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CEO / Educational Consultant
Nancye Blair Black is an ISTE-certified educator, speaker, and consultant who cultivates dignity-driven instructional practices that empower educators, leaders, and students to succeed. Nancye is the author of nationally-implemented computer science curricula and several books, including Tablets in K-12 Education and the Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom series. She is ISTE's AI Explorations Project Lead, ProjectSTEM's Director of Innovation, and a TC Games Research Lab leader. She's completing her doctoral degree in Instructional Technology at TC Columbia University. Talk to her about equity, AI, ISTE Cert, unique educational experiences, anything you're passionate about! @NancyeBlackEdu.
Susan is an experienced teacher, site administrator, and technology specialist. She is an accomplished author who currently works with educators internationally, focusing on practical technology-based strategies for personal productivity and effective technology implementation in classrooms. Artificial Intelligence, media literacy skills, and social emotional learning are areas of particular interest for her.
Technology and a passion for STEM. She has spent the last 6 years creating and growing her Makerspace, and has a passion for empowering learners, focusing on helping students go from consumer to creator and innovator. She strives to incorporate emerging new tech to her underrepresented students. One day, she hopes STEM will no longer be separated but integrated into core classes. She loves coaching teachers in technology, AI, digital citizenship, and much more! Come chat with her about tech!
Senior Manager, Corporate Giving
General Motors
Rhonda serves as one of GM’s Senior Managers within Corporate Giving specifically supporting its DE&I Initiatives . In this role, she serves as the strategic partner to GM’s DE&I team and helps to execute GM’s commitment of creating inclusive solutions to social issues in the communities in which we live and work through its philanthropic work. Rhonda’s professional roles, experiences and education have set the foundation for her personal goal of creating limitless opportunities for historically excluded individuals, communities and organizations.
Consultant
LOS ANGELES COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION
Cathy Rodriguez is a Coordinator II with Instructional Technology Outreach at the Los Angeles County Office of Education providing professional development opportunities for K-12 teachers. She is inspired by emerging technologies such as the metaverse, XR, AI, ChatGPT, and their instructional use in the classroom.
In addition to her work as a classroom teacher, Cathy has also held positions as an adjunct professor at USC, Pepperdine University, UCLA, and Cerritos Community College. In her spare time, she enjoys a good cup of tea, photography, trying out new recipes in the kitchen, and walking on the beach in Santa Monica.
Joseph South is a national educational technology leader focused on evidence-based learning transformation. He presently serves as the chief learning officer at ISTE.
He formerly served as director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education. He advised the Secretary of Education, developed national educational technology policy, formed public-private partnerships to assist state and local education leaders in transitioning to digital learning, helped school districts expand the use of openly licensed educational resources (OERs), and collaborated to nurture a robust ecosystem of edtech entrepreneurs and innovators.
#TheRealCareerUpgrade - Former District Technology Coordinator now classroom teacher, Brandie is a STEM Educator for a micro-school in Norfolk, Virginia. Brandie strives to bring the highest level of engagement, innovation, and creativity to her learners. Her passion projects include working with Amazon Future Engineer: Your Voice Is Power, ProjectSTEM, Coding Club for Girls with ImagiLabs and Black Girls Code, and partnering with local innovation labs and organizations for community learning experiences. Brandie is also an Instructional Coach for the ISTE-GM AI Explorations Course and a member of the Cult of Pedagogy Tech Guide Team.
Session description
Today’s headlines are filled with references to technologies like deepfakes, Dall-E 2, and ChatGPT — all of which are AI innovations that are quickly changing the world — and the educational landscape. Innovative K-12 educators and education leaders have used AI tools to improve efficiency and instruction, as well as to empower students to think critically, create and be more career ready. Of course, AI also creates new issues, prompting us to rethink instruction, assessment, equity and digital literacy. Join us for an engaging and informative session that will tackle 2023's hottest topics and biggest questions around AI and education.
Purpose & objective
Today’s headlines are filled with references to technologies like deepfakes, Dall-E 2, and ChatGPT - all of which are AI innovations that are quickly changing the world - and the educational landscape. Innovative K-12 educators and education leaders have used AI tools to improve efficiency and instruction, as well as to empower students to think critically, create, and be more career ready. Of course, AI also creates new issues, prompting us to rethink instruction, assessment, equity, and digital literacy.
This thought leadership session will tackle 2023's hottest topics and biggest questions around AI and education. It will support teachers and education leaders as they explore emerging AI technologies and discern where it fits into various aspects of educational environment. Practical understandings about what AI is and how AI works will be revealed in the context of societal impact, educational equity, ethics, and digital citizenship.
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Outline
This session will feature an innovative and interactive approach to a multi-presenter session, giving both presenters and attendees the opportunity to interact and respond to various issues surrounding AI education.
1. Getting Started: Introduction of presenters & welcome from ISTE and GM.
2. Take a Closer Look: The meat of the session will explore hot topics in AI education through a series of critical questions, using storytelling, demonstrations, student work, and other strategies to bring current issues to life.
3. Wrapping Up: Audience Q&A, Final thoughts from fellows, and Resource share.
This session is developed and presented in collaboration with select educators and education leaders from the ISTE-GM AI Explorations program.
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Supporting research
The Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom series by Nancye Blair Black and Susan Brooks-Young: http://iste.org/ai
EdSurge's AI is for Everyone, Everywhere microsite: edsurge.com/research/guides/ai-is-for-everyone-everywhere
Teaching AI by Michelle Zimmerman: https://my.iste.org/s/store?_ga=2.258389194.151861514.1617643684-1341423513.1605563246#/store/browse/detail/a1w1U000004LpbQQAS
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