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Canva in the Classroom Podcasting, Student Creation, and More!

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Canva in the Classroom Podcasting, Student Creation, and More!

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Thank you, Laurie for this awesome collection!

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It's a fantastic suite of AI tools for teachers aimed to "save time, fight burnout, & promote sustainability".

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An AI tool allowing teachers to get “just right” instructional materials, while saving tons of time and helping all students access grade level content.

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Use existing curriculum, or generate standards-aligned content with real, cited sources.

Choose a grade level and language, and watch Diffit create complete, differentiated resources. ✅

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Use existing curriculum, or generate standards-aligned content with real, cited sources. Choose a grade level and language, and watch Diffit create complete, differentiated resources. ✅

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An awesome blog with fantastic resources! Thank you, Eric!

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EduProtocols are instructional templates that are designed to engage students in learning through critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity, in any subject or grade level. In this session you will see how engaging these can be for students by trying out several hands-on activities such as Sketch and Tell, Iron Chef, Tier List, Thin Slides, and more.

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The #1 AI Chrome Extension for teachers. Give feedback, level texts, and inspect writing!

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Brisk Teaching is the #1 AI-powered Chrome extension , helping you automate your workload without adding to it.

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Provide Instant AI-Powered Personalized Feedback

Give personalized feedback and ensure high-quality feedback on every assignment, from the first to the last. Brisk's four feedback styles - Targeted Comments, Glow & Grow praises, Rubric Criteria, and actionable Next Steps - simplify your feedback routine.

Create AI-Driven Curriculum, Lesson Plans, Quizzes, and More with Ease

Say goodbye to the endless challenge of crafting engaging and relevant instructional materials. With just a few clicks, you can quickly generate rigorous quizzes, comprehensive lesson plans, detailed rubrics, captivating presentations, effective interventions, and much more, streamlining your preparation process.

Inspect and Assess Student Writing with AI Tools

We've taken AI detection to the next level. With the 'Replay' feature, you can see exactly how your students put together their assignments, with a video of their whole process from beginning to end.

Easily Adjust Reading Levels and Translate Texts with AI

Ensure every student can access classroom materials. With just a few clicks, instantly convert any online text into a Google Doc that's either simplified for different reading levels and/or translated into another language.

AI-Powered Professional Tools That Educators Deserve

Brisk is a free AI-powered Chrome extension that helps busy teachers save time directly within the tools they already use, like Google Docs, Slides, YouTube, and web articles. Quickly create instructional materials, share feedback, evaluate student writing, and adjust or translate texts - all without leaving your current workspace. With Brisk, the days of toggling between apps are over, freeing up more time for what you love: teaching.

Prep for the week in seconds with the Create Menu

No matter what grade level or subject area you teach, you can create, personalize, and differentiate curricular materials, lesson plans, quizzes, IEPs, rubrics, and more with the click of a button.

Using Google? Brisk integrates seamlessly with Google workspace. Google docs and forms created with Brisk can be instantly assigned in Google Assignment and Google Classroom. No copy and paste needed.

Drastically reduce time spent grading with feedback in Brisk

Leave feedback for students in four ways: ✨ Glows & Grows, 🎯 Targeted, 📏 Rubric Criteria, and 🪜 Next Steps.
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Brisk's unparalleled 🎯 Targeted Feedback tool instantly crafts Google Doc comments aligned with your rubric and standards, guiding students precisely where they need to revise. (Premium Feature

Inspect writing to understand the evolution of student work

Wondering how students revised their work? With Brisk you can watch a step-by-step playback of your students' revision history, including their copy and paste actions.

Brisk also leverages a cutting-edge AI-detection model to estimate the likelihood of AI writing. This gives you a starting point to facilitate conversations around academic honesty and dishonesty.
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Level educational materials to meet students where they're at

Have you encountered a resource that doesn't match your classroom's reading level? Brisk takes content from any Google doc, article, or website and converts the material into a document that is suitable and leveled for your students. Brisk will simplify complex ideas, shorten lengthy sentences, adjust the word choice, and so much more.

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"Brisk Teaching is an incredible AI tool. It serves as a blueprint for instant student feedback - which you can edit on the spot. If this would have come out years ago, more teachers would likely be feeling way less burnout. You can tell this is a product made by teachers for teachers. They thought of everything. If you're a teacher and haven't tried this tool, do it."

"I just have to say, Brisk is the gift that keeps on giving.to my classroom. I have used it almost every day... As a teacher who left teaching because of burnout and came back because I missed the classroom so much, your tool has made my job SO MUCH MORE MANAGEABLE, and has allowed me to give such quality feedback to my students in SECONDS! As an ELA teacher, this is life saving. Truly."

"As a Language Arts teacher, one of the hardest parts of my job is providing enough meaningful feedback for my students. Brisk has allowed me to provide way more specific and actionable feedback for my students. It has also helped me to see more elements of quality that I had previously overlooked in my students' work. The ease of access with Brisk is also a huge bonus. I can use this tool in all of the different platforms that my students use. I can't wait to see future versions - that will continue to help me provide the feedback that my students need."

"This is truly brilliant, the best product I have ever seen in my teaching career of 25 years."

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"What petition do I need to sign or group do I need to join in order to get premium BRISK FOREVER? This targeted feedback is ridiculously accurate and has already saved me hours . Anyone not using this is, let's be honest, crazy."

"I didn't have to learn Brisk, it's so intuitive. It figured out what I wanted, and it didn't take any extra time."

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Hack Your Coaching: 10 Strategies to TRANSFORM Your Practice

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Hack Your Coaching: 10 Strategies to TRANSFORM Your Practice

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Hack Your Coaching: 10 Strategies to Transform Your Practice

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I am excited and honored to be presenting at the Future of Education Technology Conference ( FETC 2024) in Orlando, Florida on January 23rd through 26th, 2024.

I always look forward to an opportunity to see old friends, make new friends, share some ideas, and learn so many new things from others.

You can register for FETC at https://www.fetc.org/

If you are thinking of attending, you can save 10% on a Premium or Basic pass no matter when you register. with my special promo code FETC24SPEAKER

Below is a list of sessions I will be presenting at FETC 2024, along with any associated resources. Please feel free to join me for any of these sessions. I look forward to sharing, learning, and chatting with you!

8:30am - 🚀 Beyond the Slideshow: Unleashing Student Creativity with Google Slides

11:00am - 🤘 Docs Rocks! Engaging Activities with Google Docs

1:30pm - 💻 Chromebooks Can Do That?!

4:00pm - 📊 Google Sheets for Educators: From Data Noob to Nerd

8:00am - 🔑 Google Tools to Support all Learners

12:00pm - 👓 Hipster Google Showdown - Tools You Probably Never Heard Of

10:00am - 🔮 The Bard's Tale: Google AI in Education

11:30am - 🖍️ Let Your Inner Illustrator Come Alive!

12:30pm - 🤖 ABC's of AI: What Educators Need to Know

3:30pm - 💡 Super Tutor: AI to Support All Learners

10:00am - 👨‍💻Yes (even) You Can Code with AI!

11:30am - 🖐 Meet the Author Booth

📅 TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2023

🚀 Beyond the Slideshow: Unleashing Student Creativity with Google Slides

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM EST

Session Code: WS330F1

Location: S330F, Orange County Convention Center

Session Agenda: https://bit.ly/curts-slides

Description: We all know Google Slides is a great tool for making multimedia slideshows. But did you know it can also be used to make "Choose Your Own Adventure" style stories, interactive quizzes, online comic strips, storybooks, stop-motion animation, manipulatives, class soundboards, formative feedback in class, peer editing activities, and more? In this session we will explore these and more non-traditional uses of Slides. Learn how students can use Google Slides to express themselves in more ways than just a presentation.

🤘 Docs Rocks! Engaging Activities with Google Docs

Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST

Session Code: WS330F2

Location: S330F, Orange County Convention Center

Session Agenda: https://bit.ly/curts-gdocs

Description: Google Docs is an awesome word processor, but it can be used for so much more! In this session we explore several engaging hands-on activities that use features built right into Google Docs. These include improving reading comprehension with Google Docs highlighting, creating black out poetry, writing interactive "Choose Your Own Adventure" stories, cloze reading activities with dropdown chips, summarization skills with the Word Count tool, creative ways to use Emojis in Docs, prewriting with embedded graphic organizers, and more!

📅 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2023

🔑 Google Tools to Support all Learners

Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST

Session Code: WN230AB5

Location: N230AB, Orange County Convention Center

Session Agenda: https://bit.ly/curts-support

Description: There are many Google tools, apps, extensions, and features available to assist all learners. In this session we take an in-depth hands-on look at a wide range of technology tools to assist any and all learners. These can include text-to-speech, speech-to-text, readability, reading comprehension, artificial intelligence tools, audio support, organization, focus, and more. Learn what tools are available and how to access and use these free tools with your students.

👓 Hipster Google Showdown - Tools You Probably Never Heard Of

Time: 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM EST

Session Code: CS320GH3

Location: S320GH, Orange County Convention Center

Session Agenda: https://bit.ly/curts-hipster

Description: Everyone knows about Google Docs, Gmail, Search, and other common Google tools. But there are also loads of smaller, lesser-known, but powerful tools that can be used for teaching and learning. Learn about 70+ hidden gems such as nGram, Trends, AutoDraw, Chrome Music Lab, Toontastic, Landlines, Reverse Image Search, Instant Search Cards, Semantris, Art Palette, Timelapse, Interview Warmup, GameSnacks, Data GIF Maker and more (List subject to change based on how cool and unknown the tools remain.)

📅 THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 2023

🔮 The Bard's Tale: Google AI in Education

🖍️ Let Your Inner Illustrator Come Alive! (Book Creator Booth)

🤖 ABC's of AI: What Educators Need to Know

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM EST

Session Code: WS330F8

Location: S330F, Orange County Convention Center

Session Agenda: https://bit.ly/curts-ai

Description: The capabilities and availability of Artificial Intelligence tools have skyrocketed in recent years. It is critical for schools to consider how to best address and use AI in education. In this session we will explore the ABC's of AI including: A) About AI (what AI tools are currently available and how they work), B) Benefits of AI (practical and powerful ways to use AI for teaching and learning) and C) Concerns of AI (how to address potential misuses of this transformative technology).

📅 FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2023

Time: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Session Code: MEET20

Location: Expo Hall - Booth #2453

Book Details: bit.ly/curts-books

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2024 FETC Slides - Unleashing Your Teaching Superpowers

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https://bit.ly/AICreativeSolutions

Creative Teaching Solutions

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

@tavia_73

I am a former US Army veteran and IT manager. I currently teach high school Web Development and Game Design, and I am a 23-24 NASEF eSports Coaching Fellow.

@teachtechlc

I have 17 years of teaching experience. spanning elementary, middle, & high school. I have a master's degree in EdTech and I am a certified CS Equity Coach.

Laura Crunk

Batavia Sumlin

Warm Welcome

https://bit.ly/AICreativeSolutions

Use an AI image generator to create a shoe that reflects your personality or something you are nostalgic for.

What shoe are you?

Example: women's canvas sneaker with tropical fish print

Avoid ambiguity

Give context

Prompt Tips for AI Image Generators

Use a combination of adjectives, nouns, & verbs

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Generative AI: Your New Collaborative Team

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Post questions, answers, or resources in our FigJam parking lot!

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Parking Lot

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Mentimeter Poll

💻 How can AI support teachers with:📊 Assessment🏫 Instructional strategies🌍 EL and IEP students🤩 Student engagement🧠 Retrieval practice & review games🕰️ Time management✨ Creativity 🤔 Prompt Engineering 101📚 Additional resources❓ Participant work time & Q&A

Program Outline

Write two truths & a lie about...

Create an analogy to explain...

Create a choice board with... options based around...

Create a riddle, poem, treasure hunt clue, etc. about...

Write a scene featuring the characters from... talking about... and by the end of the scene, everyone understands...

Engagement Solutions

Assessment Solutions

Generate multiple choice questions with answer key about...

Write tasks for... at DOK level...

Create scenario-based or application-based questions about...

Generate writing prompts based on this standard...

Generate project ideas for...

Create a rubric for...

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FETC 2024 - IT Plumbing: From Leaky Pipes to Tech Marvels

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IT Plumbing: From Leaky Pipes to Tech Marvels Presented by: Henry Burroughs https://techwin.me/fetc2024-plumbing

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You’ve Got a F.R.I.E.N.D. in Me Presented by: Amy Storer Session Description: The impact of instructional and technology coaches can be far and wide. Explore various strategies and tools centered around these words - Facilitate, Relevant/Relationships, Inspire, Empathy, Needs, and Develop. Each w...

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We have a variety of prompts to help you lesson plan and do administrative tasks with GenAI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, and Perplexity.

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How to Build an eSports Lab - FETC 2024 Shared

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Meet your AI assistant for education: Microsoft Copilot

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With new advancements in AI happening faster than ever before, you might be wondering how you can use these tools in your classroom to save you time and energy. Educators worldwide are making strides to understand and integrate AI into their work and often find it to be a valuable tool. You can use AI to save time creating rubrics, personalized content for students, and educational materials such as quizzes and lesson plans.

Generative AI is a newer piece of technology and a unique category of AI that focuses on creating new content. With generative AI you can generate new content like text, images, code, or audio. It achieves this by learning patterns from existing data and understanding the context and intent of language. This provides you with new opportunities for content creation, personalization, and innovation. Because this technology is creating new content, checking for accuracy in generative AI is essential-especially in the field of education.

Microsoft Copilot is a tool that uses generative AI to serve as a helpful assistant to you in the classroom. Copilot can help you save time, differentiate instruction, and enhance student learning. With Copilot, you can easily create lesson plans, quizzes, rubrics, and other class resources for any level of learner.

5 ways to use Copilot in education

Here are just a few examples of the many ways you can use Microsoft Copilot to save time and energy:

Personalized learning: Copilot can support personalized learning by helping you create content, tailored feedback, and guidance for students based on their individual needs and learning styles.

Brainstorming: You can use Copilot to brainstorm new ideas for activities, lesson plans, supporting materials, and assignments.

Lesson planning: Copilot can help you plan lessons by suggesting or drafting activities, resources, and assessments that align with learning objectives. You can also use Copilot to start a rubric for the lessons.

Provide feedback: Copilot can help you draft initial feedback and ideas for students on their work, which you can edit and personalize for your students.

Get quick answers: Copilot can help you get quick answers to your questions without having to read through multiple search results. Also, Copilot provides links to content sources so you can assess the source or dive deeper into the original content.

Microsoft Copilot showing suggested prompts for educators. Copilot uses generative AI to serve as a helpful assistant to you in the classroom.
Getting started with Microsoft Copilot

To get started with Microsoft Copilot, you can follow these steps:

1. Open copilot.microsoft.com or select the Copilot icon on the sidebar in your Microsoft Edge browser.

2. Type your prompt into the chat window.

3. Review the sources linked at the bottom by "Learn more." You can fact-check the information provided or dive deeper into a topic by accessing the original articles, studies, or reports.

4. Review the response to make sure the output is what you want and accurate. You are the expert, and you decide what goes into the classroom.

5. To get the most out of Copilot, you can keep the conversation going by following up on your prompts. This helps you collaborate with Copilot to gain more useful, tailored responses.

You can also give feedback to Copilot based on the quality of its responses to help the AI learn and match your preferences.

How to write a prompt for AI

To effectively guide generative AI, you want to give it clear and concise instructions, known as prompts. A well-crafted prompt enhances the generative AI's output in the quality, relevance, and diversity. A good prompt should be clear, specific, and aligned with the goal of the generation task. A bad prompt can lead to ambiguous, irrelevant, or biased output. To get the best response from Copilot, consider the following tips:

Define clear objectives. Determine the main goal of the prompt and the role AI should take. Whether creating a syllabus, drafting a quiz, or revising lesson content, have a clear vision of the end goal.

Be specific. Chat experiences operate best when given detailed instructions. Specify grade level, subject, topic, or any other relevant parameters. For instance, "secondary math quiz on algebraic expressions" is clearer than "math quiz."

Structure the prompt. Break complex tasks into smaller parts. Instead of asking the AI to draft an entire lesson, request an outline, then delve into specific sections.

Iterate and refine. The first response from AI might not always align perfectly with expectations. Don't hesitate to rephrase the prompt, ask follow-up questions, or provide more context based on the initial output.

Combine expertise. Use AI as a tool to enhance and streamline work but remember to overlay its suggestions with your educational expertise. AI can suggest content, but the educator decides the best way to edit and present it to their audience.

A infographic about how to write AI prompts to get better answers from Copilot. A good prompt should be clear, specific, and aligned with the goal of the task.
Want a fun way to practice creating effective prompts? Minecraft Education just announced Prompt Lab for Minecraft Educators, a free playbook on how to use Microsoft Copilot to write compelling prompts, develop interactive learning content and assessments, and generate creative ideas for Minecraft lesson plans.

Create images from text with Copilot

You can use Image Creator from Designer in Copilot to create personalized, engaging visuals for all sorts of lessons or topics. You can type in a description of an image, provide additional context like location or activity, and choose an art style. Image Creator generates an image straight from your imagination. Prompts can begin with "draw an image" or "create an image." You can use this tool to create images for a class newsletter, lesson, or Teams post.

Get started in Copilot prompting "create an image..."

Then build out your prompt with adjective + noun + verb + style.

Click on your favorite image to open the result in a new tab and save the image.

An example would be "Create an image of an adorable black puppy wearing a hat in photorealistic style."
An example of Copilot creating an image of a black dog wearing a hat in a photorealistic style, based on text descriptions.
Try creating an image in Copilot for your lesson, or just for fun!

Protected AI-powered chat

At Microsoft, our efforts are guided by our AI principles and Responsible AI Standard and build on decades of research on grounding and privacy-preserving machine learning. Copilot provides commercial data protection and delivers a secure AI-powered chat service for educational institutions. This means user and organizational data are protected, chat prompts and responses in Copilot are not saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access to them, and they aren't used to train the underlying large language models. Additionally, our  Customer Copyright Commitment  means education customers can be confident using our services and the output they generate without worrying about copyright claims.

Get to know your Copilot

Dive deeper into the world of generative AI and unlock its full potential for your classroom.

Ready to elevate your teaching with Microsoft Copilot? Start using Copilot today! copilot.microsoft.com

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January 26, 2024

How to be an

Innovative district

FETC

Executive Director of EdTech

Beth Wehling**

Beth currently leads an innovative EdTech team that, in the past two school years, changed the instructional tech stack and developed integrations that removed numerous clerical tasks from teachers. In this role she enhanced her whole-employee management, creativity, and problem-solving skills.

Deputy Superintedent of Technology

roger kimball**

Roger leads teams that focus on system software support, student services that include enrollment, records and counselors, an educational technology group that includes eleven business analysts and database administrators, and a data analytics/research team. He believes that all decisions made in his departments need to always consider student success first, followed by the success of teachers. .

Deputy Superintendent of Instruction

Justin hunt**

Justin is in his 7th year at Epic where he serves approximately 1,200 Teachers and 200 Instructional Administrators. Individualized instruction is important to him as each child learns differently and has a unique path to lifelong learning. He is a firm believer in servant leadership. He is a champion of innovation, no matter where it originates..

Scan the QR code below to participate in this interactive presentation.

Innovation in education is more than using computers and digital curricula in the classroom. Come learn from a district whose tagline: "school can be different" executes innovation as one of its core values. Learn how to give every member of your district a voice by rewarding and encouraging discovery of ideas. You will discover ways to create an innovative culture in your district, by creating an Innovation Process you can put into action tomorrow.

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SCHOOL CAN BE DIFFERENT**

why us? **

2019

Established EdTech dept dedicated to innovation & continuous improvement

2021

Built a fully standards aligned online curriculum

2022

Built grades passback system & automated attendance

2023

Implemented 17 innovation proposals

2024

To infiinity & beyond

'Innovating is the introduction of change and new ideas'

WHY INNOVATE?

~1908

~1970

~2024

VR classrooms

why formalize a process?

gives everyone in the organization a voice.

IDEAS FROM THE TRENCHES MAY BE STRONGER & ADOPTED FASTER.

Champions are from a top level of the org chart to ensure the idea has a facilitator who knows how to launch new endeavors in the organization.

The synopsis is a short form of the idea.

A vetting team is assigned, consisting of a Business Analyst, School Support Specialist, and, when needed, a Purchasing Specialist.

OUR process **

FIND A CHAMPION

The committee consists of leaders from instruction, finance, technology, and data..

SUBMIT A SYNOPSIS

CREATE A FULL, VETTED PROPOSAL

PRESENT TO INNOVATION COMMITTEE

ripple effect**

The vetting team is charged with conducting what we call a ripple effect review.Specifically, looking for any negative, unintended consequences that will result from the innovation. If any are identified, the team works to proactively find preventative solutions.

vetting

Proper vetting is crucial for determining the level of effort required by each innovative idea. An organization can only handle and tolerate a certain amount of simultaneous, significant change.

+ rubric

After the committee review, proposals are passed along to the executive leadership team for final review. The committee leadership team applies a level of effort designation to each proposal allowing the executive team to categorize for a deliberate, organized review process.

Executive review & approval

ELT Submission

+ rubric

implementing approved proposals

project plan **

training + adoption + support

Communicate

Train

Support

ROI **

Design data tracking from the beginning to ensure you can track the ROI for each innovation. ROI should include an effectiveness measurement.

Did it work?

What did it cost?

Did it work well enough for the cost?

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Thanks

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January 26, 2024 How to be an Innovative district FETC Executive Director of EdTech Beth Wehling** Beth currently leads an innovative EdTech team that, in the past two school years, changed the instructional tech stack and developed integrations that removed numerous clerical tasks from teachers.

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Resources from my sessions at FETC 2024 are posted below:

January 23rd 1:30-4:30pm S320EF

Surprise, engage and motivate your young learners with storytelling and coding! In this session you'll learn about the app Novel Effect, which adds magic to your read alouds with sound effects and music. Participants will have the chance to experience Novel Effect and explore the Novel Effect resource library with TONS of free classroom lessons and ideas. Then participants will learn how to utilize the free app Scratch Jr. to introduce your students to computer science concepts, as they learn to code to retell events from the story or share what they learned. Both Scratch Jr and PBS KIDS Scratch Jr will be introduced, and participants will have the opportunity to explore, play, create and code. We will also explore how to save and share completed coding projects to Seesaw or another digital platform.

📙✏️ The Write Stuff: Supporting Early Literacy with WriteReader 📙✏️

January 26th 9:00-10:00am Leadership Roundtables - Booth 4711, EXPO

Young learners best acquire literacy skills when they are immersed in exploration and application of that knowledge. WriteReader, a research-based program, provides a simple yet powerful platform for emergent readers and writers to practice using their knowledge in engaging, creative ways by writing their own books. In this session, we will introduce the WriteReader platform and provide examples of successful use in grades K-3. Participants will have the opportunity to explore and create during the session. During the session, we plan to introduce WriteReader, providing time for participants to sign up and create their own accounts. We can provide codes that will give participants access to the premium version of this tool for an extended period of time, allowing them the opportunity to utilize all features and tools of this program. Particular attention will be given to the accessibility and supportive tools within WriteReader, such as Key Sounds (providing letter and or/phonics audio for students who need this support), text to speech, and audio support. These tools are especially helpful for emergent writers and early language learners.

WriteReader BINGO by piltzt

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Resources from my sessions at FETC 2024 are posted below: 📕🎤✨ Storytelling and Coding with Novel Effect & Scratch Jr. ➡️⬅️⬆️⬇️ January 2...

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MFPE 2023 PBS Kids Scratch Jr bit.ly/MFPEScratchJr

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Check out this US Letter designed by piltzt.

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Prints Charming- Printing Stickers and More in Canva

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Prints Charming- Printing Stickers and More in Canva

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Presented by Tony Vincent * January 2024
Canva is a versatile design tool that simplifies the process of creating documents. Often Canva creations remain digital and never leave a computer screen. However, there's something majestic about being able to create, touch, and share printed productions. These kinds of creations can be dreamy for teachers to get instructional materials into the hands of students. They can also be an enchanting way for students to share and show learning. Let's explore swoon-worthy templates for making stickers, zines, door hangers, dice, envelopes, and other tangible products.

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Prints Charming: Preparing Printables and Stickers with Canva - Learning in Hand with Tony Vincent

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Presented by Tony Vincent * January 2024 Canva is a versatile design tool that simplifies the process of creating documents. Often Canva creations remain digital and never leave a computer screen. However, there's something majestic about being able to create, touch, and share printed productions.

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FETC Presentation - CyberSecurity Standards For your K12 Schools via the NIST Framework

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Empowering Students in a Student-Centered Classroom

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Empowering Students in a Student-Centered Classroom

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FETC 2024: Empowering Students in a Student-Centered Classroom through Authentic Learning

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MVUSD Esports - Attendance/Behavior/SEL/Academic/Executive Functioning Data, 2023 

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Collaborating on High Impact Instructional Strategies

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20 AI Tools to Save Time in the Classroom (FETC 2024)

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PD Agenda - Super Tutor: AI to Support all Learners

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iPad Creativity Bootcamp - Student Journal & Teacher

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iPad Creativity Bootcamp - Student Journal & Teacher

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Start the year strong by having your students get creative on iPad.

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🌟 Boxie Shines at the Future Education Technology Conference 2024!

👩‍🏫 Empowering Educators: As educator's attending the Future Education Technology Conference 2024, Boxie's innovative approach to academic video learning surpassed other video learning software. Finally, a platform that doesn't just deliver content with questions but actively engages students' creativity!

🎓 Dynamic Learning Experience: Boxie stands out from the competition by encouraging students to contribute their own content. This interactive model transforms passive learners into active participants, fostering a deeper understanding of the material.

💡 Inspiring Creativity: Thanks to Boxie, students are no longer just consumers of information; they're creators! The ability to contribute content has sparked their imagination and empowered them to take ownership of their learning journey.

🔗 Join the Revolution: If you missed Boxie at the conference, don't worry! Visit meetboxie.com to explore how this game-changing platform is reshaping education for the better. Trust me, you won't want to miss out on this opportunity to revolutionize your classroom!

Ask Boxie for your Free 6 Month Trial for any School Educator FETC 2024 attendees.

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Understanding Pins and Tags

Discover the power of Böx i e - effortlessly mark crucial moments using pins and tags, enrich your videos with text, links, interactive activities, presentations, questionnaires, games, and more. Unlock boundless educational possibilities and captivate your audience in ways you've never imagined before!

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Discover the power of Böx i e - effortlessly mark crucial moments using pins and tags, enrich your videos with text, links, interactive activities, presentations, questionnaires, games, and more. Unlock boundless educational possibilities and captivate your audience in ways you've never imagined before!

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Save, organize and present content from across the web.

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eSports Program Parent Consent & Release Form Shared Version

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Technology Requirements for a Successful Esports Program

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Technology Requirements for a Successful Esports Program

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Gameplan offers turn-key curriculum that enable schools to improve student engagement, mental health, and attendance rates using esports and video games.

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An LMS built by teachers, for teachers

By integrating tools such as video reviews, interactive activities, and whiteboard features with our courses, we create a more immersive and engaging learning experience.

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Gameplan - Teach anything through esports and gaming

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Gameplan offers turn-key curriculum that enable schools to improve student engagement, mental health, and attendance rates using esports and video games.

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So you started an esports program...now what?

Check out our detailed getting started guide below for your next steps! We cover topics like how to sign up your students, how to prepare for your first match, and more. Plus, you'll find templates for things like rules, first meetings, and recruitment flyers.

QUEUE TIMES EVERY THURSDAY September 21 & 28 (Preseason) October 5, October 12, October 19, October 26, November 2, November 9 Rosters can queue a maximum of one time per week during the regular season. Nationwide 4 PM ET | 3 PM CT | 1 PM PT 5 PM ET | 4 PM CT | 2 PM PT 8 PM ET | 7 PM CT | 5 PM PT Schools in Hawaii and Arizona should note that queue times will move one hour later when the other 48 states change from daylight to standard time on Sunday, November 5th. Make-up Dates & Times: November 16th at standard queue times (see above)

QUEUE TIMES EVERY WEDNESDAY September 18th & 25th (Preseason) October 3, October 10, October 17, October 24, October 31, November 7 Players can queue a maximum of one time per week during the regular season. Schools in Hawaii and Arizona should note that queue times will move one hour later when the other 48 states change from daylight to standard time on Sunday, November 5th. Make-up Dates & Times: November 14th at standard queue times (see above)

QUEUE TIMES EVERY MONDAY September 18th & 25th (Preseason) October 2, October 9, October 16, October 23, October 30, November 6 Players can queue a maximum of one time per week during the regular season. Schools in Hawaii and Arizona should note that queue times will move one hour later when the other 48 states change from daylight to standard time on Sunday, November 5th. Make-up Dates & Times: November 13th at standard queue times (see above)

QUEUE TIMES EVERY MONDAY September 18 & 25 (pre-season) October 2, October 9, October 16, October 23, October 30, November 6 Rosters can queue a maximum of one time per week during the regular season. Queue Times: 7pm ET | 6pm CT | 5pm MT | 4pm PT 9pm ET | 8pm CT | 7pm MT | 6pm PT | 5pm AT | 3pm HT Schools in Hawaii and Arizona should note that queue times will move one hour later when the other 48 states change from daylight to standard time on Sunday, November 5th. Make-up Dates & Times: November 13th at standard queue times (see above)

QUEUE TIMES EVERY TUESDAY September 18th & 25th (Preseason) October 3, October 10, October 17, October 24, October 31, November 7 Nationwide 5 PM ET | 4 PM CT | 2 PM PT 7 PM ET | 6 PM CT | 4 PM PT 9 PM ET | 8 PM CT | 6 PM PT Rosters can queue a maximum of one time per week during the regular season. Schools in Hawaii and Arizona should note that queue times will move one hour later when the other 48 states change from daylight to standard time on Sunday, November 5th. Make-up Dates & Times: November 14th at standard queue times (see above)

QUEUE TIMES EVERY WEDNESDAY September 20th & 27th (Preseason) October 4, October 11, October 18, October 25, November 1, November 8 Players can queue a maximum of one time per week during the regular season. Schools in Hawaii and Arizona should note that queue times will move one hour later when the other 48 states change from daylight to standard time on Sunday, November 5th. Make-up Dates & Times: November 15th at standard queue times (see above) Licensed by Nintendo. Nintendo trademarks and copyrights are properties of Nintendo.

QUEUE TIMES EVERY TUESDAY September 18th & 25th (Preseason) October 3, October 10, October 17, October 24, October 31, November 7 Players can queue a maximum of one time per week during the regular season. Schools in Hawaii and Arizona should note that queue times will move one hour later when the other 48 states change from daylight to standard time on Sunday, November 5th. Make-up Dates & Times: November 14th at standard queue times (see above)

Rainbow Six Siege (Console)

QUEUE TIMES EVERY THURSDAY September 21 & September 28 (pre-season) October 5, October 12, October 19, October 26, November 2, November 9 Rosters can queue a maximum of one time per week during the regular season. Nationwide 7 PM ET | 6 PM CT | 4 PM PT 9 PM ET | 8 PM CT | 6 PM PT Schools in Hawaii and Arizona should note that queue times will move one hour later when the other 48 states change from daylight to standard time on Sunday, November 5th. Make-up Dates & Times: November 16th at standard queue times (see above) © 2015 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Tom Clancy's, Rainbow Six, The Soldier Icon, Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are registered or unregistered trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries.

QUEUE TIMES EVERY THURSDAY September 21 & September 28 (pre-season) October 5, October 12, October 19, October 26, November 2, November 9 Nationwide 5 PM ET | 4 PM CT | 2 PM PT 7 PM ET | 6 PM CT | 4 PM PT 9 PM ET | 8 PM CT | 6 PM PT Rosters can queue a maximum of one time per week during the regular season. Schools in Hawaii and Arizona should note that queue times will move one hour later when the other 48 states change from daylight to standard time on Sunday, November 5th. Make-up Dates & Times: November 16th at standard queue times (see above) © 2015 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Tom Clancy's, Rainbow Six, The Soldier Icon, Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are registered or unregistered trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries.

QUEUE TIMES EVERY MONDAY September 18th & 25th (Preseason) October 2, October 9, October 16, October 23, October 30, November 6 Rosters can queue a maximum of one time per week during the regular season. Schools in Hawaii and Arizona should note that queue times will move one hour later when the other 48 states change from daylight to standard time on Sunday, November 5th. Make-up Dates & Times: November 13th at standard queue times (see above) THIS TOURNAMENT IS IN NO WAY SPONSORED, ENDORSED, OR ADMINISTERED BY, OR OTHERWISE ASSOCIATED WITH, PSYONIX LLC. THE INFORMATION PLAYERS PROVIDE IN CONNECTION WITH THIS TOURNAMENT IS BEING PROVIDED TO TOURNAMENT ORGANIZER AND NOT TO PSYONIX LLC.

QUEUE TIMES EVERY THURSDAY September 21 & 28 (Preseason) October 5, October 12, October 19, October 26, November 2, November 9 Rosters can queue a maximum of one time per week during the regular season. Schools in Hawaii and Arizona should note that queue times will move one hour later when the other 48 states change from daylight to standard time on Sunday, November 5th. Make-up Dates & Times: November 16th at standard queue times (see above) THIS TOURNAMENT IS IN NO WAY SPONSORED, ENDORSED, OR ADMINISTERED BY, OR OTHERWISE ASSOCIATED WITH, PSYONIX LLC. THE INFORMATION PLAYERS PROVIDE IN CONNECTION WITH THIS TOURNAMENT IS BEING PROVIDED TO TOURNAMENT ORGANIZER AND NOT TO PSYONIX LLC.

QUEUE TIMES EVERY TUESDAY September 18th & 25th (Preseason) October 3, October 10, October 17, October 24, October 31, November 7 Players can queue a maximum of one time per week during the regular season. Schools in Hawaii and Arizona should note that queue times will move one hour later when the other 48 states change from daylight to standard time on Sunday, November 5th. Make-up Dates & Times: November 14th at standard queue times (see above) Licensed by Nintendo. Nintendo trademarks and copyrights are properties of Nintendo.

Super Smash Bros.™ Ultimate

QUEUE TIMES EVERY MONDAY September 18 & 25 (pre-season) October 2, October 9, October 16, October 23, October 30, November 6 Rosters can queue a maximum of one time per week during the regular season. Queue Times: Schools in Hawaii and Arizona should note that queue times will move one hour later when the other 48 states change from daylight to standard time on Sunday, November 5th. Make-up Dates & Times: November 13th at standard queue times (see above) Licensed by Nintendo. Nintendo trademarks and copyrights are properties of Nintendo.

QUEUE TIMES EVERY WEDNESDAY September 20, September 27 (Preseason) October 4, October 11, October 18, October 25, November 1, November 8 Rosters can queue a maximum of one time per week during the regular season. Schools in Hawaii and Arizona should note that queue times will move one hour later when the other 48 states change from daylight to standard time on Sunday, November 5th. Make-up Dates & Times: November 16th at standard queue times (see above) This competition is not affiliated with or sponsored by Riot Games, Inc. or VALORANT Esports.

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So you started an esports program...now what? Check out our detailed getting started guide below for your next steps! We cover topics like how to sign up your students, how to prepare for your first match, and more. Plus, you'll find templates for things like rules, first meetings, and recruitment flyers.

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Enhance high school & middle school education with the Gaming Concepts Curriculum: Discover STEM and CTE curriculum integration, esports training, and tournament opportunities. Boost student engagement with our peer-approved video gaming courses, fostering life skills while competing for scholarships in a vibrant esports community.

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'Coding in Minecraft' is a computer science credential program with supporting curriculum, delivered through Minecraft Education and hosted on Azure.

The pathway comprises four courses that immerse students in a Minecraft world to develop and prove their coding skills using MakeCode and JavaScript or Python.

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Coding in Minecraft - Coding in Minecraft

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We're on a mission to provide opportunities for all students to use esports as a platform to develop STEAM-based skills and social emotional attributes such as communication, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities needed to thrive in work and in life.

It's free to join! Enter tournaments, follow our club frameworks, learn about esports careers, and more.

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NASEF | Free Middle School & High School Esports Clubs

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North America Scholastic Esports Federation - free middle school & high school esports tournaments and curriculum, with tools and support to launch and grow scholastic esports programs.

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Today, many priorities for improvements to teaching and learning are unmet. Educators seek technology-enhanced approaches addressing these priorities that would be safe, effective, and scalable. Like all of us, educators use AI-powered services in their everyday lives, such as voice assistants in their homes; tools that can correct grammar, complete sentences, and write essays; and automated trip planning on their phones. As a result, educators see opportunities to use AI-powered capabilities like speech recognition to increase the support available to students with disabilities, multilingual learners, and others who could benefit from greater adaptivity and personalization in digital tools for learning. They are further exploring how AI can enable writing or improving lessons, as well as their process for finding, choosing, and adapting material for use in their lessons.

Educators are also aware of new risks. Useful, powerful functionality can also be accompanied with new data privacy and security risks. Educators recognize that AI can automatically produce output that is inappropriate or wrong. They are wary that the associations or automations created by AI may amplify unwanted biases. They have noted new ways in which students may represent others' work as their own. They are well-aware of "teachable moments" and pedagogical strategies that a human teacher can address but are undetected or misunderstood by AI models. They worry whether recommendations suggested by an algorithm would be fair. Educators' concerns are manifold.

Everyone in education has a responsibility to harness the good to serve educational priorities while also protecting against the dangers that may arise as a result of AI being integrated in educational technology.

NEW!! Report on AI and the Future of Teaching & Learning

Key Insights

AI enables new forms of interaction. Students and teachers can speak, gesture, sketch, and use other natural human modes of communication to interact with a computational resource and each other. AI can generate human-like responses, as well. These new forms of action may provide supports to students with disabilities.

AI can help educators address variability in student learning. With AI, designers can anticipate and address the long tail of variations in how students can successfully learn-whereas traditional curricular resources were designed to teach to the middle or most common learning pathways. For example, AI-enabled educational technology may be deployed to adapt to each student's English language abilities with greater support for the range of skills and needs among English learners.

AI supports powerful forms of adaptivity. Conventional technologies adapt based upon the correctness of student answers. AI enables adapting to a student's learning process as it unfolds step-by-step, not simply providing feedback on right or wrong answers. Specific adaptations may enable students to continue strong progress in a curriculum by working with their strengths and working around obstacles.

AI can enhance feedback loops. AI can increase the quality and quantity of feedback provided to students and teachers, as well as suggesting resources to advance their teaching and learning.

AI can support educators. Educators can be involved in designing AI-enabled tools to make their jobs better and to enable them to better engage and support their students.

Recommendations: Call to Action for Education Leaders

Recommendation #1: Emphasize Humans in the Loop

We reject the notion of AI as replacing teachers. Teachers and other people must be "in the loop" whenever AI is applied in order to notice patterns and automate educational processes. We call upon all constituents to adopt Humans-in-the-Loop as a key criteria.

Recommendation #2: Align AI Models to a Shared Vision for Education

We call upon educational decision makers, researchers, and evaluators to determine the quality of an educational technology based not only on outcomes, but also based on the degree to which the models at the heart of the AI tools and systems align to a shared vision for teaching and learning. The figure to the right describes the important qualities of AI models for education leaders to consider.

Recommendation #3: Design Using Modern Learning Principles

Achieving effective systems requires more than processing "big data"-it requires more than data science. Applications of AI must be based on established, modern learning principles, the wisdom of educational practitioners, and should leverage the expertise in the educational assessment community around detecting bias and improving fairness. Going forward, we also must seek to create AI systems that are culturally responsive and culturally sustaining, leveraging the growth of published techniques for doing so. Further, most early AI systems had few specific supports for students with disabilities and English learners and we must ensure that AI-enabled learning resources are intentionally inclusive of these students.

Recommendation #4: Prioritize Strengthening Trust

Technology can only help us to achieve educational objectives when we trust it. Yet, we learned through a series of public listening sessions that distrust of educational technology and AI is commonplace. Because trust develops as people meet and relate to each other, we call for a focus on building trust and establishing criteria for trustworthiness of emerging educational technologies within the associations, convenings, and professional organizations that bring educators, innovators, researchers, and policymakers together.

Recommendation #5: Inform and Involve Educators

We call on educational leaders to prioritize informing and involving educational constituents so they are prepared to investigate how and when AI fits specific teaching and learning needs, and what risks may rise. Now is the time to show the respect and value we hold for educators by informing and involving them in every step of the process of designing, developing, testing, improving, adopting, and managing AI-enabled educational technology. This includes involving educators in reviewing existing AI-enabled systems, tools, and data use in schools, designing new applications of AI based on teacher input, carrying out pilot evaluations of proposed new instructional tools, collaborating with developers to increase the trustworthiness of the deployed system, and raising issues about risks and unexpected consequences as the system is implemented.

Recommendation #6: Focus R&D on Addressing Context and Enhancing Trust and Safety

Research that focuses on how AI-enabled systems can adapt to context (diversity among learners, variability in instructional approaches, differences in educational settings) is essential to answering the question "Do specific applications of AI work in education, and if so, for whom and under what conditions?" We call upon researchers and their funders to prioritize investigations of how AI can address the long tail of learning variability and to seek advances in how AI can incorporate contextual considerations when detecting patterns and recommending options to students and teachers. Further, researchers should accelerate their attention to how to enhance trust and safety in AI-enabled systems for education.

Recommendation #7: Develop Education-Specific Guidelines and Guardrails

Data privacy regulation already covers educational technology; further, data security is already a priority of school educational technology leaders. Modifications and enhancements to the status quo will be required to address the new capabilities alongside the risks of AI. We call for involvement of all perspectives in the ecosystem to define a set of guidelines (such as voluntary disclosures and technology procurement checklists) and guardrails (such as enhancements to existing regulations or additional requirements) so that we can achieve safe and effective AI for education.

Listening Sessions

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology, with support from Digital Promise, held listening sessions about Artificial Intelligence (AI). We connected with all constituents involved in making decisions about technology in education, including but not limited to teachers, educational leaders, students, parents, technologists, researchers, and policy makers.

The goal of these listening sessions were to gather input, ideas, and engage in conversations that will help the Department shape a vision for AI policy that is inclusive of cutting-edge research and practices while also informed by the opportunities and risks.

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Artificial Intelligence - Office of Educational Technology

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OET is working to develop policies and supports focused on the effective, safe, and fair use of AI-enabled educational technology.

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Cybersecurity Awareness for All Students

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Cybersecurity Awareness for All Students