AI chatbots are a powerful way to provide safe, monitored, personalized learning experiences for students. Chatbots can be used for a wide range of engaging activities such as interviewing a historical figure, discussing a book, learning about a career, assessing understanding, providing tutoring, or diving into any topic. With AI these chatbots adjust to each student individually to meet their specific needs and interests. In this session we will explore traditional AI chatbots, as well as tools such as SchoolAI, Mizou, Khanmigo, and MagicSchoolAI where you can choose from a wide range of pre-made chatbots or easily create your own. For more details see: https://bit.ly/curts-chatbots
This session will provide a broad overview of the NGSS, discussing the frameworks that inform the standards, instructional practices that support the NGSS in the classroom, and high-quality instructional resources that are available that can support NGSS implementation. We will also discuss tools you can use to become a critical consumer of resources to use in your classroom.
Instructional coaching is a way to build reflective practices in teachers to drive instructional change. The relational nature of coaching techniques allows the coach to provide specific, context-based suggestions that could be used to address inequitable structures in classrooms. Individuals who work with teachers can make specific and intentional moves to help teachers reflect on and challenge structures of power, narratives, and values of science, and what science participation looks like from within specific classroom structures.
EduProtocols are instructional templates that are designed to engage students in learning through critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity, in any subject or grade level. In this session you will see how engaging these can be for students by trying out several hands-on activities with Google tools such as Sketch and Tell, Iron Chef, Tier List, Thin Slides, and more. For more details see: https://bit.ly/curts-active
One of the biggest challenges in education is the time required to provide detailed feedback on student work. Thankfully we now have powerful AI tools that can generate personalized feedback for student work based on the guidelines, rubrics, and style we suggest. This can include feedback on student writing from short answers to full essays, as well as feedback on spoken student explanations. In this session we will explore AI feedback tools such as Class Companion, Snorkl, EnlightenAI, and more. For more details see: http://bit.ly/curts-aigrading
Cultural relevance promotes inclusive environments that expand perspectives of meaningful participation to include all students. This session will consist of two parts, with part 1 focusing on: (1) What is cultural relevance? (2) How has cultural relevance been applied? and (3) How can we make actionable steps in our own classrooms to affirm the diverse cultures and perspectives of our students?
There are many Google tools, apps, extensions, and features available to assist all learners. In this session we take an in-depth hands-on look at a wide range of technology tools to assist any and all learners. These can include text-to-speech, speech-to-text, readability, reading comprehension, artificial intelligence tools, audio support, organization, focus, and more. Learn what tools are available and how to access and use these free tools with your students. For more details see: https://bit.ly/curts-support
Cultural relevance promotes inclusive environments that expand perspectives of meaningful participation to include all students. The second session will be a time for participants to workshop applications of cultural relevance for their classroom context in collaboration with the presenter and other participants in similar subjects/grade bands.
