Presenters
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.
Tecchnology Outreach Coordinator
Scott has worked in K-12 education for 30 years and in higher education for 20 years. He has taught at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Scott currently works as an Instructional Technology Outreach Coordinator at the Los Angeles County Office of Education. Scott also works (part-time) as the Academic Program Director of National University’s Master of Science in Designing Instructional and Educational Technology (MSDIET). He is a Google Certified Innovator who has earned the Time Warner National Teacher Award. He received his M.A. in Educational Technology from SDSU. Scott recently completed UCLA’s doctoral program in educational leadership.
Instructional Facilitator
Donna Squires is a current Digital Learning Coach with Peninsula School District's Department of Learning and Innovation in Washington State. She has a Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction, is a Code.org CSF facilitator, a Google Certified Educator, UDL trained instructor, and has worked in a wide-range of educational settings from preschool to university levels, with both student and adult learners. Donna takes her role as the lead learner to heart and has a passion for supporting learners of all levels. She advocates for computer science education to be part of every child's foundational learning.
Associate professor
Georgia State University
Chenyi Zhang, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood and Elementary Education at Georgia State University. His research projects examine contextual, cognitive and emotional factors that contribute to children’s early literacy development and early childhood educators’ professional development. He is also an early interventionist designing and evaluating classroom-based literacy intervention programs for young children’s literacy development and professional learning program for educators’ effective teaching practices.
Session description
In today's digital age, even our youngest scholars are using and interacting with AI-powered tools on a regular basis. And whether to simply understand how a recommender system in Disney+ works or how to use a virtual assistant like Siri more effectively, these students deserve the opportunity to learn what AI is, how it works and how it is changing the world around them. In this session, attendees will see how elementary teachers and leaders are successfully empowering PK-5 students through unplugged AI activities, online AI tool explorations and even imagining their own AI solutions of the future.
Purpose & objective
Educators and students alike can see that artificial intelligence is increasingly all around us. But how do we approach teaching about this emerging technology to kindergarteners, third graders, and other young learners? In this session, several K-5 teachers and leaders from the ISTE-GM AI Explorations program will share their experiences, recommendations for best practices, and plug-and-play resources that are perfect for teaching about AI in the elementary learning environment.
Attendees will also learn about the Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom guides, three of which include specific projects and resources for elementary teachers. These innovative curricular resources empower elementary educators with lesson plans, resources, and the background knowledge they need to feel confident introducing this new topic to their students.
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Outline
This poster presentation will provide a great overview of the dynamic activities, projects, and materials shared by this educator team in the poster video and resources, including:
1. Welcome and Overview
2. Mini-presentations and Q&A with each educator presenter
3. Final thoughts and Closing
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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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