AI Exchange: Empowering Educators for Tomorrow

Kick off the conference with opening remarks from the organizing team as we welcome participants, highlight the goals of AI Exchange, and provide an overview of the days ahead.

In this keynote, Ronit Levavi Morad, Senior Director and AI Literacy Lead at Google Research, will tackle one of the crucial design challenges of our time: how do we design AI that is truly in service of pedagogy? Grounded in Google’s pedagogical North Star—which prioritizes inspiring active learning, managing cognitive load, adapting to the learner, stimulating curiosity, and deepening metacognition—this session will reveal how learning science is being operationalized on the ground. Join us to explore a collaborative, responsible vision for a future where safe, equitable AI serves as an active, powerful partner for both educators and students.

This interactive knowledge exchange will bring together educators, researchers, and system leaders from Canada, Hong Kong, and the United States to share experiences, promising practices, and lessons learned as they navigate AI integration in K–12 education.

Through facilitated discussions and cross-cultural dialogue, participants will explore approaches to AI literacy, professional learning, policy development, and classroom implementation. Together, they will examine shared challenges, identify emerging opportunities, and exchange practical strategies for supporting responsible and meaningful AI use in teaching and learning.

Participants will leave with new perspectives, actionable ideas, and valuable connections to an international community working to prepare students and educators for an AI-enabled future.

Educators are already experimenting with AI in ways that are reshaping lesson planning, student projects, and everyday classroom learning. In this panel, teachers from different countries and subject areas will share how they’ve been using AI tools to support their work and open up new possibilities for student engagement and learning.

Panelists will bring examples from their classrooms from student work, planning artifacts, visuals, and short demonstrations, that show how AI is being used in real and tangible ways. The session will highlight small shifts and bigger changes in practice, and ideas that educators can take back and adapt to their own contexts.