Event Overview
Location
IEA Headquarters, Boise
This is a two-part full-day workshop and you must attend both sessions to receive 1 PD credit from ISU.
Enhancing Teacher Productivity: Unleashing the Power of AI Apps
This dynamic professional development course equips educators with the skills and tools needed to integrate cutting-edge technologies into their teaching practice, fostering differentiated instruction, student engagement, and collaborative learning. Over the course of this 90-minute session, participants will master the use of tools like Diffit, NotebookLM, School AI Spaces, and Magic School Student. The course emphasizes best practices for creating visually engaging, interactive instructional materials while exploring the potential of AI to revolutionize classroom learning.
The Games People Play: Using Games for Learning - Strategies Across Ages and Subjects:
This comprehensive presentation explores the strategic implementation of games as powerful educational tools across all age groups and subject areas. The presentation delves into why games are effective learning vehicles, showcasing their ability to boost engagement, develop critical thinking skills, and create low stress learning environments. It examines various game types with an emphasis on making learning more accessible and enjoyable.
The content provides educators with practical implementation strategies, including best practices for game selection, classroom management, and assessment techniques. it emphasizes the importance of matching games to specific learning objectives and adapting activities to meet diverse student needs. The presentation includes concrete methods for measuring student progress. The presentation is developed with hands-on learning as an expectation of the participants. Come ready to play.
This resource serves as a valuable guide for educators seeking to enhance their teaching through gamification, offering both theoretical frameworks and practical applications that can be immediately implemented in various educational settings.
Targeted to K-12.
