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Matt's Sessions at FETC26
SUNDAY

AI Educator Summit: Essential AI Literacy Training
The AI Educator Summit at FETC is an essential Level 1 AI Literacy training designed to empower classroom leaders with the skills and confidence to integrate artificial intelligence meaningfully and responsibly in education. This immersive professional learning experience offers a deep dive into the foundations of AI in teaching, showing how AI can enhance lesson planning, differentiation, communication, assessment, and feedback—helping teachers focus more on student growth.
Participants will explore strategies to uphold academic integrity, addressing concerns around cheating and plagiarism while promoting ethical student work. The summit also covers critical ethical considerations and risk awareness, guiding educators to minimize potential harms and maximize AI’s learning benefits. Teachers will develop effective prompting skills to generate AI-supported text and media to enrich their instruction. Additionally, they will learn how to incorporate AI tools to provide meaningful feedback and foster student co-creation in projects. With AI rapidly reshaping education, many educators report a lack of training and support as a significant challenge; this summit bridges that gap by offering practical, immediately applicable ideas that maintain integrity and ethics. This summit is perfect for teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders who want to confidently navigate AI integration and prepare students to be responsible, future-ready learners. Join us to build your AI fluency and become a leader in harnessing AI’s transformative potential in the classroom. BYOD. * Pre-registration is required.
MONDAY

Explore Learning Genie with Matt Miller
Explore the exciting features Learning Genie has to offer with Matt at FETC!

Visual Learning + Adaptive, Immediate Feedback in Kami
Students interact with all sorts of documents and sources. What if they're struggling to understand -- and the teacher isn't immediately available? Kami has a full suite of AI-powered support tools to keep learning going, to help students understand, to differentiate, to read aloud, to translate, and more. Learn how you can empower your students to keep learning going WITHOUT replacing their thinking.

Matt's Classroom: Experience WeWillWrite From the Student's Seat
Step out of the teacher's role and dive directly into the learner's experience. In this high-energy, hands-on session, Matt Miller invites you to join "Matt’s Classroom" to explore the powerful collaborative features of WeWillWrite.

How to Prompt AI Like a Boss: Practical Tips and Strategies
AI tools like ChatGPT can save you hours, spark creativity, and help you design more personalized learning—but only if you know how to talk to them. This hands-on session, run by Matt Miller from Ditch That Textbook, will show you a simple but powerful prompting framework that helps you get better results faster. Whether you''re planning lessons, generating resources, or tackling your to-do list, you''ll learn how to converse with AI, not just type at it. Leave this session with practical examples, ready-to-use prompt templates, and the confidence to make AI your new sidekick at school.

EXPO Hall Tour with Matt Miller
Join Matt Miller on an EXPO Hall Tour of his favorite things. Fuel your enthusiasm for exploration of the FETC EXPO with this one-hour tour. Visit the top 10 chosen EXPO booths with our featured speakers as they explain why they love different products and companies exhibiting at FETC. Wear your sneakers and get ready to experience a guided journey of their favorite elementary edtech tools, gadgets, apps and programs to integrate into schools designed to maximize learning.

Step into Matt Miller's Classroom: Using Brisk to Teach
Join Matt Miller for a hands-on experience where you’ll see firsthand how Brisk can transform daily instruction and feedback. Experience the platform from the student's perspective to understand how AI-powered tools can streamline your workflow and boost learner engagement. You will leave with practical, "Monday-morning ready" strategies for integrating Brisk into any grade level or subject area.
TUESDAY

How to Trim Hours Off Your Grading Time with Brisk
Learn how to use Brisk to streamline your grading process and reduce the time spent on manual assessment. Matt Miller will share practical ways to integrate this tool into your workflow for maximum efficiency. Attendees will discover how to simplify their feedback routines without sacrificing quality.

AI and Cheating: Real Talk from the Classroom
When AI assistants were first released, among teachers’ first questions was: “What will we do about cheating?” In this session, we’ll take a look at cheating, plagiarism, and academic integrity. We’ll discuss the place that AI should have in classrooms -- and what AI shouldn’t be used for. We’ll also address how to move forward with changes so we get this right. Perfect for teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators navigating new academic policies. (Bring your own examples—let’s workshop the gray areas together.)

Book Signing and Giveaway
Swing by the Brisk Book for a chance to get a signed copy of my book AI for Educators.

Ditch That Tool (and Save That Time) with Brisk
Explore how Brisk can replace multiple single-use tools to create a more efficient and simplified tech stack. Matt Miller discusses how to consolidate your digital workflow to save time and reduce browser clutter. This session focuses on working more effectively by leveraging the multi-functional capabilities of Brisk.

Special Q&A Booth Takeover
Join Matt Miller for an open Q&A session focused on all things Brisk. This "booth takeover" provides an opportunity to ask questions, see live examples, and discuss implementation strategies. It is a dedicated time for attendees to get direct insights and tips for using the tool in their specific contexts.
FREE RESOURCES FROM DITCH THAT TEXTBOOK

101 Practical Ways to Ditch That Textbook v4.0
Our newly updated ebook is packed with links to our very best templates -- and ways to use them, ideas for turning class into a game (or a game show), Google tips and tricks, powerful assessment ideas and much more!

Ditch That Textbook's AI Teacher Toolkit
Our newest AI ebook guide! The AI Teacher Toolkit is full of AI tools complete with descriptions and links, activities, and lesson ideas you can use in class tomorrow.

Teaching with TeachFLIX: Templates for teachers
Save yourself some time and frustration. Get activities you can copy and assign to your students right away in our Teaching with TEACHFLIX ebook. These activities work with almost any video you can find on TEACHFLIX.org!

