Playlab

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Playlab enables a global community of educators, students, and organizations to transform education with AI. They use Playlab to build AI literacy, explore possibilities and risks, and create tools that reflect their values and needs.

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Why Playlab

Your learning community and workshop for AI

We're at the start of the AI era. We believe an open-source, community-driven approach is key to harnessing AI in education. We're a community of learners, supporting each other in creating, experimenting, and using AI.

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Learn

Understand what AI means for you. Build AI literacy by starting with hands-on workshops, rooted in your unique issues and context.

Learn
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Create

Your context matters. A lot. Create AI apps that respond to your challenges. And that bring your ideas to life.

Create
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Experiment

Responsible AI requires experimentation. We help you refine, evaluate, and responsibly use your AI tools.

Experiment
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Share

As you learn, share your work and learn from others. Together, we can discover how to use AI to advance education for all.

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Case Studies

Real Educators Building Tools They Want

Check out these voices from the field: Here are educators who are using Playlab to develop AI literacy for themselves and their students. With our community support, they are building their first apps within days of joining Playlab

Becoming the Heart Behind AI

"I realized, this is the tool that's going to help faculty be less resistant to AI because they're the ones building it."

Professor Fabiola Torres created a culturally aware study guide to support her first-generation college students.

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Transforming Teaching and Learning

"I cannot recommend strongly enough using Playlab and joining this awesome community."

Principal Al Sylvia puts the “lab” back into Bronx Lab by using AI to drive deeper student engagement.

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Students Learn to Ask Deeper Questions

"Playlab has enabled an incredible collaboration among educators passionate about exploring AI in classrooms."

High school English teacher Anne Loudon challenges students to use the Socratic method in class, coached by an app that enables them to Ask Socrates.

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Adding Back Time for Math

"Everything I do is operating under the belief that all students CAN, with the right support."

Instructional coach LeAnita Garner is building an empathetic app to help math teachers create and make timely adjustments to the pacing of their lessons.

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Students Engaging Disenfranchised Voters

"This is it. This matters. This is big. This is different."

Teacher Zach Kennelly and his senior Civics class set out to make voting more accessible for their parents — and ended up improving voting for all of Colorado.

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Explore

Community Apps

Explore our open ecosystem of tools built by educators and students like you. Get inspired to create something new. Adapt something that's already here.

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Partnerships

Schools, districts, colleges and organizations are partnering with Playlab.

You want your whole organization to build AI literacy? Start here. Schools, colleges and other educational organizations supporting learning are partnering with Playlab to amplify best practices by using the right AI tools. Together we can create smart, responsible, human-center change.

Build AI literacy

Build AI literacy

Amplify best practices

Amplify best practices

Strengthen your community

Strengthen your community

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Partners

Our Collaborators

Here are some of the organizations we're working with today. Join us.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Design Tech High School
Building 21
Teach for America's Reinvention Lab
Charter School Growth Fund
LearnerStudio
Leading Educators
Transcend
Leap Innovations
KIPP Public Schools
Big Picture Learning
New York City Department of Education
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Our Values

What We Care About

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Agency

People make the choices here. Everything we do keeps educators and students at the center of learning.

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Play

We learn best by rolling up our sleeves. Try to break things! Have fun.

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Experimentation

AI is just a tool. We help you leverage AI to amplify the rich knowledge you have.

Responsibility

Responsibility

Respect for educators and learners is our cornerstone as we build tools.

Community

Community

We are all learning together--and sharing emerging insights with each other.

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Sign up with Playlab to begin changing education your way.

Educators

Start here by joining a learning community

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Organization leaders

Talk with us about getting your whole team started

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