EdTech for Innovation 2025

Prepare students for tomorrow’s world by transforming your classroom into a launchpad for future-ready skills and STEM career exploration. In this interactive session, learn how Defined’s computer science and STEM curriculum engages K-12 learners with project-based learning tied to real-world careers. Discover how educators use standards-aligned performance tasks to foster problem-solving, collaboration, and creativity—while helping students see themselves in STEM roles. You’ll leave with practical strategies, ready-to-use resources, and a demo of digital tools that can immediately deepen student engagement and connect classroom learning to real-world STEM careers.

Discover how AI can help you design more accessible, inclusive lessons for English Learners. In this hands-on session, you’ll explore practical ways to use AI tools like ChatGPT to support language development opportunities across multiple proficiency levels.

Discover how integrating AI Ethics into K-12 classrooms can cultivate critical thinking, digital citizenship, and future-ready skills. In this session, we introduce the STEAM in AI Ethics Curriculum—a modular, standards-aligned program designed by Stanford, MIT, and UC Berkeley faculty to empower educators with tools to teach AI responsibly. Learn about low-code, no-code solutions that make AI accessible to all learners, and how this curriculum is preparing students for AI-powered futures while addressing ethics in technology. Walk away with actionable strategies and ready AI ethics Curriculum you could bring to your Classrooms today!

STEM Learning experiences engage young children because they are hands-on, mind-on opportunities to investigate, make sense of the world around them, and communicate discoveries. Teachers will learn strategies to design kinesthetic, "unplugged" pre-coding activities that support learner agency and choice as well as scaffold for computational thinking and later experiences with coding and computer science. Teachers will also learn how to employ STEM notebooks with young children to support their cognitive growth as they engage in the Science & Engineering and Mathematical Practices during their hands-on investigations and explorations.

Curious what exploring AI could look like in your learning space? Participants will get an introduction to The Tech Interactive pedagogy around AI, plus get to try out two unplugged AI lessons that can help build AI literacy in students.

Ready to ditch dull assignments and empower your students to create, communicate, and captivate? In this interactive session, explore how AI and Adobe Express can transform your classroom into a launchpad of creativity. From visual storytelling to voice-powered projects, learn how to amplify student voice and choice across all subjects, no design degree required!

How might we use AI to better serve the students in our classrooms who are most often overlooked or underserved? This session invites educators to shift the focus from efficiency to empathy, using generative AI as a tool to help us do more of the things we are already doing well.
The workshop will guide you to:
Center equity and use empathy to guide your planning process
Experiment with AI tools to create supports, scaffolds, or community-building activities
Reflect on how AI can amplify (and never replace) your values, ethics, and expertise
Collaborate and create!
You’ll leave with a digital toolkit full of prompts, planning frameworks, and ideas to continue your exploration. Whether you’re new to AI or already experimenting, this session is designed to spark practical, equity-driven integration that honors the human at the heart of every classroom.

This hands-on session introduces educators to the fundamentals of Arduino—an accessible microcontroller platform ideal for STEM education. Participants will build and program a basic LED circuit while gaining practical insights into integrating electronics and coding into their curriculum.

Designed for educators with no prior experience, this workshop demonstrates how Arduino fosters critical thinking, creativity, and real-world problem solving. Attendees will leave with foundational skills, classroom-ready project ideas, and curated resources to support immediate implementation.

Ideal for middle and high school educators seeking to enhance STEM engagement through interactive, tech-based learning. All materials provided.