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.

What if math tasks could reflect the identities, cultures, and interests of the students we teach? In this hands-on session, explore how AI tools like ChatGPT can support educators in generating math word problems that are both rigorous and personally meaningful. Learn practical strategies for crafting culturally responsive prompts, co-creating tasks with AI, and critically evaluating outputs for bias and authenticity. Walk away with adaptable tools, example tasks, and inspiration to make math more human—and more relevant—for every learner.

Where do we get our information from in 2025? Many teenagers get their news from short-form videos as well as podcasts. In this session, we will explore how to craft an assessment that offers students a choice in how to demonstrate their understanding of a STEM topic of their choice.

This session shares lessons learned when a district put generative AI to the test in classrooms. Co-presented by a district leader and a SchoolAI team member, we'll walk through how the pilot was designed, what educators actually did with the tools, and why the district decided to move forward. You'll hear about specific use cases in science and math—like how AI supported student inquiry and self-directed experiences—and also what teachers found most helpful (and what they didn’t use). We'll focus on practical takeaways: how the pilot was structured, what metrics mattered, and what changed for both teachers and students. This is a working session on what it takes to move from pilot to practice with AI in STEM

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.