EdTech for Innovation 2025

Embark on your hero’s journey to UDL 3.0 and joyful STEAM learning. In this interactive session, we’ll explore how the updated Universal Design for Learning (UDL) 3.0 guidelines can transform educational spaces into more inclusive, equitable, and empowering environments. By reflecting on our own learning journeys—and the challenges, growth, and discoveries along the way—we'll reconnect with our humanity and embrace both learning and unlearning. Participants will redefine what it means to be a hero in education by activating agency, honoring learner variability, and designing for joy. Through the lens of UDL and STEAM, come discover how to reduce barriers, center student voice, and spark meaningful, innovative change.

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.