An introduction to Sphero Indi robots to develop computational thinking skills for primary students. Indi is a simple robot that helps students work on 21st century skills without requiring the use of screens.

This session will introduce elementary educators to the potential of AI in the classroom. We'll explore practical AI tools that can simplify educators' workloads, from text-leveling and lesson/unit planning to creating personalized learning experiences for students. Participants will gain a basic understanding of how to use AI responsibly and effectively to enhance teaching and learning. 

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You will learn how to use the Minecraft Education Edition software to enhance or create lessons and assessments in all content areas. You will see demonstrated hosting worlds, adjusting what students can do in worlds, and the many sample worlds in the game. Participants will have hands-on time with the software themselves to explore and learn.

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In this session, we will explore familiar platforms, such as Snap&Read, Magic School, and Quizlet to demonstrate how to increase language production for all levels. These tools can support scaffolding and deepen student comprehension when used in the right place and at the appropriate levels. 

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This class will be an introduction to what a Micro:bit is and their potential in YOUR classroom! This will be a hands-on opportunity to explore programming Micro:bits and how to enhance your current lessons. In addition, you will have time to work with the "experts" to design your own Micro:bit lesson to take back with you and utilize with your students. ***Every Auburn elementary school has a set of Micro:bits available to them!

This session empowers teachers to harness AI image generation tools for diverse classroom applications. Participants will learn how to integrate AI to create custom visuals that enhance lesson delivery, support differentiated learning, and inspire creativity across subjects. By exploring strategies like collaborative image creation, culturally responsive design, and visual storytelling, educators will leave equipped to use AI to enrich their teaching while fostering student engagement and inclusivity. 

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Learn three new tools and tricks with me! Discover how to customize, modify, and scaffold learning in seconds with sentence frames, word banks, and step-by-step simplified instructions. Teach your students to create stunning visuals using AI on Canva to elevate their projects. Plus, make grading a breeze with the Brisk extension in Google Classroom. Save time, engage students, and differentiate learning like never before!

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This is a hands on workshop meant to help guide teachers on how to use Canva EDU (Free for educators and students) to get more engagement in the classroom and save your precious time! This workshop will walk teachers through how to use pre-existing templates, how to create templates for students to use, how to create stronger, more engaging presentations, and so much more. This workshop is designed for middle and high school teachers, but can be beneficial for all grade level teachers in all subject areas. You WILL walk away from this workshop with a resource you can use next week.

Primary teachers, explore the many ways you can use Seesaw with your students. We will look at a variety of classroom examples and dig into ways you can integrate Seesaw into your teaching.

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In this session, we will explore how to plan coding activities that support students' learning of core content. We will focus on Pro-Bot and Code&Go Mice, but this learning can be applied to a variety of other robots.

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Learn how to use School AI Spaces to provide unique learning experiences for your students. This tool allows students to interact with AI chatbots in a safe and controlled way. With School AI Spaces the possibilities are endless - from curated feedback tools, interacting with historical figures, learning more about research topics, math tutors and more!

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This is an opportunity to speak with Tyler following his keynote and ask questions about any of the topics that were raised.

Learn how to create engaging and meaningful student news videos for your school. We will go over how to structure the video creation, editing with WeVideo, and putting together a final product with students. This is a great way to get your school excited to hear announcements!

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This session will cover ways to use tech for instruction in PK-2nd grade classrooms. We will also show ways to use Seesaw to track reading growth and other ways to show learning that supports the UDL framework. Finally, we will showcase some ways to add tools to our Clever pages in order to help support student learning.

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This session will be a basic introduction to Google Vids. We will present step-by-step how to utilize Google Vids in the classroom and how this can be used as another outlet for student voice. Most importantly we will highlight how Google Vids can be used to support our population of ML students in all grade levels.

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FigJam is an awesome online collaboration platform. It is a fantastic tool for brainstorming, research, planning and developing projects. Join me to find out how you can use FigJam in your classroom.

Computational thinking is not just about computer science! See how hands-on computational thinking activities help students break down problems into manageable parts and identify patterns that enable them to create solutions that can be applied in core content areas. 

Teach your whole class how and why to use Snap&Read to support their comprehension of grade level content in three lessons. Most appropriate for third through fifth grade.

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Participants will be introduced to School AI and explore how it can aid students in revision and editing in writing. This session will showcase how School AI (through effective prompting) can help with creative writing. We will consider our ethical and moral responsibilities as teachers utilizing this tool, including considerations around equity. 

You've probably heard all about what AI can do, but in this session, we will get hands on and spend some time designing and sharing lesson ideas that will help engage our students with AI tools. We will discuss how to prompt as well as troubleshooting roadblocks that may come up. The goal of this session is to get you rolling on lessons you want to do with your students.

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Harness the power of podcasts to deepen learning and enhance student engagement. This session will guide you through the why and how of podcasting, offering free tools and strategies to spark student engagement, promote equity, and amplify diverse voices. You will leave with actionable ideas for integrating podcasts into lessons, empowering students to create, share, and learn through a popular medium that builds essential skills in speaking, listening, critical thinking, and collaboration.

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The days of learning only through lectures and showing understanding simply by writing essays are gone! Learners are diverse, and the ways we access information are diverse. Our teaching methods must adapt to reflect this diversity. By integrating innovative instructional practices with intentional technology use, we will boost student engagement, increase content retention, and elevate learning outcomes. This session explores strategies to diversify instruction and assessment, leveraging tools and approaches in the elementary and secondary environment that make learning meaningful and accessible for all students.

Do you feel like your eyes are glued to your phone? Ever get lost doomscrolling? Feel worse every time you put it down? You're not alone! Come find out some of the neuroscience behind why our phones are so addictive, and some ways that you can cultivate better habits and have a better relationship with the digital world.

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An introduction to Sphero Indi robots to develop computational thinking skills for primary students. Indi is a simple robot that helps students work on 21st century skills without requiring the use of screens.

This session will introduce elementary educators to the potential of AI in the classroom. We'll explore practical AI tools that can simplify educators' workloads, from text-leveling and lesson/unit planning to creating personalized learning experiences for students. Participants will gain a basic understanding of how to use AI responsibly and effectively to enhance teaching and learning. 

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You will learn how to use the Minecraft Education Edition software to enhance or create lessons and assessments in all content areas. You will see demonstrated hosting worlds, adjusting what students can do in worlds, and the many sample worlds in the game. Participants will have hands-on time with the software themselves to explore and learn.  

Link to Slides

In this session, we will explore familiar platforms, such as Snap&Read, Magic School, and Quizlet to demonstrate how to increase language production for all levels. These tools can support scaffolding and deepen student comprehension when used in the right place and at the appropriate levels. 

Link to Slides

This class will be an introduction to what a Micro:bit is and their potential in YOUR classroom! This will be a hands-on opportunity to explore programming Micro:bits and how to enhance your current lessons. In addition, you will have time to work with the "experts" to design your own Micro:bit lesson to take back with you and utilize with your students. ***Every Auburn elementary school has a set of Micro:bits available to them!

This session empowers teachers to harness AI image generation tools for diverse classroom applications. Participants will learn how to integrate AI to create custom visuals that enhance lesson delivery, support differentiated learning, and inspire creativity across subjects. By exploring strategies like collaborative image creation, culturally responsive design, and visual storytelling, educators will leave equipped to use AI to enrich their teaching while fostering student engagement and inclusivity. 

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Learn three new tools and tricks with me! Discover how to customize, modify, and scaffold learning in seconds with sentence frames, word banks, and step-by-step simplified instructions. Teach your students to create stunning visuals using AI on Canva to elevate their projects. Plus, make grading a breeze with the Brisk extension in Google Classroom. Save time, engage students, and differentiate learning like never before!

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This is a hands on workshop meant to help guide teachers on how to use Canva EDU (Free for educators and students) to get more engagement in the classroom and save your precious time! This workshop will walk teachers through how to use pre-existing templates, how to create templates for students to use, how to create stronger, more engaging presentations, and so much more. This workshop is designed for middle and high school teachers, but can be beneficial for all grade level teachers in all subject areas. You WILL walk away from this workshop with a resource you can use next week.

Primary teachers, explore the many ways you can use Seesaw with your students. We will look at a variety of classroom examples and dig into ways you can integrate Seesaw into your teaching.

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In this session, we will explore how to plan coding activities that support students' learning of core content. We will focus on Pro-Bot and Code&Go Mice, but this learning can be applied to a variety of other robots.

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Learn how to use School AI Spaces to provide unique learning experiences for your students. This tool allows students to interact with AI chatbots in a safe and controlled way. With School AI Spaces the possibilities are endless - from curated feedback tools, interacting with historical figures, learning more about research topics, math tutors and more!

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Learning progressions are a tool that help to unpack standards into a clear, sequence path all the way from background knowledge and supporting concepts to proficiency in the skill. This session will cover how to develop learning progressions, how to build assessments that reflect them, and how to use them in the classroom to increase access to and ownership of the content at all levels.

Dive into the enchanting world of MagicSchool AI and let the fun begin! Get to know the website and discover all the fantastic ways teachers can sprinkle a little magic in their classrooms. Gather round with fellow educators and brainstorm how to unleash this tool for elementary brilliance!

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Learn how to use Magic School’s AI tools to design layered assignments that meet diverse student needs. Discover the Lesson Builder for differentiation, the Assessment Tool for tracking progress, and the Resource Library for curated resources. Leave with actionable strategies to personalize learning and enhance engagement in your classroom!

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This session will get into the why and how of blended learning. We will discuss why blended learning is beneficial in the classroom as it pertains to inclusion and differentiation. Then we'll dig into how you can set up a flipped or blended elementary math or reading class and adapt it to fit the needs of your learners. Our examples come from the elementary lens, but this practice can easily be applied in secondary classrooms, too. 

Harness the power of Google Suite to craft irresistible, game-like experiences for your students! Dive into the dynamic world of quest-based learning and unlock the potential of Google Slides, Docs, Sheets, and Forms to create inspiring interactive lessons. Gain the skills to design your very own quests that seamlessly integrate with core academics. Get ready to turn your classroom into an exhilarating adventure where learning knows no bounds! 

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This introductory course will equip teachers with skills to effectively utilize Adobe Express in their classrooms. Participants will learn how to create engaging visual content, including presentations, and interactive projects, using the intuitive interface of Adobe Express. The course will cover key features such as image editing, video creation, and the integration of multimedia elements. Teachers will also explore practical applications of Adobe Express in various subject areas and learn how to seamlessly incorporate it into their existing lesson plans.

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Discover how this versatile tool can transform your lessons, enhance student engagement, and streamline classroom management. From timers and random name pickers to interactive activities, ClassroomScreen has it all.

Join this informational session on integrating A.I. with MTSS to revolutionize student support! Discover how A.I. can help you identify behavior patterns and create personalized interventions for challenging student behavior. Engage in hands-on activities and learn practical strategies to enhance your classroom management. Don't miss this opportunity to explore cutting-edge tools and techniques that can transform your teaching approach and improve student outcomes!

Come learn tips and tricks for organizing your digital life. We will explore Google Drive, Outlook, and more.

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Teach your whole class how and why to use Snap&Read to support their comprehension of grade level content in three lessons. Most appropriate for third through fifth grade.

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This session will be a basic introduction to Google Vids. We will present step-by-step how to utilize Google Vids in the classroom and how this can be used as another outlet for student voice. Most importantly we will highlight how Google Vids can be used to support our population of ML students in all grade levels.

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Discover how to harness the power of AI to inspire creativity and engagement in secondary student writing. Using the RAFTS (Role, Audience, Format, Topic, Strong verb) framework, this session will explore how teachers and students can design dynamic writing prompts tailored to various content areas. 

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