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MONDAY 9:00AM // TERRACE BALLROOM II/III
Google Slides is an extremely flexible tool when used for projects other than presentations. Explore ways to ditch the presentation method and inspire students to be creative, all while using the tools and features within Google Slides. This updated presentation features even more uses of Slides for your classroom!
MONDAY 10:30AM // ROOM 113B
Let’s face it. Your students spend lots of time on YouTube. Let’s take popular styles of YouTube videos and turn them into learning experiences! In this session, you’ll learn how you — and your students! — can make top-10 videos, unboxing videos and more as a demonstration of learning.
MONDAY 12:30PM // HIGHER ORDER THINKING PLAYGROUND A
Let’s get students thinking deeply by making learning feel like social media apps they love! These activities — inspired by Snapchat, Instagram, even Yelp — will boost student engagement and help students to see your content through a new lens. We’ll try several activities hands-on, and you’ll leave this session with templates you can use in class right away.
MONDAY 1:30PM// FRANKLIN 11/12/13
In this highly interactive and dynamic session, we will take attendees through a design process focused on effective technology usage. Our activities will support a focus on creativity, curation, voice, collaboration, and assessment. We will look at sustainable ways to use technology to support higher-order thinking and learning.
TUESDAY 10:30AM// BOOTH 1912
Sponsored by Samsung
AI has stormed onto the scene. We want our students to be prepared, but we also want to preserve student thinking and academic integrity. Conversations will be key. Transparency. Input from everyone. Clear expectations. But what do we talk about? In this session, we’ll bring up 6 AI conversations every school should have.
TUESDAY 11:30AM // BOOTH 1912
Sponsored by Samsung
Everyone loves games. From mobile apps to retail rewards programs to board games, everyone plays! What are some of the best learning games out there — and what are irresistable parts of popular games we can use in class? You’ll get lots of ideas — and you’ll see how your interactive display can play a part, too.
TUESDAY 12:30PM // BOOTH 3036
Sponsored by Book Creator
Writing is a fundamental, core skill that will serve students no matter what they do. It helps them process. It helps them develop lines of thinking. And it helps them communicate their ideas in an understandable way. Students don’t have to write entire novels to become authors! With Book Creator, students can write in all sorts of genres and styles — and publish to an audience quickly and easily. In this session, you’ll see 15 ways your students can grow their writing skills and become authors while learning in your class.
TUESDAY 2:30PM // BOOTH 3013
Sponsored by Go Guardian/ Pear Deck
In this 20-minute session, you’ll get started with Giant Steps in a snap and discover more about the learning science and research that helped develop this new tool! Learn how to create practice sets, access the standards-aligned content library, use reporting features to gauge student progress, and more.
TUESDAY 4:00PM // BOOTH 1912
Sponsored by Samsung
(Plus a Give Away!)
Our brains love images. They’re wired for them. It’s why social media like Instagram are so popular! Thankfully, images can play a big part to engage your students in stimulating, attention-grabbing learning! In this session, you’ll get five ideas you can use in class right away — and see how your interactive display can support it all.
WEDNESDAY 9:00AM // TERRACE BALLROOM I
We will look at how advances in artificial intelligence (AI) might have great impact in our classrooms. We will deconstruct how this will likely redefine writing and research assignments, looking at how we might embrace this change rather than fear it. You will leave empowered to lead in a world of AI.AI just stormed into the classroom with the emergence of ChatGPT. How do we teach now that it exists? How can we use it? In this session you’ll learn more and get some ideas.
WEDNESDAY 12:30 // BOOTH 1436
These two resources go together like peanut butter and jelly. Find great instructional videos for free at TEACHFLIX … then load them in an Edpuzzle activity to make them more engaging!
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!
Go deeper with AI. This guide includes 10 AI tools that will help teachers and students be more productive in the classroom. It also includes a short guide to ChatGPT and 20 ways to use it in education.
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!