Innovation Celebration 2024: Full Schedule

9:45am PDT

AI in Education: Fad or Future?

Saturday October 26, 2024 9:45am - 10:35am PDT

Is AI in education just a passing fad or the future of teaching and learning? Edtech tools come and go, but great teaching remains. In this session, we will move away from the novelty of AI to focus on leveraging it to save teachers time, gain formative assessment data, increase immediate feedback, and provide innovative engaging learning experiences that meet the needs of all our learners. When these tools are leveraged effectively, teachers will experience the success that we all dreamed of when we first started our journey in education. Let's do this!

Presenters

Rebecca Bulsombut

Justin Kirkpatrick

Teacher Specialist, Pomona Unified School District

I am a member of a dynamic team striving to equip, inspire, and empower students to become innovative and independent leaders in thier community and beyond.

Saturday October 26, 2024 9:45am - 10:35am PDT
Room 225

Session 1 (50 Min)

10:40am PDT

Personalizing Scientific Inquiry: AI Chatbots for Diverse Learning Needs

Saturday October 26, 2024 10:40am - 11:30am PDT

Room 225

Gain hands-on experience with an innovative educational technology tool in this session where you'll create a student-facing AI-assisted Scientific Method Chatbot. This powerful tool provides personalized scaffolds to support diverse learning needs, enabling students to design experiments around problems that matter to them. By developing this chatbot, you'll not only acquire practical skills in leveraging AI for education but also reimagine how we support scientific inquiry, paving the way for more effective, personalized science learning experiences.

The heart of our session focuses on collaborative chatbot creation. Working hands-on with the teacher-facing AI, you'll learn to generate scaffolded questions for each step of the scientific method, targeting specific learning challenges. You'll gain skills in customizing AI-generated prompts to guide students through complex concepts like hypothesis formation, variable identification, and data analysis. Throughout this process, we'll focus on refining AI suggestions to encourage critical thinking and support diverse learning needs.

As we wrap up, we’ll shift to practical strategies for implementation. You'll leave with a clear, actionable plan for integrating this dual AI-enhanced approach into your curriculum, making complex scientific concepts more accessible and fostering a more supportive learning environment.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
Develop 5-7 customized, AI-generated prompts addressing learning challenges in scientific inquiry.
Design a functional AI-assisted Scientific Method Chatbot with 3+ personalized scaffolds.
Make a micro-commitment to integrate the AI chatbot into curriculum, enhancing personalized learning.

Presenters

Ellen Palmer

EdTech & Innovation Coordinator III, Los Angeles County Office of Education

Throughout her 25-year career, Ellen Palmer has consistently demonstrated a talent for integrating technology across K-12 curriculum, enhancing both teaching practices and student learning outcomes. Her expertise in educational technology became a cornerstone of her career, leading... Read More →

Xander Palmer

Student, Rondo School of Discovery

Saturday October 26, 2024 10:40am - 11:30am PDT
Room 225

Session 2 (50 Min)

12:50pm PDT

Curriculum supercharged: Enrich your lessons by embedding media literacy skills

Saturday October 26, 2024 12:50pm - 1:40pm PDT

Room 225

Discover how to integrate vital media literacy and digital citizenship skills seamlessly into your lessons while also making them more relevant and engaging. Leave with lessons you can use, plus practical strategies to enrich your existing curriculum and empower your students to become ethical digital citizens and savvy media consumers! Our focus will be on grades 6-12.

Presenters

Nancy Minicozzi

Instructional Tech Coach, Beverly Hills High School

Nancy Minicozzi is an instructional technology coach in the Beverly Hills Unified School District. An ISTE Certified Educator, Google Certified Innovator, Trainer, and Coach, she is passionate about helping other educators innovate and refine their practices to benefit all students... Read More →

Saturday October 26, 2024 12:50pm - 1:40pm PDT
Room 225

Session 3 (50 Min)

1:45pm PDT

The AI Assisted Writing Classroom

Saturday October 26, 2024 1:45pm - 2:35pm PDT

Room 225

Dive into the possibilities and practices that make AI your ally in a secondary English/Language Arts classroom. Learn how to promote authentic writing experiences for your students, while using AI as an aid to crafting prompts, providing feedback, supporting differentiation, and re-engaging students as agents of communication.

Presenters

Jen Roberts

High School English Teacher, Point Loma High /San Diego Unified

Jen Roberts is a Nationally Board Certified high school English teacher with 25+ years of experience teaching English Language Arts and Social Science and in grades 7-12. She is the co-author of Power Up: Making the Shift to 1:1 Teaching and Learning and a Google for Education Certified... Read More →

Saturday October 26, 2024 1:45pm - 2:35pm PDT
Room 225

Session 4 (50 Min)