For educators, students, school leaders, and families

Make AI ethics usable.

The Examined Classroom helps people reason through AI, learning, fairness, authorship, identity, and judgment with classroom-ready thought experiments, practical educator resources, and research-grounded philosophy.

Choose your doorway

Find the path built for how you arrived

The site has guided journeys for different visitors. Pick the role closest to yours, then switch paths whenever the work calls for it.

Students

Start with stories and dilemmas built to argue with, not memorize.

Find your grade path

Teachers

Pick a classroom-ready discussion, then use the toolkit to run it well.

Plan a class conversation

Administrators

Use ethical frameworks and scenarios before AI policy becomes guesswork.

Frame a policy discussion

Parents & families

Find kitchen-table questions for AI, homework, fairness, and judgment.

Start a family conversation

Start by task

Use the site for the work in front of you

The deeper hubs do the heavy lifting. This page points you to the right one before the options start to blur together.

Classroom discussion

Run a dilemma students can enter.

Open the interactive library by grade band, with teacher kits, read-aloud support, and discussion paths.

Open the library

PD & policy

Surface the values behind AI decisions.

Use educator-facing scenarios for staff meetings, leadership retreats, and policy conversations.

Open educator dilemmas

AI evidence

Understand what AI is changing in schools.

Read the research tour on tutoring, personalization, feedback, classroom tools, and practical risks.

Read the evidence

Foundations

Go deeper when practice gets philosophical.

Connect classroom choices to philosophy in K-12, AI ethics, and moral psychology.

Read the foundations

Featured experience

Thought experiments are the center of gravity

The library turns AI ethics and philosophy into moments people can discuss: a story, a choice, a counterexample, and a better question.

K-5

Story choices

Elementary stories, read-aloud support, and grade-specific teacher kits.

Open

6-8

Dilemma turns

Middle-school scenarios about identity, fairness, AI, and trust.

Open

9-12

Canon remixed

Plato, Mary's Room, the Chinese Room, and current AI dilemmas.

Open

Educators

Policy pressure

Adult scenarios for staff PD, leadership teams, and AI policy work.

Open

Toolkit

Run dialogue well

Norms, sentence stems, Socratic moves, and protocols.

Open

Journal

Track reasoning

A private, browser-only decision journal with export.

Open

Why this exists

The question is not only what AI can make easier.

It is what students become through learning, reasoning, revising, and explaining their choices. The site is built to keep that question visible while schools make practical decisions.