reduce their overall workload
• concerns that teachers have about the use of gen AI

I introduced the teachers to a range of resources such as:

• The ST4S program to help keep their students safe
• The Gen AI Tools guide featuring the top 40 tools used by teachers
• The Human Advantage course
• Google’s Notebook LM
• My Practical Framework for Safe & Ethical Use of Generative AI
• My book – The Best Way to Learn is to Make – Creativity in a Gen AI World

I would like to congratulate and thank Principal Russell Barwell for organising this event for his staff.

If your school would like to book a similar experience for your teachers and/or students, click here.