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Sunday, June 8
 

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AI and the Law: What Do Educators Need to Know
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
The session, led by an educator & attorney, will explore legal implications and complexities related to AI in schools. We will discuss privacy concerns, data protection, and compliance with COPPA and FERPA. We will look at some tools educators can use.
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avatar for Dr. Rachelle Dené Poth

Dr. Rachelle Dené Poth

Spanish and STEAM Teacher, Consultant, Riverview SD and ThriveinEDU LLC
Dr. Rachelle Dené Poth is an edtech consultant, presenter, attorney, author, and teacher of Spanish and STEAM: Emerging Technology. Rachelle has a Juris Doctor degree from Duquesne University School of Law, a Master’s, and a Doctorate in Instructional Technology. Rachelle specializes... Read More →
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
  1-hour presentation

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Learning AI through Self-Driving Cars
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
In this workshop you will experience our innovative unit, Self Driving Cars. Incorporate AI, computer science, and a compelling social issue into your computer science or STEM classroom. The unit uses research-based teaching routines proven to promote equity, engage students and increase student agency in the classroom. During the workshop you will participate in hands-on unit activities as well as review this freely available curriculum. The unit includes advanced programming with MakeCode, an exploration of AI classifiers and much more. You will leave ready to implement our high quality unit with your students allowing them to develop expertise in AI. You will also have authentic student assessments to accompany the unit.
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JB

Jeffrey Bush

Asst. Research Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Jeff is an assistant research professor at the University of Colorado's Institute of Cognitive Sciences (ICS). Jeff's research focuses on the intersection of technology, STEM teacher learning and professional development with sub-topics of mathematics education, computational thinking... Read More →
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Gregory Benedis-Grab

Director of K-12 Computing and AI intiatives, University of Colorado Boulder
Greg is the director of K-12 Computing & AI Initiatives at the Institute of Cognitive Science at University of Colorado Boulder. He is leading the scaleup of K-12 Computing and AI curriculum and professional development nationally. Previously, Greg worked in schools as a teacher and... Read More →
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
  1-hour presentation

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Teaching Test-Driven Development with AI-generated Code for HS Students
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
In this session, teachers will learn 5 test-driven development strategies they can teach HS students to use with AI-generated Python code (unit tests, edge cases, assert statements with descriptive statements, before/after validation, test iteration).
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AV
avatar for Christine Liebe

Christine Liebe

Professor of Practice, Colorado School of Mines
Christine Liebe, Ph.D., is a Professor of Practice in the Computer Science Department at Colorado School of Mines, Director of the Teach@Mines Program, and a K-12 licensed educator. She developed the first K-12 CS pre-service courses in Colorado.
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
  1-hour presentation

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Engaging with AI4K12 Learning Standards through an Open-Access Unit on Self-Driving Cars
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
In this workshop you will gain hands-on experience with how to teach the AI4K12 Artificial Intelligence learning standards through an open access middle-school curriculum that focuses on both Self Driving Cars and Make Code programming with micro bits. This unit is centered around phenomenon-based instruction where students explore the question of how self-driving cars can make safe and ethical decisions to get us where we want to go. Come to this session to learn about how to incorporate AI standards, computer science topics, and a compelling social issue into science and STEM classrooms. During the workshop you will participate in hands-on unit activities as well as review this freely available curriculum. We will discuss assessment strategies, alignment to learning standards, and transferability of these topics even if you are not going to use this exact unit.
Speakers
JB

Jeffrey Bush

Asst. Research Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Jeff is an assistant research professor at the University of Colorado's Institute of Cognitive Sciences (ICS). Jeff's research focuses on the intersection of technology, STEM teacher learning and professional development with sub-topics of mathematics education, computational thinking... Read More →
GB

Gregory Benedis-Grab

Director of K-12 Computing and AI intiatives, University of Colorado Boulder
Greg is the director of K-12 Computing & AI Initiatives at the Institute of Cognitive Science at University of Colorado Boulder. He is leading the scaleup of K-12 Computing and AI curriculum and professional development nationally. Previously, Greg worked in schools as a teacher and... Read More →
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
  2-hour workshop

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From storytelling to digital design and animation
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
Participants will design an interactive game or science model, starting with storytelling and transforming the story into a digital design, including use of artificial intelligence and animation techniques.
Speakers
avatar for Fred Gluck

Fred Gluck

presenter, independent consultant
Fred Gluck is a retired engineer with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering/computer science. He served in the Navy for five years and then worked in the computer industry for 20 years. He taught computer science at the University of Colorado... Read More →
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
  2-hour workshop

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How to deploy AI models in the classroom.
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
In this session, you'll learn how to deploy and use a variety of open-source and closed source AI technologies: LLM's such as Ollama and Deepseek, Stable Diffusion, Whisper, AIVA, and more. You'll also learn how to hack LLMs with a Capture Flag challenge.  
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Cameron Ryan

11 years of experience teaching offensive and defensive cybersecurity, Linux, networking, and computer technician classes. 6 years of experience in IT.
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
  2-hour workshop

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Students & AI: A Collaboration Guide
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
Ready to unlock student potential with AI? This interactive workshop explores practical strategies and AI tools that empower students to take charge of their learning journey, and be ready for 21st century collaboration!
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AG
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
  2-hour workshop

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Using AI for engagement, support and balance
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
In this session teachers will learn 3 key ways to engage their students, support their students, and have better balance as a teacher utilizing AI tools.  We will look at how to use AI for research by first doing a practice task as a group, then I will provided an example of how I use it with students and finally teachers will have a chance to dive through additional resources and examples to come up with ways they can incorporate it into their own classrooms.  Next we will look at ways that AI can support differentiation in the classroom.  First we will do a practice case study, then I will provide an example of how I use it in the classroom and then teachers will have the chance to dive deeper into resources and examples to determine their own personal usage of the tools.  Finally we will look at how to incorporate choice into the classroom using AI.  We will experience a SchoolAI space, then I will showcase how I use it with students and from the teacher perspective.  And then teachers will have time to dive deeper into additional tools and examples and determine how they want to use it in their own classrooms.
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Katelynn Ryan

I am a secondary social studies teacher for a fully virtual and synchronous K-12 school.  I have presented at the Colorado Council for Social Studies Conference on this topic as well as for Rocky Mountain Junior Achievement/Economic Literacy Colorado professional development on the... Read More →
Sunday June 8, 2025 TBA
  2-hour workshop
 
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