EdTech for Innovation 2025

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.

In an age where AI-generated images and media shape how young people perceive themselves and others, it's critical for educators to understand the biases embedded in these technologies. This interactive session explores how generative AI can distort and reinforce stereotypes around beauty, race, gender, and identity—issues especially relevant to teens navigating identity and self-image. Participants will engage in hands-on activities designed to unpack AI's influence and walk away with adaptable classroom strategies that promote critical thinking, inclusivity, and digital literacy. Empower your students to question what they see—and imagine a more just and representative future.

In this hands-on session, educators will build their own custom AI agents—no coding required—using accessible tools like Custom GPTs, Chatbase, and more. Participants will explore how these tools can be used to teach ethical concepts like bias, misinformation, data privacy, and transparency. Designed to align with the STEAM in AI Ethics Curriculum, this session empowers teachers to transform their classrooms with future-ready, project-based learning. Attendees will leave with ready-to-use lesson plans, implementation guides, and AI tools to bring ethical innovation to their students.

Ever get tired of your students being TOO successful? Can you think of some students that really just need to experience true failure in a visceral way? Want to fail kids weekly AND have the admin back you up on it? Then we’ve got the session for you! Come have fun and explore engineering design challenges that are effective, adaptable, and designed to help students learn to fail! Then, let’s figure out how to spin it so parents are happy to hear that their kids are failing in school!

Not all project-based learning is the same—and choosing the right type of project can make all the difference in student engagement and success. In this workshop, we’ll explore three distinct types of project-based learning and help you determine which one best fits your students’ needs, goals, and classroom context. You’ll learn how to design each type with purpose, align it to meaningful outcomes, and build structures that guide students through every phase of the process. From student-driven inquiry to structured challenges, we’ll examine real examples and offer strategies for managing time, scaffolding learning, and keeping students on track. Whether you’re just getting started or refining your practice, this session will help you design projects that are both powerful and pra

This learning sequence is interdisciplinary, focusing on a sample lesson integrating music, computer science, and oral and written language. Educators will receive resources on the practical implementation of a co-equal treatment of music and computer science in this session. The ‘What’ and ‘Why’ of Arts Integration, along with a planning document for integrated instruction, will be shared. Ways to incorporate social emotional learning will also be addressed. Join us in discovering ways to incorporate the arts as an engaging learning tool in your instructional toolkit!

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.