Free Summer Seminar — For Teachers
AI Without Cheating
A free one-hour seminar for teachers on helping students use AI to think better, not less.
Most of the conversation teachers are handed about AI is defensive: detection tools, honor-code revisions, redesigned prompts meant to be harder to outsource. All of it treats AI as a threat to be contained. Almost none of it asks the more useful question — what does it look like to teach a student to use this well?
There are two completely different ways a student can use AI, and the difference is something a teacher can actually shape. This seminar is about the version worth teaching, and how to teach it without pretending the technology will go away.
Free. One hour. Live online.
The core idea
Two ways to use AI
The first way is the one every teacher already worries about. A student hands the assignment to the model and turns in what comes back. The work gets done; the thinking does not. No detection tool fixes the underlying problem, because the problem is not dishonesty — it is a student outsourcing the very cognitive work the assignment was supposed to build.
The second way treats AI as a thinking partner — something to argue with, push back against, and use to sharpen work the student actually produced. The work still belongs to the student; the model makes it stronger instead of replacing it. This is the move almost no one is teaching, and it is the one teachers are uniquely positioned to model. The seminar is about how.
In the seminar
What the hour covers
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Past detection
Why the detection-and-policing approach is losing, and what changes when you stop asking "how do I catch it" and start asking "how do I teach with it."
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Assignments that survive AI
Concrete ways to design tasks where using AI well makes the work better and using it lazily makes it obvious — without inventing busywork or banning the tool outright.
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Modeling the thinking-partner move
How to show students, live, the difference between offloading thought and arguing with a model — the habit that protects their thinking instead of eroding it.
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Bringing it to your school
A brief look at the deeper professional-development program for departments and schools that want more than an hour can offer.
Who this is for
Teachers who want a real answer, not a ban
For classroom teachers
You are the one in the room when a student turns in work that is not theirs. You also know that the answer cannot just be more rules. This seminar is for teachers who want a practical, intellectually honest way to fold AI into their teaching — one that protects what matters about the work while preparing students for a world that will not un-invent the tool.
For department heads & administrators
If you are responsible for an AI policy, a faculty that is anxious and divided, or a school that needs more than a one-paragraph statement, this hour offers a coherent starting framework — and a sense of what a fuller faculty program could look like for your building.
About
About the instructor
Tim Moon
Tim Moon has spent twenty years in classical Christian education, most recently as Dean of Rhetoric at Sterling Classical School. He is the founder of Critical AI Solutions, currently teaches an AI course at Wayland Baptist University, and writes Silicon and Soul, a publication on AI, education, and human formation.
Details
Seminar details
- Date
- Wednesday, June 17, 2026
- Time
- 11:00 AM–12:00 PM Central
- Duration
- 60 minutes — 50 minutes of content, 10 minutes of Q&A
- Format
- Live online webinar. The link is sent after registration.
- Cost
- Free
- Who attends
- Teachers, department heads, and administrators across all subjects and grade levels.
Register
Reserve your spot
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What comes after
A fuller program, for schools that want it
The seminar introduces a deeper professional-development program for departments and schools that want to go further than an hour can take them — a coherent approach to AI a whole faculty can stand behind. If that is something you want to know more about, seminar attendees will be the first to hear.