AI has been described as “a growing web of related technologies,” tools that could streamline and speed up our work but also leads us to question, well, everything. What are the stickiest issues, and how can we work through them in ways that benefit teacher practice and student learning?

This interactive teacher workshop introduces promising practices for integrating generative AI tools into high school classrooms. Be prepared to collaborate with other participants as you explore ethical and appropriate uses for AI to enhance student learning and teacher productivity. Participants will be provided with free digital resources during the session.

Explore how generative AI can be a resource in supporting instructional coaches in their reflection and practice. Experience a coaching tool designed using PlayLab, and discuss how similar tools could benefit your practice.

This session explores how bots and platform designs affect digital writing and accessibility. Participants will learn how an intergenerational team uses participatory action research to examine platforms like Discord, revealing how machines reshape youth literacy. The discussion offers insights for educators on navigating, integrating, and writing with/in digital platforms and practices in classrooms.

We will introduce you to Writing Partners, or AI assistants that we are developing with and for our students. We have begun to prompt AI foundational models to pay attention to grammatical structures, word choice, rhetorical patterns, and organization that are common in African-American English and in the speech of other English Language groups. The Writing Partners that we are building with prompt engineering use linguistically inclusive practices to help students to make choices about correctness and voice in their writing based on audience and purpose.