Empowering teachers to bring AI into STEM Education

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in secondary STEM education remains fragmented and limited, largely due to educators' lack of both conceptual AI understanding and relevant pedagogical tools. The European Erasmus+ project AI2Schools aims to address this gap by proposing a structured, transnational strategy for teachers’ professional development focused on embedding critical AI literacy across STEM curricula. The training adopts a blended, design-based approach, enhancing conceptual understanding of core AI mechanisms alongside ethical and pedagogical reflection. AI2Schools offers a scalable and pedagogically grounded model for fostering sustained, inclusive innovation in STEM teaching and learning. This paper outlines the structure of the project and illustrates how its vision is implemented in the classroom through a learning scenario. In the presented scenario, teachers guide the students to use AI tools to co-create a podcast that explains scientist’s life, discoveries, and impact, while critically reflecting on the accuracy, bias, and ethical implications of AI-generated narratives.