Teachers Asked, We Built It: A Free AI Data Bias Lesson for Your Class

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Merissa Sadler-Holder
November 19, 2025

🧠 A Snapshot from My New AI Course for Students

This week, I met with an incredible leader from Duarte Unified, where we’re co-designing a nine-week course on exploring AI for continuing education students.

As we built out the framework, I realized how valuable it could be to share a small piece of that work — a lesson that any teacher could use right now to start meaningful conversations about AI with students.

So I turned one of those lessons into a free classroom-ready resource:

Bias in Generative AI Systems

This 45-minute lesson is a snapshot of the larger course I’m curating for Duarte. It introduces students to how bias can appear in AI data and what that means for fairness, representation, and responsibility in technology.

It’s designed for middle and high school classrooms and includes everything you need to pick up and teach right away:
✅ A short video hook (“Why do AI clocks always show 10:10?”)
âś… A mini slide deck for direct instruction
âś… A group activity with discussion prompts
âś… A student worksheet, reflection questions, and a suggested rubric

It’s a low-prep, high-impact introduction to AI literacy and fluency, giving students an authentic entry point into the ethical side of technology.

And it aligns beautifully with the U.S. Department of Education’s new AI priority to ensure students and educators gain foundational exposure to AI and computer science.

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