Artificial intelligence is already changing how students learn, study, work, and prepare for the future. But the real question is not whether students will use AI; it is whether they will learn to use it wisely.

In this parent night seminar, 2024 California Teacher of the Year, Casey Cuny will explore how AI can be used for good: as a tool for deeper learning, stronger thinking, and better preparation for college and the workforce. Parents will learn how students can use AI to support research-backed learning strategies like retrieval practice, desirable difficulties, reflection, and revision. The session will also explain why words matter when using AI, and why metacognition, curiosity, and inquiry will be essential skills in an AI-shaped world.

The evening will include practical examples, including how students can use tools like Google NotebookLM to study for a test, organize complex information, or create personalized AI assistants such as custom Gems or GPTs for routine academic tasks. Students will leave school and enter a world where AI is already reshaping college, careers, and daily life, making it essential that they learn to use these tools with judgment, purpose, and integrity.

This session is designed to help parents better understand the rapidly changing AI landscape and leave with a clearer sense of how to guide students toward learning, agency, and future readiness.

To register for this event, please visit the event page on The Westport Library's website.

This event is on June 22 at 7:00 p.m.