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A Teacher's Guide to Using AI
152 pages, Paperback
Published February 5, 2026
About the author
Meenoo Rami
4 books71 followersMeenoo Rami has spent her years in the classroom leveraging technology to benefit her students and her years in the tech sector advocating for teachers and students. She is a National Board Certified teacher and National Writing Project teacher–consultant who taught English at the Science Leadership Academy and other Philadelphia public schools for a decade. She helped teachers refine their practice as a Gates Foundation teaching fellow, led Minecraft Education, and supported teachers and schools at Microsoft. She has built and led education and AI products used by millions of learners, bringing a classroom teacher’s perspective to the design of technology that supports real learning. Meenoo is the author of A Teacher’s Guide to Using AI and Thrive: 5 Ways to (Re)Invigorate Your Teaching. She was awarded of the National Council of Teachers of English’s Conference on English Leadership’s first Innovative Leadership Award.
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August 29, 2026
I picked up A Teacher's Guide to Using AI over the summer and found it genuinely practical, right down to specific prompts to try. There are ideas for using AI in my own work as a teacher, for teaching students how these tools actually work, and for guiding them to use AI well themselves. What I did not expect was how much of the book is about relationships and trust.
Rami's argument is that AI literacy now sits alongside something teachers have always taught, judging whether a source can be trusted, and that it runs deeper than fluency with any one tool. She suggests students need the habit of pausing to ask whether a task calls for their own thinking, whether a tool would genuinely open up their ideas, or whether reaching for it would quietly remove the learning itself.
She makes the case that our most important work is developing the human capacities that technology has not come close to touching, skills like reading a room, staying flexible when plans change, asking sharper questions, and working well with others. As an IB teacher this landed clearly for me. The Approaches to Learning skills at the heart of the programme matter more than ever, because they are what prepare students for a future none of us can describe yet.
What stayed with me most was her take on trust. Students lean on AI inappropriately when they feel stressed or unsure what is expected of them, and a classroom built on clarity and safety protects academic honesty far better than monitoring ever will. Most learners know when they are avoiding the real work. What helps is a teacher willing to talk about it openly.
Reassuringly, she is clear you do not need to be an expert to begin, only willing to keep learning with your students. I would recommend this to any teacher, at any stage of comfort with AI, and especially to schools looking for a shared starting point for these conversations.
Rami's argument is that AI literacy now sits alongside something teachers have always taught, judging whether a source can be trusted, and that it runs deeper than fluency with any one tool. She suggests students need the habit of pausing to ask whether a task calls for their own thinking, whether a tool would genuinely open up their ideas, or whether reaching for it would quietly remove the learning itself.
She makes the case that our most important work is developing the human capacities that technology has not come close to touching, skills like reading a room, staying flexible when plans change, asking sharper questions, and working well with others. As an IB teacher this landed clearly for me. The Approaches to Learning skills at the heart of the programme matter more than ever, because they are what prepare students for a future none of us can describe yet.
What stayed with me most was her take on trust. Students lean on AI inappropriately when they feel stressed or unsure what is expected of them, and a classroom built on clarity and safety protects academic honesty far better than monitoring ever will. Most learners know when they are avoiding the real work. What helps is a teacher willing to talk about it openly.
Reassuringly, she is clear you do not need to be an expert to begin, only willing to keep learning with your students. I would recommend this to any teacher, at any stage of comfort with AI, and especially to schools looking for a shared starting point for these conversations.
April 21, 2026
A clear, focused, and practical resource for teachers and anyone figuring out how AI tools do and don’t fit into education. It provides theoretical grounding that is accessible. And ideas for prompts, talking with students and colleagues, definitions, and more. All with a very human-centered and generally kind point of view that I hope will comfort and inspire educators who read it. It was immensely helpful and I would recommend it to anyone in the early to mid-range stage of engagement with AI tools. I’m sure experts will also get something out of it but the book’s heart is for teachers who need support to get going in a world changing quickly.
July 25, 2026
I liked a lot of the strategies and prompts that Rami offers in this book. However, in the last chapter, she gets a little dark talking about how AI is taking over jobs, particularly entry-level jobs. And while her point is that AI can't replace human connection, that's not what is going to pay the bills. I wish there would've been a little more in that chapter about new jobs that will use both a human touch and AI and how to talk with students about those potential opportunities (some likely don't even exist yet) and the skill set needed for them.
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