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Attendee: Nicki Ensminger

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Tech Team: Tami Herr, Brandon Ridinger, Drew Norton

Instr. Coaches: Nicki Ensminger, Jen Slagel, Caitlin Thomas

Teachers: Christina Cortez (HS Foreign Lang), Chelsey Grimm (MS ELA), Kelsey Maynard (4th)

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Attendee: Drew Norton

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Attendees: Caitlin Thomas, Chelsey Grimm & Drew Norton

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Attendee: Caitlin Thomas

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Representatives from Winterset CSD shared their AI Journey within their district including policy creation +additions, vetting system, prompt writing and additional resources.

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Specialist. Consultant. Coach. Learner. ABOUT ME: Stevie Frank (she/her) is a Digital Learning Coach at her school in Zionsville, IN. Stevie has 15 years of education background and is just recently coming from the classroom.

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Literacy & CS in the Elementary Classroom- ITEC 2025

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Ditch That Textbook - Resources (Matt Miller)

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Our Google Slides, Drawings, PowerPoint and Jamboard templates get your students to work quickly.

Download or make a copy. Adjust as necessary. Assign to your students. Yep, that easy.
Just click on any image below to be taken directly to that section.

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Amazon Future Engineer | Homepage - Amazon Future Engineer

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Learn about our computer science opportunities, from childhood to career.

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 CS ED WEEK- Computer Science Elem Resources (Public Copy)

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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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AI Tools - Find the Best AI Software by Category

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Futurepedia is the largest AI tools directory. Browse 5000+ AI tools in 50+ categories like copywriting, image generation and video editing. Search and filter the tools by categories, pricing and features.

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Attendees: Caitlin Thomas

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Comprehensive List of ways that Audio/Visual files can be utlized.

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Attendees: Chelsey Grimm & Caitlin Thomas

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Representatives from Sioux City Schools shared about their transition to 1:1 iPads for their 13 elementary buildings.

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District's Core Commitments

Hands on learning is still encouraged

Technology supports, not replaces teaching

Daily balance of tactile and device learning

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AI Ninja: Level Up Your Teaching with AI (ITEC 2025)

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Re-designing the learning process for the student to combat the copy/paste Ai cheating methods students are using. *They have a link to a doc // Iowa City, Iowa. Andrew Fenstermaker, Kelsey Derringer

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AI can enrich your current curriculum and add to what you are already teaching. Utilizing TeachShare with content standards to create learning tasks can be a tool to help students grow in their proficiency.

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Attendee: Chelsey Grimm

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Woodward Granger CSD - Guidelines for AI in the classroom

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Kahoot is the equivalent of mental candy, not evidence backed

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Using Technology to Promote Books and Reading

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Using Tech to Promote Reading ITEC Fall 2025

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Ideas:

-First Chapter Fridays

- Book Trailers

- Novel Effect - soundscape effects and activity ideas for some titlers

- Book menus

- Create games using book covers using Teaching Books for Schools

- Podcasts, webinars, websites & social media

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Attendee: Chelsey Grimm, Jen Slagel, Nicki Ensminger

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“Within the walls of a classroom, engagement is the catalyst that transforms information into inspiration, apathy into curiosity, and learners into architects of their own knowledge”

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You don't teach something, you teach someone 

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4 key tenants of student learning

Learning is personalized

Learning is a feedback journey

Learning happens anytime, anywhere

Students take ownership and have agency

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Create experiences where students don’t even think to use AI

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*Almost all of these were already in the works before OpenAI - you’ve already been using it!

Virtual personal assistants (Siri, Alexa)

Self-driving cars

Personalized recommendations (i.e Netflix, Amazon shopping)

Smart home device

Healthcare

Fraud detection

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AI “learns” from what we feed it. If we “ignore it” or block it or ban its use…who will form its voice.

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Where we started:

PD for High School / Middle School Teachers

Broken into smaller departments PLCS - relevant discussions

High School Pilot Group for an English 10 Class (Honor’s class - parent approval first) Had the students write an essay using AI and the teacher’s just listened (fishbowl!) Listen to the kids and listen to her experience

Book study on AI school (Matt Miller - AI for Educators)

Idea:  Technology Leadership Group (students who are leading the use of technology/AI)

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AI Proof Your Lessons

AI Optimism - Becky Keene

The SAMR Model

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AI Can help in these four categories:

1. Dreaming

2. Drudgery

3. Design

4. Development

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The Hungry Mind by Susan Engel

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The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood

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Amazon.com: The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood: 9780674984110: Engel: Books

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Attendee: Jen Slagel, Nicki Ensminger, Kelsey Maynard

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Attendee: Jen Slagel, Kelsey Maynard

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Attendee: Jen Slagel

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Alternative Assessments that Rock and Roll

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Attendee: Nicki Ensminger, Kelsey Maynard

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Unlocking Memory

Brain Science and Classroom Strategies

Michael Matera

Spatial Repetition

Association

Active Recall

Desired Difficulty

Spatial Repetition

The Forgetting Curve - 7 days later gone info is gone

Light coach up each day - gets you back up to 100% recall = 12 month retention

Choose imp things not everything

It strengthens neural connections, making recall easier- building your network (highway)

Desired Difficulty

You often think you know more than you do

Your brain has all experience in your head

Access is difficult

When you are singing with music it activates this knowledge

This is not actually getting deeper knowledge and retention because its gone after the song ends

When kids just read over notes to study- does not work, not flexing the brain

Challenge students

WE have watered down schools- just giving it to them not making them dig into it - they can do it, don’t lower what you are giving them

Association

Dual Coding - can recall 40% better

Combination of visual and oral cues

Study Glyphs - Coding the Content Slides

Giving this one to us

Make associations to anything and it will help - the closer it is to the real thing the better

Notecards

1 side a glyph (picture) to associate word to

On the back write the definition in your own words

don’t write the term - just put the first letter- makes your brain work more when they are reading it

Write the answer in the lower corner

You can give them glyphs to choose from to help with symbols

Pull kids up to you as they are getting them done- mix them up and then quiz them - build this into your class, then they can take them home

Connecting to something you know allows student to travel the road with tiny exits and bringing it back to keep going

Slide-  Connections

put images in slide deck, then they look at each one and make connections

Partner up to share what associations they made

Something Fishy is going on

Give pics on a slide with timer

Ask question - What would Tom Hanks be?

Dog - he is in so many movies and dog is man’s best friend?

Another question could be - baseball game- it can be anything connected to your unit

Have kids talk about them then decide on one you like the best as a group

Then look at all columns talked about then discuss what they all have in common

Active Recall

Improves retention up to 80%

Blurt Burst- Desired Difficulty

No vocab terms in the cue

Put a main topic in the center of paper

Write as many things as they can think of that they have studied

Pull out notes and with a different colored pen add more that they need to know

25 min - 1st 3 min you are going to run out of ideas, you know more you have to wait in that stall point, while you are waiting try to prompt yourself, asking yourself questions

Who are the pharoahs?  What did he have us take notes over?

10 min - revision using your resources to write in a different color

Study - Try again soon - see if you can remember more next time

Students involved in Active recall retain 25% more information

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Copy of Penny Pedagogy: Candy Bar Challenge

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Copy of Hexagon Hunters: Shelter Scramble

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Canva Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Teachers

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