2025LHRICTechExpo

This session equips 21st-century learners and educators with an understanding of the past, present, and future of humanities education by integrating AI and design thinking to enhance creativity and collaboration. As education evolves rapidly, AI serves as an assistive technology that supports brainstorming, generates adaptive feedback, and fosters imaginative problem-solving. Through project-based learning and the IDEO Design-Thinking framework (EDIPT), students explore how a designer’s purpose—akin to an author’s purpose—drives real-world change. By leveraging AI to enhance iteration and meaning-making, this approach fosters purposeful creation, ensuring curriculum development keeps pace with modern learning while preparing students for future challenges.

Ready to lead your school into the AI era? Join us for a hands-on workshop where you’ll unlock the secrets to designing powerful AI professional development programs that inspire and empower your staff. Dive into real-world case studies, discover proven strategies, and create byte-sized learning experiences that make AI integration seamless. Whether you’re just starting or looking to level up your AI initiatives, you’ll leave with practical tools and a step-by-step plan to launch impactful professional development that drives innovation and transforms teaching and learning outcomes in your school.

AI is capable of generating convincing, realistic content. But how good is it and how good are we at spotting it? This presentation takes a look at how we look at human vs. AI generated content. Using a case study about AI detection we will try to answer the questions: "Is it AI?" and "Is that the right question?"

In this session, you will meet Horace, Scout, and Garfield, the chatbots of the Chappaqua Central School District. Learn how we are using chatbots to create opportunities for learning, leadership, and efficiencies throughout the district. We will explore successes, challenges, and failures of our bot journey and share strategies for instruction, progress monitoring, data collection, communication, and more. Meet our bots and get inspired to create your own to enhance your professional practice.

Financial literacy is an essential skill for all students, and teachers can play a role in preparing them for real-world financial decisions. This session will explore how personal finance topics align with math standards, making lessons more relevant and engaging. We'll also dive into how AI can enhance financial decision-making, helping students analyze, compare, and understand key money concepts.

Discover how Fable the Eagle: Book Oracle, an AI-powered chatbot, is working to transform student engagement with library collections. This session explores the development of a personalized book recommendation system, from initial concept to real-world implementation. Learn about the challenges, successes, and insights gained from student interactions. See how AI can enhance library services, and explore next steps for refining and expanding this technology. Whether you're a tech enthusiast or an educator, join us to discuss the future of AI-driven reading recommendations!

The session will include a discussion on how AI can help facilitate learning for students with disabilities and make curriculum more accessible. A demonstration of how Magic School can assist students with high level thinking skills while still having them learn and practice essential skills. The group will have the opportunity to use the demonstration and the Magic School program to create a meaningful activity for their special education students.

In this session, we'll use the 'CRE' prompting framework with ChatGPT to effectively assess student work. By providing the assignment criteria, assessment rubric, and student samples, we'll guide ChatGPT to generate individualized, actionable feedback that supports student growth. This approach not only streamlines grading but also helps educators provide more consistent and meaningful insights—giving students the guidance they need to improve their writing.

As AI continues to impact our world, it is important to show students how AI can be a powerful tutor. This starts with the prompts. This workshop will demonstrate how teachers can tweak existing lesson plans to include AI to deepen learning and create a more authentic experience for students, while showing them how to use AI ethically. Your lessons are already great, let's do this with as minimal changes as possible!

Despite mixed feelings and misconceptions about AI and its role in our lives, the single greatest human advance in information technology is here and will play a significant part of our future. It is of critical importance that students develop understanding, familiarity, and ethics around AI in order to thrive in and shape this new world. Join us as we explore some applications of AI for both students and teachers in the middle school mathematics classroom.

This engaging presentation explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can support Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to create more inclusive, personalized classrooms. Educators will discover AI tools that enhance engagement, accessibility, and student expression, aligning with UDL principles. The session includes best practices, ethical considerations, and hands-on activities to integrate AI effectively. Participants will leave with practical strategies to empower diverse learners and optimize teaching with AI-driven solutions.