Building AI Literacy: CosmicAI’s Teaching Fellows Program

Today is National AI Literacy Day! National AI Literacy Day is a nationwide day of action focused on exploring the fundamental question, “ What is AI? ” and “How do we prepare learners for an AI-enabled world?” 

As part of this work, CosmicAI is scaling up an existing AI Teaching Fellows program in which practicing high school teachers will co-develop AI-integrated lesson plans and create collaborative resources for AI-enabled STEM instruction. 

With supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation, we’re also expanding teacher workshops, curriculum development, and dissemination activities.

The initiative focuses on astronomy-aligned AI learning materials for grades 9–12 and also enables pathways into physics, chemistry, mathematics, and statistics. We aim to provide classroom-ready materials for STEM educators, working toward a broader ecosystem of AI-classroom resources and sustained teacher support.

Our goal is to connect educators with current scientific research while building a network of teachers who can bring trustworthy, verifiable, and ethical AI concepts into classrooms across multiple states. We will share more details about this soon. 

For now, to learn more about our educational initiatives, please visit cosmicai.org/education-outreach and sign up for our newsletter to get updates when we launch the AI Teaching Fellows program.