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Dive into the transformative power of Generative AI in the classroom. This session will explore how to meaningfully use AI to enhance student learning, save teachers time and make things easy that were previously implausible. Discover simple tools and explore a range of inspiration and ideas in this hands-on workshop giving you a taste of GenAI.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptop for this session. 

In this workshop, we’ll explore how the AI-powered tool Diffit can revolutionize your classroom by creating differentiated resources that meet the unique needs of each student. Whether it’s simplifying texts, tailoring questions, or generating activities at various levels, Diffit allows teachers to make small yet impactful changes in instruction. Through hands-on practice, we will show how Diffit supports diverse learning styles, helping every student take meaningful steps towards success. Join us to learn how even small adjustments using technology can create a big impact in student learning and engagement!

Outcomes:
By the end of the workshop, educators will leave with ready-to-use materials for their classrooms and a toolkit of strategies to streamline differentiation, making it easier to ensure that every student has access to appropriate and challenging content. Perfect for teachers looking to leverage technology to enhance learning for all students!

Resources:
Diffit For Teachers

As Generative AI tools continue to integrate within our online learning experiences and processes, educators may be starting to feel lost in deciphering what constitutes a learner's organic efforts from Generated AI outputs. This structured job-alike workshop allows for open discussion of individual scenarios in which educators have struggled and/or found success in navigating this potential paradigm shift in HOW we expect learners to learn.

Outcomes:
Participants will gain insight through a variety of shared experiences from teachers and administrators on the complex dance between traditional organic learning processes, using Generative AI as a tool to enhance learning, and an evolving gray zone of what constitutes authenticity.

This lecture will be a demonstration of how I have significantly reduced administration and communication tasks by creating an automized form submission and response system. It will also touch upon how to troubleshoot with ChatGPT to figure out how to customize automations. After this brief lecture, I will engage the participants in a discussion to help them to start automating their own systems to increase productivity and workflow.

Outcomes:
Understanding how to use ChatGPT to code in Google Docs, Forms, Gmail, and Sheets to automate repetitive tasks. Using forms to generate customized email responses based on answers.

In “Using AI to Support MTSS,” participants will learn practical applications for using AI to facilitate a multi-tiered support system. This session is not a “what is AI” session, but rather a way to take the tools that we have, choose the best ones, and put them into action. During the session, tips will be shared for using AI to write behavior plans, which tools to use to support teachers in differentiating instruction throughout the PK-12 school, how to generate behavior reflections for students, using AI to support restorative practices, and how AI can help to document student progress and supports provided. We will explore a variety of AI tools that are useful for school leaders, teachers, and students and have time to utilize these tools to put MTSS plans into action. 

Outcomes:
Participants in this sessions will learn about: 

• Different AI tools and options, including which are optimal for MTSS in schools
• Using AI for behavior interventions and restorative practices
• Using AI for academic interventions and differentiation
• Using AI to support documentation of student support systems

The future of school and work is evolving, and so must our approach to assessments. How do we meaningfully assess students when GenAI can write a paper with them in just a few minutes? In this session, we’ll discuss new approaches to assessment which are more meaningful, relevant and transferable for students heading into a transformed, dynamic, AI enhanced workplace.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptop for this session.

As AI seeps into every aspect of our lives, and gets better and better at seeming human, what impacts are ahead of educators, and what should we keep in view? This high-level session takes a broader view, discussing the ethical implications of AI, the evolving relationships between humans and machines, what we might see in the next 10-20 years, and the importance of human connection, empathy and culture in an educational environment.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptop for this session.