Inside Google’s AI training for teachers

The guidance on overcoming pushback reflects the increasingly hostile public sentiment toward AI as an expanding grassroots movement of parents demands less reliance on computers in schools. In the month before the training, Pope Leo XIV urged more regulations to slow AI adoption, college graduates booed ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt and other commencement speakers when they promoted AI, and one of the country’s largest teachers unions called for limits on AI and screen time in elementary schools.

AI is playing a larger role in classrooms: Some states already require schools to provide AI instruction, universities are paying millions to provide chatbots for students, and the federal government is prioritizing AI in education grants. But recent surveys found most teachers have not received guidance on how to use AI in their work.

Jennie Magiera, global head of education impact at Google, said in an interview during the training that teachers and students are going to continue using AI…