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Matt's Sessions at ISTE LIVE 25

SUNDAY 6/29

MONDAY 10AM // VIRTUAL

Tomorrow Glasses: How to Prepare Students for an Unknown AI Future Today

Let’s face it, artificial intelligence is going to touch our students’ careers and lives in some way in the coming years. Let’s help students prepare for it -- even if we can’t see it yet. Learn about practical steps to ensure your instruction is relevant to your students’ future.

MONDAY 6/30

MONDAY 8:30AM // STARS AND NIGHT BALLROOM 2/3 

How I Used (and Didn't Use) AI in My Classroom

How quickly should we incorporate AI in our classrooms? What should we use? How much? When I returned to the classroom, I faced those same questions. I'll share how I used AI to teach, what I didn't use, how quickly I rolled it out, and tips for success.

MONDAY 10:00 AM // WEWILLWRITE BOOTH #628 
MONDAY 10:00 AM // WEWILLWRITE BOOTH #628 

Gamified Writing Students Will Beg For (with WeWillWrite)

Writing practice doesn’t have to be a drag. With WeWillWrite, students will enjoy the gamified platform – and they’ll get writing practice that will help them hone their skills. It’s so much fun. In this session, you’ll get hands-on practice with WeWillWrite AND hear what Matt loves about it.

MONDAY 10:30 AM // BRISK BOOTH #2654 

How to Trim Hours Off Your Grading Time with Brisk

Grading and student feedback? They’re important. But they’re super time-consuming. Can our students get all the benefits from our feedback – but shorten the time it takes us to do it? In this session, you’ll see some of Brisk’s feedback tools that speed up the process – and keep it meaningful.

The busy teacher's guide to saving time with Brisk Teaching

MONDAY 11:30 AM // FIGMA BOOTH #2418 

Quick Collaboration Ideas with FigJam

FigJam is the best at quick, visual brainstorming with friends (and classmates). How can we get students thinking quickly – visually? creatively? – in support of learning in the classroom? In this session, you’ll learn how to share a FigJam file quickly with your students and get them thinking and talking right away.

Note: You can catch this session again on Tuesday at 10 am

20 ways to use FigJam in class

MONDAY 12:00 PM // BRISK BOOTH #2654 

Ditch That Tool (and Save That Time) with Brisk

A teacher’s day can be full of time-consuming tasks. What if you had a personal AI teaching assistant to make more time for what matters most? In this session, Matt will take YOUR time-consuming tasks and get them done faster with Brisk.

The busy teacher's guide to saving time with Brisk Teaching

MONDAY 2:00 PM // FIGMA BOOTH #2418 

Fun Digital Brain Dumps with FigJam

Ever feel like you teach over and over and the students just don’t remember? What you need is a brain dump (aka “retrieval practice”). It’s backed by brain science. It can drive serious learning. And it can be fun! In this session, you’ll get lots of practical ideas to help students build long-term memory with fun “brain dumps.”

Note: You can catch this session again on Tuesday at 12 pm and on Wednesday at 10:30 am

20 ways to use FigJam in class

MONDAY 3:00 PM // BRISK BOOTH #2654 

Step Into Matt Miller’s Classroom:Using Brisk to Teach

Matt Miller from Ditch That Textbook taught Spanish full-time last spring. Take a step into his classroom and watch Matt use Brisk to create lots of teaching ideas and student activities you can plug into class right away.

The busy teacher's guide to saving time with Brisk Teaching

MONDAY 12 PM // BRISK BOOTH #2654 

Create an Entire Unit Plan -- with Activities -- in 10 Minutes with Brisk

Brisk Teaching makes it so easy to generate lesson plans, teaching resources, student activities and much, much more. But how easy? In this session, you’ll see an entire unit plan created before your eyes in 10 minutes – all with features you can use for free.

The busy teacher's guide to saving time with Brisk Teaching

TUESDAY 7/1

TUESDAY 11:00 AM // SCHOOLAI BOOTH #3136 

How to Personalize Learning with SchoolAI: 10 Activities You Can Use Tomorrow

Students don’t want to be in class and do work that don’t feel like them – that don’t connect to their lives or their future. With a few simple adjustments, you can create learning that will make connections with students. In this session, you’ll see 10 practical ways SchoolAI can help you connect with students.

TUESDAY 1:00 PM // HEMISFAIR BALLROOM 3 

Beyond ChatGPT: Navigating AI-Generated Images, Video and More

In this session, we will unpack the ethical complexities of AI-generated images, videos, and more. We will explore practical strategies to navigate potential biases and misinformation, ensuring responsible use in education and empowering critical media literacy.

TUESDAY 2:15 PM // VIVI BOOTH #819 

Top 5 Ways to Build Teacher Student Connections in a Moment of AI

There’s been so much talk about AI and the importance of human connection in education. Are there ways we can deepen our relationships and inspire our students with our technology – and without? In this session, we’ll explore 5 ways to build that important student/teacher connection.

TUESDAY 3:00 PM // HBGCC-006CD 

Like TPT for Free: Free Pre-Made Digital Teaching Resources

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel or spend hours looking for teaching resources on Teachers Pay Teachers. You just have to know where to look! Learn about lots of teacher resources with pre-made lesson plans, videos, activities, projects, and more you can use in class right away.

TUESDAY 4:15 PM // KAMI BOOTH #1900 

How to Customize Your Own Copy and Assign Templates

You've got to love when you find pre-made templates you can copy and assign to your students. Thankfully, we can go WAY beyond boring fill-in-the-blank worksheets! In this session, you'll learn where to find copy-and-assign templates for free -- and how Kami can give them new superpowers.

Kami in the classroom: 10 templates plus tips for using them

TUESDAY 7/1

WEDNESDAY 9:45 AM // SCREENPAL BOOTH #3231 

Your Class, But Cool Like TikTok

You know your students are up on the latest TikTok trends. What if we could use those ideas to engage them in learning -- to capture their attention and get them excited about learning? In this session, we will break down how to use six TikTok trends for students to demonstrate learning using ScreenPal.

Getting started with ScreenPal

WEDNESDAY 11:15 AM // CLASS COMPANION BOOTH #521 

Speedy Differentiation with Class Companion

Differentiating instruction can feel like a daunting, time-consuming task. But it doesn't have to be—at least when you have some help! Class Companion can help you create materials that are right on your students' level. Plus, it can provide individualized, real-time feedback that fits them perfectly. In this session, you'll get practical strategies to start differentiating right away with Class Companion.

WEDNESDAY 12:00 PM // DIFFIT BOOTH #1954 

All About Diffit: How Diffit Can Support Engaging Lesson Planning

Learn how Diffit can save you time and help you create just-right instructional materials to engage all learners in your classroom!

Differentiating instruction with Diffit

FREE RESOURCES FROM DITCH THAT TEXTBOOK

101 Practical Ways to Ditch That Textbook v3.0

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!

AI in the Classroom: 10+ tools for teachers

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.

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!

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