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.

Delve into AI ethics, UDL, digital citizenship, and media and environmental literacies. These competencies include deciphering fact from misinformation and disinformation, identifying those perpetuated by bots and deepfakes, and countering messages and systems that reinforce stereotypes and harm. This session will provide resources to facilitate deeper learning for youth to co-design the future.

This session incorporates the AI Competency Framework for Teachers (UNESCO, 2024) ethics of AI, including "human rights, human agency, promotion of linguistic and cultural diversity, inclusion, and environmental sustainability… data privacy, intellectual property rights, and other legal frameworks… sociocultural and environmental concerns in the design and use of AI, and contributing to the co-creation of ethical rules for AI practices in education," as well as the AI Competency Framework for Students (UNESCO, 2024) to prepare "students as AI co-creators and responsible citizens."

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.