AI Exchange: Empowering Educators for Tomorrow

This hands-on workshop explores how interactive play can deepen learning about AI. We'll open with a short framing of MIT's approach to play-based learning, then spend most of our time rotating through interactive stations. Each station features a play-based AI activity drawn from MIT curricula, such as generating images of characters that reveal their personality traits, creative programming projects, and other low-barrier ways of putting AI tools in students' hands. Participants will leave with an understanding of MIT's philosophy of learning through play and concrete activities they can adapt for their own classrooms.